warriorneedsfood

Location; Glantri, near Les Hiboux, Chamery, Great School of Magic Dependance, Room administration.
Here works only one secretary; miss Ovine D’Ambombo (from Ierendi Originally), a 2^nd level 42 years old Mage, banned from further study due discrimination (Foreigner, Color, Dialect), but mostly due several failed attempts to become a student. It did cost her 33 years to reach second level and it is just 3 months ago she learned her first second level spell. Her interest lies with Divination. Sir Wilhelm Bhes is her private teacher, and often busy and away. Yet he is the only one willing to teach her magic, the only one who saw her stubbornness as something good. He also gave her this job, which she seems to perform immaculately. Ovine is single, yet promised to a brutal Ierendi Barbarian-like first mate named Ugbaba of the pirate vessel of the pirate Delgado (Pirates of Mystara). This is the sole reason she fled Ierendi, knowing (or for better hoping) he’ll never locate her here. As being almost at the end of her fertile life, she slowly gets the feeling she’ll be safe. Ovine, is actually a happy-to-go-by personality. She enjoys Ierendi food and the preparing of it, but is afraid someone will recognize her, and as such only travels in company, and cooks only in privacy. She lives in a simple house in the Middle Class Quarter of the City, next to the Scholars’ Fraternity Headquarters (53 on the Glantri map of Gaz 3). As such she travels per Gondola and the Teleport Gate in the GSM here to later return. She has befriended Gassion, a lawful Gondolier who keeps her travels as secret as possible.

DM; Save the Secretary; This adventure resolves around Miss Ovine. It needs some preparation though; let miss Ovine befriend one or more of the PC’s before the adventure. Maybe they met her accidently in the city, or enjoy the same food/scents she has with her. They will have had regular chitchats in this very office. At the same time the Fellowship of the Pouch is having some trade troubles about illegal components with the Ierendi Pirates. During their resolving debates they are questioned if they ever met Miss Ovine. They promise to keep a watchful eye, when their trade will continue. When Gassion loses a lot of money in the Silver Tower Inn, they learn (one way or another) his secret as they try to confiscate his gondola. They brush of his shoulders and let him go. When the next day a guilt-ridden Gassion transports miss Ovine to the GSM, however, they are followed in secrecy. As they can’t enter the GSM, the thievesguild inform the Brotherhood of Thugs, who have their own ways to get inside. A week later, miss Ovine uses the Teleport gate to the Dependance, as many others, yet one of these is a secret Thug. When discovering where she is working, he instantly returns, and informs the Felllowship of the Pouch. They inform the Pirates, and three weeks later,  Ugbaba the first mate (F21 St 18, Co17, CE 7'7"Pirate, with a tendency to brutality, and beating defeated ones to pulp, long after being dead or defeated. The DM may give him weapon mastery and several magical weapons due his long active duty) and several stronghands arrive in Glantri City. Here the adventure begins.

The DM must invent several attacks to capture miss Ovine by using the Brotherhood of Thugs, of which one will be successful. Miss Ovine is captured and secretly transported bound within an antique secretary. The PC’s are able to fend of these attacks except the one they’re unaware of. A day later they overhear the discussion of a merchant in antiques with local constubelaries. He was attacked on the trail of Les Hiboux to Glantri City by a group of Thugs, and a black-skinned female mage who was forced to cast a sleep spell on him and his guard. When they awokeall his merchandise was tossed about, except a very valuable antique secretary. As the PC’s react upon this he offers 500DC for the return of this piece of furniture. As the PC’s try to catch on to the Thugs, miss Ovine is bound and gagged in the secretary. It is up to the PC’s where and if they retrieve their targets. This maybe soon on the road to Glantri, in Glantri City, where the goods are packed on a merchant wagon, on the Trail south to Trintan, or even the village Trintan itself, in the Broken lands on the  Vesubian route to Corunglain, In Darokin on the roads to Athenos where the “Son Rebirth” is harboured (under an more ligit guise ofcourse), or even in the Sea of Dread to Ierendi. Delgado has his secret Hideout near the Ruins of Port Siers on Ierendi Island, in a cave system of mount Makalaui. The DM can make this adventure as hard and long as he desires. The adventure resolves itself when the first mate is killed, as Delgado has no personal interest in persuing something bringing almost no money.When they thus return miss Ovine to Glantri, she will be safe, and the PC’s will have a friend for life, that can and now will cook for them the best Ierendi meals ever. She even might open a kitchen somewhere. Delgado and the PC’s must never meet again, as he hates them for defeating his first mate.