Lands of Rot

Adventure Level: Upper Tier 1, Standard [Ongoing Quest]

Adventure Goal: Work on reclaiming a forsaken Manor, brave dark mysteries, battle marshaled goblin tribes with highly militarized cooperation, keep what you find and profit

Adventure Type: Multiple choices involving Goblin tribes, a missing major NPC, Dungeon Crawl w/ Horror Elements and new threats looming, along with newly uncovered mysteries

XP Reward: Classic XP + Adventure XP

Treasure: Plunder Rights, Monster Corpses

Location: Bazagon, Gauntlet Sprawl

Faction(s): Taunax Tarryfolk,

CORE PILLARS: RP - 34%, EXPLORATION - 33%, COMBAT - 33% - Dependent entirely on party choice

GM: Bria/SkybloodOrchid

Call: Discord

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

Synopsis:
A wealthy noble 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. Somewhere inside, his wife was last seen as he fled to find help. Captain Taunax calls out for aid, as the Manor itself can be used as forward base foothold amidst the militarized forest goblin tribe given it's key location and defensibility of make if reclaimed. Venture forth from the bustling base camp, to claim fortune and fiefdom!

Initial scouting speaks of false doors, and games being played with inhuman inhabitants, more information is needed, more eyes and deeper exploration! The work moves forward, and so too does the need for able bodied aid of staunch stomach and strong spine!

Further incursions have uncovered troubling accusations, and damning magical evidentiary artifact proffered by most auspicious source. What truths lie buried in the Land of Rot? Are the sins of nobles visiting themselves upon the lands they once dwelled? Are the true villains wearing false masks, and the victims simply seeking to live? What is real, what is aspersion, what is causality, and what is driving Taunax and his troupe so fervently to establish this foothold seemingly at all costs?

The would be steward of the land, Brandlebark has gone missing under highly unusual and suspicious circumstances. His disappearance is an ill omen in the land, for what could oppose so implacable a creature, and leave only scant details as evidence? What is driving the goblins so, and what malevolent entity is behind the mark they all now bear? What plans for the frontier does this erstwhile warlord have?

An ancient power has been uncovered, believed to be of good intent, and offering potential explanation for the undead uprising. Yet thus far, undead sightings have been sparse outside of the Mansion grounds following a miracle performed at the behest of one of Ilus's faithful.

• Goal: Navigate treacherous grounds, venture through the manor’s corridors, tangled gardens, and shadowed crypts to reclaim the land.
• Goal: Battle the growing threat of the unified goblin tribes in the land, growing more and more bold by the day under the banner of the 6 Black Gauntlets. Two have been routed from nearby locations, one housing a being of great power, another bearing ill omen for the potential of a local natural guardian now missing
• Goal: Brandlebark and uncover the reason behind his disappearance
• Mansion Exploration Horror Elements: Oppressive gloom, vengeful spirits, creeping undead, and a sense that the manor itself resents intruders.
• Fourth Session in an ongoing developing area uncovered by players that reacts and grows from player choice and inaction alike
• 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
• Multiple avenues of clearance, unusual bedfellows and potential allies
• Illusory landscapes, reports of many false faces, a potential haven for those seeking a unique enterprising environment where merit of performance is the only measured metric
• Separate goblin tribes united un a banner of 6 Black Gauntlets arranged in motif design like a coat of arms, point to a force behind their unification, but spurring them to what ends?
• Seek out the whereabouts of Brandlebark, and uncover the means behind his disappearance
• Each forward operation the goblins have been routed from has uncovered unique tribes of unusual capability, and strange finds they were guarding

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 and he's so determined to carve out this particular patch or why is not really known. Expect x3 Deadly Encounters.