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This Week in Ptolus
This Week in Ptolus
Treat these events as background goings-on throughout the year during your Ptolus
Campaign, or use them as hooks to new adventures of your own creation. The calendar
among the Ptolus handouts gives you more details on local holidays and dates of note.
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city officials seek to ban the Spell attack anyone but simply take up
Challenge competition, due to damage residence in belfries, towers, and under
sustained at the Tournament Field in last eaves throughout the city. The City
year's event. Talks are ongoing to install Watch seeks volunteers to hunt down
new safeguards for this crowd-pleasing and destroy the creatures, as well as
event at the festival, held annually on the determine whether there are more to
Fifth of Rain. come.
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Fifth Week of Rain evening in the Rivergate District’s
Imperial Inspectors have declared the Center Circle park. No one knows what
Middle Street Bridge unsafe and have they were doing, and the cultists
closed it off to through traffic while disappeared as quietly as they arrived.
repairs are made. No one knows why
this bridge requires repairs far more Second Week of Sun
often than the others in Ptolus. It has A delegation of elves from the
been virtually rebuilt three times in the communities of the Moonsilver Forest
last decade. north of the city arrives amid much
fanfare and circumstance. Reportedly,
First Week of Bloom they came to Ptolus to speak with
The body of the fifth murdered Harrow various leaders, including the
elf slain this year is found in an alleyway Commissar, about trade issues. They
behind Salora’s Pots in the South stay as the guests of Doraedian Mythlord
Market. Authorities believe the victims in Iridithil’s Home.
to have all been stalked and killed by the
same assailant, who uses magic to Third Week of Sun
conceal his presence. (Day of Joining was 10th of Sun)
The wedding of Katerin Kath and Dillon
Second Week of Bloom Von Malletoth is an elegant affair
A small area between Broken Leg Row attended by most of the city’s
and Urgent Street is being demolished, aristocracy, as well as the wealthy and
its tenants evicted. Rumor has it that the influential. Five hundred guests in all
Commissar wants the land to build a enjoy the ceremony, presided over by
small park and monument to the veterans the Holy Emperor himself, as well as the
of the Gnoll War. lavish two-day celebration at the estate
of House Kath afterward.
Third Week of Bloom
Another outbreak of violence in the Fourth Week of Sun
ongoing war between Kevris Killraven A swarm of frogs appears overnight in
and Menon Balacazar erupts in the North the eastern part of the South Market in
Market. Three shops “protected” by the midweek. The tiny amphibians were
Killraven organization are burned to the found not only underfoot, but in water
ground. Eight people are killed. barrels, privies, beds, and even food
storage. While many of the creatures are
Fourth Week of Bloom killed, most are driven into the sewers.
Observing the sacred soultree rites, all No one knows where they came from.
members of the Sisterhood of Silence
stay within the Priory of Contemplation Fifth Week of Sun
for much of this week, with a noticeable Four gnome priests of Locharit, in
increase in crime due to their absence. protest of a new tax passed by the City
Council on paper and parchment, are
First Week of Sun discovered defacing the outer wall of
Members of a strange and heretofore Dalenguard with graffiti. They are given
unknown religion called the Tolling Bell a massive fine, but the temple of
Cult are seen performing a rite late in the Locharit pays it for them.
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First Week of Growth Second Week of Blessing
A human woman named Carlanna Bisk The battery of cannons known as the
gives birth to quintuplets this week in Commissar’s Guns is tested this week
the Rivergate District, an event which just south of the city. Most residents
many herald as a blessed omen for the believe the sound to be thunder.
entire city. Unconfirmed rumors
circulate that two of the children have Third Week of Blessing
some kind of deformity, while a few say (Brightfather’s Day was the
that the two look to be elves rather than 14th of Blessing)
humans. To celebrate Brightfather’s Day,
Doraedian Mythlord and Lord Terrik
Second Week of Growth Clanstone hold an interracial gathering
Students at the Imperial University are of elves and dwarves in the Temple
evacuated when a strange gas is found District—a festival and feast for
in the lower floors of the building. members of the two races to meet and
Eventually, the gas is discovered to be mingle. It is poorly attended.
a prank perpetrated by two students
studying alchemistry. Both are expelled. Fourth Week of Blessing
Investigators hired by the priests of
Third Week of Growth Gaen, goddess of light, report that the
Three doppelgangers, posing as high- eldritch sludge growing in the sewers
ranking guild members, infiltrate the beneath Vock Street (known to locals as
Ironworkers’ Guild and its headquarters. Dweomer Street) has taken on a life of
They use the opportunity to rob the its own, spawning strange and hostile
guildhouse of over 10,000 gp in coins creatures never before seen. Melior
and goods. They remain at large; the Kalen of the temple of Gaen beseeches
guild is offering a 2,000 gold coin the City Council to issue a public safety
bounty for their capture. warning for all in that neighborhood.
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Third Week of Toil Fourth Week of Harvest
Celdore Silverwood, known to some as Rumors have escalated that crime lord
the leader of the Dark Leaf organization, Kevris Killraven has developed a new
denies claims that his group has ties to plan to eliminate her Balacazar family
either the Balacazar family or Kevris rivals by the end of the year.
Killraven. Dark Leaf, he says, continues
to be a neutral group of elf mercenaries First Week of Moons
specializing in the "subtler" arts. A tower in Rivergate, known to belong
to the wizard Hadrestin Poule,
Fourth Week of Toil disappeared in a flash of green light.
The Silver Dragonscales tournament at Those living nearby say that the only
Finelle's House of Pleasant Diversions thing found in the now-vacant lot is
draws a record crowd. Trouble ensues some strange, greenish slime. Members
when the banned half-dragon Synethys of the Inverted Pyramid are
is discovered among the contestants— investigating.
and cheating as well. The Watch was
called to deal with the resulting scuffle. Second Week of Moons
Ebbert's Outfitters in Delver's Square has
First Week of Harvest been robbed. Reports say that among the
Pirates on the Whitewind Sea have items stolen were seven hundred fifty
disrupted so much shipping in and out of feet of hemp rope, eighty-two iron
Ptolus that the Commissar has issued a spikes, and ninewooden mallets.
call for privateers to deal with the threat.
He has placed a 20 gold coin bounty on Third Week of Moons
the head of every pirate, and the city will The Commissar has issued an edict
pay 100 gold imperials for a pirate stating that local law now recognizes
captain. spells of a compulsory nature to
constitute a threat significant enough to
Second Week of Harvest warrant a claim of "justifiable murder in
The mysterious Beggar King has issued self-defense," as defined in the Vast
a public threat from his secret lair in the Codex, volume 14, section 113B. People
Warrens, conveyed through the beggars are already calling this the "kill the
of the city. He has sworn to kill Savane, enchanter" law.
leader of the technophilic Shuul. No one
seems to know why he wants Savane Fourth Week of Moons
dead. The Viridian Lords send word that the
Old Coast Road north of Ptolus remains
Third Week of Harvest safe despite rumors of attacks from
The Commissar's personal spy ring, the undead creatures bearing ancient
Imperial Eyes, has ruled out any chance firearms.
that the Brides of Magic had something
to do with the death of Imperial Fifth Week of Moons
Inspector Dallis Kalberth. Investigations Lady Devina Kath of House Kath has
continue into the murder, which announced the engagement of her
occurred in a sealed room beneath the cousin, Katerin Kath. Her fiance is
Imperial University. Dillon Von Malletoth of Tarsis. The
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wedding will be held next year on the
Day of Joining. The two will live in
Ptolus. Rumor has it that Dillon has
numerous gambling debts, and that
getting out of Tarsis and into a moneyed
family is a smart move for him.
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