![[GUARDIANS PLUS WARM.png]] Season 2 ("Guardians Brew") began 2/7/2026 and is currently still running. There have been 8 sessions so far with 9 unique player characters. # Overview This season follows the exploits of the core group (who now call themselves the Guardians) as they return to Bispur and attempt to build a lucrative criminal empire. [[Lander Brightwood]] manages the brewery which serves as the supposedly legitimate business front. [[Larry Stone]] manages the budget despite his lack of literacy and mathematics skills. [[Nyxaria Anogwinn]] and [[Waldro]] work as agents completing missions for unscrupulous clients. And lastly, [[Onyx Heartsong]] serves of director of all operations, handling client relations and personnel management. In need of more personnel, the team hire [[Elbi Whisperluck]] as head of security. That same day, [[Karelis Z'oa]] of the [[Z'oa Syndicate]] visits the brewery to offer the Guardians a very lucrative mission in [[Highwater]]. She asks the team to steal a submersible craft in order to travel safely beneath the [[Auril]]-cursed [[Idryian Sea]] and reach the long-isolated land of [[Zerua]]. Z'oa explains that there are riches and valuable goods to be found there, but the authorities of Highwater (the [[Kingseye]]) have been keeping too close a watch on her organization recently for her to pull off the heist. The Guardians make their way to [[Highwater]] while [[Elbi Whisperluck]] stays behind with recent hire [[Xylox Jones]]. They keep an eye on [[Mort Walo]], an interviewee from the day before who turned out to be a changeling spy sent by someone named [[Roldof]]. It is discovered that [[Marcus]]'s father possibly knew someone named Roldof. When Elbi mentions his name in front of [[The Mayor]], he begins babbling in an unfamiliar language and mentions [[Highwater - Ravenscroft]] at twilight. Elbi & Xylox at once journey to Highwater as well to investigate. Onyx, Larry, Lander, and Nyx attempt to infiltrate the [[Highwater - Mechanist Society]] and do manage to steal the craft, but only after drawing the attention of the Kingseye and finding a modron army in the basement as well as overhearing a mysterious conversation between [[Calathor]] and Grand Vizier [[Brildin Varook]]. At the same time, old friend [[Crowley]] enters town on personal business and runs into [[Calathor]], seemingly an old acquaintance of his family, who begs him to recover the submersible craft that has gone missing. Crowley tracks the stolen item to a private dock in the southern harbor where the Guardians have brought the craft for a reward from Z'oa. At the same time, Elbi and Xylox had overheard some hooded figures at Ravenscroft mentioning some operation occurring at the southern harbor and they too make their way to the dock where the entire team is reunited. They meet [[Taylin Frumm]], an old associate of Nyx's, who informs them that the mission has changed abruptly and they must urgently enter the craft and go ahead with the voyage to Zerua. Everyone but Xylox can fit on the craft, as mysterious masked agents rush in to attempt to steal the craft from the team. However, while underwater - and through Nyx's questioning of her and Taylin's past together - the team discover their pilot is not really Taylin but a shapeshifter named [[M'Hakra]] who claims to be a member of the [[Thread of The Mist-Woke]], a bizarre cult that utilizes [[Dreammist]] to connect with some sort of higher power that gives them instructions. M'Hakra leads them to [[Tempest's Nest]], a sunken temple at the end of which lies of a piece of [[The Scattered Song]]. The adventurers also find a dead body presumed to be that of [[Myrkanis Rynforth]], holding a book of his own creation ([[The Grand Chronicle of The Gods, Vol. 1]]) which mentions both the Thread of the Mist-Woke and a book release event occurring in [[Merrivale]] for the second part of the Grand Chronicle. Upon returning to the harbor, M'Hakra jumps out of the craft and swims away after being forced to give up his journal. Crowley continues his original mission to return the craft to its rightful owner, alerting the authorities at the northern harbor. Waiting for them at the southern harbor dock is Karelis Z'oa herself with numerous armed agents. She drugs the party and interrogates them in a warehouse. After proving themselves to not be shapeshifters, the Guardians find themselves in a brutal battle with Kingseye guards along with Z'oa's agents. Afterward, Z'oa offers to triple the reward for the entire quest, urging the team to find the rest of the pieces of [[The Scattered Song]] (in lieu of the only other option to get to Zerua; a rumored portal from hell). The team go to [[Merrivale]] to read the rest of Myrkanis' book. There, they find numerous loyalists to the Thread all dressed in purple robes just like Myrkanis. [[Sandira]], a seamstress, agrees to make robes for the party. # Episodes [[S2 E01]] - 2/7/26 [[S2 E02]] - 2/21/26 [[S2 E03]] - 4/6/26 [[S2 E04]] - 4/19/26 [[S2 E05]] - 4/27/26 [[S2 E06]] - 8/7/26 [[S2 E07]] - 9/12/26 [[S2 E08]] - 10/18/26 # Characters [[Crowley]] (Episode(s) 5-8) [[Elbi Whisperluck]] [[Kallia]] (Episode(s) 2) [[Lander Brightwood]] [[Larry Stone]] [[Nyxaria Anogwinn]] [[Onyx Heartsong]] [[Waldro]] (Episode(s) 5-8)