Story 7: The Stolen Century

The Stolen Century is the seventh story arc of The Balance Arc. It serves as a prequel to the events of The Balance Arc, and follows the adventures of the IPRE team as they travel to new planes of existence and flee from The Hunger.

Note: This arc does not use the traditional D&D fifth edition rule set, instead using a game of Griffin's own devising, also called The Stolen Century.

Summary
WIPThe arc opens with a crew of seven explorers within an organization called the Institute of Planar Research and Exploration (IPRE, Red Robes). Members of the organization, including Magnus, Merle, and Taako, are interviewed by different news outlets on their home planet about the journey they are about to take across different planes of existence.

As the team takes off in their spaceship, the Starblaster,

Objectives

 * Find out what The Hunger is.
 * Prevent The Hunger from getting stronger.
 * Learn how to stop The Hunger.
 * Make yourselves strong enough to stop The Hunger.
 * Gather resources in the form of bonds, assets, and experience.

Characters

 * Lup
 * Barry Bluejeans
 * Lucretia
 * Davenport
 * John
 * The Hunger

Locations

 * The Starblaster
 * Cycle 0 - The IPRE Homeworld
 * Cycle 1 - The Animal Kingdom
 * Cycle 8 - The Mushroom Kingdom
 * Cycle 17 - The Capital City of Jaden-Province
 * Cycle 21 - The Beach World
 * Cycle 30 - Tesseralia
 * Cycle 47 - The Legato Conservatory
 * Cycle 65 - The Judges' World
 * Cycle 82 - The Empty World
 * Cycle 92 - The Hanging Arcaneum
 * Cycle 99 and Onward - Abeir-Toril
 * Cycle ?? - Jello Town
 * Cycle ?? - Puppy Town
 * Cycle ?? - The Hamster Civilization

Resources
As of episode 65 the party has the following resources:

Merle

 * 3 Assets
 * 6 Bonds
 * 5 Experience

Magnus

 * 0 Assets
 * 11 Bonds
 * 3 Experience

Taako
As of episode 66, the party's Assets have been expended to create new equipment. As of episode 67, their Experience has been expended on levels and other benefits. As of episode 69, their bonds have been expended to summon allies from the bond engine.
 * 4 Assets
 * 3 Bonds
 * 10 Experience

Long-Term Significance

 * The Hunger's origins are discovered.
 * The circumstances that caused the Red Robes to lose their memories are revealed.
 * How and why the Grand Relics were created is shown.