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House of Captain Markus

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The house of Captain Markus is the home of Captain Markus in Sınır Sapı, in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"): a modest house of three rooms with a garden. A trapdoor under a rug leads down to a cellar, and a locked door there opens into an inner room.12

While the captain was out, Jonathan River took on his everyday likeness and went in. Blink saw a table in the inner room, a detailed map of the district and an unopened letter; the magic of transmutation Jonathan sensed came not from the lock but from the envelope. From under the floor Jonathan took a well-made box set with obsidian at its centre, holding gold bars, jewels and some ten to fifteen notes of places, which he copied into his book; he mended the boards with magic and said that he left the map untouched. The table seemed not to have been used for four or five days.1234

The obsidian box

Obsidian being somewhat rare, the pair guessed at a drow bribe, a tax or other origins for the box. Olaf changed the gold bars in the town, and they spoke of burying the box and jewels in the forest. After the explosion of the envelope they gave up that plan and carried the box with them; Jonathan then hid it with a note marked V in a hollow he made in the floor of their inn room, mended the surface and pulled the bed over it.3567

He later took it out to show Master Otto, suspecting a link with the drow on the strength of the map and swords Otto's men had found, and afterwards put it back in the same place and mended the floor with Mending.89

The ambush

Olaf, watching unseen, reported that Markus went into the house, lifted the board over his hiding place, in the bedroom as Olaf told it, and left in anger.10

On a later day the two forced a back window and came in through the bathroom. The upper part of the house was untidy, with chests and belongings spilled about, while the workroom below had been cleared, wooden crates with wine bottles standing on its table. They chose places to wait that could not be seen from the windows and waited from about two in the afternoon until dark.11121314

Markus was put to sleep, bound and questioned in the lower room, which Jonathan took to be quiet enough. Jonathan moved the chair and other things about by the power of his mind to frighten him, but did not carry out the maiming he threatened.15161718

Spoiler: The bargain in the lower roomSpoils: Zincirsiz #13 · Say what you have read

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableTeklif | DnD 5E Oynanış #9 (Zincirsiz #9), 2:15:36
  2. ↑At the tableTeklif | DnD 5E Oynanış #9 (Zincirsiz #9), 2:23:25
  3. ↑At the tableTeklif | DnD 5E Oynanış #9 (Zincirsiz #9), 2:26:42
  4. ↑At the tableTeklif | DnD 5E Oynanış #9 (Zincirsiz #9), 2:33:26
  5. ↑At the tableTeklif | DnD 5E Oynanış #9 (Zincirsiz #9), 2:37:35
  6. ↑At the tablePatlama | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Zincirsiz #10), 36:10
  7. ↑At the tablePatlama | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Zincirsiz #10), 1:01:46
  8. ↑At the tableMüttefik | DnD 5E Oynanış #11 (Zincirsiz #11), 35:33
  9. ↑At the tableMüttefik | DnD 5E Oynanış #11 (Zincirsiz #11), 55:28
  10. ↑At the tablePatlama | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Zincirsiz #10), 56:20
  11. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 45:45
  12. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 48:42
  13. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 52:02
  14. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 53:24
  15. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 1:04:43
  16. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 1:05:52
  17. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 1:09:39
  18. ↑At the tableSorgu | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Zincirsiz #12), 1:13:03
  19. ↑At the tablePazarlık | DnD 5E Oynanış #13 (Zincirsiz #13), 53:38
  20. ↑At the tablePazarlık | DnD 5E Oynanış #13 (Zincirsiz #13), 1:06:58
  21. ↑At the tablePazarlık | DnD 5E Oynanış #13 (Zincirsiz #13), 1:29:27

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