10 August 2022

  • Review the characters

Strong Start

Ashra-Re - Initiate of the Inner Circle of the Emerald Order comes into the Southern Mirage Tavern – Former Rampant Roach. She’s the one who gave Bruno the list of cults. She tells the characters that they are at the beginning of something big. A terrible plot writhes among the dead like worms and only the characters may crush it under their boots.

The prophecy is not set in stone yet it is here, in this … tavern … where the die is cast.

Scenes

  • Brik needs a mushroom from a hidden grove.
  • Ambush at the mushroom grove.
  • Potential investigation
  • Level 2!
  • The Mob Rules
  • Bathouse?
  • Catacombs
  • Temple of Marina

Secret and Clues

  • The Emerald Order is devoted to the guardianship and understanding of the mysteries of the Emerald Tablets, on which the greatest arcane secrets of Thoth-Hermes are inscribed.
  • Thoth-Hermes is a god of knowledge worshipped primarily in the south, particularly within Nuria Natal where the Emerald Order mostly resides.
  • For several weeks, various Zobeck citizens in the neighborhoods south of Crown Square have gone missing, and all signs ruefully point to the inconspicuous kobolds of the nearby Ghetto.
  • A young woman named Rozalyn Turnyr has gone missing. Her father, Heston Straic – The Grateful Blacksmith, believes Brik did it. Brik’s silver dagger was found at the crime scene and Heston knew the dagger.
  • Heston Straic – The Grateful Blacksmith got no where with the town guard, including Dame Teragram - Protector of Zobeck but Galfrid Gladstone - Aide of Melancha told him that he should keep shaking the tree. Absolutely the kobolds did it.
  • Brik says he lost the dagger while using it to hunt for mushrooms.
  • The Rotten Kings, a ratfolk gang, is supplying special psychedelic mushrooms to Galfrid Gladstone - Aide of Melancha.
  • Galfrid Gladstone - Aide of Melancha has been sewing seeds of doubt into the populous, blaming the kobolds for the missing people.
  • Galfrid Gladstone - Aide of Melancha spends most of his days at the Old Stross Bath House
  • By all accounts, the roster of missing persons seems erratic at best; but as the weeks have ambled along, the mounting suspicions of Zobeck’s guildmasters have been galvanized by the disappearance of a few residents of notable (and often ill) repute
  • The air around Lower Zobeck has since grown thick with speculation, and a dangerous civil unrest festers among the hearts of otherwise law-abiding people.
  • Other similar disappearances in previous weeks have exhibited clearer evidence pointing to the undercity of Zobeck with some loose ties to kobolds.

Fantastic Locations

  • Locations
  • The mushroom grove
  • The catacombs
  • The Bathouse

Monsters

  • Deadly Encounter Benchmark: 1
  • Ratfolk
  • Giant rats

Treasure

Scratchpad

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Session Notes

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