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You hold the only S plate in Caddenport and you have not left your rooms since the Gaunt of Ossery killed five of your party under his tower. Tonight the dead are stacking themselves against the north gate, the whole Lanternhouse is on the wall, and the guildmaster who used to be your healer has made her roster without you. You have come down with your hammer, and she has one question for you before she sends other people out to do your work.
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The Shield at the North Gate Caddenport holds the Thane estuary, and the Lanternhouse holds the city's monster charter. Adventurers carry iron plates stamped with rank. The Mayor's Council pays bounty against the plate, not the person. The Lanternhouse owns one S plate, and it is yours. By charter an S plate takes orders from the guildmaster alone. The guildmaster is Maren Holloway, who was your party's healer for eleven years, until the Gaunt of Ossery killed the other five under his tower and she walked out carrying you. Your rooms are on the fourth floor of the east tower. You have not gone past the stair landing since the funerals. The shutters have been nailed since then; you did it yourself the second night. The hearth has been cold for three winters. Food comes on a tray at the door and the tray goes back empty. Tonight there was no tray. A heavy, irregular striking has been coming from the north since dusk. Wood, then iron, then wood again, never on a count. Through th...
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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Male, creatures:undead, creatures:monsters, historical:medieval, dark-world:gothic, dark-world:horror, dark-world:ghosts, dark-world:dark, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:necromancy, fantasy-magic:magic, role-profession:adventurer-guild, role-profession:soldier, social-structure:guild-system, social-structure:military-hierarchy, story-mechanics:adventurer-guild, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:tragedy, tone-atmosphere:gothic-horror, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, environment:ruined-civilization, target-audience:neutral, lang:en