Nurth Shackles are a set of scenarios involving the Nurth in the Riverdan fief of Bondeu – specifically the Burren Canyon.
Burren Family is leaving offerings for the Nurth to keep them at bay and prevent them from raiding the family crypt. They are poor and do not want to attract attention to the crypts as it may start an investigation which would undermine their authority.
> The family may be able to let loose the Nurth on the city (staying holed up n the keep) or attack a different settlement as a means of helping any of their allies…
Drawn by Erdon the Formless…
While exploring the family official crypts, the PCs will stumble across a yawning tunnel, recently collapsed INTO the crypts. The Nurth have been taking the food offerings the family leaves for their ancestors that they normally know some of the poor take.
Five people have been taken and eaten by the Nurth. One of them was recently homeless member of a stone mason’s family who had an argument with his father and left the home. Its happened before, but this time he did not come back after a couple weeks. The parents, Keith and Ella Garlans, have searched. The person they hired vanished as well – now they are demanding that the Burren family do something. Burren family says after the PCs get what they want from the crypts, can they look into the disappearances?
A Champion Arises: G’neath Wormtongue, priest of the Black Mother, has had a vision that has rallied several groups to his cause. The tunneling Toothed Wormme children (who can sense magic because they are repulsed by it so cant get close) brought back word that a thing of great power lay in the caverns somewhere. The great hunger of the Worme Feast (his death) has fallen upon G’neath – he must devour all he can before his time has run. The more he devours, the greater will be his reward in the cool darkness beyond.
> He has acquired The Bridle of Mankrin!
The entrance to the crypts looks old and weather worn. There is broken crockery and bones around the entrance, which is covered by a portcullis with a chain and massive lock.
The Nurth are so skinny, they can slip between the bars and have grabbed a few who came for the food.
Animals bones gnawed on
Broken dishes – some with religious symbols; ‘honorifics’ – offerings for family spirits (common old hold out from before Lightbringers)
DC 25 fight was here, maybe more than one and it was obscured!
Key will take several minutes, the lock has not been opened and is rusted and worn.
@Open: Portcullis will make a lot of noise if nothing done to oil/silence it = warning
@Warned
The entire pack of Slitherlings (6) will be ready to be unleashed from the Breakout chamber
@Unwarned
This was once just a tunnel but since it spelled into the crpyts its been enlarged
Nurth / Duathi slitherlings – Slitherling “dog” + Slitherling “worm”
One of the crypts has a lament from
The Deeping
https://incarna.net/verse/set/glim/sys/hypeasteron/srlm/loc/deeping/
One nurth wears the Burren family ring from the bone pit
Otyugh – refuse cleaner, the center of a midden pit with glints in it – is it treasure?
w/ Swarm of Beetles
Gelatinous Cube – traps (Nurth know where they are at)
Pit trap = cube on other side, concealed door in pit
Black Pudding – Pet (Nurth feed them)
Surprising how clean the area is, the black pudding stalks on the walls and crevices
Ghoul – Nurth elite warrior; they have contests and eat the loser. Eventually, enough is consumed that the ghoul is born. They wield sharpened bone clubs and have filthen claws that spread disease.
Gibbering Mouther – The “confounder” avatar of the Nurth worship of the confoundment of The Deeping
The mouther has disease bites. It is her saliva that the nurth use to scent themselves as a member of the tribe. This saliva is used to make oil of resistance from added components in the midden heap.
Interpreter: The mouthings of the avatar are interpreted by the Mother and her 2 attendants.
Druid 3
C: control flames
1st: Healing Word, stinking cloud, dust devil, hold person, spike growth
Druid 1
C: Frostbite
1st: jump, stinking cloud, entangle
Druid 1
C: Infestation
1st: entangle, faerie fire, snare
All have thorn whip – use to drag a PC into a pit
Piercer – guards
Shrieker – guards, sound warning when smell of Nurth not part of passing creature.
Shadow – hunter, preying on anything it can after the spirit is consumed by Gibbering Mouther
Burren Chapoel of Lightbringers
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