SUBTLE AS a DROW an Adventure for Characters Level 6 - 8
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SUBTLE AS A DROW An Adventure for characters level 6 - 8 Little Red Goblin Games Brian Tieken (order #2913028) 74.137.137.1 subtle as a drow Credits Producer: Scott Gladstein Designers: Scott Gladstein, Caleb Aylsworth, Art: Alissa Mathiasmeier Graphic Designer: Justin Gagen A Product of Little Red Goblin Games, LLC Questions? Comments? Contact us at: [email protected] Little Red http://littleredgoblingames.com/ Goblin Games © 2011, All Rights Reserved Compatibility with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game requires the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game from Paizo Publishing, LLC. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG for more information on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Paizo Publishing, LLC does not guarantee compatibility, and does not endorse this product. OGL Compatible: Open Game License v 1.0a Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. System Reference Document. Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Copyright 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams. The Book of Experimental Might. Copyright 2008, Monte J. Cook. All rights reserved. Tome of Horrors. Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Authors: Scott Greene, with Clark Peterson, Erica Balsley, Kevin Baase, Casey Christofferson, Lance Hawvermale, Travis Hawvermale, Patrick Lawinger, and Bill Webb; Based on original content from TSR. 1 Brian Tieken (order #2913028) 74.137.137.1 infestation that must be taken care of. I charge you in the name of the church to investigate on my behalf brother. May ADAPTING THIS MODULE the Goddess watch over you. --Sir Salavant This module was designed to slip into any existing setting. The deity referred to as “the goddess” is simply The players arrive in the town of Ravensport on behalf a pervasive good aligned deity. The deity Tieu’tyme, of Sir Salavant. They have been charged with the which the drow worship, can be filled by any deity investigation of Lax’ana’s request. They are to fulfill who’s domains include duplicity, subterfuge, and/or it if possible. assassinations. For example, in the Golarion setting from Paizo the goddess might be Goddess and Tieu’tyme could be played by Norgorber. The drow Lore: Ravensport Ravensport is a small farming community of no more society in this module could be an isolated pocket than 20 houses. A tavern, a church, and a general goods if you have already explored drow society in your store, and a blacksmith are the only establishments setting. References are made to four different “courts” in the town. A slew of households and storehouses (of societies) of the drow. If you have existing drow surround them. An entrance to the underground world in your setting they can replace any references to the of the drow lays hidden somewhere nearby, though other courts. the townspeople have been unable to find it. For the most part, they have had an uneasy truce with the drow. Trade is good and the drow don’t particularly care about settlements this far away from their actual PLOT HOOK location. A few unsolved abductions and murders are attributed to the drow, but they are unsubstantiated The players have recently received a letter from a and possibly just the result of xenophobic sentiments relative of a member of the party. This relative is towards the sinister elves. a member of the church of the Eight Virtues. (If this is not possible for whatever reason, it could be an Once the party has entered the town, a citizen (or town acquaintance or friend.) guard) will eventually inform them that if they are the ones investigating on behalf of Sir Salavant a drow When an elf you don’t like sends you a letter, you check it emissary is waiting at the edge of wood to meet them. for enchantments. When a drow you don’t like sends you (The drow emissary will only arrive at dusk or later) a letter, you don’t bother. Chances are you’ll never find the poison until it’s already too late. You can imagine my Lore: The House of the Flea & Lax’ana dismay when I received a letter from the Drow Lax’ana- the Lax’anaWidowkiller is a cunning yet subtle drow Matriarch of the House of the Flea. priestess. She is thought to be one of Tieu’tyme’s six high priestess inthe drow society. (However many are Even more curious is that it should arrive at my door, the thought to be) She is shrouded in mystery and few are door of the Church of the Eight Virtues. The Goddess must said to have actually meet her. Despite her unsavory be testing me, for high priest Anthil has charged me with reputation, the House of the Flea is a tiny house. Their fulfilling Lax’ana’s mad task. She requests that we kill their motto translates to, “Unnoticed until it is too late”. once mighty lich king, T’rissyn Blackblade. Legend has it [This information is not common knowledge. A DC 25 that he craved too much power, even for a drow, and cheated Knowledge Local or Nobility check will reveal some death to peruse it. What Lax’ana has in store, I can only general information. A DC 30 will reveal more. A DC imagine. Goddess save us all. I have business in the town 35 is required to know it all. A +5 racial bonus is given of Ettin’s Reach before I meet you. I hear tell of a goblin to any drow in the party attempting this knowledge 2 Brian Tieken (order #2913028) 74.137.137.1 check. They may roll it untrained.] 30 Knowledge: royalty reveals he was a member of In reality the “House of the Flea” is actually an extension the “House of the White Serpent”) entire resources to of the church of Tieu’tyme. It doesn’t actually exist. achieving immortality as a lich. This occurred nearly Spies and actors sit in the halls of its mansions and 800 years ago. This greed and ambition made him they use its influence as a proxy for the Tieu’tyme. The more than a few enemies and when he had finally church simply uses it as a way to extend its influence achieved lichhood, he was murdered. For his pride into the political arena from a different angle. Lax’ana and greed T’rissyn was subjected to having his form is not a real person. She is simply a “role” that one killed in front of his phylactery on a twice weekly of the high priestesses plays. (Think “Dread Pirate basis. (Death was too good for him) The dark hunters Roberts”) (like Blackfingers) are an order that is dedicated to [This information is completely secret and known only killing him and making sure he never rises to power to a select few Drow. A DC 40 Knowledge Local or again. His body is destroyed using a sacred dagger. Nobility check will reveal some general information. His phylactery is his obsidian throne. A DC 45 will reveal more. A DC 50 is required to know it all. A character who is not a drow, a member of the House Last-Moon recently began a push to end his church of Tieu’tyme or deeply affiliated with either suffering. They have gained some degree of support cannot attempt to make this knowledge check.] because of their dealings with the trapped spirit of T’rissyn. A recent political coup d’etat has placed Last- Moon in charge of the Dark Hunters. The dagger is sitting in the Dark Hunter’s keep, unused. It has been 3 THE EMISSARY days since T’rissyn was killed. There is no telling how long there is until his body will fully form but reports Outside the town, a gaunt male drow with long, fine, say it is already happening. (No more than 3 days) features and a widow’s peak makes no attempt to Blackfinger will lead you to the Dark Hunter’s keep, hide his presence. A cloak of tawny green and black is but he is honor bound not to interfere directly with the clasped around his neck obscuring his form. (+2 cloak orders of House Last-Moon. of resistance) The clasp appears to be a onyx flea. He The players can make a DC 25 perception check to spot greets the party, mentioning that he has been watching 3 other dark hunters watching them at a distance. If their progress for some time now and that he admires confronted about it Blackfingers will admit to it and their prowess. (Bluff check reveals he has only been remind them that he never said that he was alone. watching them for a day or so) He introduces himself The walk to the Dark Hunter’s keep takes 6 hours as “Blackfingers” (DC 20 knowledge religion to know through the forest. Use the appropriate encounter that this is one of Tieu’tyme’s title’s), though he admits chart. that this is simply analias. He explains the following situation to the party: Lore: House Last-Moon The House of the Last-Moon is splinter house of Lore: T’rissyn Blackblade T’ryssn’s old house. (House of the White Serpent) The once mighty ruler of all the drow houses of the They are not particularly magically inclined but they western court was T’rissynBlackblade. He was overly have made a reputation as ruthless assassins. Unlike ambitious, even by drow standards. His plan was to other houses, they often take pride in political killings unite the four courts under his rule.