If the characters want to convince Iskari to work against Szass Tam, they must secure one or more pieces of evidence that prove Iskari has stolen from the lich. The characters recognize when something they find is evidence. They can find four pieces of evidence, which are in the following areas:
Each group is guided by one of Zorri’s apprentices to a different path leading into Ashenwood.
An adventure for level 3 characters set in the realm of Rashemen. Stolen Spirits is a D&D; Encounters Celebration adventure that serves as an event play experience to kick off the Season of Magic. It’s designed to fill a three-hour session.
Each group of characters inhabits its own plaza and must deal with the threats there. Use the Fountain Plaza Map for this encounter. Characters can start anywhere on the map.
The workers and guards at Two Plateaus Shipping Company don’t know that Iskari has been stealing magic items from clients and selling them. Iskari doesn’t fear many of his clients—but he is afraid of Szass Tam. He carefully hides any evidence of his scam.
Multiattack. Keldar makes two attacks using Longsword or Handaxe in any combination. She can replace one of her attacks with a use of Spellcasting. Longsword. Melee Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) Thunder damage. Handaxe. Melee or Ranged Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) Slashing damage plus 5 (2d4) Thunder…
When the characters interact with Iskari, a character can take the Influence action to try to convince him that they know about his scam and will inform Szass Tam unless Iskari cooperates. The character then makes a Charisma (Persuasion) check. The DC of that check depends on how many pieces of evidence the characters have when they confront Iskari, as noted in the Blackmailing Iskari table.…
Wondrous Item, very rare When this 3-inch-diameter metal ball is activated as a Magic action, it moves at a rapid speed, bouncing off walls and defying any attempts to capture it. The ball remains active for 1 minute or until you deactivate it by using a command word while within 30 feet of it (no action required). Once the ball is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. When you…
Armor (double mail), uncommon Metal armor made of songsteel rings like a bell or chime when it clangs against an object. When wearing the armor, you can call out to Volund as a Bonus Action. Until the end of your next turn, you take 5 less damage from all attacks that hit you. Once you use this feature, you must finish a Long Rest before you can use it again. Also called tvifold brynja, the rings…
A bodytaker podling is a near-perfect replica of a creature consumed by a bodytaker plant. A podling possesses the appearance and memories of the being it duplicates, but it is entirely loyal to the bodytaker plant that created it. Fundamentally, a podling isn’t its own creature but an expendable appendage of a bodytaker plant. Bodytaker podlings frequently exhibit behaviors that suggest their…
Phantom hearses are ghostly carriages complete with horses and coachmen—amalgamations of tormented souls driven to claim the living and drag them to the land of the dead. The spirit coachmen strike with phantom whips and weapons, and even fly out to harry foes at a distance, while the ghostly horses drive the hearse in a crushing charge that gathers victims and seals them into a spectral coffin…
Cambions are former mortals corrupted by fiendish power or possessed by insidious forces. While tieflings are free-willed individuals with a hint of fiendish ancestry, cambions are inherently tied to or remade by the wicked magic of the Lower Planes. Many cambions serve the malevolent forces that are the source of their powers. Others seek to claim the might of whatever created them or to seize…
Sinister fleshwarpers reshape captive urdefhans into these juggernauts of war. Their clear skin is hardened into a thick, mirror-like carapace, creating an intimidating exoskeleton. Mulventoks don’t live long; within weeks—or, at most, months—their hyper-developed muscles split open their toughened skin, and they erupt in a shower of gore. A mulventok’s creator shapes their mind just as much as…
Jessie the Red (Medium Pirate) is very excited about the party happening tonight after the Plunder Auction celebrating her wife’s latest achievement. She is madly in love with her wife, a human named Dead Eye Jolene. She immediately recognizes that the party is not with the Brinejacks but keeps it to herself. She’s far more interested in finding out who they are and telling them about the…
You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example, you can fabricate a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, or clothes from flax or wool. Choose raw materials that you can see within range. You can fabricate a Large or smaller object (contained within a 10-foot Cube or eight connected 5-foot Cubes) given a sufficient quantity of material. If…
A staircase winds upward, terminating in a door that leads to the roof. The cramped staircase leads 30 feet upward.
You alter the appearance of a set of nonmagical clothing that isn’t being worn by someone else. You determine the color, styling, decoration, and form the clothing takes, though you can’t generate clothes worth more than 15 GP. For example, you could transform a tattered Robe into Fine Clothes, or vice versa. At the end of the spell’s duration, the altered clothing returns to its original form.…
This spell instantly transports you and up to eight willing creatures that you can see within range, or a single object that you can see within range, to a destination you select. If you target an object, it must be Large or smaller, and it can’t be held or carried by an unwilling creature. The destination you choose must be known to you, and it must be on the same plane of existence as you. Your…
Read or paraphrase the following when the characters approach the station’s courtyard (area S1): Before you rises a squat fortress besieged by fiends. Near the fortress’s gate, two red-skinned abominations and a serpentine horror with six arms battle three outmatched soldiers struggling to stand their ground. On the battlements, a red-robed woman and armored knight survey the scene smugly, a…
You suggest a course of activity—described in no more than 25 words—to one creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound achievable and not involve anything that would obviously deal damage to the target or its allies. For example, you could say, “Fetch the key to the cult’s treasure vault, and give the key to me.” Or you could say, “Stop fighting,…
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