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Absalom, or any fantasy city, is a great place with lots of hooks. Here is a thread for us to share some for others to use.
-A millenniums old sentient construct plans on taking the test of the Starstone and creating a free-willed construct race.
-The Corpse Rose is a high CHA NE ghoul bard who can pass for human with a little bit of makeup and the right clothes. She has a secret contract with the city to dispose of unclaimed bodies and also runs the Ostuary,a kind of undead thinktank/library where mages and others can consult with undead about the past on neutral ground. She too is ancient and may be among the first ghouls of ancient Osirion.
-The Garden is a high priced and very exclusive restaurant that caters to those who want to eat the flesh of sentient races.
-One of the siege towers holds a bound celestial, who sits on a throne at the top listening to all of the secrets the winds bring him.
-A group of lycanthrope hunters has recently arrived in town looking for a notorious witch werewolf known as the Pack Mother. What no one outside the group knows is the Paladin who leads them is also a werewolf with a magic silver collar that allows him to control his bestial form and remain LG. What no one other the Paladin and the Pack Mother know is that they were once lovers, both bitten by the same beast, and he has a second collar he wants to put on her to return her to him.
-Tengu guard numerous neglected shrines through out the city. They are led by an albino oracle with a rune carved beak. They secretly search for something they call the Hidden Clutch.
-A crank walks the streets shouting about the destruction of the city in fire and smoke. He is really a red dragon polymorphed into a gnome and made to forget his true nature. His dreams of fire are his true self trying to re-emerge.
-The denizens of leng are gathering the poor down by the docks with the tacit approval of the district's authorities.
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During a recent excavation under an old estate, an ancient shrine is uncovered. The shrine is dedicated to a vigilante, identity unknown, who was instrumental in defending the city during the siege by the archmage Nex.
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If you look in the mirror and say the city's name twice, the second time an exclamation, you might summon William Faulkner, a level 8 dread laureate.
However, if you do this it is unlikely that your story will end well.
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A museum curator is secretly selling off stuff from the vaults to finance (her retirement | her son's medical treatment | a life of drunken debauchery | some cultist who's raising money for a try at the Starstone (he says) | insert your choice here).
PCs are offered a chance to buy something at ridiculously low prices. Do they accept the offer (and deal with the museum's security force when the thefts become known)? Turn in the curator? Blackmail the museum?
Oh, and a couple of the pieces she sold? Really shouldn't have been removed from their lead-lined coffers...
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Numerous bands of sell swords reside in Absalom, their talents available to anyone who will pay. Many of the very wealthy buy their services waging a low grade conflict with their peers.
Often the Pathfinder society finds itself in completion with these bands of mercenaries to recover valuable objects/ documents/ secrets before the sell swords get them for their patrons.
Morag