0009 The first adventures in Yuatan

This time it's about my group 2, which has been playing for 7 evenings - with the heroes Kuro (Miche), a samurai; Todi(Anna), a fire mage and Nezu(Melli), a Felidae (cat person) thief.
The music in the intro comes from Erdenstern - from the album into the Green with the title: Into the City erdenstern.com/
The images used are predominantly AI art.
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Summary of the story of the group in Yuantan
The group is sent out into the world from the orphanage on a remote island to learn more about the soul shards and of course to secure as many of them as possible for Yuantan.
They set off by ship for a few hours (or a little more? They are unsure here because they are crossing a magical barrier that seems to affect the sense of time.)
When they arrive in Winshu, the water town, they go to the adventurers' guild and join it at the porcelain rank. They learn that their adventures are tracked with the help of the followers they receive in order to accurately measure their successes.
They choose one of the easiest jobs - to get rid of rats in the sewers, but there they meet more than just rats - namely goblins who have captured and tortured a girl there.
After killing the goblins and freeing the girl, the heroes find out from a doctor that this girl was also raped and impregnated by the goblins. Her spirit was almost broken, but unlike many girls before her, she is not sent to the farm to recover (however, it seems to the heroes that no one knows where the farm is and they suspect that the girls never get anywhere.
In the meantime, Todi and Kuro have recruited some gang members, including the son of magistrate Huan - Mitsuyo - whom they affectionately call Huansohn (Player……) to accompany them.
Nezuko first involuntarily makes contact with the Thieves' Guild and the fences of Winshu. Here she acquires some valuable items such as amazingly well-crafted claws for herself and sells some stolen goods.
They get to know some higher-ranking members in the adventure guild, steal a valuable cheese, but are also almost killed when a fairy finds out that they have some ancient coins.
It is now explained to them that there has been a war for centuries between the “good” side of humans and the other good beings living here such as the Felidae, dwarves, etc. and the Rimurus henchmen, who consist of necromancers, fairies, dragons, undead, goblins and put more together.
They are contacted indirectly by a Lord Balthanus, who also invites them to travel a few days to his castle in the east of Winshu.
With a dusty carriage and a mute coachman, the heroes travel surprisingly quickly to the lord's castle, who turns out to be a vampire but gives them a friendly welcome.
Apparently the werecreatures and vampires support the humans' side against Rimuru.
He offers them shelter and knowledge and becomes particularly friendly with Nezuko - to whom he also gives some gifts.
In the visions she has recently had, Nezuko has (just as Todi now has a fire soul and Kuro now has the power to use meditation to allow himself and his friends to fully recover after a short time (2 hours) as well as to recognize the weak points of his opponents can.
The group travels to the lake where there is an island that Nezuko saw in her vision.
There they find an old building in whose secret basement there is a nexus portal point as well as valuable books.
They are attacked by a magical storm and see through Nezuko the attack of the necromancers, dragons, etc. on the castle of Lord Balthanus.
The vampire appears seriously injured at the group and Nezuko donates blood to her now loved one to save him.
He immediately goes back to the castle to drive away the attackers and the heroes take the boat back to land to follow him.
There, however, they are attacked by a necromancer and a horde of zombies, but they make short work of them.
They decide to rush to Winshu to a) organize help for the lord (which fails gloriously except for one mercenary) and at the same time hope that the fast carriage is there.
Unfortunately, they can only join one farmer and travel with him towards the castle and on the way there meet some other travelers who report that the undead plague that has been threatening the country for years has disappeared.
Full of fear that the undead horde has been gathered at the castle, the heroes almost make a forced march to help the lord, only to learn from a werewolf guard of around 20 people and the lord that they were able to close the nexus portal together.
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