ADVENTURES

Adventure 1 solve the murder mystery

This fantasy adventure is one of the first adventures I made, and one the players liked the most

One warm summer the well known and liked blacksmith of Redriver Rudolf Bear got his first son. the son grew to be like his father a big but friendly guy. The boy was named Randar but was called Bear by his friends, cause he was larger than other of his age.
Bears best friend Tim was real opposite of him. From their early days the local boys had secret names that only the boys knew. Tim was called hawk cause he was small and ... well ... his nose. Bear grew to be blacksmith like his father, and moved to city of seafield to work. Tim never found anything for a job, so one day he left Redriver to try his luck in Ryel the capital city of the Naaran duchy.
It took some years when Bear got a letter from Tim. Tim was in trouble. Tim needed help to escape from Ryel to Seafield. What the letter didn't told was that Tim had joined an Evil cult and now wanted out to tell the truth about the human sacrifises and other evil things the cult was doing. Bear wrote back and arranget Tim to escape. Tim was to go to Seafield and find the Kukkiva Tölli Inn and tell the innkeeper Kyrij Downhilly that hawk has come to see bear. Bear has told the innkeeper what Tim lookslike. All begins when players are travelling from Seafield to Ryel. You can start in the middle of some other adventure or you can begin here. As players go on they see an carriage standing by the road, the horses lie dead in front of the carriage.On a closer examination they can see that the horses are killed by tiny arrows. If they examine the arrows they can see green substance of some kind of a poison. The carriage is covered by canvas and inside lies a dead body of a young man. It seems that everything is turned inside out, but there are couple of clues inside.

clue1:it seems that he was a merchant but all the boxes are empty.
clue2:there is wood powder in his shoes(from his escape route through the carpenters house)
clue3:there is secret compartment in the bottom of the carriage, inside are 2maps and a letter.

Make then find these!It seems that the man died from fright and only interesting thing in him is a tattoo of scorpion in his right arm.(if studied in some large library will be identifyed as an symbol of some longlost cult, formerly active in Ryel, the way the carriage was coming from). The maps are of some tunnels and secret doors(maps seem to be made by a madman), there are also some writing in the maps something about greatures coming from river at night (there is some creatures living in the underground river) and how the writer was forced to take part in some evil rituals. The letter tells someone called hawk to come to Seafield and ask for Bear from the innkeeper at the Kukkiva Tölli inn.

Seafield:
Bear is a blacksmith at Seafield and is called Bear only by his childhood friends from Red River. The innkeeper is waiting for the dead man called hawk, and knows what the hawk lookslike. If players try to act as hawk, innkeeper will deny everything and then inform Bear. The Bear will think that players are from Ryel and have killed his dear childhood friend and will try to revenge.
When characters tell that hawk is dead, he asks them to seek the killers and revenge.(my own group killed Bear and did not get any information from him) The Bear tells them that he was helping hawk to escape, but he does know anything about the maps.

Ryel:
This city is large trading city and the capital of the province. There is a river running through the city.Lately there have been many disappearances, and rumours are everywere. RUMOURS: "they have been taken slaves by the slavetraders staying at the edge of city","There is monster (werewolf, dragon, giant, whatever) in forest/river/?? taking people away", " Major has been removing other merchants (major owns some shops and ships) ", "There is some evil cult in city". The evil cult is the main reason but you can use other rumors also. make more rumors also.
Major has taken some of the city's main merchants prisoners to gain more power and money. He is also giving boost to other rumors. Majors guards walk the streets day and night but they have their orders not to get involved if something is seen.
Slave traders are telling their own stories.(they are "good" like all slave traders), they could use new strong slaves.
There are many temples in city and it will be hard to find the right one.
There is also underground river running under city, and some wells are empty because of it.
There is large sewersystem to explore also.
Under castle there are many tunnels and dungeons, where prisoners and some monsters are kept. And the castle has two levels also.level 1.andlevel 2.
Cult has secret temple under city and they use it for their rituals. Cult's leader has his own things going on, he is very old and has been working in city for years. He has many woman prisoners of varying ages who he uses for his own pleasure. Some of the women are bregnant and the leader uses old and ugly women and all boy childs for sacrifices, girls are saved for future.(so you can see he is very evil and sick person.) Other cult members don't know about this. 26.2.1999