Lower Sharn Streets (d74)

1

You find a newly-painted mural of a halfling standing atop the bloody corpse of an ogre.

2

A dwarf is selling kebabs from a cart. “Crispy spiced rat!” He cries. “The best in the tower!”

3

A changeling street performer adopts your face and begins to match your actions.

4

An old goblin has goods laid out for sale, odds and ends salvaged from the sewers.

5

A pack of children clusters around you, begging for copper or food. Do you help them?

6

An attractive young human presses a small pamphlet into your hand. “Come to Chance in Dragoneyes! All bets will be covered!”

7

A sudden, horrible stench makes you gag.

8

You come upon a minotaur with a broken horn and a spiked club in one hand. He’s urinating against a wall, and snarls when he notices you watching.

9

A half dozen rats are clustered around a bloody bundle of cloth. They scurry away as you approach.

10

A young half-elf with a crimson eyepatch offers a fine set of pens and parchment for sale, at a price of 3 sovereigns (3 sp). “Top notch! And not stolen or anything.”

11

You step into a shallow puddle… and then realize it’s a pool of fresh blood.

12

You nearly walk into a well-dressed halfling. She studies your face carefully and scowls. Other onlookers carefully turn away.

13

A large black and white cat watches you from an alley. It’s caught a surprisingly scaly rat.

14

Hungry people stand in line outside a shrine to Boldrei, waiting for conjured bread.

15

You bump into a medusa, causing her to drop the package she’s carrying. You freeze for a moment, then realize she has a leather band covering her eyes. Her serpent mane hisses as she retrieves her belongings.

16

Fresh graffiti shows a Cyran crown with a sword through it. The text reads “Cyre is dead, no place for Mourners.”

17

A group of shifter children take turns trying to make the biggest howl, laughing in between.

18

Two shifters are arguing in the street. One of them snarls, and sharp fangs extend from her gums.

19

A young woman is repairing a damaged everbright street lantern, muttering curses under her breath.

20

A well-dressed elf from Aerenal walks along the filthy street, accompanied by a dour ogre hauling a large trunk. The elf’s face is hidden behind a brass mask, but he looks lost.

21

A group of drunken soldiers are singing a warbling Brelish anthem from the Last War. A few of them spot you and demand that you join in. Do you?

22

A dwarf and a goblin are arguing about the Race of Eight Winds, a local sporting event. The goblin insists that the Gargoyle will win this year, while the dwarf supports the Griffon.

23

A warforged skirmisher and a Valenar elf are engaged in an argument. The elf takes a step back and draws her scimitar.

24

A trio of hobgoblins walk through a makeshift market as though they’re hunting for something.

25

You’re drenched by a sudden gout of water—you hope—from a bridge above you.

26

A group of Cyran refugees are gathered in a circle, singing a haunting song.

27

You see a tall, thin woman pulling a body—Dead? Drunk?—into an alley. Her arm is covered with the blood-red lines of an aberrant dragonmark.

28

The window of a bakery holds a display of impossibly beautiful cookies. What is this quality of goods doing down here?

29

Outside a shop, a grimy halfling promises better deals just down the alleyway.

30

A dragonmarked gnome walks down the street, carrying a small stone in his hand. Every few yards, he raises the stone to his lips and says, “Can you hear me now? Good.”

31

An austere monk of the Silver Flame makes their way down the street, handing provisions to beggars.

32

You hear someone softly singing the Bear’s March, a Brelish battle anthem from the Last War. The singer is a young man leaning against the wall; he’s missing his left arm.

33

A headless warforged sits in an alley begging for coin. It waves in a signal of thanks whenever someone drops a coin in its bowl.

34

A crowd is gathered around a young adept of the Silver Flame. She’s performing a ritual to purify a pool of run-off water.

35

You notice a large metal hatch in the ground, engraved with warding symbols and a ancient proclamation that it should never be opened.

36

A group of goblin children chatter and shout at one another. They scatter when they see you approach.

37

A goblin tumbles out of a nearby tavern. A warforged juggernaut steps out of the door and snarls “Don’t come around here until you can pay!”

38

A trio of Morgrave students take notes and they ask a goblin about “the goblin experience.”

39

Near one of the entrances to the Cogs, you come upon a large mob chanting slogans and shouting. The carry signs protesting the use of warforged laborers.

40

A minotaur holding a large piece of wood that could serve as a maul approaches you and politely asks if you have any copper to spare.

41

Down a nearby alleyway, a dwarf punches a goblin in the stomach, then walks away laughing.

42

A thin human child has been following you, but never gets too close. She keeps coughing, and you can see red marks on her neck that might be an aberrant dragonmark.

43

A human priest of Boldrei wheels a cart of bread loaves through the city, giving food to the homeless.

44

A goblin pushing a cart of rusty weapons and broken clay pots calls out, "Real artifacts of ancient Dhakaan for sale! Recovered from the ruins below!"

45

A man dressed in the livery of House Vadalis descends a tower wall mounted on the back of a giant spider. He shouts, "Need a ride? No faster way to get to the middle and upper wards! Reasonable rates!"

46

An ogre eating several rats on a skewer spits out a rodent skull at your feet.

47

A playful stray mastiff wags its tail as it approaches, drops a very large egg at your feet, and looks up expectantly.

48

A small, jovial crowd gathers around a goblin and a kobold that are getting ready to have an arm wrestling match. A dwarf calls for the crowd to place their bets.

49

Three harpies fly through the streets singing a jolly drinking song. Each carries a bucket around her neck, and passersby occasionally drop coins in one.

50

A human woman and a warforged with a silvered body are walking down the street together. They're too well dressed for this district, and are looking around as if lost.

51

A Khoravar half-elf in the robes of an oracle approaches and promises to give you the answer to all of life's problems for 42 copper crowns.

52

A human and an elf kiss passionately in an alley near your path. They notice you and quickly move apart.

53

Three shifter children run by you, yelling and chasing each other with wooden swords. They duck into a boarded-up building.

54

"Stop her! She stole my necklace!" a priest of the Sovereign Host cries, pointing to a grimy halfling clutching a silver chain and climbing up the side of a tower.

55

A young woman using a crutch and missing a leg approaches, asking if you can spare any coin to help a Brelish veteran of the Last War.

56

Cries of alarm fill the street as a wooden crate from somewhere above crashes down into the lower city.

57

A splash of unidentified, putrid liquid falls from above, soaking you.

58

The generally unpleasant smell of the lower wards is pierced by the scent of something delicious being baked nearby.

59

A gnome sits at a table with a sign attached to it that reads, "I say Breland would have won the Last War. Change my mind."

60

Two changelings sit on a bench in front of a tavern, sharing a flask. They take turns changing their forms into the people who enter and exit the building.

61

A human woman shouts at a group of Cyran refugees, "Go home! Stop taking our jobs. Let the Mournland have you!"

62

A group of students from Morgrave University moves through the street, asking for directions to Dragoneyes.

63

You turn down an empty street. A door suddenly materializes on a nearby building that previously showed no entrances.

64

Faded graffiti on a wall reads, "Need someone knifed? Tarkanan's got you covered!"

65

A crowd gathers around a kobold playing a pan flute and leading a group of rats in a merry dance.

66

Four orcs jab at an ochre jelly with long staffs, trying to herd the ooze into the sewers.

67

Several Cyran refugees are gathered in a circle, singing a haunting song.

68

An old goblin offers to pierce your ears or nose for 5 copper crowns. She claims, "It will be painless. I know magic!"

69

A figure in red robes preaches, "The Last War was not the last! As long as the monarchy rules in Breland, another war is inevitable. Rise up!"

70

A member of the Sharn Watch looks uncomfortable as she wanders the street. It's clear she doesn't come down here often.

71

Two humans run into an alley, drawing daggers as they go.

72

Two drunken humans exit a tavern singing a Karrnathi battle hymn. Another human shouts at them to "shut up or get shut up." The drunken pair sings louder in response.

73

Two children reeking of sewage argue over who gets to wear a shiny helmet that sits on the ground between them.

74

You find a pamphlet on the ground advertising the Silvermist Theater. Someone has scrawled on it, "The real party is in the basement."