Characters

Strong Start

Three bandits of the Shadow Spiders accost a street vendor named Orrick Tallbrow, a wide-eyed human who claims to have paid already.

Facing the three bandits of the Shadow Spiders
Finding the wanted posters for The Half-Orc Deserter Bareli and the “Bandit Queen” Firean Maiethil.
Exploring Dulwich.
Quests!
- Investigate the rise of the undead.
- Travel to the Shadowed Keep

[ ] The Shadow Spiders: The most powerful (and violent) of Dulwich’s gangs is the Shadow Spiders. Most of the other smaller gangs pay a proportion of their take to the Shadow Spiders to avoid bloodshed. Led by Voitto Markku (LE male human spy) the Shadow Spiders lair at the Golden Skull tavern (location 7).
[ ] The Black Cats: Popular with the peasantfolk, as the gang is generous with their ill-gotten gains. Very secretive. Not a lot of vendors. Tends to prey on rich folk.
[ ] Skeletons have been rising in the area. Strange black obelisks have been found outside the city. Skeletons have even been rising from the cemetery itself!
[ ] Another skeleton has been seen shuffling about the 1 cemetery. What is causing the dead to rise from their graves to stalk the town?
[ ] Vuokko Laiten was the lover of the former high priest and murdered him when he was at his most vulnerable.
[ ] Ossi Karppanen meets regularly with the heads of the other trade and merchant guilds.
[ ] Valentin Ironwolf’s lost treasures yet lie hidden in his ruined castle—the so-called Shadowed Keep!
[ ] The Black Cats gang seeks an alliance with the Shadow 5F Spiders. If the two gangs merge, a thieves’ guild could emerge to terrorise the town.
[ ] 6F Something strange is going on at the poorhouse. Badger’s is the place to go, if you want to buy or sell 7 wondrous items. It’s heavily guarded; no one has ever stolen anything from its vaults.