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canyonwalkerThe way I've written so much about my D&D group leveling up you might think that's all we did in this past Sunday's game session. With my efforts to keep it short while also indulging the players in character development through storytelling we kept it to about 2.5 hours. That left almost 2 hours for me to try killing their characters with monsters.🤣
Kiarana the cleric was sent to minister the Silent Quarter as part of her punishment duties. Locals were initially distrustful. Authority figures like city guards and members of prominent faiths are a rare sight. "Get your merit badge and get out," people sneered. But Kiarana was earnest about helping. Yes, it was a task assigned to her in scorn, but it was not the people of the Silent Quarter who were her enemy.
One local resident, an alchemist whom she was sent to buy materials from to prepare magic scrolls and potions— because the high priestess at the temple wouldn't let her use materials on hand— came to her with a problem. Her son had gone missing 3 nights earlier. Usually a missing-person situation in the Silent Quarter is ignored. People go missing here all the time. Sometimes it's even deliberate. Sometimes. But the artisan believed it was foul play. And that it involved the House of Black Wood.
An abandoned stately city home atop a small hill, it was falling apart— and widely considered haunted. There were various stories about what "haunted" meant, ranging from mysterious lights to spooky moaning to pale men walking the street. Multiple times they heard stories "Sometimes people that go in there come out, sometimes they'd don't." When the rogue rolled a natural 20 on his Gather Information check I added, "Not even that other cleric who went in a few moons ago." 😳
The group decided that they'd investigate. At night.
Yes, they went into the haunted house at night. 😱 They were all set to wait a day or two, to gather more information and go in the daylight. But when I reminded them about the young man already missing for 3 days, they decided they couldn't let more time pass. OMG, they took my bait!
Stay tuned for what's inside the House of Black Wood!
The Silent Quarter
This adventure takes the party into the Silent Quarter of the capital city of Lentria. Called Fisherman's Bottom by government officials, this poor and sketchy district is given a number of colorful names by locals. The Sump; Debtor's End. Each of them have meaning, often double meaning. The moniker Silent Quarter refers to the fact that nobody speaks of what happens here. Because nobody cares. (I coached the group that it's like the setting of the classic 1974 movie Chinatown.) In a city where everything is old and decaying, Silent Quarter is the oldest and most decayed.Kiarana the cleric was sent to minister the Silent Quarter as part of her punishment duties. Locals were initially distrustful. Authority figures like city guards and members of prominent faiths are a rare sight. "Get your merit badge and get out," people sneered. But Kiarana was earnest about helping. Yes, it was a task assigned to her in scorn, but it was not the people of the Silent Quarter who were her enemy.
One local resident, an alchemist whom she was sent to buy materials from to prepare magic scrolls and potions— because the high priestess at the temple wouldn't let her use materials on hand— came to her with a problem. Her son had gone missing 3 nights earlier. Usually a missing-person situation in the Silent Quarter is ignored. People go missing here all the time. Sometimes it's even deliberate. Sometimes. But the artisan believed it was foul play. And that it involved the House of Black Wood.
The House of Black Wood
The party chose to spend a few hours gathering information on this place, the House of Black Wood, or Blackwood House.An abandoned stately city home atop a small hill, it was falling apart— and widely considered haunted. There were various stories about what "haunted" meant, ranging from mysterious lights to spooky moaning to pale men walking the street. Multiple times they heard stories "Sometimes people that go in there come out, sometimes they'd don't." When the rogue rolled a natural 20 on his Gather Information check I added, "Not even that other cleric who went in a few moons ago." 😳
The group decided that they'd investigate. At night.
Yes, they went into the haunted house at night. 😱 They were all set to wait a day or two, to gather more information and go in the daylight. But when I reminded them about the young man already missing for 3 days, they decided they couldn't let more time pass. OMG, they took my bait!
Stay tuned for what's inside the House of Black Wood!
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