Shadows Over Stormreach

Shadows Over Stormreach was the second adventure released for the Cabal of Shadows Faction Adventure to be run as part of the Xen'drik Expeditions campaign.

Synopsis

The adventure begins a few weeks after the events of CBL-1 The Sahuagin Stone during which the operatives of the Cabal of Shadows met Hes , a member of the street gang called the Bilge Rats . While working with Hes to recover the ebon tableau Hes mentioned that Valexa Von Ruthvek had found a map to some long lost crypt in or near the city and was looking for someone to bring back any lost artifacts that might be found there.

Adventure Start: The PCs meet with each other and other members of the Cabal in a warehouse on the Stormreach docks. They are enlisted to intercept the adventurers and capture the map and accompanying notes and complete the adventurers' mission in the name of the Cabal.

Part One - A Well Planned Murder: The PCs plan and ambush the adventurers hired by Valexa and take the map from them. Armed with the notes and the map, the PCs travel to one of the circles of standing stones.

Part Two - Vision Quest: The PCs arrive at the circle and have some time to study the notes and concoct a plan, before they witness one of the illusionary visions shown by the Circle of Visions . Through the map, they are drawn into a gate that leads to the inside of one of the many giant monuments that populate Stormreach.

Part Three - In Hand: The PCs discover that inside of the monument, a massive arm reaching towards the skies, is filled with tortured souls, cunning traps, and lost knowledge of the giants. The PCs must win through it all in order to escape to the city.

Part Four - Home Sweet Home?: The PCs encounter a shadow personality left behind in the monument. If they successfully negotiate, the monument will become the home of the Cabal of Shadows in Stormreach. In the process they learn about the location of a psionic shard that details a place called the Mere of Shattered Souls that is mentioned in the Caldyn Fragments . The shard rests at the below of Shargon's Teeth in the hands of an ancient aboleth . Its recovery will become a priority of the Cabal of Shadows.

Ending the Adventure: The PCs find a way out of the monument, whether through force, stealth, or guile, and manage to reunite with the Cabal.

Appendix

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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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