Freaks & Facades: A D&D Campaign Recap

     Welcome, fine and friendly creatures of the night, to our latest Freaks & Facades banquet:  Session Fourteen - The House of Wax !     It has been some time since our last update.  Our group of friendly Freaks decided to end their first night of Primeur at the mystifying House of Wax, tantalized by the mysteries it holds.  And tragically our hungry readers have been left in suspense!       No  more!  So what will come of this next leap into the festivities of Primeur?  Who is the mysterious figure following our Freaks as they walk the festival streets?       We  return to our story of Freaks & Facades , so chew our story thoroughly as this next chapter unfolds!  We wouldn't wish you to choke upon what horrors we have on offer tonight...     This is quite a long one so get cozy and enjoy! Warning : this is a horror campaign setting, so please bear that in m...

     Come in, my pretties.  Come in from the blazing sun!  It's time for another story of Freaks & Facades.  We are at unlucky?   Session Thirteen -  a story of Clashing Ideals !       Our party of Freaks are becoming immersed in all that celebratory Port-a-Lucine has to offer.  The city, the beating heart of the western Core, is full of activity for the Primeur festival!  A festival of bountiful harvests, wine flowing freely, and many gatherings promoting the city's greatest achievements.        But can our Freaks enjoy themselves with all that they have experienced?  Can they throw themselves fully into the Primeur fun despite the darkness staining their souls?       Was that morning in the Port-a-Lucine suburbs making connections enough to assuage their worries?   Let us find out! Warning : this is a horror campaign setting, so please bear that in mind befo...

     Welcome, friends, once more to Freaks & Facades !        It's the Second Arc , dear readers!  Finally!  (Thanks to everyone for being patient for this update.)        [[ Spoilers Ahead for the First Arc!  If this is your first time reading our adventures, check out our Campaign Index here for all the highest highs and lowest lows! ]]      When we last left our band of beloved Freaks [at the end of   our  Session Eleven   finale ] they had just departed the northern village of Campanula  with much trouble in their minds.  And quite a bit of blood on their hands.        The Black Dog (malevolent huntmaster Baron Montagne ) was removed from power and the Material Plane, leaving the village without its leader and tyrant.  Hoping the village can now thrive without a malicious noble pulling its strings, the party traveled to the capit...

     We've heard from our amazing group for the First Arc Q&A - Players Edition , so now let's hear what each of our Players'  Characters  have to say.        It's now time for the First Arc Q&A -  Character Edition !      Our band of beloved Freaks has had quite a journey just within the First Arc.  Let us see what they're bringing into the Second Arc from their experiences!  All new traumas and tribulations to explore, hehe !     I gave each of our amazing Cast of Characters a set of questions that were submitted from myself, fans of the story and from one another.  Let us see how these characters grew (or have withered slightly) since arriving at the First Arc's beginning!  Here we go!

     Friends foul and fair, we welcome you to the first ever Freaks & Facades Question & Answer - Player Edition !        Our journey through the First Arc has come with many ups, downs, critical rolls good and bad; and now we get to hear from our amazing Players!  We compiled some great questions that our loyal readers want to know about our Cast and their Player Creators !      So let us dive right in, starting with Player Questions !

       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 ...