A Pictorial History of My Late Campaign Part 3

Did I mention "Le Vin Et La Vie" was a fantasy campaign?

Because it was.

The third act of the campaign marked a turn toward something more whimsical and hopeful.

When the Montgolfier brothers took our heroine aloft in their balloon

 

 they discovered the art of aerial archaeology

 

 and uncovered a lost Roman ruin wherein they found the head of Dionysus.

 

 (No, seriously, it was the actual head of the god they worshiped.)

Around 1700 years before, freaky Roman cultists

had bound the god in flesh

and divvied up the parts throughout Gallia to improve their sociopolitical power.

Now Vivienne de Malbec

and her lover, Giralomo di Sangiovese,

had the chance to break the curse on Gallia and restore peace and happiness to the land

 by finding all the pieces and putting Dionysus back together again.

First, though, Vivienne had to be convinced magic wasn't inherently harmful

so there was an interlude where she saved some benevolent fairies

from the walking castle

of a whimsically villainous ogre

who led her on a merry duel all about the castle.

 

And then they met Onenharatase, a displaced Huron shaman,

and things started getting serious again.