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Tragically, Luna’s ministrations have invoked the wrath of the Blackblood Covenant, worshipers of Urgathoa who spread diseases throughout the town. Seeing Luna as a threat to their plan, they kidnap her, and discover her secret—lycanthropy. Delighted, they harvest the girl’s affliction, and they plan to gorge upon the townsfolk of Falcon’s Hollow in a feast that would make the Pallid Princess proud. When the PCs begin their search for Luna, they become the town’s only hope for survival.

NOTE: The werewolves are “afflicted lycanthropes”, so they cannot pass on the curse of lycanthropy.

Summary

The adventure begins as the PCs approach an abandoned cut-yard outside of Falcon’s Hollow. Soon the heroes discover the bodies of lumberjacks torn apart by ferocious fangs. Suddenly, the bodies contort into a tormented hybrid of man and wolf. Werewolves attack the party.

The PCs enter Falcon’s Hollow and find windows boarded up, shops closed, and axe-wielding lumberjacks patrolling the streets. As the players investigate Luna’s whereabouts, a man approaches. Secretly a covenant member, he attempts to inflict the group with slimy doom. Feigning friendship, he warns the PCs about Luna’s lycanthropy, and offers them a silver dagger. As he continues his counsel, howls echo in the distance and the meager militia springs into action. Luna’s animal companions charge into town attempting to rescue their mistress from her kidnapers. The PCs must decide whether to defend Falcon’s Hollow from dogs/wolves/dire wolves.

After the attack, the PCs find respite within the town’s inn. Interaction with NPCs allows the PCs to gather information about the ravaged cut-yards, the mysterious diseases, and the missing girl Luna. A group of lumberjacks confronts the party, implying they are the source of the trouble. One of the lumberjacks, also a covenant member, goads his friends on. Unless the PCs take actions to diffuse the situation, a brawl ensues. During the encounter, any PC with Knowledge (religion), or bardic knowledge notices the provocateur’s tattoo marks him as a worshiper of Urgathoa.

OPTIONAL ENCOUNTER: That night, the covenant assaults the PCs while they rest. Surviving the attack, the PCs discern more tattoos.

At dawn, the heroes spy ashen-faced men with wheelbarrows loading the disease-ravaged dead into wagons bound for a pyre. The wagon’s driver bears the same unholy mark seen the night before. The PCs can use Intimidate, Diplomacy, or Bluff to gain the location of the covenant’s hideout, or they can follow the wagon to an abandoned warehouse. Entering the warehouse, the PCs discover a shrine. From festering heaps of rancid flesh piled up in offering, a shadow/greater shadow claws forth to attack the PCs.

Finally, the PCs locate Luna tied to a silver table hidden within the warehouse. Near death, Luna warns the PCs of the covenant’s plans to use her affliction to infect themselves with lycanthropy. A growl in the shadows reveals a large Urgathoan werewolf. Festering sores weep upon his matted fur, and a frothy foam drips from his gaping, hungry maw. Drenched in drool, he attacks the heroes!

Conclusion

With success, the PCs retrieve Ulizmila’s writings, and defeat the Blackblood Covenant. With failure, the covenant destroys Ulizmila’s book, and the downtrodden township of Falcon’s Hollow falls victim to a ritualistic feast of Urgathoan werewolves.

Summary
Pathfinder representatives attend a summer art exhibition to authenticate a rare find. The financier of the exhibit, a fat Chelish man named Tukonen Rask hails from the house of Thrune. A patron of the arts, Rask funds expeditions brining him respect. Unfortunately, the Pathfinder who led his last mission never returned. Secretly, the PCs search for their missing brethren.

The adventure begins in the menagerie of the summer estate. Experts debate the meaning of the artifacts. The original owners of the pieces prepare to attack, as the participants discuss each sculpture. The Kellids have journeyed to reclaim their stolen property. The savages attack the dignitaries. Rask is the primary target, the PCs must decide if they will save him. At the end of this battle the last tribesman utters a curse to activate an idol.

Storm clouds gather and winds rage. The animals in the menagerie bay, howl, and roar. The larger animals escape from their cages. With a heightened predatory nature these feral beasts stalk the guests. The PCs spearhead the effort to retreat into the mansion.

Demons massacre the servants inside the mansion. If Tukonen still lives he begs the heroic PCs to end the carnage. If he was killed the PCs find Rask’s diary. Either way, the information gathered explains these Kellids use the idols for demon adulation. The PCs discover the only way to end the demon assault is to return to the menagerie and destroy the idols. As if on cue, hoards of demons burst forth and attempt to murder any remaining guests. Some are dragged off into the darkness. The PCs battle the demons.

Knowing the idols must be destroyed, the PCs venture back into the windstorm. They encounter the lost Pathfinder. Dark and menacing, he is dressed in Kellid war beads. From the shadows the nabasu follow his orders. He holds the invoked idol and commands the demons to attack.

Encounters
Encounter One: The Test of Knowledge
Location: The Menagerie
The PCs enter a series of knowledge skill checks to determine how much they know about the idols. Useful skills include: religion, arcana, history, art, and bardic knowledge. During this challenge a self-proclaimed expert is offended. He challenges a PCs to a non-lethal duel. If the PCs attain higher successes than this expert, Rask decides to make a donation to the Pathfinder Society. EL 7/10.

Encounter Two: Tribal Attack
Location: The Menagerie
Kellid barbarians attack the PCs and guests. With his last breath, one utters a curse to release the power of the idol. If he is captured, he commits suicide and still utters the curse. EL 8/11

Encounter Three: Break out
Location: The Menagerie retreating to the mansion.
The idol summons demonic forces. A raging storm causes the animals in the menagerie to panic. Demons posses the strongest creatures. They break free and attack (use dire animals). The mansion provides a safe haven for the PCs and NPCs. (Use rules for a windstorm DMG pg 65). EL 8/11

Encounter 4: Demon Front
Location: The Mansion
Once inside the mansion, bodies of servants cover the floor. Rask or his diary explains the power of the idol. Nabasu gain entry and attack the PCs in the central hall. The PCs discover that the only way to end the threat is by destroying the idol. (If the PCs have the idols or they are already destroyed, Rask/diary reveals that another hidden in an animal pen.) EL 9/12

Encounter 5: The Master himself
Location: The Menagerie
The PCs discover the missing Pathfinder in the corpse littered menagerie. Their comrade is possessed. Lesser nabasu are flying around him. In his hands he holds the invoked idol. The PCs can end the possession in two ways: kill the Pathfinder or destroy the idol. Destroying the idol spares the Pathfinder. Use lesser Nabasu and Human with demon possessed creature template (Quasit/Balor). (Advanced Bestiary pg. 51). EL 10/13.

Conclusion
If the PCs are successful, they end the nabasu threat, destroy the activating idol, and end the possession of their comrade.
Faction missions
Gain a rubbing of an idol, raise funds for future missions, discover the fate of the missing Pathfinder, look at Rask’s finance logs, and obtain a Kellid artifact.