Scornubel, the Caravan City. Part 1 "Ovak's Rescue"

Ovak’s Rescue

Alturiak, 2^nd month in the Year of Lightning Storms, 1374 DR.

M’ssema, Amiar & Ovak. Phoon (NPC).

Ovak learns he is in debt 250,000 gp + interest. A powerful merchant family in Westgate has put a bounty of 2,000 gp on his head. His captors wonder as to the possible punishment, for the family is said to have ties with the infamous Night Masks thieves guild.

Murroh scrys the location of Ovak. Within hours he confirms the location of a portal that will lead into the Nightshade Nightclub in Scornubel. A sister base, long abandoned, lies in the hills NorthEast of Goldenfields. A portal exists at the foot of a rocky outcropping. The Priest-Librarian has also found a reference in an adventurer’s journal that claims holding a lit candle in one’s left hand will allow access. This is not without danger, for portals are powerful wizardry. There are stories of portals leading into extremely inhospitible places and sometimes instantly fatal. There is but one way to be certain where this one leads.

Phoon Bel’Akash of Calimshan
LN Monk 6 of the Sunsoul Order. Air Genasai.

Guild of The Secondstory Men

Well hidden, this thieves guild and hideout is often used by bounty hunters in the employ of the Night Masks. The guild is an interesting organization of three semi-independent thieving groups. Each group is housed on one of the floors, with a master thief residing among his/her brethren. The Secondstory Men operate only in Scornubel and have no ambitions to expand beyond the city. Under the leadership of Redref, the guide has prospered for the past two winters, the guildsmen have had full purses and each branch operates in tolerance of the other. Redref coordinates with Pelindar to keep the Nightshade staffed with security and he also collects rent from the other two operations in the base, Kemen’s Bounty Hunters and the Yuan-Ti slavers.

The age of the complex is unknown, but is said to have been constructed by the Wondermen (see pg 107 of Volo’s Guide to the Sword Coast). It has been warded to prevent the spread of fire and contains many portals, not all of which are known.

The party appeared through a large rock that acted as a portal, much to the surprise of Kemen. This room also contained two other shackled prisoners, one human beaten to within an inch of his life and Phoon Bel’Akash, diplomatic prisoner and powerful monk.

Despite the surprise, the group barely survives the fight with their lives. A silver-tongued Ovak makes a deal with the Second Story thieves guild to let them pass unharmed.