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Second Edition

Jason Bulmahn

SPITE’S CRADLE

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AUTHOR

Jason Bulmahn

DEVELOPER

Adam Daigle

DESIGN LEAD

Jason Bulmahn

ADDITIONAL DESIGN

Mark Seifter

EDITORS

Amirali Attar Olyaee, Judy Bauer, James Case,

Leo Glass, Avi Kool, Lyz Liddell, Adrian Ng,

Lacy Pellazar, and Jason Tondro

COVER ARTIST

Setiawan Lie

CARTOGRAPHER

Matthias Rothenaicher

INTERIOR ARTISTS

Miguel Regodón Harkness, Hai Hoang,

William Liu, Firat Solhan, and Vicky Yarova

ART DIRECTION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

Sonja Morris and Sarah E. Robinson

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

James Jacobs

PUBLISHER

Erik Mona

PLAYTESTERS

Christopher Currie, Darcy Dixon, Elijah Harrison,

and Ross Williams

The Fall of Plaguestone

by Jason Bulmahn

Part 1: A Mysterious Murder

Part 2: The Ranger’s Request

Part 3: Into Vilree’s Lair

Adventure Toolbox

by Jason Bulmahn

Etran’s Folly Gazetteer

NPCs Around Town

Bort’s Caravan and Crew

Character Creation and Backgrounds

Rules and Rewards

Background Side Quests

Deadly Flora

Ooze, Blood

ON THE COVER

A simple caravan encounters

a pack of mangy and mutated

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wolves just outside of the

town of Etran’s Folly in this

cover by Setiawan Lie.

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THE FALL OF

PLAGUESTONE

he town of Etran’s Folly has never had it easy.

Located far from popular trade routes, it has

never been more than a stopover point for

merchants making their way from Elidir to Almas.

Worse still, after the Goblinblood Wars, the town

suffered terribly from a plague outbreak that killed

almost half the population. Etran’s Folly never truly

recovered. This fact led many to refer to the town as

“Plaguestone”—a reference to a stone marker in town

once used to safely give food to the sick and dying.

Villagers left food at the stone and, in return, the sick

placed coins in a hole in the stone, filling the hole with

vinegar to cleanse the copper and silver of any trace

of the plague. Now, many of the town’s homes and

businesses are empty, their residents long dead save

for a few orphans taken in by neighbors or left to fend

for themselves on the fringes of the community.

When the plague came to Etran’s Folly, Silwyth

Eldara did all she could with herbalism and alchemy to

find a cure. Alas, the pox was too virulent, and in the

panic, the townsfolk blamed Silwyth for not coming to

their aid. When the aging elf caught the plague herself,

the townsfolk refused her succor, leaving no food for

her at the plaguestone. She died soon after, cursing

survivors to a life of misery, leaving her daughter, Vilree,

all alone. The young half-elf Vilree never forgave the

people of Etran’s folly for their treatment of her mother.

Over the years, Vilree lived in the shadow of Etran’s

Folly; stained by her mother’s reputation, she never

found acceptance in town. Seven years ago, she left and

took up residence in a nearby ancient cave complex.

Bitterness grew in her heart, motivating her to learn

alchemical arts her mother had once used to heal. She

gained even greater skill than Silwyth had, but she

used her talents to harm animals, plants, and people

around her. What began with simple concoctions

quickly turned into experiments on animals and then

hapless travelers. Now she is planning to get her

revenge on the town, using the very stone where they

denied her mother aid. It is the eve of her triumph, one

that will kill every last person in Etran’s Folly.

ADVENTURE SUMMARY

The adventure begins with the PCs traveling to

Etran’s Folly in the caravan of Bort Bargith, a dwarf

merchant who agreed to take them on as passengers.

Just outside town, the caravan is attacked by a pack

of wolves, the vicious leader of which spews acid.

Arriving in town after helping to save the caravan,

the characters are invited to dinner by Bort,

who wishes to reward them for their valor.

While enjoying dinner with the PCs, Bort is

poisoned, dying within moments from a virulent

toxin hidden in his food. The local sheriff, Rolth

Garley, is out of his depth, and insists on holding the

caravan in town until the scheduled arrival of a circuit

judge a month in the future. But the heroes have a

chance to investigate the murder and they explore

the town, talking to everyone who was present for

the poisoning. Eventually, it becomes clear that

Phinick, the goblin kitchen assistant, poisoned the

food. He quickly confesses once apprehended, but

insists he thought he was only putting a special spice

in the food, not poison. Further questioning reveals

that Hallod, the town bully, coerced him.

Hallod’s hideout reveals that he is more than he

seems. The town bully is in fact an agent of Vilree,

who pays him with gold and doses of an addictive

mutagen. Defeating Hallod may help the town

and clear the names of everyone involved with the

merchant’s death, but it leads the heroes no closer

to Vilree, who ordered the murder. In fact, Hallod

hasn’t seen Vilree in over a year. The goods and

supplies he acquired for her were always delivered to

a prearranged drop spot in a hollow stump.

About this time, Noala Kesrir, an elven ranger

that patrols the lands around town, contacts the

characters. She found the wolves slain earlier by

the PCs and noticed the taint affecting the corpses

is similar to a number of blighted areas that have

appeared in the woods near town. She seeks out the

characters, hoping they might help her investigate

these blighted areas. This leads them to the Pen, where

Vilree had been experimenting on animals and plants.

Shutting down this testing ground is dangerous, but in

doing so the PCs find a map that leads to Vilree’s lair,

a place known only as Spite’s Cradle. Only one of the

landmarks on the map is familiar, though: the hollow

stump where Hallod left supplies for Vilree.

Using the map and information from Hallod, the

group can make their way to Spite’s Cradle in the hills

nearby. There, they learn of Vilree’s plot to infect the

town with a terrifying plague. Worse still, the plague

is already in town— hidden inside the plaguestone—

and she has already sent a servant to trigger the

explosion that will release the disease! After defeating

the alchemist, the heroes must race back to town in

time to save everyone from Vilree’s final revenge.

Part 1:

A Mysterious

Murder

Part 2:

The Ranger’s

Request

Part 3:

Into Vilree’s

Lair

Adventure

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