Curse of the Emerald Cobra! 7th Level adventurers needed!

This is a Play-As-You-Can campaign. Each chapter is run as a mini-campaign. Show up for the chapters you can play. Or play them all...the session will run for 3 hours. Join with a 6th level character... Cool stone gives way to the wall of heat and humity of jungle air in a single breath. You step out of the tunnel’s mouth and the world opens—not into sky, but into a vast bowl of green. The interior of Mount Icpitl rises around you in a ring of sheer, dark cliff, its volcanic stone slick with old mineral stains and thin curtains of moss. Sunlight pours down from the caldera’s open crown in pale shafts, catching drifting motes and turning the humid air into something you can almost see. The smell hits next: wet leaves crushed underfoot far below, sweet sap, orchid-bright pollen, and the coppery tang of warm stone. Under it all is something reptilian—musk and old shed skin—like a snake den. Then the sounds arrive all at once, layered and alive: the buzz of insects like a distant rattle, the liquid calls of birds you can’t spot, a steady drip of condensation somewhere in the trees, and the groan-creak of rope and timber shifting under weight. The jungle floor is forty feet beneath you, a teeming, tangled darkness of fronds and vines—too dense to see clearly, but constantly moving with life. You realize you’re standing on a treetop platform—stout planks lashed and pegged around the thick trunk of a towering tree that rises straight through the decking like a living pillar. There are no railings. Just empty air at the edges, and the dizzying drop into green. To either side, rope bridges sway gently, each one disappearing into leaves and shadow before reappearing at another platform—some open to the air, some enclosed like rough wooden rooms nestled among branches. The bridges make a spiderweb across the caldera’s canopy, a village suspended above the jungle. And at the heart of it all, dominating the center like a claim staked into living forest, stands a stepped pyramid of stone—its terraces cut hard and deliberate against the soft riot of vegetation. The stone is old, dark, and stained in places with green-black streaks, and the angles feel wrong for a place grown by nature. Carved serpent motifs crawl along its edges in repeating patterns—fanged mouths, coiled bodies, staring eyes—watching from every tier. There’s no path up from the jungle floor. No welcoming stair from below. The pyramid is only reachable by the high ways: the bridges, the platforms, the canopy routes. One distant bridge—farther than you’d like—connects from a treetop platform to the pyramid’s upper level, swaying slightly like a thin line drawn over a fatal fall. Your skin prickles as the platform shifts beneath you, responding to your weight. The wood feels warm and faintly damp under hand and boot, the rope bindings rough and fibrous. Every movement you make seems louder than it should be—yet the jungle’s constant noise threatens to swallow it, as if the caldera itself is practiced at hiding trespassers… or hiding what it keeps. Near the edge of the platform hangs a small brass bell on a rope—too clean, too intentional—its metal catching the light with a dull, warning gleam. And then, from farther along the planks, you hear harsh voices—shouted hissing syllables and clicking consonants—followed by the scrape of feet and the rattle of gear. Shapes shift at the far end of the platform: reptilian sentries turning as one, shields tilting, obsidian crusted sword and stone tipped javelins lifting… the calm of the tunnels behind you replaced by the sudden, humid knowledge that you have stepped into the fortress of a seemingly immortal Tzopiloani warrior known as Xiuhcoatl - the Emerald Cobra - ruled over the vast Eztenqui Jungles with an iron fist. place of , the Emerald Cobra! This is an ongoing campaign AND accepting new players! Come join the journey. Unravel mysteries and become fabulously rich! Bring a 7th level character, or play a pre-made in the 7th Chapter of a campaign...or join the campaign for the remaining seven more chapters culminating in 13th level!