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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1747444" data-attributes="member: 259">Hmm...you could always paw through WOTC's web site for a free adventure of the appropriate level, and modify it for your needs.  If you don't want to do that, here's the seed of an idea: Red thread is associated in legend with binding fairies:  for some reason, it renders them powerless.  What if the cord the swashbuckler has gotten is like a super-pumped-up rope of entanglement that only works on fey creatures?  His possession of it is going to put them in the middle of a fey power struggle, as multiple factions try to get their hands on it.   Start the session out with the PCs handling some castle drudgery, working on the books or something, when the attack comes:  two dark-fairy assassins sent to retrieve the thread and kill teh human interlopers who dared to possess it.  THe attack should be creepy and confusing:  these assassins, strangely, won't be carrying a letter from their boss that says, "Dear Secret Employees:  Let me remind you of my name, and the motive for comitting the murder you're about to commit, in a written form that implicatees me directly."  They won't have much at all about them to suggest why they attacked. The next day, a delegation from a nearby fairy kingdom comes, demanding the return of the cord.  They'll not even try to mask their contempt for mortals when they demand it back, and they'll be so fast and loose with their insults and their threats (all done in flowery fairyspeak, natch), that there's no chance any PC would comply with the demand.  That's the cue for the siege of their castle to begin. At some point, another faction can show up, offering the PC some ideas on what to do about the siege; perhaps there's a group in opposition to the current fairy duke (or whoever is heading up the bad guys) who sees potential allies in the PCs. Does that sound like it might work? Daniel</blockquote>

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