SECRETS OF SAERLOON: WHAT'S AFOOT IN SEMBIA'S “CITY OF LUXURIES” IN 1499 DR (Patreon)

SECRETS OF SAERLOON
What’s Afoot In Sembia’s “City of Luxuries” in 1499 DR

Sembia’s reawakening has spurred the rebuilding not just of Ordûlin, but construction everywhere. In Saerloon, this has taken the form of repairs to balconies and external stairs, and the eradication of a street of sagging huts and hovels to make room for Wavecrest Towers, a new “mansion for many.” This grand high house soars five floors above the cobbles, and sprawls over an entire block, but is really clusters of trios and quartets of rooms clustered around side-courtyards opening off the street (Dragonserpent Lane).

Construction is rushing along, and what’s built thus far looks grand, but word of a growing problem has leaked out: murders. As in, six killings of construction workers, all mysterious. What’s going on? There are rumors of a gang war, or factions (such as the Zhentarim) settling scores, but this may be the first test for Saerloon’s new “Wise Eyes” force, a secretive squad of investigators added to the new City Guard (the renamed Watch, who also have new uniforms—dark purple with red piping and silver back-and-breastplates, helms, greaves, and bracers—and new and better weapons.

The many small Saerlunan gnome and human family firms who make various cast alloy items (collectively “pewter,” though each family has its own jealously guarded metal-mixes and processes) have had suspicions swirling around them for years, mainly of smuggling (small valuable items encased inside castings).

Recently, word has spread that the Vronan gnome family sells “darkware” to select customers: cast pewter cups or goblets that poison wine that comes into contact with them.

The latest news is that the Obrallars are selling alloy “eggs” for use as sling-stones, hollow vessels of thin alloy designed to shatter on impact—and release the small amounts of...

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