Bit of a heavy read but my players are absolute madlads

it started with the bard having a “meditation” session with essentially the boss of the first arc (long story short he died came back and got some redemption and now is the only one the bards successfully seduced)

then the players make plans to kidnap a very powerful conjuration user who can easily open portals across vast distances and control the forces of nature itself. Their plan was to sneak up behind him and just grab him. They also plan to kill someone else in the area for a side quest.

as soon as they got to the island town where their quarries were, the party splits up to cover more ground. The monk chases someone he thinks is the powerful conjuration user but ended up being an old ally instead. the bard abandons her quest to find the conjuration user when some random person asks if she wants to go get coffee. the rogue immediately gets captured by the two people he needs to kill.

When the bard is at the cafe enjoying a slice of pie, it starts pouring and her new friend comments that its not supposed to rain today and is mildly panicked and runs toward the sound of an explosion.

The monk and his old friend end up having their conversation cut short when an NPC who refuses to die chimes in and starts a fight that ends in an explosion. After the fight the monks old friend comments that its not supposed to rain today and is in mild panic

The rogue refuses to join forces with the person hes sworn vengeance against and as a result his quarries grab a powerful rod imbued with the magic of the archfey of seasons that rivals the power of the conjuration user himself and hits the rogue with a blast that stops his heart. they dump the body into the ocean along with the rod which was stolen and theyre trying to frame the faction the rogue is a member of for its theft. The power of the rod caused the rain. as the rogue sinks in the water his heart restarts thanks to a one time use only item that saves the user from death if the user dies while in its possession

The ran washes away the makeup the bards new friend was wearing and it reveals that he was the conjuration user all along. Seeing that things are quickly going to shit he calls for his council members to regroup so he can take them all back to the capital where they can be safe. The two quarries use a magic stone to quickly regroup with the conjuration user and the guy opens up a portal. the monks old friend goes through the portal seemingly joining the conjuration user and for some reason i cannot fathom the bard jumped too. And despite mine and the monks efforts to stop her, she managed to get through before the portal closed. The worst part is that the bard has the key that opens the path home

so at the end of the session, the monk is standing alone in the rain on an island town with no way to get home. As far as he knows the rogue is dead and the bard just joined forces with the enemy.

And they have two in game weeks to figure something out or else theyre gonna miss their opportunity to stop the destruction of village back in faruun.