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blades in the dark

Ted	The Night Porters- Investigating The Throat Slashers (BitD Session 1 Setup) By: Ted The Night Porters are a small crew of Shadows operating out of Nightmarket in Duskwall. They've been asked to see if a tiny crew of assassins is responsible for the disappearance of a mutual friend... Plots Hired Single-Storyline	by Ted 238^xp 2 replies 1314 views

“ Idea from the Aeneid. Could make an intriguing encounter when searching for firewood...'Quite near there happened to be a mound of earth, at the highest part of which were growing thickets of cornel and a dense cluster of spiky myrtle-stems. I went up there and tried to wrench the green growth from the ground to provide a leafy covering for our altar. There I was confronted by a horrible and astounding miracle. For from the first bush which I tried to break off...blood oozed in dark drops, fouling the earth with its spots...A piteous moan came from the base of the mound and I heard a human voice answering me: 'Why, Aeneas, must you rend a poor sufferer? I am buried here...for I am Polydorus. Here death overpowered me in a crop of piercing iron-pointed spears. And so a crop resembling javelins has grown over me...''”

ephemeralstability

“ The PCs see a large collection of urns in a pool of swamp water. All the urns are lidded and seem very old, what do they contain?”

Michael Jotne Slayer

“ When running a new party, get around the question of plot density by having the first discovery to be a deck of fate, or whatever you call it. If you use a real deck, you should definitely stack it to have the desired outcome, which is to curse the party to attract weird things to happen and involve them. This should not be told to the players at the time, so that they won't just up and try to get themselves 'decursed'. Though quite why they would want to is beyond me.”

CaptainMayday