Odette Navarre – Vox Machina
Campaign One
By DoctorGemini
Summary: Though she was banished by the Order, Lady Kima asks her to join on her quest to Kraghammer to go into the depth below to stop a great evil within. Reluctant to go, Odette Navarre joins her; what dangers await her down there and who the hell are these clowns?!
Travis Willingham as Grog, Goliath Barbarian
Marisha Ray – Keyleth, Half-Elven Druid
Taliesin Jaffe – Percy, Human Gunslinger
Ashley Johnson – Pike, Gnome Cleric
Sam Riegel – Scanlan, Gnome Bard
Orion Acaba – Tiberius, Dragonborn Sorcerer
Liam O'Brien – Vax'ildan – Half-Elven, Rouge
Laura Bailey – Vex'ahlia – Half-Elven, Ranger
Adassa – Odette Navarre – Half-Elven (Drow), Fighter
AND
Mathew Mercer – The Dungeon Master
Prologue
In a tavern called the Hanged Man, a half-elf leaned into her table, taking sips of apple cider and munching on her small dinner. Weary eyes stare at the scarred elf before going back to their businesses. Though the features of one of her parents showed her to be a Drow elf; the only thing she got was the dusky skin and white hair, her eyes were a different subject altogether; yellow like a wolf.
Through all the years she has lived, she has never come across another with eyes like hers... Probably why that old man brought her into that stupid Order in the first place. Though it could have been the birthmark on the side of her face that looked like the skin around the mark is scaly.
"A sign that you were destined for great things." she could still hear the old Paladin say to her when she asked why he saved her from losing her hand in stealing food when they first met.
"So much for destiny old man." She muttered saluting the spirit before taking a swig.
Before everything went to the seven hells, Odette Navarre lived as a street rat in the city as a child. Where her parents were who knows? All anyone has told her was that she was found as a babe in a trash bin and if it weren't for a kind-hearted citizen taking her to the orphanage when they found her, we wouldn't be here today. Was it to make her feel bad about her life or a lie? Odette simply accepted it as it is, and didn't even try to attempt in finding a family and simply survived the streets until that day she got caught by the food vendor.
"Three years away and I still know your weaknesses, Odette. I never understood your taste for goat over a lamb but to each their own." a familiar voice says bringing her back from the past.
From the corner of her eye she watched as the halfling woman climbs onto the stool beside her, her dirty blond hair tightly braided, complexion darker than the usual halfling with a big scar across the side of her face along with other, smaller scars, and of course wearing armour representing gold, silver, and blue of Bahamut.
"Oh like your weakness isn't chicken wings?" Odette mutters, tapping the booth waiting for her drink.
"Oooh don't remind me, I haven't had those in months!" the Halfling woman laughs.
"What brings you here Lady Kima?" Odette asks, sipping her ale. "Don't you and those dumb-asses have to keep Emon protected since you failed that last time around...? Also, well done on that."
"What? Can I not wonder where my little student has wandered off to?" Lady Kima asks with a small smirk completely ignoring Odette's comment.
"Not when you have Lady Allura waiting for you at home." Odette was quick to reply.
Lady Kima's dark complexion became darker as she clears her throat looking around nervously. "She is busy with her own things and I am not here to talk about such things. I am here for you though."
"Oh? What happened? Is there something else The order wanted to accuse me of?" She asks rolling her eyes. "Did I throw Timmy down the well?"
"No Odette this doesn't have anything to do with them and more of a personal matter." Lady Kima sighs. "I was given a vision... a dark one."
Odette turns her head to Lady Kima, showing that she was paying attention. It wasn't really all that surprising that paladins got visions or messages from Bahamut, it was just rare. So when one says they got a vision, you listen.
"I saw darkness taking root beneath Kraghammer, the dwarven city northeast of Emon in the Cliffkeep Mountains. I have been hiring a couple of mercenaries to accompany me into the mines and into the Underdark, and I want you to join me." Just as she finished the sentence Odette choked back her drink.
Coughing a bit, wiping her mouth with her arm Odette looks over at Lady Kima in shock. "Okay first off you owe another ale, second of all wherein all your vision did it say 'It's dangerous to go alone, bring the half-drow that your order banished years ago!' like seriously Kima."
"Odette, the Order has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with my visions and they certainly have nothing to say about who I bring with me. Besides, in my vision; within the darkness, I saw a figure of a wolf within it, guiding me through the caves of the deep."
There was a silence between the two.
"And the last murmurs I have heard here and in neighbouring villages, that there is a half-elf wondering the area, helping the less fortunate, caring for those in need with the strength of ten men and eyes like a wolf, they call her Einn Ulfur... Lone Wolf, Now I wonder, would such a person not help her old mentor in her quest to suppress the darkness from taking hold in this world?" Lady Kima asks, gently placing an object beside Odette's hand.
Odette looks down at the object, taking a deep breath as she stares at her the most precious thing that was taken away from her, her holy symbol.
Reaching over she picks up the symbol, grasping tightly to it as she feels the vibrating purrs in her head transfer slowly from her head down her body and into the item in her hand.
Odette sighs. "So, Kraghammer huh?"
Lady Kima smiles.
