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By Zombie Pete

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Lady Byreana Gildenwell requests the
honor of your presence at her Fourteenth
Annual Grand Scavenger Hunt and
Cotillion, to commence at sunset on the
twenty-fifth day of the month at Gildenwell
Villa. The Hunt shall be take place entirely
within the North Ward of the city. First
prize is a silver dragon egg.
(Hunted items in the past have included a
page from a wizard’s spellbook, a beholder
eyestalk, and a cockatrice feather.)
2. Jarot Hult, the Right Honorable Sheriff of
Triel, is seeking volunteers to help track
and destroy a pack of gnolls that attacked a
trading caravan on the road south of
Boreskyr Bridge last tenday. In said attack,
nine persons lost their lives, three were
grievously wounded, and two are still
missing. The Sheriff is offering a 10 gp
bounty for each gnoll head turned in, and
the families of the missing will pay a
reward of 100 gp each for the safe return of
their loved ones.
(The families offer 20 gp each if only the
corpses are returned.)
3. The Librarian of the Arcane University,
Calathra Bramblefoot, has slipped you a
message: “Please help me. Someone has
made off with our only copy of Ye Ynfernal
Pacts and ye Wayes in wich One Myght Proffit
There-bye from the Special Collections
chamber. This needs to be kept hush-hush,
as I don’t wish to alarm the Provost. Please
hurry!”
4. There have been reports of noxious
fumes emanating from the city sewers in
the Dock Ward (yes, even more noxious
than usual). Hordes of rats have been seen
fleeing from beneath the streets, and several
rat corpses—bloated, but otherwise
whole—have been found around sewer
grates. A crazy drunk claims to have seen a
giant crocodile down there one night. The
City Watch would like someone to
investigate.
(The crazy drunk is wrong. It’s not a
crocodile; it’s a green dragon.)
5. A gnome merchant named Orlammdris
Whitehorn needs brave drivers to transport
a load of smokepowder to Yartar for a
fireworks display at the town’s Hiring Fair.
Payment of 300 gp to be paid upon safe
arrival.
(Hazards—besides the volatile
smokepowder itself—include a precarious
rope bridge to cross, bandits who have been
tipped off about the cargo, and a religious
faction vehemently opposed to
smokepowder in any form.)
6. A thick, impenetrable fog has settled over
Xantharl’s Keep. There has been no word
from anyone inside for almost a tenday. A
messenger sent from Longsaddle by Darvin
Harpell three days ago has not been seen
since, and magical scrying has proved
useless. Darvin implores you to investigate
forthwith.
7. Westra Duskwood, a mage of of the time; she says this is so I don’t get
Neverwinter, is in need of several items for tired of her. As if I could! See you soon.
a staff she is crafting: unicorn tail fleece, a
thri-kreen antenna, bulette bile, and a type
of rare hardwood found only near magical Yours Affectionately,
portals in the Weathercote Woods. Uncle Taman
(Note: Dryads and wizards are known to
(Floriana is a cambion, and plans to kill
guard the portals in the Weathercote
Taman for his money and property as soon
Woods and can be extremely hostile to
as they arrive in the city.)
interlopers.)

8. The next time a member of the party dies,

their corpse immediately rises up, inhabited
by the soul of a revenant whose original
body was destroyed. The choice is to help it
exact revenge on the pirate crew that left
him behind to be eaten by cannibals, or
wait out the year before the revenant’s soul
passes on to the afterlife, so that the party
member can be raised from the dead.

(Let the player of the slain PC run the

revenant.)

9. Rumor has it that a kenku has joined a

band of thieves and taken up residence in
the city. Victims are reporting that cries for
help were actually lures, drawing them into
an ambush for a mugging. Some victims
aren’t able to report anything at all, since
they’re missing or dead.

(But is the kenku doing this of her own free

will?)

10. Dear Niece/Nephew, 11. Professor Charissa SeKorc invites those

of a scholarly or an adventurous bent to
I am writing to let you know that we shall
accompany her on a planned expedition to
soon be neighbors! I have sold my farm and
Mishtan in Mulhorand to map the
am moving to the city with my new wife.
necropolis there, in cooperation with the
Yes, I am just as surprised as you must be. I
Great University at Gheldaneth.
met Floriana last month and fell head over
heels. Before I knew it, we were married. (Not mentioned is that the esteemed
Let me assure you we are very happy, but professor possesses a cursed amulet she
she is not suited to country life. She enjoys wishes to be rid of by returning it to the
the finer things and the sophisticated tomb of Mulhorand’s first pharaoh.)
culture you can only find in a place like
Waterdeep. I will just have to get used to it!
She can be shy and stays in her room much
12. A fissure has opened in the ground just
outside the forest near Daggerford.
Measuring 20 feet long and 10 feet wide,
the bottom has yet to be plumbed. People
report seeing glowing lights and bluish
smoke emanating from within.
(The fissure is an illusion produced by
several pixies working in cooperation to
bamboozle the locals. They will cast sleep on
any who venture inside the “fissure”.)
13. You ever heard of Bogram’s Antiques
and Curios? You know, the shop with the
big fishbowl in the center with a pirate ship
and desert island decorations inside, but
hardly any fish in it? Well, I know a guy
who saw Bogram dump his daily take into
the treasure chest at the bottom. There must
be thousands in there. Thinks he’s being
clever, but I think we could walk off with
the lot, no problem. What do you say?
(The only problem is Bogram’s good-
aligned water weird that lives in the bowl.)
14. Lovers taking evening strolls in the city
park have been disappearing. Members of
the Watch stationed at the entrances and on
patrol have detected no suspicious
characters, and sweeps with see invisibility
spells has turned up nothing. Will it ever be
safe to walk the grounds again?
(Perhaps, if the new stone loveseat in that
dense copse of trees is revealed to be the
mimic that it is.)
15. Dearest Cousin,
You know of my desperate love for Jastyra
Angalstrand. Her father, Dern, has unfairly
refused to give his consent to our marriage
unless I prove myself worthy of a veteran’s
daughter. His demand is that I slay Braak
Morningshale, the stone giant that crushed
his leg in battle many years ago. That
monster lives way up in the Greypeak
Mountains! He’s enormous! He
undoubtedly has friends! Can you help me?
Please remember that time I told off that
bully for you!
Yours In Family,
Randal
16. There has been a rash of break-ins at
herbalists, apothecaries, and other shops
that sell magical spell components. One
eyewitness swears she saw an insect man
appear, grab a small jar of ruby powder,
and disappear.
(The burglar is a mezzoloth under the
control of an evil elf wizard named Amre
Cernadel. She possesses one of the Books of
Keeping, long thought to be lost, and is
preparing to summon even more powerful
yuggoloths to do her bidding.)
17. Greetings, My Dear Friend!
It’s been too long! I hope you have been
doing well. I wanted to tell you about an
opportunity that has just fallen into my lap.
Lord Folcoerr Tarthelienn is hosting a fete
at his manor in six months’ time, and I have
been invited to perform. Would he not be
mightily impressed by a recitation of the
Lay of Haedynn Tarthelienn? Yes, it was
thought lost, but I have it on good authority
that a copy was entombed with that storied
hero in his homeland. Bringing to light the
past glories of his illustrious ancestor
would ingratiate me to Lord Tarthelienn to
no end, and I am in urgent need of a
patron. Please aid your old friend and
travel with me to Aglarond. There is no
time to waste, and I would be eternally
grateful.
Most Sincerely,
Shandri Hawkewood
(Yes, the tomb does indeed contain the Lay.
Unfortunately for Shandri, however, it only
details Haedynn Tarthelienn’s cowardice
in the face of the enemy at the Battle of
Ingdal’s Arm in 1065 DR.)
18. A dangerous tiefling assassin named
Natali Silvertooth has escaped the custody
of the town watch in Red Larch after she
killed Mayor Garen Thrimble’s wife,
Kelara. Can you track her down before she
rejoins her band and disappears into the
wilds? Also, could you find out who hired
her?
(Spoiler: It was Mayor Thrimble.)
19. You find a map detailing the locations
of the three shards of Trollsplitter, a
dwarven battleaxe shattered at the Battle of
Shallows in 1370 DR. Spread over the
North, the locations are: A hobgoblin
warlord’s tomb in the Crags, the audience
chamber of an orc stronghold near Raven
Rock, and a greenhag’s lair in the
Evermoors.
(Once re-forged, Trollsplitter is a sentient
battleaxe +2, requires attunement by a dwarf of
lawful good, neutral good, or lawful neutral
alignment. Abilities: Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 14. It
can speak, read, and understand Dwarvish,
and has hearing and normal vision out to
60 feet. Its alignment is lawful good and its
special purpose is to destroy trolls,
naturally. It inflicts an extra 1d6 acid
damage on trolls. Additionally, the
regeneration trait of any creature struck by
Trollsplitter doesn’t function at the start of
that creature’s next turn.)
20. Stedd Buckman, the teenaged son of
merchant bankers in Womford, has been
abducted by devotees of the Cult of the
Crushing Wave. The kidnappers are
demanding 20,000 gold pieces, and the lad’s
parents are tempted to use money
entrusted to them for safekeeping to pay off
the ransom. Doing so would ruin the town.
Can you get Stedd back safe and sound
before they are forced to resort to this?
21. The archmage Ruha bint Sa’ar Al-
Azerhati brought down the green dragon
Torth in a fierce battle near Llorkh the other
day, but she thereafter succumbed to the
wyrm’s venom. Now there’s a race on to
find the dragon’s lair and its not
inconsiderable hoard.
22. A gravely wounded githzerai zerth
named Aragahr seeks your help in wiping
out a mind flayer outpost where the rest of
his rrakkma (illithid hunting party) was
ambushed, killed, and consumed.
(Unbeknownst to Aragahr, a githyanki
knight named Izira is tracking him down to
settle an old score.)
23. The elf druid Pharizael comes to you
with a tragic problem: A coven of night
hags has been capturing pegasi from a herd
that roams north of Scornubel in order to
torture and transform them into
nightmares. Can you stop them and find
out what they are planning to do with so
many fiendish mounts?
24. A street urchin named Rinn barrels into
you, desperately seeking to escape that
“evil witch.” Soon, guards from the town
watch come calling, demanding the boy be
returned to his rightful guardian, Baetha
Hilder, who runs the local orphanage.
What do you do?
(Baetha is a strict disciplinarian and
generally unpleasant, but no witch.
However, one of her favorites, an older girl
named Marta, is a rakshasa fond of human
flesh and the reason so many orphans have
gone missing recently.)
25. Reports are coming in of dwarf miners
being attacked and killed by some sort of
earth elemental, after they broke through to
a previously unknown void under the
mountain. The mine has been evacuated
and sealed, but a party is being organized
to retrieve the remains of those who fell to
give them proper burial. Will you help the
dwarves?
(The “earth elemental” is actually a berserk
clay golem, set to guard an eons-lost shrine
of Grumbar. The golem only has 55 hp, and
so one could heal it for at least 5 points with
acid to calm its berserk rage; however,
looting any of the ancient treasures of the
shrine will again earn its wrath.)
25. A violent explosion rocks the
neighborhood. Investigation reveals that
the top floor of a nearby building has
blown off. Among the debris that lands at
your feet is a stout wooden coffer with one
corner smashed in. Spilling out of the coffer
are gems of all kinds—they must be worth
thousands.
(The explosion was the result of a
difference of opinion between two factions
of a criminal organization, both of which
would kill to get those gems back.)
26. A good-aligned church has opened up a
remote frontier valley for those who desire
to establish farmsteads there, an offer
hundreds flock to take advantage of.
Adventurers are needed to escort the
settlers.
(While the valley is not currently occupied,
it lies smack dab in the middle of the
generations-long grand migration route for
a tribe of centaurs.)
27. A blight has taken the village crops, and
with the only bridge to civilization down
from a storm, your community faces
starvation. But there is said to be a cloud
giant palace atop a nearby mountain where
the gardens brim with grapes the size of
your fist and melons the size of a horse.
28. An old and trusted friend, an elf with a
disability (DM’s choice), asks for your help
in traveling to the Isle of Gwynneth in the
Moonshaes. She will not divulge the reason,
but tells you the journey is fraught with
danger from barbaric sea rovers, dark fey,
and other fell creatures.
(She has been called to the Mysteries of
Arvandor, an ancient and secret rite of the
elves, wherein she will join with Corellan
and leave this plane forever.)
29. Beralon Graycloak the wizard is
looking for adventurers to stop a slaadi
invasion. A death slaad has infiltrated a
village a day east of Longsaddle, and with
its blue and red minions is slowly
transforming the inhabitants into slaadi.
(Beralon is, in fact, a gray slaad, looking for
help in killing the death slaad so it can feed
on the corpse and become a death slaad
itself.)
30. The sylvan glen you’ve often ridden
through has become uncharacteristically
gloomy of late. The grass shows patches of
brown, and dead leaves rain down out of
season. Evil creatures have begun
incursions. A dryad named Amaryllis says
the unicorn T’thariel, who is the guardian
of the wood, has disappeared. Can you find
her?
(A winter eladrin named Faelar, wracked
by devastating sorrow for his lost love, has
kidnapped the unicorn and brought her to
his home in the Feywild in an attempt to
cheer himself up. But the celestial creature
is slowly dying in his frigid realm, which
can be reached through the ruins of an
ancient shrine in the wood.)
31. You find a secret panel in the closet of
the room you’re staying in at the Boar’s
Bristles Inn. It leads to a long, dusty, and
cobwebbed corridor—which apparently
extends beyond the outer wall of the inn. It
ends in a door that opens to the Shadowfell.
(The door is one way only. How do you get
back?)
32. A devotee of Torm uses a true
resurrection scroll to raise Saint Mara
Silverfist from the dead, and she is furious
at the way the church is now being run. A
true believer in the Heresy of the Threefold
God, she wants to bring her brand of
Torm/Tyr/Helm worship back to Faerun.
33. A poltergeist is flinging people and
objects off Knightbridge over the River
Rauvin in Everlund. The source is a
traveling halfling merchant, who was
drugged, robbed, and thrown off the bridge
in a weighted sack last tenday. If the body
is recovered from the river bottom, given a
proper burial, and the perpetrators brought
to justice, the restless spirit will move on to
the next world.
34. That lovely half-elf in the tavern was no
lovely half-elf. She was a lamia that struck
you with her intoxicating touch and
whispered a geas that you should bring her
the golden altarpiece from the local church
of Lathander.
35. Frath Lackman’s wife and son are
missing from his farm outside Baldur’s
Gate—although it was his wife’s sister and
not he who reported this. Investigating the
farm, you find it surrounded by traps and
other hastily built defenses. The clearly
agitated Frath refuses to come out, and
shouts for you to go away as strange,
strangled cries issue from the farmhouse. If
captured alive, he says he has one of the
demons responsible for his family’s
disappearance locked in the cellar; he wants
to use it as a hostage to get them back.
(It’s actually not a demon, but a kuo-toa.
The local tribe took the mother and son to
their underwater grotto, where some have
become convinced that the boy is a god.
Others of the tribe do not agree.)
36. The woodcarver everyone calls Gramps
is a fixture in the weekly village market,
offering his realistic carved effigies to the
delight of all. But for nearly a month he has
been strangely absent. Some have
suggested visiting his ramshackle hut up
the mountainside to find out what’s become
of him, but orcs have been sighted in the
area and people fear the worst.
(Gramps was infected with lycanthropy by
a wereboar, and gave himself over
completely to the disease. Now allied with
the orc clan, he plans to raid the village and
infect a whole lot more folks.)
37. Walking trees have been attacking
farmsteads west of Triboar. A grumpy old
treant named Bristlecone is known to live
in the nearby woods, and many feel he is
responsible. Will you journey into the
Kryptgarden Forest and put a stop to it?
(Bristlecone is not to blame. A tiefling bard
named Hantell has a beef with the old
guardian of the forest and wants to
humiliate him. Hantell has more time and
money on his hands than sense, and has
been using his powers to awaken trees and
send them to ravage the farms, in hopes
that the villagers will turn on Bristlecone.)
38. While dining at a fancy tavern in the
city, you receive a series of telepathic
messages from a childlike intelligence:
“Help me! It’s dark! I’m in a hole! I’m
scared and hungry!” Then you get a mental
image as if looking up out of a deep well.
You recognize the alley behind the tavern.
(The telepath is an otyugh the tavern owner
has placed in an oubliette to dispose of
waste. Scraps have been scarce of late, and
the monster will scramble out the first
chance it gets.)
39. You awake from your long rest in a cold
sweat, the mocking demonic face of your
nightmares still vivid in your mind’s eye.
(If you fail a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw
with disadvantage, you gain no benefit
from your rest and take 3d6 psychic
damage.) The fiend’s words echo in your
head, “Kill the Lord Mayor or the dreams
will continue.”
(A warlock you once met is using you as his
assassin with a dream spell. He has a lock of
your hair. Successful Intelligence (Arcana)
checks during the dreams might reveal
clues to his identity and/or whereabouts.)
40. A monk named Isi, from Chult, has
been tracking you for years, across
hundreds of miles. She challenges you to a
one-on-one duel to the death for the insult
your great-grandfather inflicted on her
great-grandmother, which led to her
ostracism and eventual suicide.
(If not defeated fair and square, her order
will raise her so that she might try once
again to win a clean vengeance.)
41. While getting a greater restoration cast to
cure an ailment, it accidentally removes a
modify memory spell (which, of course, you
don’t remember being cast on you). You
suddenly recall as a youth clearly
witnessing the murder of your parents by a
man who is now the respected Master of
the College of Mages—and your trusted
mentor.
42. The newly minted Lord Bindley
Brantlebrim is offering a reward of 2,000
gold pieces to whomever can secure for him
a roc’s egg. He wants his chef to whip up
the world’s biggest omelet for his coming-
of-age celebration next month.
43. A gnome inventor named Eriss
Rivenrock seeks investors for a new device
she’s developing: a horseless carriage. She
can even show you a working model she’s
constructed. She only needs a few hundred
gold pieces to build a full-sized prototype,
but the vehicle also requires a rare fire opal
said to reside in an abandoned
subterranean monastery destroyed a
century ago by a fiendish incursion. Is it
worth it for 25% of the profits from her
surefire moneymaker?
44. The mage Gheth Ridderford is seeking
trustworthy adventurers to transport a
package to a colleague in Suzail. 500 gold
pieces to be paid on delivery.
(The package is a key and a locked iron box
containing an iron flask; inside the flask is an
ultroloth. The addressee, Oriseus Phland,
is a prudish priest of Tyr to whom Gheth
owes a debt. He plans to use the ultroloth
to destroy the Dragonrider’s Club, which
he regards as a den of iniquity for its
spectacles of nude mask dancers.)
45. A youth and his little sister arrive in
town, exhausted, pulling a cart. They are
Veran and Brenna, and bandits killed their
parents and donkey ten miles down the
road. The children were able to save
themselves by hiding in the bushes, but the
bandits took the family’s entire savings,
which they were to use to rebuild their lives
after their farm failed. The children are now
facing life in an orphanage, or worse.
46. The body of a foreign woman was
found in the alley behind the Inn of the
Dancing Pig last night. Her throat was
badly mangled—torn out, really—and
people fear some bloodthirsty beast is
prowling the neighborhood.
(The bloodthirsty beast is Carmoran
Nimblefoot, the merry halfling innkeeper
of the Dancing Pig. A vampire spawn, his
master was slain by adventurers some
years ago. He is normally very careful to
dispose of his victims (all solitary travelers),
but a watch patrol came by and spooked
him off.)
47. Dyara Nathos, an agent of the
Zhentarim, pounds on your door late one
night. She is grievously wounded and is
seeking protection from her former
employers—and is offering information on
a planned assassination. Do you let her in?
48. A new farmhouse burned in the night,
and all the inhabitants died. Whodunit?
(A successful Intelligence (Investigation)
check reveals the henhouse was ransacked
and a trail of feathers leads into the forest.
The culprit is an awakened giant badger
sorcerer named Mr. Spite, who lives
underground in an extensive complex of
burrows. He keeps a dozen giant rats as
pets, and there’s no telling where he and his
nefarious band will turn up.)
49. Screams from a jewelry shop in the
night bring the town watch. The jeweler is
dead and his wife is raving about a
shadowy figure that strangled him and
took a load of gems and jewels. But there’s
not a mark on the body.
(The jeweler, Helvin Windertorm, was
slain by a shadow, and will rise as one
himself in 1d4 hours. The original shadow
is under the sway of a red shadow dragon
wyrmling named Ventallanax, who’s using
his undead minions to build up his hoard
without exposing himself to danger.)
50. A tiefling passing you in the street
suddenly draws her black blade, points at
you, and says, “Neither quarter nor mercy
shall you receive. I’ll cut you down, then
take my leave.”
(Her longsword +2, Scourge, is cursed. Once
per day, its wielder must succeed on a DC
17 Wisdom saving throw or be forced to
duel a random person within eyesight. In
this instance alone, anyone other than the
designated target seeking to attack
Scourge’s wielder must succeed on a DC 17
Wisdom saving throw to do so. The curse
can only be removed if the wielder defeats
100 of these random opponents in single
combat, or with a wish.)
51. A halfling merchant named Gorboras
Milliblade seeks an escort from Waterdeep
to Neverwinter. He has one small wagon
filled with expensive cloth, and is offering
300 gold pieces for his safe arrival.
(Hidden in a bag of holding is a black mask
with blue lenses that acts as a ring of x-ray
vision. Gorboras is delivering it to a male
drow cult of Vhaeraun so they can increase
their wealth and power through burglaries,
but female devotees of Lolth are out to stop
the delivery.)
52. You have vague memories of a hissing
noise, getting up to investigate it, and
falling to the floor in a dead faint... Now
you awaken to find yourself chained up in
the darkened hold of a ship, gagged, with
no gear of any kind. There are others in a
similar state all around you.
(The ship, The Gilded Griffon, is bound for
the slave markets of Thay. The crew is a
mix of human and half-orc pirates led by a
one-eyed pirate captain, Steeleye Bill.)
53. You encounter a young girl on a lonely
road at night. She is barefoot and dressed in
rags. She nods at you curtly as she passes,
striding purposefully onward. If you
attempt to speak to her or stop her, she
viciously rebukes you: “Waste not my time,
for lives are at stake! I must fly to
Turnstone Pass with all alacrity!”
(She is Falla Graymane, from a farm south
of Everlund. She has been possessed by the
ghost of Margram Tor, a messenger sent to
warn the defenders of Turnstone Pass back
in 1343 DR that the Nethertide Horde had
amulets of protection against magic.
Margram, however, was ambushed and
killed by orcs in the Evermoors. Falla is
bound for the Nether Mountains to carry
out Margram’s mission, but Mintiper
Moonsilver, the legendary bard and leader
of the mercenary band that barely held the
pass against the orcs, is thought to be long
dead. Only finding Mintiper, Mintiper’s
body, or properly burying Margram’s body
will satisfy the ghost.)
54. A shipment of ale from Barligrim’s Fine
Brews is a tenday late, and the harvest fest
is about to start. No one has had a word
from the remote brewery in all that time.
Would you be so kind as to inquire what
the delay is? Here are 100 gold pieces for
your inconvenience, and if the ale arrives in
time for the fest, a further 200 are
promised—oh, and all the ale you can
drink!
(The smells from the dwarf-run, monastery-
like brewery attracted the attention of a
male medusa and his grimlock servitors in
the Underdark. Now, the dwarfs are all
stone, and the grimlocks are all drunk.)
55. A goblin named Shmasht found a
necklace of fireballs, and now he and his band
are holding the village of Hardby hostage.
As a demonstration of his power, he has
already razed the village meeting hall. A
village elder sent out as a messenger to
collect the demanded ransom of 1,000 gold
pieces appeals to you for help.
(Shmasht has five beads left on his
necklace.)
56. You know those murders of elves that
have the city watch baffled? A hooded and
masked figure approaches you, speaking
Undercommon, with a claim that it knows
who the murderer is and can provide
irrefutable proof. In return, it seeks entry
into the restricted section of the local mage
college linbrary, no questions asked.
(The informant is a nothic that has read the
mind of Captain Vilara Yraent of the city
watch, who killed the elves and is using her
position to cover her tracks. But the nothic
knows where Captain Yraent keeps the
trophies from her victims...)
57. An elf cleric, Taranahil Starshine, asks
you to pick up a load of special vellum he
has ordered from Saerloon for use in
making scrolls. He offers 500 gold pieces for
the journey.
(The vellum is made from human, halfling,
and half-orc skin, mainly vagrants and
condemned criminals. This can be
discovered fairly easily once in the city.
Good-aligned folks would probably have a
problem with what’s being transported.)
58. A ruined castle seemingly constructed
of smoky crystal appeared in a farmer’s
field north of Highmoon a few days ago.
On a dare, a pair of youths ventured inside,
and as their companions grew anxious for
their return, the castle vanished. Within a
day, a ring of toadstools grew where the
castle had been. Locals have been terrified
to go near the place since, but the parents of
the boys are desperate to get them back
safely.
(The castle originates in the Feywild, in an
area controlled by the Queen of Air and
Darkness. For the next week, it will be
possible to cross into the Feywild using the
toadstool ring when the moon is shining—
otherwise, the castle won’t reappear for a
dozen years. But be warned that the
darklings, boggles, redcaps, and yeth
hounds that dwell in the crystal keep will
not readily give up their new playthings.)
59. The wizard Maeve Calwyndael is
paying full value for gems: diamonds,
emeralds, rubies, and sapphires. Do you
have any to sell? The young black dragon
Thaugra is said to have quite a hoard of
gemstones, which she recently pillaged
from a temple in Scornubel. Her lair is in
the Marsh of Chelimber.
(Maeve needs the gems to cast a sequester
spell, as she intends to sleep for 100 years in
a secure tomb beneath her tower. Why she’s
doing this is unclear, but she may need
trusted agents to watch the place for her
while she slumbers.)
60. Priests and lay members of the local
church of Selûne have gone missing. There
are no eyewitnesses, but some report
hearing a terrifying howling at the time of
the disappearances.
(Jor Khorai, an ambitious priest of Shar, has
summoned a pack of shadow mastiffs
(including an alpha) to hunt, kill, and drag
the bodies of official devotees of Selûne to
the Shadowfell. He hopes to impress his
seniors and rise in Shar’s service, but they
won’t be happy if his scheme is exposed.)
61. Reports have reached Cormanthor that
Zhentarim agents are searching through the
ruins of the Citadel of the Raven in the
Dragonspine Mountains. Authorities in
Myth Drannor would pay handsomely to
discover what they’ve found and what their
plans are. And if the Zhentarim can be
stopped, so much the better.
(Apart from attempting to rebuild their old
headquarters, the Zhentarim are seeking
remains of several alchemical laboratories
long thought to be destroyed.)
62. Harnwich Villa is a crumbling manse at
one end of town that is shunned by the
populace. People cross the street to avoid
passing it too closely. A loudmouth at the
tavern, Gondrenor Fustelle, bets you 100
gold pieces that you can’t spend an entire
night in Harnwich Villa and live to tell
about it.
(Besides the ghouls and ghasts that have
tunneled into the basement from the nearby
cemetery, Harnwich Villa is haunted by
several specters and a flameskull, set loose
after its master died, old and alone.)
63. Torvar Ghernstead, a scholar in
Waterdeep, will pay handsomely to outfit
an expedition to map the ruins of
Hlaungadath, the formerly floating city in
northwestern Anauroch. He offers 500 gold
pieces for a detailed map upon the
expedition’s safe return.
(Travelers are warned to beware of the
lamias that now inhabit the ruins—along
with their manticore, gargoyle, and asabi
minions.)
64. A group of halflings from Corm Orp is
seeking mercenaries to accompany them to
a new settlement they plan to found
between Triel and Soubar. Those who
contract with the group are obligated to
stay until the village fortifications are set up
to forestall incursions from the nearby
Forest of Wyrms. Individuals whose
applications are accepted will be paid 4
gold pieces per day, plus room and board.
65. A dwarf cleric named Gronth
Brazenstones tells you an island will
emerge from the sea not a tenday from
now. He asks that you join him to recover
Secrets Under the Mountain, a volume of lore
and wisdom (equivalent to a tome of
understanding) stolen from his father and
taken to that very island when it passed
through here over a century before. He can
pay each adventurer 300 gold pieces, and
promises that many valuable treasures
await those with daring.
(The tome is indeed on the island, along
with many other valuable items, as it is the
lair of a morkoth. The island will slowly
drift upwards, passing the surface of Selûne
within twenty days. It is also home to a
long-marooned company of giffs that have
come to view the morkoth as the Senior
Officer Present Afloat (and refer to it as
SOPA); they will defend it and follow its
orders to a T. They have also acquired laser
rifles from somewhere.)
66. People are still talking about the
shooting star that fell slowly from the sky a
few days ago and landed with an audible
crash in the forest, when a badly wounded
elf emerges from the woods. Her skin is
gray and shriveled, and she seeks your aid
in freeing the rest of her people from the
slavers.
(She is Vhaarne Ryll, a shadar-kai
abducted by neogi. She and her
companions rebelled against the slavers
and their umber hulk servants, causing the
neogi’s planeship to crash nearby.)
67. The white dragon Ciraxis has been
coming down from the Sunset Mountains
and causing trouble in the farms around
Asbravn. The leaders of the shrines of
Ilmater, Lathander, and Lliira have joined
forces to offer a bounty of 2,000 gold pieces
for the wyrm’s head.
(The dragon has been stirred up by
harassment from Zhentarim agents
disguised as patrols of the Riders in Red
Cloaks, the famed defenders of Asbravn.)
68. Queen Raedra of Cormyr is looking to
reoccupy the Golden Ruins in the eastern
plains of the kingdom. The crown will pay
1,000 gold pieces for each tenth of the ruins
that is cleared of monsters and vegetation.
(Named for the yellowish stone from which
it was constructed, the ruined town is now
home to many incorporeal undead, along
with more mundane monstrosities such as
bulettes and ettercaps.)
69. You encounter a hideously deformed
woman, with a hunched back and her facial
features randomly smeared across her
skull. She says her village was attacked and
its inhabitants scooped up by misshapen
giants wielding clubs and baskets. One
looked at her and cursed her with her
present form.
(Fomorians, aided by kobolds, have begun
raiding the surface to replace the slaves
killed in recent drow incursions on their
territory.)
70. A black rift has opened in the center of
town, alternately (and randomly) blasting
out and sucking in fierce rushes of wind.
Anguished screams accompany the winds.
A chuul has just sprung from the rift and is
attacking townsfolk. Can you not only stop
the chuul, but can you close the rift as well?
(Frovar Tolarian, a powerful warlock
imprisoned within the howling tunnels of
Pandemonium, just completed a ritual that
will allow him to escape. He’s making his
way through the maze toward the rift at
this very moment, but it will remain open
even if he leaves. Only destroying the ritual
circle in his lair will close the rift.
Characters within ten feet of the rift must
make a DC 12 Strength saving throw;
failure means they are sucked into
Pandemonium or blown back ten feet (50%
chance of either).)
71. You are invited to a party at the estate of
a local lord. The entertainment is
enthralling, the food is delicious, and the
company is captivating. At the end of the
night, you retire to your rooms. Upon
waking the next morning, you discover that
everyone in the household and all the
guests are dead. Can you solve the murders
while evading pursuit by the law?
(Assassins were hired by a distant relative
to kill the lord and his family. They felt it
would be best to let suspicion fall on the
few survivors who don’t have alibis.)
72. The 20-foot-tall bronze statue of an
ancient war hero has disappeared from its
pedestal in the town square overnight. The
town watch is baffled and needs your help.
(Investigation will reveal boot prints
matching those of the statue leading to a
warehouse a couple of blocks away. A
sorcerer named Aldyna Maurmeril stole
the statue using animate objects, and is
awaiting payment by a Neverwinter
metalsmith while her half-orc thugs
prepare to chop the bronze colossus into
more portable bits.)
73. A derelict-looking vessel, sails in tatters,
creeps into the harbor and drops anchor.
No life appears on deck. Authorities are
asking for volunteers to go aboard and
investigate the strange ship.
(The ship is the Moonmaiden, which set sail
for the Moonshaes over 200 years ago.
Blown off course and becalmed for months
far to the west, the crew succumbed to
starvation and cannibalism. Their tortured
spirits now desire others to share their
grisly fate. The ship travels from port to
port, and all who venture below decks are
locked there while the haunted vessel
embarks once again for the high seas.)
74. My Dearest ___________,
I have admired you from afar for many
months, but only now do I dare give voice
to my love and put these words to paper.
All is gray until I see your face. I ache for
the slightest touch of your hand. Should I
hold out any hope that you might feel the
same? If so, please meet me outside the
north gate to the City of the Dead at
midnight tonight. I do not know if I could
live in this world if you rejected me.
Yours Eternally,
Lord/Lady Vanderdael
(The sender is attractive and rich, but
married to a powerful and jealous spouse
with many spies and underlings.)
75. When a character sets out alone to sell
some valuable item, inform them that after
inquiring at a few places they discover the
item is gone but they are richer by about
10% of that item’s worth. Checking with the
town watch reveals that several other
people have reported the same sort of
bizarre theft.
(Cole Starhelm, a half-elf wizard, runs
Cole’s Curiosity Shoppe. He is fond of
casting charm or dominate person on
customers to get incredible deals on items
they wish to sell, and then using modify
memory so they never even remember
visiting him.)
76. A zone of wild magic is spreading out
from the town hall in all directions at the
rate of a block a minute (roll on the Wild
Magic Surge table in the PHB whenever a
spell is cast in the zone). Quaggoths have
begun to issue from the building, and
people are screaming from the upper floors.
(A quaggoth thonot of considerable power
has led her band up out of the Underdark
through the cellar of the town hall. In
addition to the innate spellcasting
(psionics) listed in the PHB, she can cast
firebolt at will. She has activated a lantern of
chaos (AC 17, 10 hp) she discovered a few
days ago, which will eventually create a
thousand-foot-radius zone of wild magic.)
77. As you look like adventurers, a halfling
barmaid approaches you and relates this
sending message she just received from her
sister: “Trapped by devils beneath Durlag’s
Tower. Father Grimbley is dead. We can’t
hold them off forever. The treasure vault is
so close.” Durlag’s Tower is only seven
miles away. Can you save them?
78. Lord Ghelfand Ollitherc offers you the
princely sum of 5,000 gold pieces to
explore, map, and loot the Crypts of Silver
Twilight, the final resting place of many
elven nobles and their treasures of ages
long past. You may keep most of what you
find, but Lord Ollitherc lays claim to all
artifacts.
(Lord Ollitherc is not someone to be
crossed—nor are the descendants of the
eleven nobles entombed therein. To say
nothing of the elven undead and traps that
fill the crypts.)
79. Peaking out from behind a framed
portrait in your room in the inn is an
ancient-looking parchment. It is a map
detailing the ancient ruins of a dwarven
hold not far from here, with treasuries
prominently marked.
(Actually a more modern work by the
clergy of Dumathoin, the map shows a
long-looted hold currently occupied by a
tribe of ferocious orcs. The dwarf priests
may show their appreciation in the future if
it happens to get cleared out.)
80. As a reward for your recent service to
the city, Lady Brangia Forthenhill has
invited you to her monthly Moonlit Hunt at
her vast estate at the edge of the Ardeep
Forest. There is glory to be won and
valuable contacts to be made, but be
warned that the quarry brought in to be
hunted (owlbears, giant boars, and the like)
is deadly; many participants have died or
gone missing over the years.
(The host of the hunt is a werewolf, and
uses the monthly event to let her bloodlust
run free by attacking lone hunters.)
81. A character returns home to their small
village to find it deserted and in ruins—but
these ruins look to be hundreds of years
old.
(The village still exists, but a demilich
named Euraltia has snatched it away to the
Shadowfell. Within the crumbling stones of
the temple of Chauntea is a portal to that
miserable plane, if one can solve a puzzle
and align the sigils correctly.)
82. Lady Taralenta of House Alibakkar,
Meisarch of Amn, desires a grand addition
to her menagerie in Athkatla: a live
triceratops. She is willing to pay up to 3,000
gold pieces for a healthy specimen.
83. A wealthy merchant named Pradir
Nalambar is having a problem with the
paintings in his private gallery: all the
figures in them have disappeared. Could
you investigate and find out where they’ve
gone, by any chance? He can reward you
handsomely if you do.
(Pradir was once a warlock sworn to his
archfey patron, Hyrsam, the Prince of
Fools; Pradir broke the pact and Hyrsam
has been tormenting him ever since. He has
whisked the figures away to a pocket
dimension that can be accessed only by
traveling through the horrific landscapes of
the paintings themselves. The work called
“Night Terrors” is the first gate—but be
warned that Hyrsam really wants Pradir to
suffer, and will imperil or hold characters
hostage until his wayward minion is
brought before him.)
84. A gnome wizard named Darrigan
Whitebark is offering—at very reasonable
prices—tattoos that allow you to cast
cantrips. Only one per customer, however.
(After ten uses, the tattoos become
corrupted. An eldritch blast might hit an
ally, or a guidance might subtract 1d4 from
an ability check. Not using the cantrip for a
day causes the tattoo to throb and inflicts a
level of exhaustion, adding one level each
day until death or the cantrip is used,
which resets the level to zero. The tattoos
can only be removed via greater restoration
or wish, or by Darrigan himself, who
charges an exorbitant sum.)
85. Avatars of Death (identical to those
from the deck of many things) are appearing
in the temple of Kelemvor. Anyone who
attempts to aid someone under attack gets
their own Avatar of Death to deal with;
anyone killed by these scythe-wielding
skeletal figures is permanently slain.
(A cleric of Kelemvor uncovered an ancient
obsidian statue of Myrkul in the crypts
beneath the temple. Touching it summoned
the first Avatar, and things escalated from
there. After the individual Avatars of Death
are dealt with, only the blood sacrifice of a
sentient being to the statue will suppress its
summoning power—but only for a year.
Destroying it is another thing entirely...)
86. An out-of-control wagon, pulled by four
crazed horses, barrels through the city
streets without a driver. A canvas tarp
covers the strange load in back, which is a
large, squirming mass of some kind. Soon,
holes appear in the tarp. Giant rats pour
from the wagon in all directions and attack
passersby.
(There are four dozen diseased giant rats
(MM pg. 327), sent into the city by an
insane half-orc druid named Kresk
Swiftstag. Kresk is currently one of the
draft horses pulling the wagon.)
87. Arriving at their destination by ship, the
PCs are told that all disembarking
passengers must first spend 40 days in
quarantine on a tiny island in the harbor, as
there has been an outbreak of a puzzling,
fatal disease. Within days, quarantined
passengers begin showing signs of the
disease: a listless melancholy, followed by
spasms in their sleep, and swift death.
(A succubus and an incubus are in
competition to see how many people each
can charm and kill.)
89. A local loudmouthed necromancer
named Morbius Lifebane verbally attacks
one of the party’s spellcasters in a tavern,
publically challenging her/him to a spell
duel in the town square with no
interference from outsiders. Winner gets to
pick a magic item off the loser.
(Morbius cheats, using an ally in the crowd
to surreptitiously cast shield and counterspell
when needed.)
90. A veteran and a dozen thugs lead a
lynch mob to the town jail to perform a
summary execution on an inmate there.
(It’s even better if the inmate is a petty
criminal the party captured and had
thrown in there.)
91. One evening, a strange, swift galley
appears off the coast and begins pelting the
town with incendiary missiles. The town
militia has nothing comparable with which
to return fire.
(The ship, the Scarlet Sepulcher, hails from
Thay, rowed by tireless zombies and
crewed by wights. The captain is Hazor
Rhym, a vampire wizard of no small
ability.)
92. The time of the annual Grand Griffon
Gallop has arrived! An underdog team
contacts the PCs with news that all of their
griffon riders have mysteriously fallen ill.
Could one of you ride their griffon,
Thunderbolt, to glory in a death-defying
aerial race around the city? The prize is
2,000 gold pieces and priceless bragging
rights.
(Yes, cheating abounds, but what the race
officials on the ground don’t see doesn’t
count.)
93. A goblin approaches a PC who owns a
powerful magic item with an offer to buy it
“for his master,” but he is not more
forthcoming than that.
(The offer is generous, but less than the
item is worth. If bargained with, he will
raise his price to 95% of the value, but no
higher. If the PC refuses, attempts will be
made to acquire the item by stealth and
then by force, with attempts increasing in
strength until successful. Those making the
attempts are a motley assortment of
humanoids: goblins, bugbears, hobgoblins,
ogres, etc. Their master is a death tyrant
who will stop at nothing to add this shiny
bauble to his collection in the ruined tower
of an ancient mage.)
94. A showman, Dr. Phetholinus Bradget,
has lately been wowing crowds with his
Chronopantograph: a device that projects
color, moving, but silent images on a white
canvas screen. Audiences have thrilled to
the lifelike depictions of monster slayings,
court intrigues, and blushing romances.
However, an exhibition was cut short
recently when one of the characters
onscreen lifted up a sign that read: “Help
us!” Dr. Bradget has not been seen in the
city since.
(All the players and creatures in the good
doctor’s moving pictures are real and
trapped in his nefarious device. He subjects
them to hideous tortures if they do not
perform to his liking. This device was given
to him as part of a pact with an archdevil.)
95. A messenger hands you a smoking
scroll tube. Inside is a letter written in a
genteel but fiery script:
Greetings, Mortal:
It has recently come to my attention that
your great-great-grandfather, Delphias
Vhalair, had a contract with me whereby
he was to surrender his soul to me upon
death in return for great wealth in life. I
upheld my end of the bargain, but he was
able to exploit a loophole to avoid payment.
(You can rest assured that this particular
loophole and the erinyes responsible have
since been eliminated.) However, there was
also another clause in the contract that
passed any unpaid debt onto future
generations—that would be you. This is
standard verbiage, mind you, and not one
that I would normally resort to, were it not
for that pesky above-mentioned loophole
exploitation. I apologize for the delay in
collection, but sometimes these things
cannot be helped. Delphias’ soul now
resides (happily, I assume) in Elysium.
Bring it to me and our contract can be
considered complete; otherwise, I can count
on seeing you, eventually, for an extended
visit.
Yours Most Warmly,
Asmodeus, Lord of Nessus and
Supreme Ruler of the Nine Hells
also has a tendency to throw his weight
around with an arrogance that fills most
people with a desire to punch him in the
face soon after meeting him.)
98. Members of the Town Watch are being
murdered, their bodies found in deserted
alleyways with an eye carved into their
foreheads. Is it a new cult making
sacrifices? A message sent by some
unknown criminal gang? Signs of an
impending invasion? Three men are dead,
and town officials need answers!
(The killer is a barmaid named Miri
Haverwood, whom seven members of the
Town Watch assaulted after hours years
ago. She has since trained as an assassin
and is back in town to claim her revenge.)

The scroll bursts into flames upon finishing

reading it.

96. Screams of, “FIRE! FIRE!” echo

throughout the town. The Mage Guild
library is in flames! Officials plead with
anyone to help save the priceless tomes and
scrolls inside before it’s too late.

(An evil wizard, under the protection of an

investiture of flame spell, is plundering the
restricted section of the library, while the
fire she set provides cover—and an
incredibly dangerous environment in
which to have a battle.)

97. The Lords of Waterdeep have hired the

PCs to keep a covert eye on Khemed el
Pesarkhal while he is in town, spying on
him while not allowing any harm to come
to him. Khemed is one of the elder sons of
the Syl-Pasha of Calimshan, and favored by
some to succeed him. The information he 99. You find a treasure map penned in a
holds is invaluable, and his injury or death dead language from an earlier age. The
could lead to war. translation of the only writing on it reads:
“The nymph shows the way to untold
(Khemed is a boorish lout with the habit of riches.”
ditching his entourage late at night to
indulge in the seedier side of the city. He
(Upon locating the vicinity the map details,
the PCs find that a new city has sprung up
there in the past hundred years. The
“nymph” refers to the ancient statue in the
Central Plaza, pointing to another
monument, where a cryptic clue leads to
another, and so on... Until the final resting
place of the treasure is found to be in the
dungeons of the local overlord.)

100. A lengthy crevice only inches wide has

suddenly opened up, splitting the town in
two and emitting noxious fumes that are
making people sick. It’s almost
imperceptible, but the crack is slowly
widening. Far below in the glowing depths,
horrific figures can be seen clawing their
way toward the surface.

(Father Aelthas Geltarion of the Temple of

Lathander has correctly deduced that this is
a diabolic incursion by Moloch, sending his
few remaining troops to plunder treasure
and magic so he can once again attempt to
retake Malbolge. In the forest nearby is an
ancient, subterranean shrine dedicated to
the worship of that fiend; Father Aelthas
fears someone has activated the cult statue
there and allowed Moloch to enter the
Prime Material Plane. The choice: race to
the shrine and battle fanatical cultists so the
statue can be destroyed, or make a stand
and fight the devils that will surely lay
waste to the town?)
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