Silence at the Blue Chapel
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The blue chapel lies in the hills overlooking the trading city of Scaleport. It is an isolated church tended by an old priest of Lord Beocht¸ Father Matthias Shelton. Father Matthias prefers his solitude in the forest to the city¸ but will send messages back to Scaleport with passing pilgrims. Lately¸ however¸ there have been no messages and although it's possible that there simply have been no pilgrims at the chapel lately¸ the priests in town are worried. They have therefore hired the party to go into the hills and make sure that everything is all right.
Unbeknowst to the church¸ a cult of chaos-worshippers has overrun the chapel¸ trapping Father Matthias in the chapel crypt¸ and then used the graveyard to raise undead servitors. The majority of the cultists have departed¸ but one remains in the chapel and continues stealing corpses for his cult's wicked ends. Can the heroes save Father Matthias and thwart the cult's goals?
This is an adventure for 4th-level characters and provides guidelines for how to adjust it to make an appropriate challenge for parties of 3-5 players. If desired¸ the adventure can be combined with Forbidden Rites in the Filtear Wood to offer a longer adventure about the chaos cult's scheming.