The mysterious Lady Payne, a Sorceress of considerable talent and dark reputation has summoned you. Perhaps thats not quite the right word for it. You were abducted from your beds, or simply snatched off the dark streets by agents acting on her behalf. If her plan was to make you feel unsafe in a world where only power equates to safety, she has demonstrated adequately that you have none.
"You will put on these Masks." She indicates a selection of intricately carved wooden masks, engraved with runes, and painted red. "If you do not put on these Masks I will have you killed."
Once the PCs have complied, read the following:
"You will this evening seek out a grated sewer tunnel in the Western wall in the Dukes Park in Specularum and having entered make your way through the subterranean passages to the bottom of a privy shaft." You begin to feel an acceptance to obey her commands. "You will then climb the privy shaft to the privy at the top and enter a bedroom."
"Within the Bedchamber you will find a man asleep in bed." She fetches up an ebony wand that is floating loose and places it in a wooden case. "You will kill him."
"You will kill Duke Stephan Karameikos."
The words are overwhelming. The compelling geas of the Masks combined with her words have sealed your fates.
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