The Ash Serpent - Brief
From the DM who brought you "Plagues and Princesses - the tale of Emmett the Friendzoned Bum Wizard" and "Your Best Friend's Funeral" comes a new story: "The Ash Serpent".
You've come to the bustling city of Pentwyne looking for one thing - Adventure! You're just missing a quest. While you're waiting you've taken a room in The Smiling Duck Inn. The halfling proprietor Mr Oron Fenswick, puts out a complimentary breakfast each morning, and offers a fine selection of good-value dinners. You were pleasantly surprised to find something this nice in your price range.
You wake one night to a fierce knock on the door, and a babble of voices from the hallway. There's no light coming through your curtains, dawn's still a long way off. You open the door to find a middle aged dwarven woman, who you're sure you've seen in the dining hall a few times, formidable with rage.
“Thieves! Thieves in the night!! They took my hairbrush, my best silver hairbrush! You check your things, I'm going to go warn others” she dashes off down the hall before you have a chance to respond.
Thieves. Stole a hairbrush. Right. You have a brief cursory check of your valuables, coinpurse, clothes, all there. Mad woman, she was. Your bed looks so soft and warm, and you're just about in it, when you hear from the hallway “his lucky copper piece, and a little bracelet my sister left me. I don't understand, neither was worth anything”.
Something snaps in your head, and you dive back into your belongings. It has to be there. But it's not. It hits you like a punch in the gut. How isn't it here? Why isn't it here? Who on earth would take it? And why did they leave a small square of parchment, with a sooty grey squiggle drawn on it?
NOTES
This can be any object, any value, but it must be the most sentimentally important object your character owns. You mighty be able to find an identical ornate shortsword for instance, but it'd never the one your father pressed into his best friends hands while he lay dying in a foreign battle field, asking for it be passed to you, his beloved child. Letters, portraits, childhood toys, the X given to you by your dearly departed Y, wedding bands, religious symbols, favourite mug, pet rocks, etc. Probably not the best game for a stoically unattached character.
This is a 5th ed game, DMs first foray into 5th ed. I've heard great things about the system, and am excited to use it.
Time/day to be decided based on player availability and preference.
The DM has recently produced a Small Human. As far as Small Humans go, he's been relatively well received, however the game may need a 20 minute break to attend to his needs. If you also have a baby, you need to care for, bring them. Sometimes finding kid-friendly nerd spaces is hard, especially since it's predominantly a male-coded environment anyway. Raising the next generation of DnD players is no mean feat (haha lol see what I did there).
I'm looking for 4-5 players, if you're interested, please message me.