Plot Hooks

A new ancient dungeon has been discovered, and the walls are covered in carved runes from a dead language no one can speak or read. At least, until a small boy in a nearby town begins scratching the same runes into his own home.

Olivier Rowe is afraid of the boy, and wonders if the right thing to do is to simply eliminate him.

The city gates are barred. Strange looking guards of a species you do not recognize prevent your entry.

Landon Todd does not recognize the species of those protecting the gates. Mushin Knight the gates have been barred like this for no more than a week.

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

Kendra Enola is horribly afraid of insects.

A man in town can kill anyone by looking into their eyes.

Stephanie Freeman has taken to wearing a blindfold.

There's a hole in the middle of the forest that seems to move around at night. It's never in the same place twice, but sometimes there's music and voices coming out of it.

Valeria Wrynn knows a man who went into the hole and never came out.

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

Elisha Freeman thinks the man is innocent.

A little girl was found by a friendly circus troupe and brought with them to town. Well, that was the plan. She's the only one who actually made it to town, covered in the blood of the troup.

Erica Loch is sure the little girl ate the circus troupe.

A puppeteer has lost control of his puppets. He didn't even know they were alive.

Josua Wilton is creeped out by the puppets.

One of the wagons you are escorting suspiciously loses a wheel in the middle of a forest road. The other guards whisper to one another and ready their weapons.

The caravan master was convinced to hire these guards in the previous town. Chloe Hickory mistrusts the new guards.