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No Entry

The city gates are barred. Strange looking guards of a species you do not recognize prevent your entry.

Blake Blackhammer does not recognize the species of those protecting the gates. Bernie Kaye the gates have been barred like this for no more than a week.

A Most Inconvenient Murder

You are on a ship crossing the sea. On board is your party, a nobleman and his wife, a known rake, a beautiful young debutante, the ship's captain, a well known adventurer and a famous detective. One morning, the nobleman is murdered and you were the last one to see him alive.

Felicity Korsk swears they saw you with the nobleman last night. Percival Carson wishes to call everyone together to find the killer.

Worms!

After the torrential rains lately, thousands, if not millions, of earthworms are overrunning town.

Desmond Mehmed likes to fish, so they're not stressed about the worms.

Everyone's a Winner

The pub is offering up a series of tournaments: cards, drinking, darts and music. Prizes include magic items and treasure.

Kael Gellar challenges you to a drinking game. Rebecca Connington is collecting bets on the games.

Civil War

A massive city has taken arms up against one another, the sides naturally bisected by a river which runs through town.

Altes Faelyn was forced to kill their brother last night.

The Haunted Bay

Ghosts are said to haunt a bay that was once home to a busy port. Some say the ghosts are from a sunken ship that crashed 100 years ago.

Scarlett Reece thinks that the ghosts aren't real, and someone is playing a trick on the community.

Through the Fade

Whenever you sleep, you dream of being watched by an impossible creature with many eyes, torturing you for answers. After the latest dream you awaken with physical marks of your torture on your body.

Keeley Roderick cannot identify where the wounds come from. Tanar Michaels suggests you speak to the local seer.

Enemy of my Enemy

A warning cry echoes across the fields surrounding the village, looking toward the forest's edge you see a large band of orcs come charging out. Drawing your weapons, you realize the orcs are not attacking, they are fleeing from something else.

Larson Mournhell believes the orcs are dangerous and should not be allowed into the town. Elvira Hamid believes working with the orcs is best for all involved

Missing Cat. Offering Reward

A local noble has entrusted you to find his poor missing cat, Tabitha. The cat is actually a tabaxi who has run away from her slave owner.

Homer Ghani needs someone to find his lovely cat, he speaks of the beauty of his can. Seymor Pierce saw someone sneaking out of the manor at night and rushing out toward the nearby woods.

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