[ ] Review the characters

Strong Start

Shadows of the Stross royals attack the characters. A drop of crimson spores lands on someone. One crimson shambler (TOB2 pg 73) per character lurking from the halls attacks.

Scenes

Crimson shamblers
Beggar ghouls (ToB pg 213) + darakhul (TOB pg 216) in the next hall.
Meet an NPC about to be eaten by the ghouls
Overhear Felixia Bael-Sheth – Red Sister of Marina and Borys Kreul – Ghoul Assassin of the Imperium. Find the note.
Face two darakuls awaiting the mushroom extract.
Follow the trail to the Temple of the Blood Maiden
Face off against the cult of the Blood Maiden in the Temple.

Secret and Clues

[ ] Felixia Bael-Sheth – Red Sister of Marina has been using the mushroom extract to twist the minds of Zobeck councilmembers. She hopes to destabilize the city for the coming of the Ghoul Imperium.
[ ] A Darakhul Shadowmancer named Arathe tried to open the shadow road beneath Zobeck but failed, killing himself and the squad of ghouls he planned to bring forth. He failed to appease the Shadow Road and they paid for it.
[ ] They call themselves the People, but the people of the surface world call them the Lords Subterranean, the Ghoul Imperium, or simply the Empire of the Ghouls.
[ ] Their cities lie out of sight, their agents infiltrate the underworlds of a score of surface cities, and their goals know no limits.
[ ] To them, if you are not a member of the People, you are food.
[ ] Ghouls of the Imperium are no mindless monsters. Though individually not as strong as vampires, their transformation into Darakhul have made them particularly deadly.
[ ] Borys Kreul – Ghoul Assassin of the Imperium only arrived a month ago. He and Felixia have fallen in love. She was enjoying twisting the minds of the powerful but now she does so with purpose.