Red Moon Over Sartar Campaign

Adventure Outline for December 10, 1995

951210 Fur Trappers

Setup

Dark season and the rains have arrived

Players get two weeks to train (100hrs)

Soldiers in the garrison at Runegate are all getting sick

Everyone roll CON x 5 or less to avoid sickness

Sickness = -1d10 HP per four hours until CON x 5 made

0 HP means coma for days equal to negative HP

Local farmers are also getting sick

Patrols have uncovered nothing

Ranking Inspector Doblian is assigned to solve this mystery

Background

Malia Disease Master wants revenge against the Lunars

Starting with Runegate

Using a series of simple afflications and major infections

Site of infection not on the stream leading to Runegate [Map of gully and cavernous pool]

Located instead in an intermittent gully (near tax ambush spot)

Strange diseased animal corpses and chaos festering in the dark pool/cave dip

Group of 5 Fur Trappers operating in the area looking for beaver, otter, fox, and hare

Protective of their hunting area, especially from interfering Lunars

The Fur Trappers have broadswords and have a Tarshite accent

They know little animal lore and have poor devise (the traps do not look too good)

They are actually ogres working for the Rebel Tarshite Disease Master

Killing the Trappers

Tracking the Leader

The ogres only know that the Disease Master may return in four days to renew the infections

They are supposed to collect their payment near the Earthshaker Temple on the way home

They are to meet Curious Geolff the trickster at the Temple and he will lead them to the DM

Return of the Disease Master

The DM will return in four days, but approach the camp carefully and at night

If anything is wrong, he will leave. He rides a horse and will hide it before approaching the camp

Hoping his ogre buddies made an escape, he will rendevous near the Earthshaker Temple

Disease Master at the Temple

He will be very hinky at the temple

If he has any clue Lunar Constables will be after him, he will set the party up with local thugs

The local thugs will be told the Lunars are transporting a payroll overage back to Bagnot

The Local Thugs [Map of a couple hills and a few trees]

The local thugs will be very eager to kill the players, because they are supposedly carrying 400 wheels

Eight thugs will attack and will retreat if four are wounded or one is killed

They will let the players go if the thugs determine there is no money

The thugs think that the DM is hiding in Black Grove

The Black Grove [use existing heavily wooded area]

The DM will be staying in a mystic cottage deep in the wood

He will feel safe and be somewhat on the lazy side

Not Completing the Mission

Until the DM is killed, Mulcius does not feel the mission is over

The DM will come back and infect the area again

The new protectors will be Sartarite Rebel Ducks

The Higher Levels

The players will probably not be able to discover the identity of either the go between or his patron (a Tarsh exile Lunar hater)