6 September 2023– Wednesday Ghouls

Character Connections

  • Bruno –
  • Durrim –
  • HB –
  • Ved Pinion –
  • Wynasia –
  • Rohalin –

Strong Start

Scenes

  • The Gateway and the Glyphed Skull
  • The bonedust dunes or the canyon of the sleepers
  • The pillars of the Underworld
    • Meet the Shade Adventurer Inferno Spineblade, tiefling shade great weapon master (CR 12).
    • Two purple worms!
  • Meeting Jiro – Underworld Merchant
  • Journey to the Midden of the Flayed
  • The Midden of the Flayed
  • Rescuing Gorlu – Antipaladin of the Withered Hand
  • Journey to the Cult of the Withered hand
  • Audience with Orda, Queen of the Withered Hand.

Secret and Clues

  • Barnabas the Valet knows a kobold traveler of the Underworld named Jiro – Underworld Merchant
  • Jiro knows that Narosain – The Last King lives and seeks revenge against Emperor Nicoforus the Pale and his lackeys.
  • When Emperor Tonderil consolidated his power in the White City decades ago, he wiped out all independent ghoul lords who refused to give him fealty. One such ghoul lord was Narosain, the Last King.
  • The Emperor sent assassins to deal with this pretender and ostensibly killed him. Narosain had anticipated the assassination attempt and escaped in vermin form while leaving a lookalike behind.
  • In the process, Narosain lost his Staff of the Underworld, which was retrieved by the cave dragon Gondecap after the dragon ran off the surviving ghoul assassins.
  • The Last King is looking to gain his revenge on the Emperor, and his interests align with those of the characters looking to stop the machinations of the Emperor’s favorite, Duke Morreto.
  • A derro knight – an antipaladin named Gorlu of – is part of a secret cult of derro who supposedly know where the emperor is. Their secret cult is hidden but this Gorlu knows the way.
  • Gorlu was captured by darakhul and sent to the Outpost of All Flesh for “processing”. His body is likely already stripped and his remains thrown into the Midden of the Flayed. Just because he’s dead doesn’t mean he isn’t useful.
  • Bloody Bones guard the Midden – considered lower caste of ghouls. They are horrific, even to the Emperium.
  • The Cult of the Withered Hand supposedly still supports the Last King and knows where he is.

Fantastic Locations

  • Locations
  • Paths through the Shadowdark Underworld
    • The Bone Dunes – a weak boundary between the plane of shadow and the Dustlands
    • Caverns of the Sleepers – cavern where stone giants slumber and are worshipped by Kobold shaman.
  • The Pillars of the Underworld

NPCs

Monsters

Treasure