19 August 2023 – Shadowed Keep

Characters

Strong Start

Morgant Graywhisker seeks adventurers willing to find her two brothers, Redwald and Fawkes, who went down into the sewers. The town guard went down there but didn’t find anything. There are no passages down in the well, they say, that would take a humanoid-sized person.

Scenes

Secret and Clues

  • Redwald and Fawkes wore identical rings forged by their father. Each showing a rat’s head.
  • The Graywhiskers are wererats but good ones.
  • Badger of Badger’s always seems to have good stock, including the occasional magic item. It’s not clear where he gets it from.
  • Travelers who wish to visit the beautiful temple often stay at the Three Bells. They stay for a couple of days and then usually leave without fanfaire.
  • Kaitlin Kingsail met an acolyte named Addison Bluebuckle. The two seemed to be hitting it off but he left without a word. He was staying at the Three Bells.
  • Zaffre – Elven Princess Necromancer’s father sent an envoy and a band of scouts to find his daughter.
  • If Zaffre doesn’t come back with Erevan Nym – Envoy of King Thrael of Celene, King Thrael will send Hawkwind – Assassin of King Thrael of Celene and you know how that will turn out.
  • Even in the sewers, victims have been returning to life once again.
  • Valto has been creating hallucinogenic drugs from violet fungi to put people into another world before he kills them.
  • Valto worships a foul deity of madness known as the Dead Night
  • The sewers are in disrepair ever since the sewage guild went on strike after being outbid for their stained glass window in the cathedral. Much of the sleuces of the sewer operate on their own.
  • A priest and acolytes of the Black Harbinger – also known as the Black Goat – once had a shrine here but it’s been overtaken and they’ve been killed. It appears they killed themselves. Now it is a shrine to a deity known as the Dead Night.

Locations

NPCs

Treasure

  • SF Generator
  • 1980cp, 1089sp, 81gp (209gp); Black velvet mask stitched with silver thread (25gp), Carved bone statuette (25gp), Carved bone statuette (25gp), Cloth-of-gold vestments (25gp), Gold locket with painted portrait inside (25gp), Gold locket with painted portrait inside (25gp), Silver ewer (25gp) 175gp; Potion of animal friendship (uncommon potion), Potion of fire breath (uncommon potion), Potion of poison (uncommon potion)

Bag of Holding

Periapt of Health

+1 All Purpose Tool

Plague Doctor’s Mask
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement; cost 150 gp)
Crafting Components: Wax harvested from bees that have fed on the nectar of flowers from Hell
This waxed leather mask covers an entire humanoid face and resembles the beak of a bird. A pair of glass lenses allow you to see through it and the bill provides a constant smell of lavender. While attuned to the plague doctor’s mask, you gain an expertise die on Constitution saving throws against diseases.
When you spend your action to concentrate and inhale the fragrance inside the mask, you recall memories from the brilliant surgeon who created the item. This strips the mask of its magic but allows you to recall the details of a particularly dangerous case. You have advantage on Medicine checks made to treat any single nonmagical disease of your choice until the end of your next long rest, at which point the memories vanish.

Session Notes

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