Chapter Four: The Manifest of the Harikan Squall

Vad still wants to check out the moldy stuff and he's totally down with Leth getting himself some armor.

Shamush is interested in acquiring some of the white mold and any other hallucinogens he can bargain for. He's also interested in learning the story of the place, any additional information on its history and structure.

Fine with me!
I don't want to get anything from the shops.

Go get yourself some studded armor, stud.

Dubious medicine would range from 5 SP to 10 GP depending on how dubious you want it to be. Random fungus-based psychoactive substances would go for anywhere from 3 CP to 1 GP. Anyone who wants to try some white mold can take some on their way out of the citadel.

You don't know if you have much time for information-gathering, but it's possible your escort might be able to answer some questions, and you do have a long walk to your destination. The sorts of people Shamush would be buying mushrooms from wouldn't be able to tell you much about the place beyond what was covered in the first post of this chapter.

Last chance for any business here, we'll move on to the next phase in a short while.

Some time later, when you're all back at your quarters, your escort arrives to collect you. "You must be the Hazard party," he says as he steps into the hall to your rooms. "I'm Grimzo. The Lady Majestic herself sent for me to take you there." Grimzo is a tall, lanky man of middle age, with a long, lined face and stringy hair. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and a dirty gray duster, and speaks with a Gaadish accent. Three parallel lines of white mold run across his forehead. "You read to set off? We got a long walk ahead of us."

Yes, you can sell your old armor for 20% of the original PHB price.

Also, please deduct 20 GP from party loot so Zora can get herself some leather armor and a short sword.

While shopping, Leth picks up a vial of teal liquid with very tiny toadstools floating in it. It may or may not work as a healing item, but it looks pretty and it was only 1 GP.

Grimzo leads the party out to the south canyon. Children caked in white run shrieking past you, as children do. At the end of this long canyon, you pass through a guarded gate like the one you came to this place through. Beyond the gate, a short rocky passage gives way to a long, wide tunnel of soft, damp earth.

"This is the easy leg," Grimzo says. "After you're past the seal, we part ways. The going will be a little rougher but if you just keep heading south, you'll be fine. Once you're under the wicked city the real fun begins. Where Hazard connects to the Ways is in the depths of the Zapanim family crypts." He punctuates this with a suggestive leer. "You all look like you can handle yourselves, though. Any questions?"

"I haven't," he says. "I've known folk who have. Now, they were the sort who would never tell you there weren't unquiet dead in whatever crypts they happened to find themselves in -- you know what I mean?" He waggles his eyebrows.

There's no shortage of white mold, so you can assume you brought enough to share if anybody else wants some.

"She's a wonder, isn't she? No place like this in all of Bload. Maybe not in the whole Werld. She made it, and she lets us take part in it and she asks next to nothing of us. Her story?" He grins. "Her story's infinite, friend. She's not of this world. Surely you could see that when you were in her presence.

"So what's your story? Got to get to Hazard to deliver this little lass to her mama? Must be some good reason you can't just walk in the front gates."

Zora rolls her eyes.

"A magical sword?" Grimzo gives the weapon hanging from your side an exaggerated, goggle-eyed stare. "I'd say a magical sword is a good thing to have in just about any situation."

The tunnel narrows as you press deeper and deeper into its depths. Gauzy white mildew grows along the walls and ceiling. The air down here is thick and stale, unpleasant to breathe.

"How much further?" Zora asks.

"Maybe an hour?" Grimzo answers with a shrug.

We are going to progress to a scene change of sorts next, so if anybody has any questions for Grimzo before that happens, now's the time.