Memento Mori
| Formation | 8 Molor 1789 ADW |
|---|---|
| Founder | Vile Slayer Katya Song |
| Type | Adventuring Party |
Parent organization | Blackguards |
Memento Mori is an adventuring party in Wargrave, originally from Stormclaw, Quelxiros. They are part of the Shade Scar Order of Blackguards lead by Vile Slayer Katya Song.
Its members are:
Former members include:
History
Early Memento Mori
Lamni Armorpha, Seol Ikamuzu, Frites Magnifique, Ignatius "Iggy" Nonqu, Ramaiah "The Ram" Sagasson, "Igor Vextress", Miyuki Viceron-Serothis, and Forget joined the Shade Scare Order of the Blackguards at their sanctuary on Ryngot's Island in Stormclaw, Quelxiros. They completed the Trial of Lord Kyrir and were inducted into the Blackguards, celebrating afterwards with a trip to the Golden Apple Brewery and the Starlight Market. The next day they met with Edmund Gray who told them about the infected dragons returning from Sythus' realm, and the party went up to the Hatchery of Zot on Quelzonos. To clear the hatchery of Thorn Rot, the party killed the infected creatures and burned down the hatchery, along with all infected creatures and plants within, and the surrounding forest that the thorny vines reached into. For this successful mission, the members of Memento Mori were given the title Dragon Guard and citizenship in Quelxiros.
The next day they teleported to Tortoran and left with Captain Dryden's Shadowscales to the Gorge Lord's Burrow, where the first infected dragon landed, to rescue Arthax Zythillon and retrieve Edmund's research. After returning, they met with High Guardian Joel, General Crow, and Dune Guardian Alex and planned a preemptive attack on the Ebon Fang. They take Titus Warborn's airship until it was shot down, then Greyhide's airship, to Dendarus. They drop in and Frites' drop pod is shot down, killing him. Lamni retrieves his corpse, and the party assaults the Serpent Eye Tower, a walking mobile base used by the Ebon Fang. Inside, it was revealed that the Ebon Fang was working with Blood in the Water and The Collective.
After returning, the party was teleported aboard the Cloud-Strike, the airship of Commander Brigham Weaver, beginning the several-month journey to the front lines. During this time, "Igor" jumped from the ship, the party played games of truth or dare, bought magic items, and participated in several duels. Lamni dueled Miyuki, Memento Mori dueled each other, and Memento Mori dueled The Eclipse who was visiting and wanted to meet the party. Afterwards, the Eclipse invited Memento Mori to join Project Guardian. As the ship arrived in Wargrave, it was attacked by a Dynast Siege Beetle and sabotaged by an agent of the Collective, causing the ship to crash. While trying to escape this, the entire party was killed.
Wargrave
The party (excluding Frites, including Arthax and Katya) awoke on the ground, revived by some unknown force, and continued their mission. They met with a group called Umbral Vigilance stayed with them for the night before leaving for Garen, a village of deserters, to acquire vehicles. Frites, who was revived elsewhere, arrived with a tank crew and rejoined the party. He warned of Seol's patron, Plum, bringing food and candy folk that are eating people to this plane. Garen quickly descended into chaos thanks to Captain Bode. Several Garen soldiers escaped with and joined the party, including Sapphire and Pvt. Brenn. The party took a few vehicles and drove them to Ironlight. There they traded for the Valiant, an air vehicle to head to the Project Guardian meeting at Blightgrave Crossing, piloted by Captain Kira.
They flew to Blightgrave Crossing where they met several other Project Guardian adventuring parties. They joined with some of them in battle before The Eclipse arrived and tasked the party with finding the Hounds of Doom, a Blackguard party that went missing. They flew the Valiant to their last known location until it was shot down by Plum, killing Kira and all surviving Garen soldiers except Sapphire. Soon after they found Wyvern, the one surviving member of the Hounds of Doom after Count Intheril went mad and killed the rest of the party before leaving to find an obelisk, declaring it to be a god. Wyvern joined the party as they rested in a nearby minefield bunker. The next morning, after Forget stepped on a mine, a chain explosion was triggered. Forget became an ether cyclone until Lamni grabbed him and pulled him back out.
The party, knowing that Plum was going to attack the city, continued on foot to Champion City. When they arrived and helped defend the city, Harbinger Menace invited them to join the fight at the Island of the Fallen, a nearby island where the Ebon Fang stored weapons that Plum's forces took. During a Blood Feast before this battle, Sapphire raised concerns about Iggy, saying he pointed a gun at her face earlier. The party continued to the island and found missiles primed to launch at the material plane. Lamni was killed in the fight and revived by Forget, then dragged to safety by Frites. Iggy went to supposedly stop the missiles, but betrayed the party and instead launched them at the material plane while causing an explosion on himself that killed Arthax, Forget, Sapphire, and Wyvern. The remaining party then fought and killed Iggy.
Post-Iggy
Lyrith Fallen, at the behest of the Eclipse, teleported Memento Mori back to Blightgrave Crossing. There the Eclipse, Commander Weaver, some old adventurers, and many of the world's leaders discussed what to do next with Memento Mori and the war. Lamni, as well as the rest of the party, was very mistrusting at this point. The party intensely. The Ram opened up about his past and brought Loki into the meeting. Frites had all of the party agree in his book to not lie to or hurt each other. In the end all of the party decided to stick together, and they welcomed Oswin Venator-Navita to join them. Katya reconnected with the party and inducted Oswin into the Blackguards. Afterwards they strategized with Sanguine Squad who would go after Plum while Memento Mori captures and interrogates Zul Netol, a draren spawn leader in Cinder Moon.
The party assaulted Soklas Manor and teleported Zul Netol to Darktip. Weaver was there along with Fated Few and Dangerous Destiny, parties formed by the remnants of the Project Guardian parties. They also met up with "Jack Steamfist", who claimed to be from the Armored Shells, and joined the party. They interrogated Zul Netol and learned of a plan to use the Towers of Mourning to destroy the invading armies. All three parties boarded the Noble Shadow airship fleet to head to the towers to destroy them.
On the way to the tower, the fleet were visited by several plasma dragons, with Kartharagon meeting Memento Mori. Fights broke out on all the ships, causing many of the ships to crash, including the one Memento Mori was on. After the crash, "Jack" was revealed to be "Igor". Frites suddenly attacked the party then was consumed in a white light coming from his book, disappearing. "Igor" was taken back to the ship and Oswin arranged for him to be taken to the Groves of Eldath. The survivors all went onto one airship and continued the journey. That night, Nak Chak did exploratory surgery on Miyuki, and the party learned the dark ether nature of the flower growing through her. The parties separated and Memento Mori boarded arcplanes and flew to their tower. Once there, they fought a gray version of Sythus that was drinking from the ether well. They kill Sythus, blow up the tower, and fly back to the airship.
On the airship met once again with the Eclipse, Weaver and Katya. They spoke with the Eclipse and his contact, Volatar, about ether, and about Frites' book which was actually the Eternal Tome of Unbound Chaos. Loki tells the party that Plum has Frites and the Tome. He also claims that a rift opened in Ironlight where food and candy folk are attacking from, which the party confirms. Weaver gave a briefing about the current state of the war. After Lamni questioned why the Order was here, Weaver said he just follows orders, which Lamni objected to. Katya tells the party she got them a ship, and the Eclipse teleported the party to Champion City to get it.
They met the crew and flew this new ship to Ironlight. Once there, Harbinger Menace tells them how to get to the rift. The party meets Ritz along the way and they continue with him into the Plane of Candy. They go to the village of Perilla and rest there. The next morning, they joined with the local Crimson Company and Silver Dread forces and headed to Plum's fortress.