Amid the many miseries of Ur, something is afoot — and all of it revolves around Celaena.
Synopsis
This synopsis is includes game notes, clues, and important information to remember.
Chapter One – Chickennapping
Chapter Two – Baron Saturday’s Estate
(The descriptions of the paintings of the ‘Patalogical Sorcerers and the excerpts from the Baron’s Journal)
Chapter Three – Antimony’s Still
Chapter Four – (The players have to make some choices)
The Plot
The main plot line:
Celaena is an agent of the Raven Queen seeking the answer to a mystery the Raven Queen is eager to solve. There is something rare and important about Celeana that makes her the perfect agent of the Raven Queen. Maeglin, who is indebted to the Raven Queen, has been sent to ensure Celeana’s mission is a success. Someone else seems to be also helping Celaena in this mission, someone who has only been revealed to Celaena and only under the most secretive circumstances.
What ever the Raven Queen is seeking, it has something to do with what the ‘Pataphysical Sorcerers were up to immediately before The Cataclysm. The locations of the ‘pataphysicians’ towers, their artifacts, and their Generals, hold the clues to answer the Raven Queen’s question.
The Raven Queen is not the only one seeking an answer. At least one other faction, a faction symbolized by The Duck, is pursuing the answer also, and they appear to be in the lead.
The sub-plots emerging in the story are:
- Dani is an agent of the Blightwalkers. The Blightwalkers headquarters has been cut off and lost. Are the Blightwalkers under some kind of attack? She dreams of the Cult of the Hirsute and Pogonotomy. What might they have to do with it?
- Flex is an agent of another interested party, his Patron. His Patron’s aims have not yet been fully realized. Flex’s Patron is assisting Flex, but is he assisting the others, too?
- Kahseer hears the sound of weeping in the mornings when she awakens, and the then sound is lost. Someone or something is reaching out for assistance.
- Bruni has not had an easy time getting along. The Vulgar Prawn is about the last stop in a long series of taverns and pubs she’s been fired from. She wants to keep her job, prove herself, and move up — not down — in the world. If she doesn’t get a signature from Baron Saturday and return it Skirfy, she’s worse than dead: she’s fired.
- Brialle has been shoved out of her Priory with the door quickly barred behind her. Still, she has the blessing of Brigantia in the form of a dog that that animates to life from a small, onyx statue. Also, Brialle doesn’t always seem to be in control of her body. What does Brigantia have in mind for Brialle?