Moonrise Towers

==Overview==
===Main floor===
The main floor of the towers is directly accessible through the main door at the end of the bridge from Reithwin Town. In the foyer are several Absolutist pilgrims Long, Nalira, Taima, and Farimorn with Acolyte . Also two traders are found on the western side of the room: and .
Lann Tarv is a bugbear merchant that offers three to Karlach, if she is in the party, on the condition that she hears the stories of the souls bound in the coins first. Proving the party's worth to Lann Tarv through dialogue earns the Inspirational Events Uncommon Recognition (Folk Hero background) as well as Notched Armour (Soldier background). He sells a number of valuable items, including , , , and , with additional stock potentially unlockable after convincing to help on the First Floor.
The party can tell Belub to get rid of the 4 pilgrims, who then orders them to scout the perimeter of the war camp. The pilgrims do not survive the shadows and can later be found again as shadow-cursed zombies outside the House of Healing Morgue (). 
A side room on the south-eastern side is a sanguine laboratory where is performing experiments on blood.
On the south-western side, a side room has a staircase leading down to the prison.
====Throne room====
Continuing south past the foyer is the throne room, where, upon the party's first visit, judges three goblins and (if still alive). The doors on the side exit out to the sanguine laboratory to the east and stairs to the prison to the west.
Behind the throne are a stairs leading up to the first floor.
====Kitchen====
In the eastern corner of the main floor is a kitchen where , a true soul, is training three Gnolls, including . There are also a number of Camp Supplies. The gnolls can be influenced or freed, resulting in Linsella's death and the Inspirational Events No Strings to Hold Them Back (Folk Hero), Who Let the Gnolls Out (Dark Urge), Pied Piper (Charlatan), or Gone Feral (Urchin). A can be found on Linsella's body.
Just off from the kitchen is a small dining room with some strange mucus covering a doorway.
====Dormitory====
In the far western corner of the main floor is a dormitory. An ogre named can be found here, who drops and claims to hear "meat-things" moving in the walls. This room also acts as an exit to the southern exterior of the tower.
====Southern exterior====
Just past the dormitory's exterior door is a cracked wall containing a wooden chest.
On the eastern side, just outside the sanguine laboratory and kitchen is the cat , gleefully playing with a dead mind flayer parasite.
====Rafters====
In the foyer, just east of the stairs leading from the main door, is a ladder which can be used to access the rafters.
Just to the east of the ladder is a cracked wall, which is the source of the "suspicious sounds" noted by Mig. Interacting with the wall allows the party to reach into the wall, where a tentacle will grab the arm of the interacting party member unless they pass one of the following checks:
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Failing this check or doing nothing allows the tentacle to grip the arm and communicate directly with that party member. Warlocks selecting their unique dialogue option can also talk to the 'Absolute'. The party member is able to talk directly to the 'Absolute' and question it. Eventually, the tentacle attempts to grip harder and the party member has to make another ability check to avoid being pulled into the depths:
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Failing this check or doing nothing results in the tentacle dragging the party to the Oubliette beneath the Moonrise Towers Prison and incurring a injury in the process.
On the western side, above the room leading to the prison, are some roots which can be climbed to access room on the first floor.
===First floor===
On the first floor, a large door guarded by and her necromites leads up to the roof. Upon reaching Moonrise the first time, Z'rell is also here talking to Radija. The Inspirational Events Clear Conscience' and Know Thy Clientele (both Charlatan) can be obtained during the interaction with Z'rell. Additionally, succeeding a allows the party to convince Z'rell () to grant access to her secret stash of goods with the quartermaster, Lann Tarv.
From the top of the stairs, the eastern door leads to a study, then onto room. 
To the north is a room in the centre of the first floor being patrolled by a zealot and a scrying eye. This room leads to the rooms of Balthazar, Ketheric, and Isobel. 
====Balthazar's room====
This room has several notable items, including a working . Next to the Moonlantern is a locked heavy chest that contains the .
Near a torture rack is a book case with several "Protruding Books", spotted with a . All of the labeled shelves are trapped except for the top right, labeled "Musty Tomes". "Galvanic Interrogations" triggers the two gargoyle heads above the bookcase, which turn the two corpses on the floor into zombies, one of them being Balthazar's apprentice, "Conventional Medicine" activates two grating traps with spikes in front of the bookcase, and "Poisons and Venoms" fills the room with a poison cloud, close and lock the doors until it dissipates. Interacting with the "Musty Tomes" row allows access to an "Ancient Altar" next to the shelves. Inserting a into the altar opens a door into a secret room beyond the bookcase and grants the Inspirational Events Secrets of the Necromancer and A Little Too Familiar with the Grotesque (both Sage background). This room can also be unlocked with various other body part items found throughout the game, including the heads of and and the hand of .
Inside the hidden room is an opulent chest with the . As well, there is a small work table covered in dead pixies and broken moonlanterns from Balthazar's experiments. If Gale is in the party, he can use the ritual circle to create a , or otherwise destroy it and gain , which lasts until the next long rest.
====Ketheric's room====
This room can be accessed a number of ways: through a metal door on the balcony accessible through Balthazar's room, through the first floor's patrolled centre room, or through Isobel's room which is accessed by climbing vines from the main floor's rafters.
The Undead dog is guarding this room. The party can pass one of several different ability checks to have Squire stand down.
Beneath some loose planks next to the bed (visible with a Perception check) is the book and the . Off to the west is the remnants of a . There are also letters from and to Balthazar.
====Isobel's room====
Beyond Ketheric's room is a disused bedroom that used to be Isobel's. Inside are several Selûnite items, such as a robe and books, as well a bust of Melodia Thorm, Ketheric's deceased wife.
The chest at the foot of the bed is a Mimic (which can be spotted with a ) which drops the .
===Moonrise Towers Prison===
Following the stairs down from a room on the south-western side of the main floor is a prison. and some imprisoned tiefling refugees and deep gnomes can be found here.
===Moonrise Towers Rooftop===
Past a door on the first floor, guarded by , is the rooftop. After meeting him, Ketheric will move here.
=== Docks===
The docks are accessed through heavy oak doors in the prison, or by travelling down under the bridge to Moonrise and east, and jumping over a destroyed bridge at .
At the docks, ships are being sent out mysterious cargo, which can be investigated. There are a few Absolutists on the docks: 
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A fifth, , may be present guarding access to the docks via the destroyed bridge. 
A total of 3 can be collected in this area: 2 from the Zhentarim Shipping Crate and 1 from the lifeless body of Zealot Krizt if killed on the docks. If not killed here, she opens the path for the party to the entrance of the building and enter there. Later, her body may be found lifeless in the Oubliette where the Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen is still obtainable.
===History===
Originally built by the Thorm family architect, Moonrise Towers was a symbol of devotion to the moonmaiden . The tower was commanded by Ketheric Thorm, who lived there with his wife Melodia and his daughter Isobel.
After both Melodia and Isobel's deaths, Ketheric turned to , the Lady of Loss. In her name, he raised an army of Dark Justiciars and set them against the surrounding lands and as far as the Grymforge. Ketheric's forces were eventually defeated by the allied Harpers and Emerald Grove druids, as well from a pact made by the architect which enlisted help from the orthon .
Before Ketheric could be brought to justice, he released the Shadow Curse. This curse caused immense damage and death across the land, persisting for the following century.
During the fifteenth century, Myrkul appeared to Ketheric, promising him his greatest desire of Isobel returned to life. For this, Ketheric sacrificed his body and soul, and became Myrkul's chosen. Moonrise Towers was reclaimed in Myrkul's name, and became the seat of power of the Cult of the Absolute, lead by him and two fellow chosen of the Dead Three.
===Waypoints===
This location contains the following Waypoint:
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==Notable loot==
Notable items obtained in this location, whether looted, purchased, or obtained as a quest reward: 
* - can be looted from Z'rell 
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* - can be found in a locked chest in a hidden room behind a bookcase in Balthazar's Chambers.
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If convincing Disciple Z'rell to help, Lann Tarv also sells: 
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Roah Moonglow sells:
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Araj Oblodra sells:
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Category:Locations
Category:Act Two Locations