| Staff | Location |
|---|---|
| 4 Hostesses | Area 1 |
| 2 Hostesses | Area 4 |
| 4 Guards + 2 Advanced Guards | Area 5 |
| Vladaam Mage | Area 5 (75%)1 |
| Slaves | Area 2 (see text) |
| Customers | Location |
| 4d6 Customers 2 | Area 1 |
| 2d8 Customers | Area 4 (75% -1d8) |
| 2d8-2 Customers | Area 2 - Drug Dens |
| 2d8-2 Customers | Area 3 - Slave Chambers |
1 Carries key for the safe in Area 5.
2 One of these customers is an apprentice from Alchemical Lab 1: Bodyworks. Wears a Vladaam deot ring.
Curse Den – Guildsman District
Nethar Street – U7
AREA 1 – HALL OF THE CURSE GLOBE
Sweet-scented incense burners in the form of copper phoenixes with smoke pouring from their mouths flank the doors, filling this long, gloomy hall with a multi-colored haze.
Various divans and curved couches covered with rich, darkly-hued velvets have been pleasingly arranged in small groupings around the chamber.
In the center of the room, dominating the décor, four brass dragon claws curl up to support a large, crystalline sphere filled with murky, swirling shadows. The sphere is eerily lit from below by an arcane circle that glows with an effervescent blue light.
CUSTOMERS: Most of the users in this central chamber are snakeweed smokers, with a few shivvel smokers mixed in.
GLOBE: This is a curse globe. The “arcane circle” is entirely decorative.
AREA 2 – DRUG DENS
DOORS: The doors to these rooms seal tightly to prevent abyss dust from escaping.
INTERIOR: Some of these chambers have low couches, but others are basically “drug barracks” with two or three cots where drug users can simply collapse into their stupors.
AREA 2A: On the wall here, a drug user has scrawled a twisted, charcoal mosaic of dark, shadowy figures threatening a city represented by a warped (almost demonic) skyline.
AREA 3 – SLAVE CHAMBERS
DOORS: The doors to these rooms seal tightly.
SLAVES: Each chamber has a slave. Some are bound to the beds. Others are kept in drugged stupors. Some are chained to the walls or suspended from the ceiling. They are rented out so that people can use curse jewels on them, although additional forms of (non-lethal) torture can also be obtained if the appropriate price is paid.
The slaves are generally suffering from 2d6 Wisdom and 2d6 Intelligence damage (and are likely to have damage to other ability scores). Any slave with an effective score of 4 or less in either Wisdom or Intelligence is either too insane or too damaged to provide accurate testimony.
Other slaves can describe where they came from: Some were shipped in on the Pride of Morrain (see Part 9: Fleet of Iron Sails). Some where sold through the Ennin Slave Market (Ptolus, p. 399). Some were taken to the Vladaam’s Slave Trade Warehouse (see Part 16: Slave Trade) before being shipped here.
AREA 4 – BERTRANT GAME
A double bertrant table in the shape of an infinity symbol fills this room. Croupiers stand in the eyes of the infinity symbol and the table can support one large game or two smaller games.
AREA 5 – DRUG STORAGE
This area contains:
- 2,000 doses of abyss dust.
- 30 doses of agony.
- 5,000 doses of shivvel.
- 15,000 doses of snakeweed.
- 8 curse jewels.
SAFE: Hidden in the wall. DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) to find on a search. DC 30 Dexterity (Thieves’ Tools) to open.
- Contains 5d10 x 10 pp in gold and silver coins.
