Whispers Behind the Door

Whispers Behind the Door was the seventh adventure released for the Cabal of Shadows Faction Adventure to be run as part of the Xen'drik Expeditions campaign.

Synopsis

Adventure Start: The PCs have previously been assigned together on a mission to abduct a young child rumored to have visions of the future connected to the Draconic Prophecy . They arrived too late only to find that someone else had already taken the child. Returning to the Hand of Stalwart Reverie to report their failure and regroup, they find themselves unable to gain entrance by any means. Something is clearly wrong.

Part One: The party receives a mental communication from Deondag , the cloud giant psion and original inhabitant of the Hand. He reports that the Quori have somehow breached his clan's ancient defenses via some pocket dimension and dreams now menace the Cabal within. That small plane is somehow in alignment with Eberron and seems to be controlling the Hand; though access appears only one way. He orders the PCs to travel to the Circle of Visions where they had originally found entrance to the Hand of Stalwart Reverie. Once there, the Council of the Obscured believes they will be able to use their portal keys to access the pocket plane and defeat the invasion.

Part Two: The PCs travel to the Circle of Visions, but as they arrive, celestial beings sent by the Covenant of Light to recover the child, whom the Covenant mistakenly believes the PCs abducted earlier, attacks them. This distraction eats up valuable time and resources but may offer some clues about what happened to the child should the Cabal survive to look for her.

Part Three: The PCs are able to use their portal keys to access the pocket dimension. Once there they are subject to the rules of the place and may gain some information about how their new local functions as they explore the first dreamscape.

Part Four: The party enters onto a blasted wasteland before a shattered temple. Ash rains from the sky and burning air sears their lungs. The party must bypass or destroy the guardians of this place in order to get into the heart of the temple where they find themselves transported to a third dreamscape.

Part Five: The party manages to gain entrance to the final place of dreams from which Orlothar and Karshee assault the Hand of Stalwart Reverie. They must defeat these powerful enemies in order to save their allies.

Ending the Adventure: Without Orlothar's thoughts to direct the pocket dimension, everything begins to unravel. The PCs must flee the sphere before they become trapped among the planes. Returning to Eberron the party is rewarded for their success and gain access to the Hand of Stalwart Reverie once again.

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Eberron Adventures
3 rd edition The Forgotten Forge Shadows of the Last War Whispers of the Vampire's Blade Grasp of the Emerald Claw Voyage of the Golden Dragon Jungle Secrets Queen with Burning Eyes Steel Shadows Fallen Angel Crypt of Crimson Stars Temple of the Scorpion God Pit of the Fire Lord Murder in Oakbridge Chimes at Midnight Tensions Rising Riding the Rail The Aundairian Job Quoth the Raven Hell's Heart City of Blood
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Mark of Heroes Reflections of the Multiverse Pirate's Bounty and the Isle of Fire No Ticket Finding the Way Gambit at Dreadhold Blind Man's Hunt The Delirium Stone Freely Given Mote in the Eye of Chaos Desolate Endeavor The Graywall Incident Escape from Grea Tower Deep Woods, Dark Heart House of Madness Price of Protection Death in Darguun Fallen of Sharn The Unexpected Gate To Spurn the Churning Discord
Xen'drik Expeditions The Journey Begins: Well of Woe Breaching Thelanis Wall: Well of Woe The Flame Beneath the Well: Well of Woe Mere of Shattered Souls Cairn of Stone Hearts Sands of Fate and Fortune Shargon's Rage Taming the Hydra Nightfall on Sorrowdusk The Dead of Night Endgame
Blackwheel Company Faction Adventure Principal of the Matter Price of Progress Marked Man The Trouble with Pirates Tarnished Reputation None Left Behind Test of Mettle A Few Good Gnolls A Plague Upon Your Houses Pariah When in Doubt, Charge The Twentieth Lash
Cabal of Shadows Faction Adventure The Sahuagin Stone Shadows Over Stormreach Khyber's Children Fire in the Heart of Madness Night of Shadows What Rough Beast Whispers Behind the Door Racing Midnight The Darkest Heart Thirst For Blood and Stone With His Dying Breath Dark Portents
Covenant of Light Faction Adventure Divine Inspiration Crisis of Faith The Good Die Young Brave Soldiers Things Fall Apart Price of Virtue Dark Fugitive Noble Savages Choir of Angels Fate, Interrupted Greater the Fall To Live Among You
Crimson Codex Faction Adventure Prophecy's Unwitting Servant Forbidden Knowledge Native Intelligence Tomb of Tomes The Korranberg Affair Turn of the Page A Costly Truth If At First Stormrider Slept Here Chamber Made A Shattered Mind's Maze The End of the Viper's Tail
D&D Open Championship Shards of Eberron Crown of Winter Flame Tomb of Eternity
4 th edition The Mark of Prophecy Khyber's Harvest Seekers of the Ashen Crown Keep on the Shadowfell Heart of the Forbidden Forge Haruuc's Tomb: A Novel Adventure The Maze of Shattered Souls Dead for a Spell Dark Lantern
5 th edition Around Khorvaire in Fifty Days Forgotten Relics Fallen Colossus Murder on the Halcyon Race Through Q'barra Skybridge Skirmish Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Adapted Adventures : Against the Giants Between Tangled Roots‎ Danger at Dunwater‎ Dead in Thay Gold for Fools and Princes‎ In the Mists of Manivarsha Isle of the Abbey‎‎ Princes of the Apocalypse Salted Legacy Tammeraut's Fate The Fiend of Hollow Mine‎‎ The Forge of Fury‎ The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan‎ The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh‎‎ The Styes The Sunless Citadel‎ Tomb of Annihilation Tomb of Horrors White Plume Mountain
Embers of the Last War What's Past is Prologue Murder in Skyway Boromar Ball The Cannith Code Jack of Daggers Against the Lightning A Holy Visit Blades of Terror The Kundarak Job Searching for Secrets The Killing Blade Secrets Below
Oracle of War The Night Land Voice in the Machine Where the Dead Wait The Third Protocol A Century of Ashes The Last Word Song of the Sky Parliament of Gears Lord Bucket Judgment of Iron My Undying Heart The Waiting Game Stonefire From Dust Dream Eater The Dragon Below The Final Tribute Scales of War Back to the Mud Old Scores The Iron Titan Rolling Thunder The Rising City The Last War Hundred-Shard Stash Off the Rails Spirit Train Servants of the Past Cold Spell in the Frostfell Journey to Salvation
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