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25 November 2023 – Shadowed Keep

Characters

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Strong Start

The dead bodies under the floor boards.

Scenes

  • The Murder Mystery of Raven’s Hollow
  • Delving into the Hollow

Secret and Clues

  • Sister Maria is Doreen’s daughter. Both are Green Hags (Menagerie page 268)
  • Villagers have seen a long slinking creaure crawling down into the well in the center of the village.
  • Sister Maria doesn’t know she’s a green hag. Doreen’s been letting her enjoy the village until the day they all die and all of their souls feed into her.
  • The cultists of the Black Harbinger came into town. They sought a power they felt in the town. Doreen murdered them and stuck them under the floor boards.
  • Sister Maria is getting powered up by the living souls of the village. The obelisk beneath the village channels this energy.
  • Two obelisks remain. If both are secured by the high priest of the Black Harbinger, he’ll be able to open the gateway to Thanatos – realm of Orcus – and pour undead out into the world.
  • Doreen worships a twisted deity He Who Swims in the Darkness.
  • Doreen found an obelisk down in the depths below the village. She channels energy into it to pull on the souls of the people above. She’s done so for three generations. Through it she parlays with He Who Swims in the Darkness.
  • She hopes to find the Black Cathedral and use its door to enter a different world.
  • He Who Swims hates the Black Harbinger and the Eater of Worlds.
  • He Who Swims seeks an artifact lost in the depths of Valintin’s Folly and has sent agents to recover it.
  • This unhallowed dark elven amulet, an artifact of a drow who broke away from Lolth to the voice of He Who Swims, is known as Eye Between Worlds can act as a key to connect the Black Cathedral to the primeval jungle and roiling ocean realm known as the Gaping Maw.
  • Maria has been in contact with another follower of He Who Swims – a villager in Dulwich who has conducted many blessed murders in the name of He Who Swims.

Locations

NPCs

  • Review NPCs
  • Sister Maria
  • Doreen the Seer
  • Midryd Mudgiver, a cautious orc of the Lordship of the Isles (A ship on waves, Neutral) – Maritime power focused on trade and sea dominion, influential in Azure Sea trade
  • Paula Gloomgaze, a pious dwarf of Pholtus (A silver sun with crescent moons, Lawful Neutral) – Stern, haloed man of light, embodying law, order, and unwavering resolution –
    • Sandra –
    • Rolph –

Monsters

  • Lazy Encounter Benchmark: 6
  • Forge of Foes Monster Stats
  • Green Hags (Menagerie page 268)
  • Giant toads (Menagerie 450)
  • Giant spiders (menagerie 450)
  • Flesh guardian (menagerie 262)
  • Wights (menagerie 423)
  • Specters (menagerie 396)

Treasure

  • SF Generator
  • 408 gp
  • 10 x +1 bolts
  • essay on efficient armor management
  • dust of sneezing and choking
  • wood woad amulet
  • 75 gp gold-plated statuette of a unicorn of Knights of the Hart (A stag rampant, Lawful Good) – Noble and chivalrous defenders of their realm, committed to protecting Veluna and Furyondy –
  • potion of healing
  • potion of healing
  • +1 earthen shadowy crossbow of Nerull (A skull-and-scythe, Neutral Evil) – Sinister Reaper delighting in suffering, feared patron of death, darkness, murder, and the underworld. Bonus action to activate. For one minute or your next successful attack you add 2d6 necrotic to the next successful hit and the creature’s maximum hit points are reduced by this amount once per day.

Session Notes

  • The characters battled the flesh construct of Doreen.

Dearest Lady of the Hollow,

Our lord, the Dead Night and Deep Father, sought to bring the two of us together as the doorway to his world begins to open. The foolish Black Harbingers believe it is a gateway to their world – they do not realize it is a gateway to any world for those who hold the right key – as you and I soon will.

I have spoken to our Deep Father through the final voices of many in the sewers beneath Dulwich. They finally saw with their final sight the Gaping Maw.

The key to our world lies in the depths of the Shadowed Keep but I have seen signs that the agents of the Eater of Worlds acts against us. Those barbarians will never have what we have, though, the cunning and patience to succeed.

Our night will soon be at hand,

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