
Tylinhae |

It is a dark and windy night in the city of Silverymoon...
Fortunately for our adventurers, they're a good 200 miles away in the small burg of Halfriver, where it is currently sunny and a comfortable 72 degrees. Nobody is really sure why the town is called Halfriver, as it is nowhere near any bodies of water. Nevertheless, our lively band of adventurers has gathered there today to set out on what they hope will be a legendary journey of mayhem, glory, and destruction. Preferably destruction of someone else.
Halfriver is not much to speak of, being little more than a collection of hovels set up for a small mining operation in an effort to make the miners feel more at home. Its main attraction is the local tavern known as the Sultry Strumpet, so called because of the tavern's bawdy reputation for offering questionable services above and beyond that of a normal roadside inn. Beyond that, little else is available save for a small General Supply store and the Miner's Guild.
It is approximately 1:00 in the afternoon as you, our weary travelers, step into the seedy common room of the Strumpet. A plump waitress named Ezmeralda approaches you and leads you to a rather unkempt table in the back. She doesn't bother to clean the mugs or dishes of the previous patrons, and scurries off to other duties with a hasty promise of "I'll be back to take yer ordah!"