Bellhollow¶
Anchor destroyed · First realm behind the mirrors
A town in a swamp, wrapped in a poison fog that never lifted, losing people to kidnappings nobody could stop.
The party arrived through the first mirror and landed in choking green fog with no road out. They left with the fog's source destroyed, sixteen people freed, and the first planar anchor broken.
The town¶
The party cleared the monsters that had invaded, and the mayor — grateful but terrified — begged them to go into the swamp and find the source.
Fenro agreed on one condition: he wanted the mayor's sash.
He got it. He has since collected Mirewick's as well, and is now the de facto mayor of both swamp villages.
The mire¶
| Place | |
|---|---|
| Chuk's Magk Shoppe | Chuk — crafting, until he was robbed twice |
| Granny Spindlejaw's hut | Granny — Auntie Bloat's sister |
| The troll cave | Toxin-filtering flowers, which became gas masks |
| Mirewick | The other village |
| The Vault of Pallon the Pious | The Saint's Splinter |
| The Surveyor's Sepulcher | Emberdale and Fetchford, named |
| The Belly of the Bog | The brass valve |
| The Hydra Lair | Killed by luring it into a gas pocket |
| The Frog Choir | Beads of protection |
| The Leech Saint | Temporary HP and directions |
| Auntie Bloat's Lair | Entered via the runoff pipe. Cleared. |
Where the fog came from¶
The process
Auntie Bloat kept captive people, fed them thunder roots, then harvested and distilled their flatulence to produce the fog.
Her own sister explained this without much prompting.
The kidnappings weren't a side effect of her work. They were the supply chain.
How it ended¶
- A thunder-root convoy destroyed, cart and cargo both
- The brass valve sealed remotely, thinning the fog inside her lair
- The Saint's Splinter recovered from Pallon's vault
- Her lair entered through the drainage pipe, bypassing the main entrance
- The distillery sabotaged. The fog has no source anymore.
- Sixteen captives freed, who promised 100gp each on the party's return
- Auntie Bloat killed in the anchor chamber
- The first planar anchor destroyed
What came out of the anchor
The Crooked Molar was lodged inside the anchor itself — and once pulled free, it began resonating with the Saint's Splinter.
Vashkultha was waiting outside the lair to collect. Arthas talked her into a deposit and a deferral instead.
Maps¶
