Blades of the Peccatum Underworld

This is the campaign that follows Luxuria's Blades. A group of individuals hired to work within the Peccatum Underworld, a Imperial criminal organization and de facto leader of the criminal underworld, they directly work for the Head of the Peccatum Underworld, an individual only known as Luxuria They are handled by Sera Tymor, the barkeep of the Twilight Rose.

## Player Characters Members

#### Current

**Discipline**: Tiefling Cleric.

**Jaxxon Fornaught**: Genasi Rogue.

**Leto**: Human Cleric.

**RAMI**: Starforged Barbarian.

**Shockur Dustknuckle**: Gnome Artificer.

**Skywatcher**: Goliath Monk.

**Theobald Thain**: Human Wizard.

#### Past

**Bagdra**: Werepanther Rogue.

**Charon Styx**: Minotaur Cleric.

**Dalian Forshadow**: Human Sorcerer.

**Durango Swift**: Human Rogue.

**Eckhardt**: Quasiceremorph Psion.

**Gelvix**: Warforged Artificer.

**Janbul Serg**: Centaur Fighter.

**Kelan Dovurath**: Tiefling Fighter.

**Mack Crane**: Changeling Rogue.

**Name Lost**: Wood Elf Ranger.

**Ornbeck**: Eladrin Warlock.

**Valmar**: Half-Elf Animus.

**Vekas**: Gnome Sorcerer.

**Zantrix Redux**: Gnome Warlock.

## Locations

#### Twilight Rose

The Twilight Rose is the inn and front to the underground base of the Peccatum Underworld. It is located in the Strax District of Amala, the capital city of the Xantra Empire. It boasts a large open concept main room, with the back wall being covered with alcohol of every kind from floor to ceiling. In front of the back wall is the main bar counter, and hidden in the back wall is the door to the storage room. There is also on both sides of the bar, two balconies for more prestigious guests. Underneath the right balcony (upon entrance) is the secret door that leads to the main headquarters. Sera is also the owner and head barkeep of the Twilight Rose. Any breaking of the rules or disrespect within the bar can lead to nasty consequences from Sera herself.

## The Story

To begin, four individuals (Charon Styx, Bagdra, Janbul Serg and Name Lost) entered the Twilight Rose in search of work with the Peccatum Underworld. There they met with the strange half-elven barkeep who introduced herself as Sera. She offered them work, as their contracts would be with her directly. During their first meeting, they agreed to contract with Sera, and also learned to not raise her ire (she had slipped poison to a Dwarven Noble who had insulted her and the Peccatum, leading to his very messy death by implosion).

Their first job was quite simple. Merely recovering stolen property within a warehouse. She gave them the location and item she required recovered. They easily completed their task, defeating Moving Statues with ease. They recovered a black katana that gave them the creeps. Upon returning the item to Sera, it was revealed to be test, and the warehouse in question was Peccatum property.

It was then they received their first real mission. Here it is where their number changed. Charon and Name Lost were no longer with the group, instead joining them were Mack Crane and Leto. They were instructed to gain information and kill a target. As they completed their tasks and slowly gained the trust of their employer, their jobs slowly began to ramp up in difficulty. They also were pit against Sera for training purposes and lost by a landslide. Their next job was to infiltrate an auction house. There they freed a slave called Chika and recovered a stolen item.

Mack soon parted ways. Joining their team were Dalian Forshadow, Durango Swift, Ornbeck, Theobald Thain and Vekas. Their next mission was their most difficult and first out of town job. To deal with threats that had been sent directly to Sera. The sender only signed their name with a M, and was tracked down to currently being located in the coastal imperial town of Lyma. They traveled to Lyma, making contact with the person accused to be M. A tiefling man known as Morgan. Turns out he had no idea about these threats nor any hand in it, but he did have an idea who it could be. Hira, the leader of the local criminal organization known as the Jeweled Rats. She and her brothers ran the underworld of Lyma and was seeking to unseat the power of the Peccatum Underworld. They had been joined by the Shard of Change, a strange woman known as Flicker. While they were here it is where they lost their companions Durango and Vekas. The remaining members came up with a plan to sneak in and directly deal with Hira. Unfortunately they were supposedly betrayed by Bagdra, who turned them in to Hira to regain her favor, having once worked under her. It is also here, while in imprisonment, they met a new companion in Jaxxon. They found themselves in a gladiator fight with a Beholder runt, fought it and escaped. They were rescued by a Dwarven gentleman called Gurnik donMekanic and his warforged companion Daroon. He provided them with safe shelter and assisted them in their escape of the city, along with their new companions Morgan and Jaxxon. It was during their escape they confronted Hira and her siblings and successfully killing or capturing them, leading to the downfall of the Jeweled Rats along with the completion of their mission. They returned with Hira in tow and it was here Janbul left and Kelan joined.

They had heard their first rumors of the Cult of the Great Mother, a cult who served and worshiped the Goddess Mother of Beholders. Ornbeck and Dalian also parted ways from the party. They had their new assignment, to assist in guarding the annual meeting of the upper members and Heads of the Peccatum Underworld. It is here they stopped an assassination attempt and learned that someone had managed to sneak within their ranks and use higher power to bluff their way into their various attempts.

Their next task was laid before them. They were to head to Horum to handle three jobs. The first was to eliminate a noble and make it look like an accident. The next was to investigate a particular noble family. And the final job was learn as much information as possible about the local vigilantes. They arrived in the capital city of Horum, Brassten. While in Brassten two new companions came and went, Gelvix and Zantrix Redux. They also made a new companion in Skywatcher. Here they discovered something more sinister was occurring with in the city. Upon confronting the vilgiantes (who had murdered the Blades' target), it turned out to be lead by Theobald's cousin Eliza Yardley. She begged them for their assistance with helping take down a secret and cruel organization within the noble families. It led to Theobald's parents and the information that the organization planned on killing the majority of the city's population to restart. Kelan at some point left due to personal reasons. Upon confronting Theobald's parents, they successfully managed to kill Theodore Thain, his father. But his mother managed to escape, revealing her involvement with the arcane arts and Cult of the Great Mother.

They returned back to Amala, where they parted ways with Bagdra and gained an new companion in Eckhardt or E. They were then sent on a raid mission of an auction house, in the Elven Kingdom of Silara in the City of Lights Nys Anva. Here they were specifically instructed to recover the crown of the Unseelie Queen and encountered individuals pretending to be her handmaidens. They managed to recover the stolen item and return it to it's rightful owner.
Their next mission only was more difficult. They were instructed to follow the trail of potential buyer of the crown, an individual only known as the Lotus. They were aware the Lotus hailed from Miisla, and took a boat to Silverdale, the City of Waterfalls in Southern Miisla. Here they gained their strange companion RAMI. They begun a cat and mouse game with the Lotus, seeking to trap her and bring her to Sera directly. Skywatcher and the High Priestess of the Miisli Temple of Pelor were captured. It was here that Leto tipped off the temple of a planned coup of the High Priestess. The Blades closed in the Lotus, successfully entrapping her and bringing her to Sera back in Amala.

They finally had time to themselves to rest for a few weeks. As they rested, they lost their companion E and witnessed the Lotus be murdered before them. A new member joined named Valmar. The Blades were ordered to kill a traitor and regain the financial logs he had stolen. Once they completed this task, they took several months to themselves.

After their rest, they were joined by two new companions. Discipline and Shockur Dustknuckle. They immediately joined in on the hunt to subdue a Mind Hopper.

Now they prepare for their next mission.