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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5807648" data-attributes="member: 1861">I have been toying with doing a swords-and-sorcery version of a Modern Arcana idea I had had of a stock exchange having been taken over by the Shadow.  Basically the idea is of a counting house that has been completely abandoned due to the fact that the scriveners and moneychangers began trading in less savory things.  The party must go to find the whereabouts of a specific trader, who took his ships and brought them laden with goods to port never to be seen again.  All of his men came back on mast-broken heaps, white of hair and in various levels of insanity/dementia.  The story leads through the streets of this slowly falling apart village, once the hub of an enormous cross-sea trade.  The streets have turned to violence, and the loss of the occasional sailor, child, maiden, or apprentice is not unheard.  The scriveners offered assurance to a demon-blooded merchant on his cargo, a hundred slaves bearing towards a barbarous coast for trade.  They offered prices for livestock for each lost, and when the ship went down he went to claim his debt.  When they gave him his due for ship, crew, passage, and chattel he spoke of the unpaid price of their assurance, demanding a hundred souls for the slaves (having bound each of his own men and rendering them little more than the walking dead).  To this end they claim their debts on high-interest notes in souls, and thus their formerly glorious house has become an entrance to a dire place.  The creatures who claim the souls take them in cruel ways, and... Well, there's a lot more but it was specific evils for each player.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Nice to see you Jack!  It's been too long!Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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