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Wilderness Encounters 5

INNER CITY

ENCOUNTERS FOR A CITY ENVIRONMENT

Written by David Sharrock, Illustrated by Wyn F Dawkins

Generic encounters and scenarios for use by

Gamesmasters and players of fantasy role-playing games

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Front page illustration, photography and graphical design by David Sharrock.

Maps by Wyn F Dawkins

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introduction

Contents

It stands upon the horizon, a slate grey line of

hard stone, broken every now and then by turrets

and flying buttresses. The wall of the city. And

beyond, the crooked spires and warped rooftops

rise like a sea of uneven waves, an apparently

endless field of tiles and chimneys. A haze of dark

smoke rises lazily from each stack and commingles

in the sky to form a great black dirge above.

The Amorous Quartet

Gribbins

Gnome Town

Horrorscope

Day Of The Dead

This is the destination of our hapless heroes,

weary of the wilderness, in need of proper

sustenance, new gear, a comfortable bed and all

the other niceties a tired adventurer can only find

within the boundary wall of a city.

A Dream of Dancing Shadows 21

Socher Day

Hollow Man

Lost in Transit

No doubt their visit to the city will be eventful as

ever, with the promise of jobs to be taken, gold to

be earned and new friends to be made. Adventure

too; the nature of which the heroes can only

dream of as they stumble, tired and ragged from

the great grey wastes and up to the gatehouse

door. "Who cares to enter," the voice of the guard

on the bastion battlement carries down. 'Weary

travellers' is the reply, and little more is required.

The gates rattle open and our heroes bustle inside,

the sights, smells and sounds of the city

enveloping them like old friends.

Priests of the Last Prism

The Iron Gauntlet

A Fool's Gold

The Thin Blue Line

A Day At The Circus

Champions of the Chancery

Instant City

Wilderness Encounters, Inner City, not only gives

the GM fifteen assorted adventure seeds,

complete with background information, NPC

details and scenario options (should the players

delve deep), but also a complete and instant city

key, easily adapted to one of the blank maps

included at the end of this file.

City Maps

100

In short: Inner City is everything you need to run a

unique, challenging and entertaining city

adventure in the game setting of your choice. To

start right now, go to the Instant City chapter and

read on.

No stats are provided in this file, and no one

ruleset is favoured. This is a generic module,

designed to save the GM endless pre-session

preparation without specific reference to any pre-

existing game system. For this reason we

recommend you keep your game monster manual

and any other core-rulebooks handy as the

adventure unfolds.

THE

AMOROUS

QUARTET

Introduction

The group turn a corner into a busy main street packed

with maidens and wenches in various states of undress.

Some are screaming, others are sobbing. One or two

have collapsed and are being attended to by militia.

"What's going on?" one of the PCs may be heard to

ask a passer-by. "The Amorous Quartet are in town," the

passer-by, a weary looking man, shrugs and pulls a face.

Whoever he is, he seems less than entirely happy about

the mass hysteria unfolding around him.

GM Notes

The Amorous Quartet are a group of

musicians famed in these parts for

their bardic talents. The group are

composed of four members, including

the lead singer, a man named Red (on

account of his long, lustrous flame-red

hair), a hunky lyre player called Rainen Realm,

an effeminate harpsichordist named Embryof Lucion,

and a thick-set paddle drummer and one time gladiator

called Cedris Dereeve.

The group have chosen to stage an impromptu

concert in honour of their legions of female fans and

have set up a makeshift stage outside a tavern on this

road. Over the caterwaul of hysterical women, the PCs

may be able to make out the sound of drums, music and

singing. Any bards or euphonious types in the group will

consider the music to be poor and the singer's voice to

be more than a little flat. To the countless female fans,

this hardly seems to matter.

Scenario

The character who happened to be passing when the

group turned into this road is encountered again a little

while later. The PCs find him sitting in a local tavern,

sobbing into a wooden ale mug and lamenting his rotten

luck. Most of the patrons in the tavern are doing their

the PCs launch their mock-attack, the bodyguards will

level best to ignore him, but the PCs may find him too

react long before Garet, who is highly likely to miss his

intriguing to overlook.

cue and remain hidden out of sight at the crucial

The man is Garet Sonsmith, a half-gnome and failed

moment. Equally dangerous, if not more so, are the

magic user with mostly human features except for a

Quartet’shordeoffemaeadmrerswhowlpounceon

large, decidedly ill-proportioned nose. When the PCs

anyone they suspect of attempting to harm their

originally encountered Garet he had just been fired as

beoved‘fabfour‘.Thereofthe band's fans will

manager of the Amorous Quartet on account of failing

continue long after any fight with bodyguards or run-ins

to get the group a gig at the city's most influential

with militia have run their course.

theatre. Instead, he had arranged a slightly less

illustrious concert to be held in a theatre on the far side

of the city, unaware that this particular site was more

suitable for a certain genre of play in which one half of

the cast traditionally have intimate relations with the

other half while the audience watch on from booths.

Garet is beside himself with self-pity and begs the

PCs to help him out. The Quartet might give him his old

job back if Garet can somehow redeem himself in their

eyes. His idea, which seems to come to him in a

moment of drunken epiphany, may strike the PCs as

stupid. But when he offers to pay the group for their

help and even gives them a down payment in the form

of three pouches filled with gold, they may agree to

help him anyway.

The half-gnome suggests that the player characters

locate the Quartet and pretend to attack them. Garet,

waiting in the wings, will leap forth and cast a magic

spell, freezing the PCs and saving the group.

The musicians will be so grateful they

will probably give Garet his old job

back, at leastthat‘swhathe

hopes. Of course, Garet is as

useless a magic user as he is a

manager. For this reason he will only

pretend to cast the spell and the PCs will

only pretend to be frozen.

The plan is doomed to spectacular

failure, and the PCs may see this if the promise

of gold has not already blinded them to the

danger. The Quartet have their own gang of burly

bodyguards who accompany them at all times. When

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