Timeline

Quick facts

Covers: Campaign 1 in brief, Campaign 1.5 by chapter, then Campaign 2 session by session · Current through: C2 Session 83

A running order of events in Arlia. Campaign 1 is summarized in broad strokes; Campaign 2 is listed by session. Campaign 1.5, set about twenty years after Campaign 1, is summarized by chapter.

Before the campaigns

Centuries before Campaign 1, Isidar the Conqueror ruled the last global empire. After him, the 72 states of Arlia mostly kept to themselves.

Campaign 1: The Wonders of Arlia

The Rose Ribbon Army rises in the East, destroying towns and organizing an alliance of states called The Calyx.
The Ox-Queen sends Greene, Juliette, and Elyon to find Master Toshi to put out the cursed fire on Fire Mountain in the Crepe Republic. Toshi’s blast destroys the mountain, and the party finds the first of the Star Orbs.
Fortuneteller Yaba in Pepper City reveals where the other Star Orbs lie. The party frees Oolong from a pirate prison and takes a second orb from the Toasty Temple.
In Beerlia, Greene is possessed by Visser 3, the party fights a silent plague with Max the Andalite, breaks a time loop around young Goku in PoorsTown, and Terra Misu Umber deserts the Rose Ribbon Army to join them. Ashryn, Elyon’s sister, is killed by an assassin.
Aboard the Rootbeer Float with Barqs and his crew, the party banishes the traitor Joey and raids the Silent Vaults for the Brumestone core and the Muffin Button.
Greene and Elyon train at Korrin’s Tower and Kami’s Lookout; Terra, Oolong, and Juliette win a Star Orb at Buttermilk Under the Sea.
At the Greatest Below the Heavens tournament in North City, Elyon wins, Mercenary Tao is unmasked as Ashryn’s killer, and Terra takes Sophie’s place in the Collector’s service.
King Piccolo is freed in West City and kills Emperor Pilaf. The party meets Bulma Briefs at Capsule Corp.
The party frees Terra from the Collector’s bracers and Terra beheads the Collector. The Cackler Barrel becomes their base, and they free the enslaved kenku from the Collector’s mansion.
The Rose Ribbon Army occupies North City; the Cacklers kill a dragon and rally the city.
In West City, Master Toshi gives his life trying to seal Piccolo, Greene seals him in the jar, and Oolong reincarnates Toshi. Kami, tied to Piccolo, died and was revived along with Piccolo’s re-sealing, so the Star Orbs endure.
At Grimscale Tower in Rice Town, Greene learns he was engineered by Dr. Gero, and the party meets 17 and 18. Terra is pulled away by a crystal.
The party steals the Manual of Quickness and Action from Raviki in Cherudo Beach and exposes her plan to hand the city to the Rose Ribbon Army.
The Cacklers rescue Terra from The FeyWild, and Terra and Sophie marry.
At Muscle Tower, the party defeats Recoome and Captain Ginyu, and Terra kills Commander Red, revealed as Isidar the Conqueror. Shenlong revives everyone the Rose Ribbon Army killed.
Oolong leaves gifts and departs. Terra and Sophie turn the Collector’s mansion into a school (CAGS), and Juliette goes home to Will and their daughter, Ruby.

Campaign 1.5

About twenty years after Campaign 1. Its final chapter, the Cell Games, takes place during Campaign 2 (announced before Session 56, held in Session 70).

Chapter 1: Belle Pepper joins The Cacklers, now rich thanks to Bulma and the Cackler Barrel. 17 drops by. Dr. Gero and Android 19 attack North City for revenge on Greene; 19 is destroyed and Gero blows himself up. Ginger Town in the Crepe Republic goes silent.
Chapter 2: Cell, awake after twenty years, drains a man in front of the Cacklers and vows to absorb 17 and 18. In the Tabasco Forest, disguised as 18, he absorbs 17 and becomes Perfect Cell, then announces The Cell Games on the radio.
Chapter 3: At the North City Coliseum, Master Toshi is killed, Ruby is taken by The Trickster’s bargain, and Cell is destroyed. Belle Pepper is summoned by her god, and she and Ruby go to serve as representatives in The War in the Heavens. Oolong pops off the battlefield and does not return. Terra, Sophie, Greene and Elyon remain. The Cacklers then wish on the Star Orbs to restore everyone Cell killed and absorbed, bringing back Toshi, 17 and 18, and the absorbed towns.

Campaign 2

The Festival Conspiracy

Session 1: Kip, Ellery, Escher, and Wilbur meet at the Saline Splendor Festival when wolves escape the zoo.
Session 2: At the Mercenary’s Rest the group learns about each other; a smoke bomb disrupts Cedric Lightharbor’s speech.
Session 3: Catman recruits the group; Isabella Thorne’s death proves to be murder, and her house is torched.
Session 4: Yorn is interrogated; Wilbur names Tobias Bigsby to Captain Stormshield; a bandit job goes badly.
Session 5: Caulifla confronts Ellery; Bran points her to the Cacklers; Tobias Bigsby is arrested.
Session 6: Shopping, a warning from Stormshield, and an exploding oven at a haunted bakery.
Session 7: A cursed recipe book links the attacks; Garrick is found dead and animated weapons nearly kill the party.
Session 8: Nelda joins and names E.R. as Eldon Reed; Escher overhears plans for the masquerade.
Session 9: Nelda is cut off by her father; fortunes are read at the ball; Eldon Reed sends an invitation.
Session 10: Poker with Eldon Reed, a threat against the Warhorde, and a visit to Bigsby in prison.
Session 11: A prison break frees Bigsby; Wilbur finds the poisoned Mayor Windrider in Salt Spun Manor.
Session 12: Wilbur kidnaps the mayor to save her, buys Steve the donkey, and the group become fugitives.
Session 13: Hiding from the guards, a knife-pinned threat, and a disguised escape from the city.

The Bloodhowler

Session 14: Talk of romance, a vision that the stars aren’t right, and a goblin ambush.
Session 15: The goblin Squeebles asks for help, and the party raids Gurgle’s cave.
Session 16: Squeebles joins; at the Last Drop, Eldon Reed reveals his true form and Wilbur attacks.
Session 17: Squeebles dies; Nodur helps the party escape; Vegeta spars with Ellery and gives her a crescent item.
Session 18: Nodur joins, Nappa returns Steve, and the party reaches the Warhorde camp.
Session 19: Grommash reveals Eldon is his brother; Wilbur kills the Bloodhowler defending the camp.
Session 20: Wilbur becomes “Regular Wilbur”; Sylas heals the mayor, who warns that the stars aren’t right.

Curses, Sewers, and the Closing Ceremonies

Session 21: Escape from the Valedriss home; the mayor demands proof against Lightharbor; Escher hears a voice.
Session 22: The signal is traced underwater; Squeebles seems to possess a doll; Nelda blames her cursed glaive.
Session 23: Nelda fights her friends over the glaive; Escher’s voice is the Whisper; down into the sewers.
Session 24: A scarab swarm nearly kills Nelda; Squeebles’ spirit lets her choose to live.
Session 25: The Whisper offers a deal for the fate-changing artifact; Nelda’s concert reveals her to Cedric Jr.
Session 26: Flyers signed by the Fellowship Against the Machine; pardons promised; Victor hands over the chest.
Session 27: Windrider pardons the group and steps down; false-eclipse fireworks turn Ellery into a giant ape.
Session 28: Nelda is disowned, Kip signs Alana’s papers unread, the Whisper reveals Frieza, and Arghen joins.

Death and the In-Between

Session 29: The Sapphire Tide job; Tobias Blackwood assassinates Wilbur.
Session 30: Wilbur’s farewell letters; Sylas prepares a ritual to enter the in-between.
Session 31: The party crosses the in-between, paying with memories to reach Wilbur.
Session 32: Ellery breaks Reed’s ritual, Nelda beheads him, and Escher kills Tobias Blackwood in his cell.

Khalor and the Company at Sea

Session 33: A gold dragon steals the chest from the wreck of the Sapphire Tide.
Session 34: The VTC ships the chest toward Chonkerton; Arghen vows to kill the dragon; plans for a boat heist.
Session 35: The party takes the Cresting Pearl Horizon and signs a union contract with Captain Teft’s crew.
Session 36: Shopping at the Gilded Minnow; a note is slipped to Escher; Rock’s dinner divides the table.
Session 37: Life aboard the C.P.H.; Ellery learns her planet was destroyed; an aboleth attacks.
Session 38: Ellery escapes the aboleth; Sigzil notes vanishing stars; drunken grief in Bellyport.
Session 39: Escher assassinates a VTC official in Hamhock Harbor and links Khalor to the company.
Session 40: A moral debate and a VTC blockade; “Cats and Kittens” saves the day.
Session 41: Escher meets the Pale Fang and becomes “Smoke”; an informant reports the dragon.
Session 42: Gravy Bones boards the ship; the FAM Band places third at Breadstock; Nelda meets Verio Nightwind.
Session 43: Khalor reveals the dragon eggs and flees; the party turns fugitive and heads home.

Back on the Saline Coast

Session 44: The ship is renamed the Odd At Sea; Kip learns of his father’s death and his marriage contract.
Session 45: Rusty Dunlaw explains Kip’s contract; the undead Tobias Blackwood rises at the morgue.
Session 46: The fight in the crypt against Tobias Blackwood and a VTC necromancer.
Session 47: Chasing the necromancer; Escher is paralyzed by a stranger; a devil arrives at the Mercenary’s Rest.
Session 48: Nelda beats the devil for the golden bagpipes; Thalorian warns her off; a bullette attacks.

Green Hollow and the Cult of Brandoboris

Session 49: Escher saves Nelda from the bullette and receives the Vellum contract; Kale goes berserk.
Session 50: Kale is subdued; a star vanishes; Kip returns to Green Hollow and a cold welcome from Pipkin.
Session 51: Alana silences Kip at the Cornucopia festival; Kip collapses; Sawyer’s cult is revealed.
Session 52: Time glitches; Kip is taken; Alana confesses; into the Temple of Cyrollellee.
Session 53: Arghen defends the village; four halfling cultists fall; the ghost-petal storeroom is found.
Session 54: Cyrollellee restores Kip’s memories; Sawyer dies; Kip and his father Broul are found alive.
Session 55: Reconnaissance on Judge Vellum in Brinewick Hollow; Lint explains the ghost petals.
Session 56: Escher and Wilbur kill Judge Vellum; the Gnoloo takes the wagon; Cell announces his games.

The Saline Coast Election

Session 57: The party joins Catman’s campaign; Escher accepts the contract on Bulma; Kip seeks an annulment.
Session 58: Veshka Knoteater dies and the marriage ends; Thalorian and Lazra Vant die at the estate.

North City and the Cell Games

Session 59: Into the Underdark with the Whisper; an armanite and a beholder.
Session 60: Wilbur’s metal-flower vision; arrival at North City; the Whisper reveals himself to Vegeta.
Session 61: The Whisper flees the fight with Vegeta; Nelda meets Bitch Perfect.
Session 62: The VTC takes the Saline Coast; the families head to the Saiyan compound.
Session 63: The Whisper revives Nelda’s curse; Escher is caught stealing from the Cacklers.
Session 64: Five Star Orbs are stolen; the Whisper’s false moon turns four Saiyans into Ozaroo.
Session 65: The Cacklers and the FAM fight the apes; Greene cuts off Goku’s tail.
Session 66: The apes are stopped; the Whisper dies at the Academy; Will Jr. is killed.
Session 67: Scorch is revealed as Escher’s brother Fable; Will Jr. is revived; six Star Orbs recovered.
Session 68: Vegeta leaves for Namek; Ruby purges Nelda’s glaive; truth or dare.
Session 69: A quiet night before the Cell Games.
Session 70: Cell is defeated; Escher breaks with the Pale Fang; Mia warns Nelda about Asset Songbird.
Session 71: Escher hears the VTC’s plans; Mia reveals the plot on Cedric Jr.; the decoy plan is set.

Coghaven

Session 72: Wilbur studies the tracker; Kip faces a toll-demanding dragon alone.
Session 73: Arrival in Coghaven; the Black Parade reveals Wilbur is Goric’s son.
Session 74: Nelda stops Ellery’s solo plan; the Black Parade’s ambush and diversion.
Session 75: Escher cuts off the Chancellor’s leg to open the vault.
Session 76: Otto guides the party toward the lava forge.
Session 77: The forge is drained and a hidden door found.
Session 78: Masha is freed and Dr. Wheelo destroyed; Cabba breaks loose.
Session 79: The Black Parade’s losses; the volatile crystals; the Gnoloo takes the crate.
Session 80: Coghaven is freed; Masha joins; the airship arrives; Ellery and Cabba kiss.

The Gallows

Session 81: Catman’s capture and interrogation; the gallows trap with Khalor in disguise.
Session 82: The fight at the gallows against Khalor and Daask Bruiser.
Session 83: Daask dies, Khalor takes Arghen, Elara returns, and Bran’s old party covers the escape.

The Wonders of Arlia

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