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Despite its defeat in Mulmaster, the Cult of the Crushing Wave seeks to regain its strength and create another Devastation Orb to exact its revenge on the City of Danger. To do this, the cult is nurturing a budding elemental node of water beneath the ruins of Fort Dalton, southeast of Mulmaster.

The node is nearly complete and a follower of Olhydra performs dark rites in the abandoned town of Fort Dalton to protect what she sees as the beginning of the return of the Cult of Crushing Wave. The cultist—a female marel named Shelavassa, a Champion of Olhydra called Karsev the Drowner, and a small cadre of fanatical cultists work to cement their hold on the area and provide security for the fledgling water node.
Getting into the bathhouse should be a relatively simple endeavor. There Karsev is busy with his ritual, drowning prisoners and subjecting them to the cult’s magic.

Arriving at Fort Dalton, the characters are waylaid by cultists who leave a trail directly to a bathhouse. Searching the bathhouse, the characters find a warm spring that leads down into the earth. Following the spring they find a small set of chambers and eventually a chamber holding the young water node. Protecting the node and the elf prince prisoner are Shelavassa and her merrow servant. After defeating the cult the elemental node begins to breakdown and dissipate.

I ran this module for three hours, so characters earned 60gp, advance a level (if they chose), and earned the Brooch of Shielding as a magic item.

While attending a party held by a member of the Nobles, the party witnesses an unlikely attack by an even more unlikely assailant. Asked to investigate, they soon learn that a painting gifted to the noble's wife might hold the key to understanding what transpired.

Investigating the art, and the artist, soon reveals that his works are inciting dangerous acts throughout the city and inspiring pyromania in those who view them for too long. The party can collect clues from the artist’s home, an art gallery, and a fan of his work. From these clues, they can establish a connection to a single patron who seems surprisingly supportive of the artist's work and who is actually a member of the Cult of the Eternal Flame seeking to spread chaos and destruction in Mulmaster through the artist.

The party can confront the patron as he pursues another scheme, only to realize that the artist has painted
his masterwork by defacing, and thus animating, the magmins that begins to smash its way through the city
until the characters intervene. Once word reaches the City Watch about the actions of the characters and the discovery of members of a Cult of Elemental Evil, they are willing to release Kata Brizik as a victim of magical influence rather than being responsible for her own actions.

If their demands were satisfied, Urdun and Faltyn both pay their rewards to the party. If the party failed them or double-crossed them in some way, they have made potential enemies of them, although Faltyn and the Gos
family is a more dangerous foe than Urdun. Assuming he is not killed, Andrik remains insane but his artistry no longer creates the magical effects it once did now that his greatest work has been completed. His talent flickers and then vanishes completely—leaving him despondent and, for the time being, without purpose.

I started a weekly AL group playing through the Elemental Evil series of modules. This group completed two mini-adventures in the "City of Danger" module : MA 2 (FIRE) and MA 3 (EARTH). They earned a potion of fire resistance (consummable, went to one character), a scroll of Speak with Animals (consummable, went to one character), +1 renown Lord's Alliance, +1 renown Emerald Enclave, and 80gp each.

We didn't finish the module the first time, so we finished it up this session ! Characters unlocked both Story Awards, a single soul coin, and a bowl of commanding water elementals (no potion of invisibility).

We began the adventure, and I took things a little slowly. I bungled some of the map details regarding visibility. The party met Respen Shadowswimmer, reached Plagueshield Point, battled four Water Weirds, saved the drow escapee (Eskellika), then made their way up to Upper Plagueshield Point. There, they battled two barbed devils and two imps. Ljubmir the Bone Devil fled to the Geode before the characters saw it. The characters took a short rest in the Commander's Chamber. The characters then proceeded along the hallway and solved the mural puzzle (Bonus Objective A), gaining access to Respen's records room, where they battled four Helmed Horrors. They took another short rest, and made their way to the demonologist's tower, where they just barely survived the encounter with Chain Devil Viltharn and his four imp servants. They retreated to Respen's records room for a long rest, ending the first 2/3rds of the module.

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Despite its defeat in Mulmaster, the Cult of the Crushing Wave seeks to regain its strength and create another Devastation Orb to exact its revenge on the City of Danger. To do this, the cult is nurturing a budding elemental node of water beneath the ruins of Fort Dalton, southeast of Mulmaster.

The node is nearly complete and a follower of Olhydra performs dark rites in the abandoned town of Fort Dalton to protect what she sees as the beginning of the return of the Cult of Crushing Wave. The cultist—a female marel named Shelavassa, a Champion of Olhydra called Karsev the Drowner, and a small cadre of fanatical cultists work to cement their hold on the area and provide security for the fledgling water node.
Getting into the bathhouse should be a relatively simple endeavor. There Karsev is busy with his ritual, drowning prisoners and subjecting them to the cult’s magic.

Arriving at Fort Dalton, the characters are waylaid by cultists who leave a trail directly to a bathhouse. Searching the bathhouse, the characters find a warm spring that leads down into the earth. Following the spring they find a small set of chambers and eventually a chamber holding the young water node. Protecting the node and the elf prince prisoner are Shelavassa and her merrow servant. After defeating the cult the elemental node begins to breakdown and dissipate.

I ran this module for three hours, so characters earned 60gp, advance a level (if they chose), and earned the Brooch of Shielding as a magic item.

While attending a party held by a member of the Nobles, the party witnesses an unlikely attack by an even more unlikely assailant. Asked to investigate, they soon learn that a painting gifted to the noble's wife might hold the key to understanding what transpired.

Investigating the art, and the artist, soon reveals that his works are inciting dangerous acts throughout the city and inspiring pyromania in those who view them for too long. The party can collect clues from the artist’s home, an art gallery, and a fan of his work. From these clues, they can establish a connection to a single patron who seems surprisingly supportive of the artist's work and who is actually a member of the Cult of the Eternal Flame seeking to spread chaos and destruction in Mulmaster through the artist.

The party can confront the patron as he pursues another scheme, only to realize that the artist has painted
his masterwork by defacing, and thus animating, the magmins that begins to smash its way through the city
until the characters intervene. Once word reaches the City Watch about the actions of the characters and the discovery of members of a Cult of Elemental Evil, they are willing to release Kata Brizik as a victim of magical influence rather than being responsible for her own actions.

If their demands were satisfied, Urdun and Faltyn both pay their rewards to the party. If the party failed them or double-crossed them in some way, they have made potential enemies of them, although Faltyn and the Gos
family is a more dangerous foe than Urdun. Assuming he is not killed, Andrik remains insane but his artistry no longer creates the magical effects it once did now that his greatest work has been completed. His talent flickers and then vanishes completely—leaving him despondent and, for the time being, without purpose.

I started a weekly AL group playing through the Elemental Evil series of modules. This group completed two mini-adventures in the "City of Danger" module : MA 2 (FIRE) and MA 3 (EARTH). They earned a potion of fire resistance (consummable, went to one character), a scroll of Speak with Animals (consummable, went to one character), +1 renown Lord's Alliance, +1 renown Emerald Enclave, and 80gp each.

We didn't finish the module the first time, so we finished it up this session ! Characters unlocked both Story Awards, a single soul coin, and a bowl of commanding water elementals (no potion of invisibility).

We began the adventure, and I took things a little slowly. I bungled some of the map details regarding visibility. The party met Respen Shadowswimmer, reached Plagueshield Point, battled four Water Weirds, saved the drow escapee (Eskellika), then made their way up to Upper Plagueshield Point. There, they battled two barbed devils and two imps. Ljubmir the Bone Devil fled to the Geode before the characters saw it. The characters took a short rest in the Commander's Chamber. The characters then proceeded along the hallway and solved the mural puzzle (Bonus Objective A), gaining access to Respen's records room, where they battled four Helmed Horrors. They took another short rest, and made their way to the demonologist's tower, where they just barely survived the encounter with Chain Devil Viltharn and his four imp servants. They retreated to Respen's records room for a long rest, ending the first 2/3rds of the module.

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