LETTER OF CAUTION FROM SHIGMAA URASTA
Arquad—
These most recent requests have proven most challenging, and the resulting creations may prove both delicate and dangerous.
First, the members of the danse macbre are not to be trifled with. The gifts you ask of them have only been achieved by imbuing them with the essence of the Crimson Court. They harness, thus, the endless revelry of that eternal celebration, but also carry in the marrow of their bones the malefic curse of the Court’s taint.
As for the stitched zombies, their endurance and baleful death curse are all that we had hoped, and they require no special caution beyond avoiding any breaking of their skin.
—Shigmaa Urasta
LETTER FROM ALIASTER TO ARQUAD
Master Arquad—
I have need of additional brute labor capable of the utmost discretion. My sister suggested that you might be able to supply me with the perfect candidates.
Please dispatch four of your adamantine skeletons to our apartments on Crossing Street. Select those with slender phalanges, if you would. I may have need to employ them in tasks of a delicate nature.
—Aliaster of the House Vladaam
REQUEST FROM HOUSE SADAR
Arquad—
House Sadar requests one dozen skeletons be prepared to perform the danse macabre and delivered to their manse upon the 30th in time for their celebrations.
The utmost care must be taken with their construction, for they must be capable of the most intimate interactions with the many and esteemed guests of House Sadar. Each must be capable of performing at least six dances in response to both music and vocal request — the waltz, bachata, tango, paso doble, cotillon, and gavotte. Lord Renn has also requested that they perform, upon command, a coordinated schuchplatter for the entertainment of the guests.
We have the greatest confidence in both your ability to fulfill these needs in the most exemplary of fashions, and also with the most respectful discretion. House Sadar wishes neither any untoward reumours to accrue towards them; nor do they desire that this most splendid display should be anything less than the most exquisite of surprises for the guests of their celebration.
—Majordomo of the Esteemed House of the Merchants Sadar
LETTER FROM GATHAR TO ARQUAD
A.—
Lilith offers to you a pair of great and wondrous gifts. Milady knows the craft of these Tomb Maidens of old, and these have been but recently discovered within a mausoleum in the deep vails of the Quiet. From the vast book of her memory, she speaks of a time when these beautiful maidens of iron were placed as guardians upon the great houses of the dead throughout the southern city-states. Sadly superstition and fear of the necromantic energies which course through their lithe forms led to the practice being outlawed.
Use them for your own protection or dispose of them to whatever profit or advantage you would wish. Lilith cares only that you know the value she places upon you and your work.
Regretfully, this will need to be the last shipment of consequence for at least a fortnight. My brothers among the Deathguild have grown suspicious of my activities. The correct application of additional coin may be required, but I am hopeful that a little time will serve to quiet worried minds. I certainly do not expect any lasting difficulty, but caution is never unwise.
Gathar
BILL FOR THE RATLING ARROWS
Owed: 240gp 5sp
You’re spoiling those ratlings! These arrows are too good for them.
Make sure they keep them in the sheaths we’ve prepared, lest more than your enemies come to regret our work.
The bill has been folded for delivery.
A return address is given on the outer fold:
F. Gld. — Vanguard Street
Guildsman District
