Interlibrary Loan
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The church of the local Knowledge deity is tasked with ensuring the education of the populace as well as their physical healing. As part of this¸ they provide regular exchanges of books with outlying communities. The time has come to deliver a chest of forty books to the halfling community of Elderhollow¸ located to the north of the Filtear Wood. The Knowledge deity's priest¸ Mother Eloise Quinton¸ is concerned that something might happen to the books if they are sent without adequate protection and approaches the party with a request that they deliver the books for her. She will pay each character 200 gold pieces each and also provide each of them with a potion of greater healing when they return with the last batch of books that the church sent. Unbeknownst to Mother Eloise¸ there are not forty books but forty-one books in the chest: a repentant cultist from a secret cult has hidden a codex carrying important information relevant to the cult inside the chest before being found and killed by the cult. The danger to the books therefore lies not much in bandits on the road but in a pursuit from the cult. Complicating matters further¸ a group of magically empowered dragonborn thieves are interested in securing two other books in the shipment. Optionally¸ this adventure can be used as a follow-up to the Silence at the Blue Chapel and Forbidden Rites in the Filtear Wood adventures¸ both of which are 4th-level adventures available here on the DM's Guild. It carries on the narrative of a secret chaos cult in the city of Scaleport. It can¸ however¸ also be run as a complete standalone adventure: there are plenty of evil cults out there¸ after all!