It was a regular day in the town of Leaf, where we find our adventurers taking their first steps on a grand journey towards herohood. Unbeknownst to them, during their entire stay in the marketplace they had been shadowed by a mysterious figure. It wasn't long before that same figure dashed out from the crowd, grabbing a nearby nobleman's feline companion with him into an alley. The daring group of adventurers didn't hesitate to chase down the crook on what was their very first adventure! After an exciting chase through the streets of Leaf, the party found itself amidst a bandit ambush! Unfortunatly for the bandits, the party was more than capable of dealing with them and as such were quickly dispersed. Afterwards the nobleman approached them with his cat in arms, explaining that this was all a test to see if they could aid him with something far greater.
It was a regular day in the town of Leaf, where we find our adventurers taking their first steps on a grand journey towards herohood. Unbeknownst to them, during their entire stay in the marketplace they had been shadowed by a mysterious figure. It wasn't long before that same figure dashed out from the crowd, grabbing a nearby nobleman's feline companion with him into an alley. The daring group of adventurers didn't hesitate to chase down the crook on what was their very first adventure! After an exciting chase through the streets of Leaf, the party found itself amidst a bandit ambush! Unfortunatly for the bandits, the party was more than capable of dealing with them and as such were quickly dispersed. Afterwards the nobleman approached them with his cat in arms, explaining that this was all a test to see if they could aid him with something far greater.
The nobleman turned out to be a local crimelord and he made the party an interesting offer. Someone was intruding on his profits by spreading a new kind of drug amongst the local populace. This drug not only cut his market share, it also made people act strangely. Above that, most of the users also ended up disappearing or dead. The adventurers set out in investigation, which brought them to a suspicious looking building with hooded guards. After a failed attempt of sneaking in through the roofs, the adventurers made their way into a nearby alleyway, where they sneakily got rid of any guards before breaking into the building's basement.
Inside the basement the party found what was probably the base of operation for the drug cartel. Inside they found numerous tables with ingredients for potions and rituals alike, all arranged around the centerpiece of the room: a summoning circle. Face off against not common criminals, but necromancers, the party fought their way to the summoning circle. As they fought there with an adept necromancer, the battle was intterupted by a paladin bursting into the room. Without further delay the paladin kneeled at the summoning circle and started performing a ritual of his own. Alas, by the end of the combat, the paladin seemingly dropped dead at the edge of the circle and the party's paladin made sure he stayed dead by mashing his skull to pieces. The summoning circle was erased, but not before a strange presence shot up from it and through the building, all while laughing maniacally.
Inside the rest of the building the party found many of the missing people, obviously nearly zombified by the effects of the drug. It was at this point that the party decided to call in their contact with the crimelord to stage the scene so that the authorities wouldn't suspect them of anything that had happened in the scene, including the major offense of possible murdering a paladin. After acquiring their rewards for a job well done, the party continued on their journey, following rumours of travelling necromancers related to the incidents at Leaf.