The PCs are tasked with investigating a rash of disappearances in and around a small town called Beetleburg. Families in the outlying farms have been disappearing without any signs of struggle. It started a few days ago, and each day more and more are disappearing.
Baron Obarof, the lord of the area, is not terribly concerned […]
Spooks, ghosts, shadows– all terms applied to the Specters of Ptolan. A small group, practically unheard by even the most well-connected, yet they’ve agents in almost every court in every kingdom.
Each specter is an elite assassin trained in a variety of skills. Tracking, espionage, impersonation, forgery… all are required for the specter’s mission. Specters are […]
Shentreau is known as the Center of All Culture. For centuries it has been the home of high art. The Moutron, Kelpsierse, and Vodonford, the three greatest art galleries in the world, all call Shentreau home, as well as dozens of other, smaller galleries catering to every taste and whim imaginable.
The only true industry in […]
Minaerva Lenesticles is the latest artist to dominate the cutthroat high-art scene of Shentreau. Minaerva goes by the sobriquet “M,” and was once just another of the self-important sycophants which litter the city’s courts. She longed to break through and join the cognoscenti, but it seemed she could never follow the tastes of the moment– […]
Eventually, the PCs are likely to run into someone who recognizes the woman they rescued as Merribeth Golde, daughter of a local baron named Friedie Golde. Alternatively, they might run into her double in town.
Merribeth has become the victim of a particularly malevolent fae called a “toar kil’narrin,” or a duplicant. The toar kil’narrins feed […]
If the PCs track down the men who’d buried the woman, they’re in for a bit of a surprise. The men don’t know the identity of the lady who hired them, just saying that she was a pretty woman dressed in fine clothing. Their description actually matches the woman the players found perfectly, and if […]
Off in the distance, the PCs can hear swearing and what sounds like several people shoveling dirt. Indeed, a few hundred yards away, hidden by the terrain, five men are hurriedly burying something. By the time the PCs reach where the noise was coming from, the men are running away in several different directions. There […]
One evening, the PCs are invited to a noble’s home for some reason; a dinner party, to discuss business, etc. The reason is not important. The noble has a daughter who leads a fairly sheltered life, and takes quite an interest in the PCs.
The following day, the child decides to run away and follow the […]
While traveling along an ill-used road through the forest in an unfamiliar kingdom, the players find a woman sitting on a log. Her clothes are dirty and tattered, but are the clothes of a noble, and she is very obviously in the late stages of pregnancy. Observant characters will note that she appears to have […]
