[3.5 FR] Silverymoon Adventure Ideas

[vartan]

I was wondering if the Playground had recommendations for adventures for a group of 2nd and 3rd level PCs in the Gem of the North (Silverymoon).

At the moment, I am thinking of having the group descend into the sewers beneath the city to investigate reports of lycanthropes. The city's mythal extends underground, and would provide the party continuous Protection from Evil- which would be cool.

Why can't Alustriel take care of it herself? Or the Knights in Silver? I dunno. Handwaving.

[Alleran]

Do you have the Silver Marches 3.0/3.5 book? As I recall, it has a number of possible adventure seeds in it that you could make use of. The FRCS has some as well.

As to why Alustriel and the Knights in Silver can't deal with everything, it's simple. The Knights? Maybe your PCs might end up being offered membership. The Knights in Silver usually have to patrol the Silver Marches and the area around Silverymoon. Maybe it was a Knight who asked for their assistance. Many hands make light work, and the more Knights freed up to do their regular duties, the better-defended the city will be.

Alustriel, on the other hand, is a ruler. Of the Silver Marches. That's an entire confederation of city states. Running off after every rumour or minor problem that shows up just isn't going to work, which is why she (and most rulers) have a massive support staff of agents, adventurers, military forces, and court wizards.

In any given day, Alustriel does the following:

- Rises at dawn to eat and meet with trusted advisors, agents, sons, and so on and so forth.
- After this, which goes for a few hours at times, she is in the council chamber of the palace to preside over legal matters, disputes, sees private appointments that have been made. She deals with all manner of beings.
- That takes her through late morning and the afternoon. She usually has a quick lunch with elves or Harpers, during which there will likely be other meetings and discussions.
- She spends a few hours traveling through the city, chatting with people, occasionally getting some of her agents to deal with problems as she sees them. Then she has to head back to the palace to get the rest of her appointments over and done with.
- Late afternoon she spends memorising spells, practising spellcasting, and other such things. This occupies a solid chunk of her time.
- After that, she usually bathes or the like, often with friends, when she can actually get away from everything else she has to do for half an hour or so.
- Then there's evening court, which has new laws, official delegations, policy debates, and so on and so forth.
- Then dinner, which usually has a fair bit of chatting and socialising that needs doing (often for any delegations that may have been presented, people looking to catch the High Lady's ear, or something similar). It goes on for two hours, give or take.
- After late evenings, there are parties, revels, unannounced attendances, and similar. She does this to keep up appearances, but she also likes to dance and party (her name, you'll note, is built around the word "lust" - and yes, that was deliberate by Ed Greenwood).
- In the early hours of the morning, Alustriel has time to herself that she uses to reflect on what she has to do, how she could have improved what she did in the day just past, and so on. She also uses it to memorise additional spells if she's been running low.
- Dawn arrives, and she repeats the entire process over again.

Even for somebody who doesn't need to sleep (and she does still need to rest in order to cast spells, so she has to fit that in), that's a full day of work. And this is assuming that some emergency doesn't come up that she just has to deal with immediately, such as a rampant Red Wizard, a Zhentarim attack on a Harper stronghold, one of her sisters calling for her assistance, whatever world-shaking crisis is gripping the Realms at that very moment, and so on. She's not an adventurer.

[vartan]

I do have the Silver Marches book. It is great for information, and that post of yours is pretty good too. Regardless, I am actually thinking that the lycanthropes in Silverymoon are working under the wererat that runs with the lycans in Quaeravarr- she's gathering resources to overthrow their little tribe leader.