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game_systems:pathfinder:crown:heroes_adventure_journal [2025/04/11 21:28] – [Alleys, Rooks, and Dreams] Bryan Stephensgame_systems:pathfinder:crown:heroes_adventure_journal [2025/04/11 21:34] (current) – [Agents of Desna] Bryan Stephens
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 === A Stake Out and A Seer  === === A Stake Out and A Seer  ===
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 The next day they stake Out Night Market Fountain. Corwyn investigates the area surreptitiously and reveals a loose stone in the well’s foundation containing an empty leather roll and some broken shiver vial. They witness a dead drop occur.  The next day they stake Out Night Market Fountain. Corwyn investigates the area surreptitiously and reveals a loose stone in the well’s foundation containing an empty leather roll and some broken shiver vial. They witness a dead drop occur. 
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 === Pier === === Pier ===
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 Cassia and Corwyn awaken much later than they expected, having slept almost 12 hours. They are quite well rested, and it seems as if their sleep was protected, though there is no more moth-dust to be seen. They dress and head down for breakfast.  Cassia and Corwyn awaken much later than they expected, having slept almost 12 hours. They are quite well rested, and it seems as if their sleep was protected, though there is no more moth-dust to be seen. They dress and head down for breakfast. 
  
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 The courtyard has a three story spiral startcase ending at a strong wooden door. There is also an outhouse against the outer wall. Immediately, the three heroes look at one another and say “secret door” and Cassia strolls into the outhouse to find a secret hinged panel at the rear that swings open to reveal a 4-foot-wide, 10-foot-long tunnel bored into the Old Wall, an inner wall from a time when the city was smaller in size. Huge blocks of irregularly cut stone form a happenstance tunnel in the hollow within the Old Wall with the corpses of long-dead rodents hanging from dusty spiderwebs draping the passage. Though crumbling, the Old Wall is considered a part of the city’s inner defensive fortifications, its upper ledge still in use by occasional patrols of the City Guard. The Old Wall is also a key feature in the Brotherhood’s drug trade: its stout facade conceals a hollow, irregular interior that the cult utilizes as a service tunnel. Dozens of hidden holes perforate the wall at sporadic locations, providing means of egress to sewer shafts or through passages opened by prying free loose blocks from the wall. The cult owns several properties built directly against the wall—including their main lodge—creating a complicated network of secret entrances that make it impossible for authorities to effectively track their movements. The tunnel itself ranges from 5 feet to 15 feet in both width and height. The courtyard has a three story spiral startcase ending at a strong wooden door. There is also an outhouse against the outer wall. Immediately, the three heroes look at one another and say “secret door” and Cassia strolls into the outhouse to find a secret hinged panel at the rear that swings open to reveal a 4-foot-wide, 10-foot-long tunnel bored into the Old Wall, an inner wall from a time when the city was smaller in size. Huge blocks of irregularly cut stone form a happenstance tunnel in the hollow within the Old Wall with the corpses of long-dead rodents hanging from dusty spiderwebs draping the passage. Though crumbling, the Old Wall is considered a part of the city’s inner defensive fortifications, its upper ledge still in use by occasional patrols of the City Guard. The Old Wall is also a key feature in the Brotherhood’s drug trade: its stout facade conceals a hollow, irregular interior that the cult utilizes as a service tunnel. Dozens of hidden holes perforate the wall at sporadic locations, providing means of egress to sewer shafts or through passages opened by prying free loose blocks from the wall. The cult owns several properties built directly against the wall—including their main lodge—creating a complicated network of secret entrances that make it impossible for authorities to effectively track their movements. The tunnel itself ranges from 5 feet to 15 feet in both width and height.
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 The quickly finds that the wall’s interior is the lair of a pair of dangerous ogre spiders, which cult members avoid by minding their feeding times and through liberal use of vermin repellent—the jars of which litter tunnel entrances regularly used by the cult. The repellent is normally used to deter swarms, but the dealers have found it also keeps the ogre spiders at bay for the time being. Those who enter the tunnel without applying vermin repellent face eventual attack by the spiders. Unfortunately for the spiders, Mikhael summons Lysanthir to kill and eat on spider, while three bolts from //Dignity’s Barb// and a stab from Corwyn eliminates the other.  The quickly finds that the wall’s interior is the lair of a pair of dangerous ogre spiders, which cult members avoid by minding their feeding times and through liberal use of vermin repellent—the jars of which litter tunnel entrances regularly used by the cult. The repellent is normally used to deter swarms, but the dealers have found it also keeps the ogre spiders at bay for the time being. Those who enter the tunnel without applying vermin repellent face eventual attack by the spiders. Unfortunately for the spiders, Mikhael summons Lysanthir to kill and eat on spider, while three bolts from //Dignity’s Barb// and a stab from Corwyn eliminates the other. 
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 Within, the house reflects several generations of devout inhabitants. The family acquired the property nearly 200 years ago, when only a small crumbling temple to Desna stood on the grounds. In those days, the Caligaro family’s patriarch was a devout follower of the Tender of Dreams and a fanatical collector who built the home to incorporate and protect the ruins of the shrine. Later generations offered supplication to Gozreh, constructing the home’s unique underwater ballroom to pay homage to the god of the sea.  Within, the house reflects several generations of devout inhabitants. The family acquired the property nearly 200 years ago, when only a small crumbling temple to Desna stood on the grounds. In those days, the Caligaro family’s patriarch was a devout follower of the Tender of Dreams and a fanatical collector who built the home to incorporate and protect the ruins of the shrine. Later generations offered supplication to Gozreh, constructing the home’s unique underwater ballroom to pay homage to the god of the sea. 
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 The house’s exterior doors and windows are heavily boarded or barricaded to prevent intrusion from outside (, with the exception of the balcony entrance to area. The back of the house is directly against the Old Wall, and its exposed stone facade stands in dark contrast to the manse’s wood-paneled walls.  The house’s exterior doors and windows are heavily boarded or barricaded to prevent intrusion from outside (, with the exception of the balcony entrance to area. The back of the house is directly against the Old Wall, and its exposed stone facade stands in dark contrast to the manse’s wood-paneled walls. 
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 The elevator comes down to a long tunnel. Wispy spiderwebs hang like curtains along this tunnel’s width, their bottoms stained from wicking dirty water from the slippery floor below. The 10-foot-wide, 180-foot-long tunnel is constructed of thick stone blocks, and runs beneath the Old Wall and below the shoreline basin to an old underwater ballroom. The tunnel is punctuated by patches of thick spiderwebs. With his //see invisibility// Corwyn is able to see two phase spiders lurking in the ethereal plane. The spiders don’t seem alarmed, perhaps because they are being escorted and are in cult regalia. The tunnel ends in aging temple to Gozreh.  The elevator comes down to a long tunnel. Wispy spiderwebs hang like curtains along this tunnel’s width, their bottoms stained from wicking dirty water from the slippery floor below. The 10-foot-wide, 180-foot-long tunnel is constructed of thick stone blocks, and runs beneath the Old Wall and below the shoreline basin to an old underwater ballroom. The tunnel is punctuated by patches of thick spiderwebs. With his //see invisibility// Corwyn is able to see two phase spiders lurking in the ethereal plane. The spiders don’t seem alarmed, perhaps because they are being escorted and are in cult regalia. The tunnel ends in aging temple to Gozreh. 
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 A wrought iron framework supporting thick glass panels creates an imposing dome, though sediment from the dirty harbor above blocks most of the light that might otherwise stream into this underwater chamber. From the apex of the dome hangs a gigantic fossilized spider, which swings from a thick rope of roughly woven, silver silk. The cult’s main temple is this underwater chamber, built decades ago at great expense by a Gozreh-worshiping member of the Caligaro family. The presbytery shows signs of age: puddles of leaking seawater form on its tessellated floor, and its glass panels are clouded between webs of rusted framework. The chamber looks like a refugee camp for cultists as much as a place of worship. The petrified idol itself dominates the chamber, hanging suspended and upside down above the water-damaged pews and makeshift cots of the assembled cultists. Similarly suspended are three sacrifices: webbed cocoons of drugged and paralyzed victims prepared in area and moved here, where the idol/would be god, Mog-Lathar consumes their dreaming minds.  A wrought iron framework supporting thick glass panels creates an imposing dome, though sediment from the dirty harbor above blocks most of the light that might otherwise stream into this underwater chamber. From the apex of the dome hangs a gigantic fossilized spider, which swings from a thick rope of roughly woven, silver silk. The cult’s main temple is this underwater chamber, built decades ago at great expense by a Gozreh-worshiping member of the Caligaro family. The presbytery shows signs of age: puddles of leaking seawater form on its tessellated floor, and its glass panels are clouded between webs of rusted framework. The chamber looks like a refugee camp for cultists as much as a place of worship. The petrified idol itself dominates the chamber, hanging suspended and upside down above the water-damaged pews and makeshift cots of the assembled cultists. Similarly suspended are three sacrifices: webbed cocoons of drugged and paralyzed victims prepared in area and moved here, where the idol/would be god, Mog-Lathar consumes their dreaming minds. 
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 In the waning light of the day, the crowd seeing people pour from the House on Hook Street are amazed. There, three heroes of the realm stand, two of whom are the noble they live under. Mikhael sends a water elemental to retrieve the idol, which Corwyn orders taking to a local temple, the largest being to Abadar. The group decides to get things sorted out. In the waning light of the day, the crowd seeing people pour from the House on Hook Street are amazed. There, three heroes of the realm stand, two of whom are the noble they live under. Mikhael sends a water elemental to retrieve the idol, which Corwyn orders taking to a local temple, the largest being to Abadar. The group decides to get things sorted out.
  
-==== Agents of Desna  ==== +==== The Final Piece ==== 
-|Campaign Dates|Pharest 13- XX 4721 | +|Campaign Dates|Pharest 13- 14 4721 | 
-|Game Date|09/12/24|+|Game Date|04/10/25|
  
  
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