The Delinquents - Session 1

This is the first session in The Delinquents campaign and the first session in the New School storyline of the Introduction arc. Player feedback ranks this session at a 9.33, tied for the highest with Session 19.

Notable Events

 * Each member of the party, with the exception of Gutter Snipe, arrived at the University of Squidsiddie for the first time.
 * Ishim, Eren, and Agvahl all met Angus Proudroast on the university's promenade.
 * The party attended their new student orientation and learned of the brief history of the university before being "awarded" spots in a vacant suite in Dormitory Building 2.
 * The party officially moved into their dormitory, with a young Human named Edward Palmer joining them as their final roommate.
 * The party met Gutter Snipe, a strange bird-like creature living inside the ceiling of their dorm.
 * Gutter Snipe was snatched up by a giant bird perched atop the dormitory building, prompting members of the party to save him.

Summary
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 995: On a bright and sunny day in the southwestern Crimson Mountains, the promenade of Squidsiddie University was bustling with energy as a new semester drew closer. One by one, the individual members of who would eventually become The Delinquents arrived at campus, reveling in the diversity of the student body and the wonder of this immediately strange city. Cecilia Wormwood, a young Halfling woman and prospective student of magic roamed the main-way, carefully making her way towards the Department of Practical Studies for new student orientation. Elsewhere on the promenade, Ishim Ibn-Abahad, a green Dragonborn magic student, Agvahl Swiftguard-Athunigane, a Goliath man, and Eren Illestri, a Drow, all separately engaged with an ornery Dwarven man named Angus Proudroast, who had set up shop at a cooking stand to provide food to the returning students of the school. Another student, a Changeling masquerading as a Human named Lamhach, also roamed the area, aimlessly drifting with much of the crowd towards the Department of Practical Studies.

Eventually, the students individually found themselves in a large open hall in the department, with Agvahl and Cecilia having met outside and sitting together, much to Cecilia's dismay. As the crowd of excited new students began to quiet down, an old Gnomish man walked upon the stage. Introducing himself as Zolbir Molero, the school's headmaster, he welcomed everyone to the city and university with a brief introduction on the school's history, citing notable alumni and faculty such as Deryn Westerfeld, the inventor of the airship, and Octavia Johnson, a wizard known for her theories on extraplanar travel.

After this introduction and some explanation of the workings of the school and upcoming semester, Headmaster Zolbir called Director Guybrush Johnson to the stage to make a logistical announcement. Guybrush, a tall black-bearded Human with purple robes and a clear lack of enthusiasm for his current situation, announced that due to a logistical mistake, an open suite was available on the top floor of Dormitory Building 2, which would be filled at random by six "lucky" students. One by one, Guybrush called out the names of the five aforementioned students and a sixth unfamiliar student, another Human man with short blonde hair and an aloof attitude who immediately joined the rest of the party on stage. Dismissing the rest of the hall, Guybrush provided the new roommates with a key to the suite.

The new party arrived in their dormitory to find that they may have been better off not winning the "lottery". The dormitory was poorly lit, dirty, and dilapidated, with very few pieces of furniture and many marks and blemishes upon the floors and wall. Starting to make themselves at home, the group explored their new home before hearing a rustling coming from above their ceiling. Eren, Lamhach, and Ishim each searched for the source of the noise before clambering through a hole in the ceiling to find that a strange, bird-like creature had been living in the old dorm. While Lamhach was not overly interested in the creature, Eren, Ishim, and eventually Agvahl began to take a liking to it, learning that it could mimic speech. Before they could get too familiar with it, however, they watched in horror as a much larger beak burst through the roof and snatched up the creature, prompting the three new roommates to climb through the new hole and pursue it.