Freaks & Facades: A D&D Campaign Recap

       Hello, new friends.  For those of you that are brand new, my name is  Aboleth Eye , and I welcome you all to my  Reading Room .  Here we collect, dissect and digest all the wondrous writings set in our favorite gothic fantasy setting-- Ravenloft !        As an eldritch abomination with fathomless lore trapped in my head, I decided to share some of my thoughts with you all; rather than seek power and world domination through an eldritch cult of tabletop roleplaying nerds.  ( Maybe next year? )      Here in the Ravenloft Reading Room --these special posts that will probably be interjected between the Second Arc recaps --I am challenging myself to read the novels of Ravenloft.  As well as any other Ravenloft publications that pique my interest.  Or that you lovely viewers wish me to look at.  I will give my honest opinions on what stories they had to tell, and maybe what lessons or in...

     Greetings, my spooky little audience!  Welcome to something new for Freaks & Facades :   MEMES !        That's right, we got memes swarming around in the F&F crew!  After almost a year of journeying through Ravenloft, Aboleth Eye and the entire F&F Cast present this Meme Parade for our readers' enjoyment!      Everyone in the cast had a hand in making and refining these for your discerning palettes. So dig in, all you fellow Freaks!  You're one of us now! LOL -- Aboleth Eye Rick & Morty: *As DM and Party before Ravenloft Portal* "Let's go, in and out, two-arc adventure." R&M: *One Arc Later, bereft of hope* POV: Pryrrish (age 12) *Glitchy screaming AAAAAAAA at laptop* Ad for House Schrodinger: got bones? i want them all of them i mean it Fenri: me in my silly little bed... avoiding my silly little Dark Thoughts. Solange: *drowning hand* Dark Powers: *reaching out* *hi-fives* Solange: *dr...

      Hello friends.  Tonight's our final recap of Freaks & Facades ' First Arc!  Welcome to   Session Eleven - The Black Dog ; and my oh my, what a situation our Freaks have ended up in!     The Freaks were in the middle of a battle with Lord Isaac Montagne (son of the villainous Baron of Campanula) and his local mercenaries.        Their secret vigilante companion, Vincente Quint, just ousted himself as Night's Vengeance to put a halt to the fighting.   Claudine LaFitte, dedicated agent of some unknown faction of do-good nobles, watches carefully; while keeping her unwanted admirer Jacquard at arm's length.       This one gets wild, y'all...  So let's get right into our story. Warning: this is a horror campaign setting, so please bear that in mind before reading on.  Possible triggers include: mentions of violence, bloodshed and death; physical abuse mentions, animal harm ment...

     Welcome friends, to a very special interlude of Freaks & Facades !   Tonight, instead of our usual bullet journaling recaps, we give you original fiction, set in the world of Aboleth Eye's campaign!       We give you all...   The Last Moments of Marie Thibeaux !     This is a special story that accompanied our roleplaying for Session Ten : Get Out of Town .  It's a little exercise in gothic fantasy that host/Dungeon Master Aboleth Eye was inspired to write.  And tonight, we merrily and malevolently share it with our beloved readers.     This story does contain spoilers for Freaks & Facades ' first arc, specifically the Session Ten recap.  If you have not caught up with the story and do not want to be spoiled, please feel free to read on up.       If instead you were brought here from the Session Ten recap, by all means read on!  And, i f you are compelled by ...

     Greetings, friends!  And welcome back to Freaks & Facades.  This is the penultimate session of our first arc, Session Ten : Get Out of Town!      Things got wild last session.  Damage was done, people got hurt (and not just physically), and now our group Freaks has to come together.  Otherwise, all they endured and sacrificed was for naught!     Our party split up to accomplish the goal of ridding Campanula  of an evil preying on the people of Dementlieu (while feasting at the top with the wealthy elite)!        Solange, Channa and Pryrrish investigated the Baron Montagne's manor while he was out at the races.  And our trio may have made their presence known...  Stealing a dossier of incriminating evidence and the semi-haunted hope chest of a late Lady Marie Thibeaux .  Oh, and they set his house on fire .  Do you think the Baron--almost certainly the vicious Black Dog ...

       You!  Yes, you!   Welcome to Freaks & Facades Session Nine : Chaos and Collisions !  Our band of friendly Freaks are on the move, but their forces are split right down the middle!      Following the scheme set forth by the secretive Claudine LaFitte ;  Solange, Channa and Pryrrish are heading to the nigh-abandoned Montagne estate!  There may be evidence linking the malevolent Baron to an infamous spree killer, known as The Black Dog , free for the taking!      The Baron Montagne himself, and everyone of influence in the village of Campanula, are attending the Chaveau Derby on this day.  An even more important figure, a member of the Council of Brilliance, is supposedly attending this last derby of the season!  Therefore, to keep track of the Baron's movements, our odd couple pair of Fenri and  Schrödinger  will be attending the races!        Their loc...

      Greetings, our great and ghoulish readers!  Hungry for more Ravenloft fun?     Then w elcome back to the storied return of Freaks & Facades !  To Session Eight : A Hard Break !      Riddled with spider bites and exhausted from a day of riots and revelations, our band of Freaks camp out.  The physical proof needed of the Baron Montagne's plots has not been acquired.  But, they have uncovered different truths (some quite terrible in scope) that they never anticipated.  Some too dangerous to confront...      And now, while tending to their wounds, a figure emerged from the dark.  Someone who has seen all the Freaks are capable of, good and bad.  Our band of aspiring adventurers suddenly face the serious face of the seemingly ridiculous and lovesick socialite, Claudine LaFitte !      What does she want with the party?  Is Claudine a possibly ally in the Freaks' pursuit of ...

     Welcome!  To all of our felonious friends and you suspicious strangers too!   We bring you back to Freaks & Facades , in time for   Session Seven : What Remains !       Our beloved Freaks have been fully introduced to the many faces of the frivolous Campanula nobility: such as the prideful Lord Isaac Montagne , the stable Lord Jacquard and the chaotically delightful  Claudine LaFitte .        They also saw the  terrible  power these prideful paragons of wealth could truly wield--through meeting the cold, calculated Baron Montagne , the lord over all of Campanula.        Night's Vengeance is still wanted for the Bonmot Family Massacre , framed by the Baron.  And while attempting to attend tea with this terribly powerful noble (after clashing rapiers out of the blue), our group failed to obtain evidence linking the Baron to the crime!  Inste...

       Welcome back to Freaks & Facades !       Our story tonight has our misanthropic misfits  surviving Session Six:  Teatime at House Montagne !     At the end of last session , Our beloved Freaks are literally strutting into the mansion of the most powerful noble in all of  Campanula , the enigmatic and dangerous  Baron Montagne .  F ather to the pompous scion Lord Isaac Montagne II , and the presumed conspirator against the local masked mischief maker,  Night's Vengeance !        Our group has been invited to afternoon tea with this powerful nobleman, though perhaps the group was too hasty to accept it...        After all, one of our Freaks (not naming names,  Fenri ) incited a riot in town just a few hours ago!  In the Baron's own town of all things, proclaiming him as a murderer !      With good intentions, our righteous Fe...

    Greetings, our fans both foul and fair!        Welcome back to  Freaks & Facades!  To Session Five :  Consequences of Bravery !       During the previous session , our beloved Freaks decided to intervene in the attempted murder of the mischievous vigilante,  Night's Vengeance !      Powers were revealed, conspiracies were unearthed and the night ended on disagreement (and fear at having revealed one's truer self).  Our friendly- ish  Freaks went to bed disheartened...        For Campanula has a dark kingpin, willing to destroy entire lives and households...        And our group of new strangers has intervened in their dark machinations...        Can they truly work together to unmask this corrupt conspiracy, or will they continue to not meet eye to eye?    Come along with us, at th...