The Short Version of The Long Game

Hello! In an effort to bring everyone, including the players, up to speed on the events of The Long Game, I strove to make a synopsis. Realizing that it was great, but maybe still a little too long, I decided to make this summary, here. Lacking most of the story and content, it may not make as much sense, but for anyone already familiar with the journals, which can be found in previous posts, this summary will help to refresh your memory of our adventures. I hope you like it and find it useful!

Dallas Kasaboski

• Alvyn destroys family and home with his magic
• Alvyn experimented on by Aesian scientists, who destroy the eastern side of Aes
• The Whitehelm Reaping
• Tong joins Ting Tang Wong Gong, becomes monk of Ioun
• Alvyn meets Tong, trying to steal the Edge of Sanity
• Kalgar meets Alvyn, trying to steal superweapon, Kalgar fakes death, leaves Aes
• Tomb of Last Albus Emperor
• fought invulerable golem
• murals indicated that dragon was in charge of Albus
• Killing a young, white dragon
• hired by Mercury
• dragon mentioned dragon for a father, Adamantia's invasion, and the Long Game
• party goes to Doomguard headquarters in Chalybs
• party goes to Aes to find missing Doomguard agent
• finds agent mind-controlled by Angrovich Shivi, party kills him to avoid detection
• Great Hunt in Canitia
• learn of Ruber tieflings who fight devils
• meet Shizuka, defeated general from Albus
• meet Aleia, former Ioun monk
• meet the Oracle who gives insightful prophecy
• met Faulty on Adamantina border, curious warforged
• Break-in at the Doomguard headquarters, two scrolls stolen
• Doomguard moves headquarters, party goes to Aurum to scout out new vault location
• Sorrows, Aurum city, party meets/fights ghosts, finds teleportation circle and vault, guarded by ghost dragon. Party makes deal with dragon.
• Alvyn tells party about his past
• Party learns of Adamantia's siege-ending mech-golems wrecking last Albus city
• Alvyn's friend, Doomguard agent Mako, agrees to help party, in exchange for help in dwarven city
• Joining party of dwarves, investigate old city, encounter illithids, Kalgar almost kills party
• Kalgar visits Reverie with Tong, earns tattoo
• In Ruber, party goes to Ioun library, learns that Ruber's advisers know more about Tong's devil
• Meet with Lord Baelfire, who summons Votharxis, and then betrays party
• Party lost battle to Baelfire, red dragon, ordered to collect powerful weapons
• Party killed guards in temple of Pelor, steal Posse McToes ancient, undead-killing sword
• Kalgar and Tong learn of Tong's nightmares
• Aurum envoy surrounds Chalybs, wants the city back
• party play-fights guards in Viridi, makes fake copy of Corellon-blessed sword
• Alvyn learns of The Circle, group of magic users, tries to learn to shed his spellscar curse
• Party summoned Votharxis
• Alvyn gave Tong all of his power, Tong defeated Votharxis
• Tong purified and rid himself of the Edge of Sanity
• Mercury arrived, killed all the tieflings, and Vex
• 2 years have passed since the party started travelling together
• Tong comes to terms with his nightmares over Whitehelm
• met Faulty again, party convinces him to leave wall and investigate the Dragon's Waste
• At Ioun temple, in Canitia, all monks dead except Alia the Stubborn, Tong takes the Codex Caduceus, begins quest to restore world monk order of Ioun, Alia joins the party
• Party goes to Hyacintho, boards the ship called Rayden, sails to Aes
• Rayden summons kraken to fight Vutha Kepesk, Kalgar's old ship
• Party defeats kraken, sends Rayden home, Kalgar reunites with Sora, who gives him the ship
• At Hyacintho capital, Eldengarr, the party:
• disables their ships
• publicly challenges and defeats priestess of Rayden, warning the people of blind faith
• finds the body of Kord, hides it in Doomguard vault
• (Tong) book-bombs people with teachings of Ioun
• Doomguard headquarters and vault successfully moved to Crimson Fields, in Aurum
• Kalgar learns more about Order of Kord, recruits followers to meet in Crimson Fields
• including Dwight and Haymitch
• Tong finds new followers, those reading the books, in the Reverie
• In Doomguard vault, the party discovers cage used to hold Alvyn in Aes
• In Crimson Fields
• form a crew of people from Hyacintho and Chalybs
• Dwight and Haymitch receive Posse McToes and Corellon's sword replicas
• Alvyn and the Dwarves upgrade Shockrosia (their ship) into an airship
• Party returns to Ruber, defeats Baelfire, puts head in Kalgar's bag
• Mercury urged party to go to Hiems, party dropped off ship in Canitia
• party saw Rime, cobalt dragon, slay 10 000 mercenaries, easily
• Mercury tells party about The Long Game, swears them in as Arbiters
• Tong becomes Mist Knight of Eidolon Fortress, plane between Reverie and the Astral Sea
• Kalgar has vision of meeting Kord, is bestowed wings, becomes Last Scion of Arkhosia
• Alvyn recuperates and trains his mind and body, becoming Twice-born Warlord
• Dwarves make Illithid psionic blocker
• Haymitch reveals Kalgar killed his brother, a guard in the temple of Pelor
• Lilianna, of the Doomguard, blames Alvyn for Vex' fault, Alvyn abandons the Doomguard
• Party meets the Oracle again, warns party about Mercury, warns of world at war
• party thought to go to Aes to steal superweapon to use against Adamantina, changes their minds and goes to Ferrum instead to investigate the Iron Dragon
• The Vanguards of the Night (party name) encounter and defeat a peryton and cadaver-collector at base of Iron Tower
• Enters the tower via holes beside the tower, leading to tunnel and tube leading up through centre of tower
• Each floor higher reveals more extensive examples of mutations and experimentation
• Party fights gibbering mouthers, beholders, mooncalves, mimics
• Met and freed half man, half orc, named him Primus, and cybord-gorilla they call BallistApe, told them to go to the Shockrosia
• Alvyn finds 7 canisters of clones of himself, goes crazy about finding out what they were and why they were
• canisters stored in Reverie for safe-keeping 
• Iron Dragon
• mutated itself via elixirs to become more formidable
• was creating perfect predator for defeating other dragons
• was in league with tower which was actually a iron-blood-sucking mimic
• was killed by party, its head thrown in Kalgar's bag
• Tong blocked mind-controlling psionic influence of the dragon in the fight
• Alvyn transformed extensively, and repeatedly, in the fight, fought very aggressively
• Kalgar took flight for first time, called lightning strike which broke through tower, killing the dragon
• Back on Shockrosia, dwarves made device for catching news-cast, Angrimich Shivi hijacked the signal to call Kalgar back to Aes on charges of treason
• Tong spends a night of passion with Alia, breaks it off
• Mercury arrives, warns party that other dragons, and Brass Company, will come after them
• Shockrosia sailed south to avoid Adamantina, meets wyvern knights who warn of underground threat
• Party arrives at Chalybs, finds it completely under siege by Aurum
• Shockrosia intercepted by storm of the blue dragon, "Rayden", nearly destroyed
• meets with Angrimich Shivi ship Dauntless, captained by Sora who:
• tows them back and gives them shelter
• sets up meeting with Admiral Draxia, someone who may support Kalgar
• spends the night with Kalgar
• Party begins rebuilding/upgrading the Shockrosia
• Malark Chenn, crew mate, discovered dead, ripped open from inside
• Party discovers it was a creature from the Iron Tower
• Party tries to track it down, lead all around, then back to the Aesian outpost
• Party finds alien creatures, complete with queen, fights them
• Kalgar's Blazing Brand destroys the outpost, bringing it down on the queen and her children
• Party sails to Admiral Draxsha, escorted by Sora's ship
• Admiral Draksha, on her ship The Old Way, accepts Kalgar's explanations for his past
• makes him a Commodore, gives him three ships
• urges him to check out Deepwatch Base
• if Kalgar can expose the superweapon program, she'll publicly support him
• Alvyn takes responsibility for destruction of outpost, is arrested.
• escapes, saboutages ship, fights with Lieutenant Dirgere, Angrimich Shivi agent
• learns people looking for them: Tribulus, Brass Company, young, bald monk woman 
• Crew goes to Windle's Landing to get gems to make ship fly again
• encounters possessed monk woman looking for Victor Whitehelm
• she kills 25 people, turning them to ash, party stops her with ships cannons
• she claims it isn't over as the possession leaves her
• The party leaves Windle's Landing, sailing toward Deep Watch Bay
• The crew makes preparations including fleet operations, "frog men", and psionic connections to the fleet through Tong