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Seven Heads of Fury

A hydra is constantly attacking the boats trying to make for port, just off the coast.

Cassius Thorn is willing to pay 500 gp to anyone who slays the beast.

Loss

An elf named Cameron recently lost his wife in an attack. He needs help seeking revenge.

Ruth Roundtree is worried Cameron will lose his humanity on a path of vengeance.

A New World

You are part of a fleet of colony ships. Struck by a storm the fleet was scattered, and your ship makes landing on an unknown shore. The other ships are lost and the inhabitants are unhappy that you are here.

Rebecca Briggs is concerned about the gathering storm clouds. Gia Knight expects the the land to be empty of intelligent beings.

One More Day

Ghosts of the dead start walking the streets of the city, not hurting anyone, just going about their business. At the rising sun, they all walk back to the crypt.

Lara Malfoy saw his mother last night, she came to check on him but she died the winter before. Aptal Connington saw a woman, not a ghost, walking the streets with the ghosts chanting to herself.

The Fugitive

An old man is said to be a war criminal in the last great war and has been hiding out and posing as the innkeep for the last fifty years. Now people are closing in, and he doesn't know what he should do.

Tanar Stoutheart thinks everyone should just leave the old guy alone.

Execution

A crazed murderer has escaped and fled the night before his planned execution.

Femlin Duffield thinks the man is innocent.

The Shopping List

A travelling wizard needs helps gathering supplies for his potions.

Clark Sorra seems to think the wizard is a fake, and may be leading the party toward doom.

The Red Star

A local doomsayer has been claiming the end is nigh. On the night of his 'coming doom', a red star streaks across the sigh and crashes into an old ruin in the nearby hills.

Dan Oak it told by the gods when the world will end. River Autumn believes falling stars are natural phenomena and do not suggest the end of the world.

The Swarm

A massive swarm of insects is moving from town to town, eating everything, and everyone, they can find.

Qualen Moran is horribly afraid of insects.

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