I put up a poll! Please feel free to vote for your favorite or couple of favorites! If you'd like to float a specific quest, feel free to post in here about it!<br/><br/>These adventures are meant to provide a relatively clear enemy and course of action so we can dive RIGHT into the action!<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/jzNhCWx_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&amp;shape=thumb&amp;fidelity=medium)</div><div align="center"><em>There may have been a time when being a hero was a simple path, a sword, a vision, a call, a mission. But those times are over, my fragile little ones. Those times have passed as surely as any hero, as rotted as their bones. Now are the days of gold and blade and blood, my dear desperate little pets. Now are the days when mercenaries carry the last hope of salvation to those who can pay. Now are the days of the Delvers.</em></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 6pt;">Mela the Mad-Bitch<br/>Charter Leader of Halesdel Delvers Company</span></div><br/><div align="center"><strong>Adventure Hooks</strong></div><br/><strong>Rising Streams of Oil</strong><br/>In the Greystun District of Halesdel, there is no sign of guard or nobility beyond Ze-ëh Crowsknife's gang of robbers and criminals. Proper people know to stay out of the Greystun and life continues on there under Ze-ëh's watchful black eyes. The Delvers receive a messenger in her colors when an odd oil that spits foul mist begins to bubble from the cobblestone street and burns several Crowsknife properties down to timbers. Will they be bold enough to go down into the sewers beneath the Greystun and follow the chanting voices or will the last bastion of the Halesdel underworld drown in acid flames?<br/><br/>Ze-ëh Crowsknife is a worthy ally who could assist in many criminal undertakings. She offers coin (200g) for an explanation and whoever is causing this problem alive, or half for them dead. Additionally, she has offered the use of a hideout in perpetuity to the Delvers under her protection should they succeed.<br/><br/><strong>Pass of the Frost King</strong><br/>The Bluebell Dance and Story Collective, a traveling family of entertainers and witches, has come to the Delvers for help. This is exceptionally strange given their tendency to stay away from large cities and their fear of stationary living destroying their way of life. The Dancing Duke of the Bluebell Dance and Story Company requests the assistance of the Delvers to escort them through the Frostcrag mountain range, a pass that if they can make safely will open enormous possibilities for the Collective. They assure the Delvers that once they have made the pass once, their mappers will be able to handle it in the future.<br/><br/>Of course, The Frostcrag is no walk in the park, it is an enormous mountain range covered in ice and snow where frost giants are rumored to live. Danger would be ever present. On the plus side, the Collective is said to be lucky and the Dancing Duke has assured the Delvers that joining him in this will free them from a dread curse AND lead to the discovery of an artifact of considerable power.<br/><br/><strong>Brand of the Pale Hand</strong><br/>Last month, a retinue of nobles was attacked on the eastern road and disappeared seemingly without a trace. The nobility panicked, of course, and there was a crackdown on banditry, but no signs could lead to where the stolen people were taken or who had taken them. There was no sign of them and Halesdel has more or less assumed their deaths, not quite to the point of funerals but now people know them as truly lost. The Delvers received a secret message, followed by a secret meeting with a masked man who is definitely Lord General Tannes of the royal guard. He reports that a nobleman was returned with a tattoo of a pale hand on his chest and was speaking madness, talking about a 'carnival of sin' and 'parades of naked flesh.'<br/><br/>Lord General Tannes believes that the nobleman (a young baron from House Callifas) will lead people to his captors, though he also suspects that the baron will do everything in his power to betray whoever brings him. He has promised gold and deals with the guards back home, as well as implying the possibility that a minor noble title could be in the cards as well. He would go bring them back himself, but the baron apparently has insisted that the carnival needs more women.<br/><br/><strong>Sunk Costs for the Sembin</strong><br/>The Sembin, a criminal family well known for the import and export of illicit products, have a strange relationship with the Delvers. While it's true that a handful of Sembin members have trained or worked with the Delvers before, it's also true that many a Delver has ended up in the rough adventurer life because of their dealings. Now they come with an odd proposition. It seems that an overseas transit line of theirs has been compromised, ships returning to shore with their stores empty and their crews missing memory. Sembin themself claims that they know the culprit. Merfolk.<br/><br/>The Sembin are offering to cover costs and crew for the voyage, a hefty sum of money on return, and a direct line on their illicit drugs, with a promise of free recreational levels of use for 6 months and a 20% discount on costs going forward.<br/><br/><strong>The Fel Library of Diralisk</strong><br/>One of Halesdel scholars (who knew Halesdel had scholars?) has come to the Delvers with a favor to ask. It appears that she has found rumors of a hidden library that once belonged to the archmage Diralisk. She has want of a specific book within Diralisk's library and she has provided you drawings of the cover. She wants that Diralisk was a wizard of incredible skill who wouldn't have left the library without traps and guardians.<br/><br/>She is not a terribly wealthy scholar or she would be living in a more scholarly city. She explained, at length, that the library is sure to have many other valuable trinkets and books, including some she could help you sell. She also has informed you that she would be willing to present the Delvers with her last molt, the scholar is a dragonkin and apparently their molted scales can be quite beautiful and sturdy. Upon presenting this request, she included a signed appraisal showing it to be in impeccably perfect condition.<br/><br/><strong>The Two Queens of the Slipstream</strong><br/>Far to the west the rivers end and caravans are few and far between. A single source of water, the Slipstream, feeds these lands. Wania the Salted Prince has contacted the Delvers for help. Another clan has taken hold of the Slipstream, the Tridents Teeth. Although Wania's people are no stranger to a fight, they simply cannot stand up against the Tridents Teeth. They ask that the Delvers come to assist them in this skirmish.<br/><br/>In exchange, they offer three things, as is custom by the Slipstream. First to train the Delvers and help them survive in harsh conditions, second to gift them a wagon of silks that will fetch a good price, and third to give them tattoos of hearth should they pass through the Slipstream lands again.