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I'm currently running Bastards of Erebus, and my PCs came up with an intriguing method of finding information. Bestiary 5 gives us Liminal Sprites, urban fey that live in the exteriors of buildings and love watching mortals. My PCs sought out a liminal sprite and made a deal with him to meet the faerie court of Westcrown.
So at this point I had to improvise a bit, but there are plenty of urban fey (and faeries make every campaign weirder). So the party got some information setting up Delvehaven from the Faerie Queen of the city in exchange for dealing with a disrespectful morgodea, and now the city has a certain air of wonder to it, what with the faeries and magical creatures lurking in the background.
Has anyone else dropped an urban faerie court into the AP? And if so, any fun side quests I should include?
I like your idea.
I only had a bogeyman irregularly turn up in the crowd, grinning, before he approached the PCs as the Mother's messenger.
Maybe there is a war going on between several fey factions inside the city. The sewer gremlins might work as the sprites' opponents, for example. There could be "faerie pockets" all over town; small, weird demiplanes that the different factions use as hideouts. You only have to step sideways at the right spot ...
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Oh, I like that. I've been thinking that the more they interact with the faeries (whose court I've dubbed the "Cobblestone Court"), the more glimpses they've got of a dark mirror court deep beneath the city (spinning off Raynulf's idea of relocating the Grotto of Flies to the undercity/sewers to consolidate the adventure within the city). A bogeyman servant of the Mother taking notice of them because the non-evil fey have taken notice of them could be fun, and set up the Mother as a possible last resort "ally," or just scary fey queen. Thanks!
I kind of like the excursion into the woods to visit the Mother. It takes the PCs out of the environment they are used to. It just should happen a little earlier in the AP.
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It would be interesting to have unseelie or the Court of Ether set up shop during the night hours. The shadows could either ignore or avoid these elder forces, and as the PCs level up and prepare to break the curse these dark fey could either aid or hinder (depending on their loyalties to the Mother) the players.
Just a thought.