The Blue Sun - World of Joywind

Soon after I began playing Dungeons and Dragons I wanted to begin creating my own worlds. I wanted to become the Dungeon Master so I created the Joywind campaign. I was reading a lot of Michael Moorcock at the time, so you will notice several names and devices from that source. THANKS MR. MOORCOCK! It had a theme that I have used several times which is the relation of magic to technology. This adventure has a bit of both. It is very grandiose. The basic plot is that aliens from another planet used their technology to move a planet called The Blue Sun into the existing system to facilitate their terraforming efforts. The effects are:
1) Emits a blue radiance that is most easily seen at night. This shimmering glow is called the Blue Vail. It is similar to unusually bright Northern lights, and it is bright enough to totally obscure all stars in the sky.us the only visible objects in the sky are those within the solar system.
2) The Vail dampens electromagnetic radiation making radio communications very unreliable and the range of such devices is reduced by 1000%
3) Changes the effects of infra-red light. Heat dissipation is much slower than usual, and it was this which was responsible for most of the damage to technological equipment of both the humans and the Others. Rocks by campfire will still be warm in the morning, after the fire was put out the night before. The heat effects of beam weapons and air friction prevent use of much technological equipment. Traditional guns with powder get very hot but do not explode!
4) Allows living creatures to "warp" reality. This warping is commonly referred to as "Magic". Prior to the arrival of the Blue Sun, magic was unknown. Atmosphere weakens this effect, making magic more powerful in space. Prolonged exposure will cause telekinetic, and telecreative acts involuntarily. The characters will never spend more than a week in space.
5) Life span is radically altered if people are exposed to the Blue Sun from space. This has resulted in some humans becoming immortal (the Gods and the Immortals).
6) It causes genetic mutations similar to cosmic rays, except that the percentage of viable mutations is thousands of times higher. It is thought that there are "genetic standard deviations". These standard changes result human genes breaking down into more diverse but relatively stable genotypes. Thus, the first generation of "humans" born on Joywind were the beginning of the Elvin, Dwarven, and most other races, including many intelligent "evil" races, such as Orcs, Goblins, ect.
7) The Blue Sun follows the yellow sun by about 25deg. Thus, there is about hour between when the yellow sun goes down and the Blue Sun is still ine sky. During this time the light is deep blue, and the shadows are deep.e effect is quite evil looking. This hour is called "the killing time"
The only way to defete the aliens and remove their influence from their planet is to remove the Blue Sun planet.
There were a number of players who contributed to the story of this adventure. They are:

McGoomerina -- The Lusty Nature Worshiper - Played By John Marvin
Sumain -- Monk of Mystery - Played by Gordon McMurchie
T.C. -- The Toughest of Clerics - Played by Jim Strange (Little Jim)
Morgana -- Druidess With a Desire - Denise Stewart
Gonad -- A Barbarian of Great Strength - Mick Paul
Sir Caladryll -- A Knight of White King - ???
Wai-Lin -- Dwarf Barbarian from Niapon - The first character of Jim Strange
Xantha -- The Raven-haired Fighter Illusionist - Lisa Farnsworth (My Wife!!!)
Huichol -- The Thief of Many Talents - Dave Sanders
Lothar -- Expert Lock-Pick - Peter Kim
Timm -- The Mage from Another World - Gordons 2nd Character
Sasha -- Priestess of Sonia - Eva Strange (Married to Jim)
Sir Kevis -- The Restless Knight - Big Jim Kohn
Kallandra -- The Mage of the Gray Hair -
Aramat -- A Female Ranger in a male body - Cindy Holliday
Frank Labonovitch -- The Fun Loving Youngster - Ron Rossi
Winslow -- Jungle Guide and Sage - NPC
The O'Baca Brothers -- Harpo, Groucho, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo - NPCs

The document below are some of the history of the adventure to capture the Castle Bhads. Someday I may write more prose about this campaign, but probably not. It was a long time ago and my memory is ... shaky.

Castle Bhads 1 - Castle Bhads 2 - Castle Bhads 3 - Castle Bhads 4 - Castle Bhads 5

Below them are links to all the campaign documents that were preserved. I began using a computer to keep records a few years after the campaign started.
For fun reading, stick to the narratives!

Entrance to Joywind and the Castle Bhads Adventure
Naratives	Events/Adventurers	Players/Characters	Tables	Gods	Lore	Places
Arriving in Joywind MISSION OBJECTV BHADS1 BHADS2 BHADS3 BHADS4 BHADS5 DARKTOWR SLAVERY RETURN JUNGLE MCG MCG&RHI SUM&CLEM HISTORY ANTIPALI ASSGUILD ASTRAL ENGGAME	OUTLINE AMBSHMEN ARMY BIGBATL EXTLEV1 AMBUSH Bhads INTRO LEVEL1 LEVEL2 LEVEL3 Castle Bhads 4 Castle Bhads 5	FORCES GAGAGOK Timm - TIMM Stats AARON SUMAIN CORPRALS DRYADS CICI DEREK DINK FRANCIS KEVIS MORDRED NPCGerorge SGTNORTH SHENA WINSLOW ZOMBIES OARSMEN	ARTIFACT AIRENCNT RNDENC TECHITEM DUNMONS MONSTERS	GODS BELL CILBORTH CLYMNSTR RHIANON RHODAN VERHANA	BLUESUN CAMPAIGN CRYSSHIP FRAG KROSNIUM PLANES RUMORS MESSAGE MRKINSPL POEMS PROCLAIM SHADOW JMASSIN MAGICMUS SHADOW INFINITY	CITIES fwineinn JURING SYLVANES AKORAK BACA CASTLE1 BLOODBAY

Ewhon and Nipon Adventures
Naratives	Ewhon Events/Adventurers	Races/Monsters/Cjharacters	Niapon	Places And Characters
SETUP TRAVEL CLUEHIST CLUES CHIEF SUICIDE THOUGHTS CLUE2 POEM CONFESON OTHERS	LEVEL1 ENCLEVL1 LEVEL2 ENCLEVL2 LEVEL3 ENCLEVL3 LEVEL4 TRAPSL4 TRAPLEV5 L5ASSULT5 LEVEL6 LEVEL7 LEVEL8 RUINS ENTERNC GIANTMTN LEVEL1 ICEHOUSE TLORN TOWER	DROW STDDROW DERRO DTHRALLS THRALLS DUREGAR OTHERS TUNLMAKR PERSONS BERDI DEMIBORN DMONBEAR GOLUMREP GRASPVIN GREATOO HEURMAN ICEGIANT ILLITCH KANOBLIS KRAFTELL OBSERVER POLRBEAR SONOMORG SPONGE TUNLWORM UNDROW WOLFIN	ADVENT1 ENCOUNT GODS HEROS	NIAPON NIPNADV1 AMATA HIJONI KASSUM1 NANJI1 NANJIENC NIPONENC OKITO SNOWLAIR TORA WANGLUNG

The Blue Sun - World of Joywind

Entrance to Joywind and the Castle Bhads Adventure

Ewhon and Nipon Adventures