Peculiar Places: Shentreau, Center of All Culture

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 [...]

Friends & Foes: The Vampire City

For hundreds of years, the city of Rastonia has been under the de facto rule of three guilds of varying legitimacy: The Moneylenders, the Shadow Guild, and the Crafters’ Guild. Each of the guilds is headed by a vampire, the three of which make no attempts to hide their nature.
The Moneylenders is headed by Lord [...]

Friends & Foes: The Plagiarist

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– [...]

After all, it’s a small world…

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 [...]

Peculiar Places: The Salient Green

The Salient Green is a rather unassuming inn and tavern located along the western edge of Shatron City. Not really much to look at, The Salient Green actually has a great reputation for its house brews. It has a variety of ales from Greenskin, a bitter drink with a kick like a mule, to Poinyear, [...]

Hey, don’t I know you?

The players are assigned to escort a moderately-high ranking Cannith on a lightning rail trip. She’s wealthy and important enough that she has her own car, and arrangements have been made to check the papers of everyone on board the rail and screen out the undesirables.
As the PCs are eating in the densely-packed dining car [...]

The Festival of the Half-Hundred Hounds

Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, the town of Quainsbrook was besieged by kobolds. They were only saved when Canis, the lord of hounds, sent a pack of fifty wild hounds to help defend them. The villagers of Quainsbrook, to this day, have an amazing rapport with canines of all types, and Quainsbrook [...]

Peculiar Places: The Slums

In the town of Amberdine there exists a peculiar little tavern known as The Slums. At first glance, it certainly appears to live up to its name; the building looks rundown, more than one window is boarded up, and it is covered with graffiti.
Things start to fail a bit upon closer inspection, though. The boards [...]

What a way to start the year…

It’s New Year’s Eve in New York City (and elsewhere too, I suppose). As usual, a massive throng of people, the PCs included, is partying in Times Square. The nearly one million people all crowded around One Times Square are so thick that for hundreds of feet it’s almost impossible to move.
Unbeknownst to anyone, a [...]

The Tagalong

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 [...]