Post by Richard Loh on May 13, 2013 1:15:41 GMT 8
SUMMARY
The adventure begins at the bedside of a wounded local businessman, Elias Chert, recently injured in an early-morning robbery committed within his exotic flower shop, The Dryad’s Trousseau. Chert, who was poisoned by his attackers, is delirious and unresponsive, although his caretaker, cantankerous landlady Abigail Soap, believes that Pathfinder agents are responsible because she found a broken wayfinder near the wounded man. As the elderly Mrs. Soap is Mr. Chert’s landlady, she can be convinced to give the PCs access to the shop. Investigating the shop’s interior, the PCs find more clues, including one that implicates a local Sczarni gang known as the Twincandles, evidence that Chert was smuggling illicit goods into Magnimar, and a couple of mysterious vials. During the investigation, one of Chert’s pet plant creatures, agitated by the morning’s violence, attacks the PCs.
The PCs travel to the headquarters of the Twincandles, a shanty-camp built within the ruins of an ancient Gozren temple, known locally as Two-Lights. Approaching the camp, the PCs encounter a pair of Twincandles members who are in grave danger from a sinkhole. After being rescued and confronted with evidence from the morning’s robbery, they relate how the crime occurred and deny that the Twincandles were responsible. Allowed an audience with the Twincandles’ leaders, Jacek and Olivia Giatano, the PCs gain information regarding the group that has taken up residence beneath Two-Lights. The Giatanos confess that the group responsible for the recent crimes is led by their distant cousin, a man named Titus Terliss, and that he was recruited in order to help the struggling Twincandles gang break into Magnimar’s profitable narcotics trade.
Though Terliss’s alchemist companion was initially quite useful in preparing a drug manufacturing laboratory in the crypt complex beneath Two-Lights, Terliss’s group has proven more of a liability than a boon. The Giatanos now recognize that Terliss and his allies have priorities other than aiding the Twincandles—the group has instead started carrying out criminal escapades without the Sczarni leaders’ knowledge. The Giatanos entreat the PCs to evict Terliss and his group, offering them the goods that the rogue cell has accumulated over the past few weeks. Delving beneath Two-Lights, The PCs find themselves within a forgotten crypt containing a bustling workshop where young and inexperienced Twincandles members aid in the cataloguing of stolen goods under Terliss’s direction. Terliss activates an ancient trap to combat the intruders, and retreats to a deeper chamber where he prepares a final defense with his lieutenant, deranged alchemist Lal Chawda.
Defeating Terliss and Chawda gains the PCs both the stolen relics and evidence linking the crime spree to directives from the Spider—as well as the first hints of how deep Dorianna Ouidda’s treachery truly stretches.
Pathfinders:
Lv 5 Human Cheerleader - Tassadar Zokan
Lv 7 Human Hexcrafter - Kalara Nashantyle
Lv 4 Halfling Fighter - Kit Summerisle
Lv 4 Human Cleric of Sarenrae - Kyra
Actions of note:
Party: Even though the party made short work of Terliss and the alchemist, Kyra was often the target of attacks by the duo as her positioning was extremely bad.
The adventure begins at the bedside of a wounded local businessman, Elias Chert, recently injured in an early-morning robbery committed within his exotic flower shop, The Dryad’s Trousseau. Chert, who was poisoned by his attackers, is delirious and unresponsive, although his caretaker, cantankerous landlady Abigail Soap, believes that Pathfinder agents are responsible because she found a broken wayfinder near the wounded man. As the elderly Mrs. Soap is Mr. Chert’s landlady, she can be convinced to give the PCs access to the shop. Investigating the shop’s interior, the PCs find more clues, including one that implicates a local Sczarni gang known as the Twincandles, evidence that Chert was smuggling illicit goods into Magnimar, and a couple of mysterious vials. During the investigation, one of Chert’s pet plant creatures, agitated by the morning’s violence, attacks the PCs.
The PCs travel to the headquarters of the Twincandles, a shanty-camp built within the ruins of an ancient Gozren temple, known locally as Two-Lights. Approaching the camp, the PCs encounter a pair of Twincandles members who are in grave danger from a sinkhole. After being rescued and confronted with evidence from the morning’s robbery, they relate how the crime occurred and deny that the Twincandles were responsible. Allowed an audience with the Twincandles’ leaders, Jacek and Olivia Giatano, the PCs gain information regarding the group that has taken up residence beneath Two-Lights. The Giatanos confess that the group responsible for the recent crimes is led by their distant cousin, a man named Titus Terliss, and that he was recruited in order to help the struggling Twincandles gang break into Magnimar’s profitable narcotics trade.
Though Terliss’s alchemist companion was initially quite useful in preparing a drug manufacturing laboratory in the crypt complex beneath Two-Lights, Terliss’s group has proven more of a liability than a boon. The Giatanos now recognize that Terliss and his allies have priorities other than aiding the Twincandles—the group has instead started carrying out criminal escapades without the Sczarni leaders’ knowledge. The Giatanos entreat the PCs to evict Terliss and his group, offering them the goods that the rogue cell has accumulated over the past few weeks. Delving beneath Two-Lights, The PCs find themselves within a forgotten crypt containing a bustling workshop where young and inexperienced Twincandles members aid in the cataloguing of stolen goods under Terliss’s direction. Terliss activates an ancient trap to combat the intruders, and retreats to a deeper chamber where he prepares a final defense with his lieutenant, deranged alchemist Lal Chawda.
Defeating Terliss and Chawda gains the PCs both the stolen relics and evidence linking the crime spree to directives from the Spider—as well as the first hints of how deep Dorianna Ouidda’s treachery truly stretches.
Pathfinders:
Lv 5 Human Cheerleader - Tassadar Zokan
Lv 7 Human Hexcrafter - Kalara Nashantyle
Lv 4 Halfling Fighter - Kit Summerisle
Lv 4 Human Cleric of Sarenrae - Kyra
Actions of note:
Party: Even though the party made short work of Terliss and the alchemist, Kyra was often the target of attacks by the duo as her positioning was extremely bad.