Adventure Level: Tier 2, Standard [Gauntlet]

Adventure Goal: Clear a series of monstrous foe waves and establish a proving ground in the region

Adventure Type: Gladiatorial Arena w/ Horror Elements

XP Reward: Classic XP

Treasure: Whatever is found, Monster corpses

Location: Bazagon, Kóris Ekteinō

Faction(s): Taunax Tarryfolk

CORE PILLARS: RP - 20%, EXPLORATION - 20%, COMBAT - 60%

GM: Bria/SkybloodOrchid

Call: Discord

VTT: Roll20 https://app.roll20.net/join/12176026/xZ6M7Q, Theater of the Mind

Synopsis:
A wealthy noble once again in pairing with Captain Taunax enlists the party to reclaim his ancestral estate, Vellwick Manor, which has vanished behind eerie dark Mists and overrun by restless dead turning the grounds into a grim mass of graves littered with fresh corpses of all manner. A treacherous gambit by the two, to claim a sunken barrow, and stake a landed hold deep in the heart of the ever-present 'death fog' now permeating the lands around the Manor. Will the party overcome the horrors, or join the littered ranks of the slain, forgotten and lost souls as fresh additions to this growing garden of death?

• Goal: Navigate an overrun shadowy crypt and clear the land for safe holding and continued further trials as a proving ground
• Horror Elements: Oppressive gloom, vengeful spirits, creeping undead, and a sense that the land itself resents intruders, but for a price, the brave may yet learn hidden secrets.
• 2014 Rules only

Hooks:

• An existing faction within an ever twisting and expanding area within the Sprawl adds, another wrinkle
• A rich noble benefactor, promise of reward, undead to eliminate
• Prove yourself in a largely yet unexplored area, newly frontiered, "You keep what you kill"
• Promise of treasure, room and board for as long as you stay, or maybe just a change of pace or locale calls to you
• A seemingly well funded, and well meaning enterprising, albeit oddly placed militia camp seeks the aid of those beyond it's means
• Gambling skill and prowess against monstrous foes for the chance at found treasure, if you survive to keep it

Pre-Session:

• Friend the GM

• Make or bring in your character

NOTES:  2014 Exclusive Game. Temporary character conversions are permitted to play within the game. Adventurers of ANY level are encouraged to participate. It has been said before, in this particular area, death is more of a...stepping off point, and explicitly a choice.

DISCLAIMERS: 

• Nothing is ever, quite what it appears. Who Captain Taunax is, why he's so determined to carve out this particular patch or why is really known.
• Expect x2 Deadly Encounters.