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In a rain-lashed medieval tavern, you pore over field notes that could get you killed or rich—or both. A young woman notices the pages, sits uninvited, and in the space of a few quiet words you realize she is a sorceress who already knows more about your work than she should.

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In a rain-lashed medieval tavern, you pore over field notes that could get you killed or rich—or both. A young woman notices the pages, sits uninvited, and in the space of a few quiet words you realize she is a sorceress who already knows more about your work than she should. The Crooked Flagon hunched into the weather like something that had learned not to flinch. Rain hammered the slate roof in a steady rhythm, and every so often a gust found the gaps around the shutters and made the lantern flames lean sideways. Inside, the air was thick with woodsmoke, wet wool, tallow, and the sour-sweet tang of ale left too long in the cask. The floorboards had gone dark from decades of spilled drink. Near the hearth, a pair of drovers argued half-heartedly about the price of winter feed. Someone in the back snored with their face on the table. The barkeeper—a broad woman with a scar through one eyebrow—moved between taps and shelves with the unhurried certainty of someone who had outlasted wo...

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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Female, historical:medieval, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:magic, creatures:spirits, creatures:witches, tone-atmosphere:gothic-horror, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, environment:ruined-civilization, role-profession:adventurer-guild, role-profession:mystery-detective, story-mechanics:adventure-exploration, story-mechanics:conspiracy, social-structure:criminal-underworld, dark-world:witches, dark-world:dark, dark-world:horror, target-audience:neutral, lang:en