Scadam

Scadam is a seaside town on the northwesternmost part of Kies Peninsula. Town was recently occupied by bandits led by their troll leader Edgewater who used the town as his base of operations. Before occupation the town used to have a tobacconist, a bar, smithy, smoke house and a public wash. Recently Edgewater's bandits were driven out of town and it's remaining citizens freed.

### History

Before being a base for a bandit, Scadam was run by it's mayor, Brandt Tauloppo. Brandt was assisted by his wife, Jorn Tauloppo, who had skill in business management and was also studying to be prudemagus. Despite having been elected as mayor, Brandt and Jorn were hounded by a local journalist **Happ Anderson.**

It was known that Brandt and Jorn were trying for children, and when Jorn began to shows the signs it appeared that they had been successful. However, Jorn had to travel north for an unknown reason, allowing Andreson to come up with wildest speculations, claiming their child was a blooch. Eventually Andersons antics are too much for Brandt, who backhands the smarmy reporter, but this lands Brandt in jail. Brandt never got to see the light of day, as he perishes in prison.

Brandt out of the way Anderson manages to run for Mayor of Scadam and begins to handout benefits to his friends and supporters. This is the state of Scadam that Jorn returns to from her journey. Her belongings are broken, stolen or scattered at the edge of town and her husband is dead. All Jorn can do is ineffectually vent.

Not before long Jorn runs into Edgewater, who is quick to offer Jorn a chance at revenge. Edgewaters bandits take over Scadam with Jorns help and begin to expand their operations using Scadam as their base. Jorn becomes disillusioned with Edgewater, as his treatment of citizens of Scadam goes further than Jorn had any intention.

Scadam is freed when Joey Donuts and other member of his adventuring party help the citizens of Scadam drive out Edgewater's bandits.

### NPCs:

* **Stukka** - an ork smith, whom Edgewater had bolted on the floor of her smithy by taking off her leg and replacing it with a metal rod. Edgewater had also cut off her tongue. Burstock healed Stukka's injuries after the guards in the smithy had been dealt with.
* **Happ Anderson** - Current mayor of Scadam and a trash journalist. Made wild speculations about the previous mayor, Brandt Tauloppo, that led him to assault Anderson. Brandt landed himself in jail as a result and Anderson was able to take his place, where he began to take town profits to himself and to his friends.
* **Chimken** - Ork or Human bandit who was twisted into a amalgamation of ternion species and a crow by being force fed a transmog potion by the troll Edgewater. Initially hostile, but was successfully bribed by Joey to betray Edgewater and abandon his post.
* **Lettuce** - A very large grey tabby catloaf. Sleeps at the town well. A gud boy.
* **Scadam Citizens** - Hostages taken by Edgewaters gang. Once all were freed and armed took back the town from the bandits.
* **Milosh** - A gopnick in Edgewaters gang in charge of taking care of the animals

### Enemies:

Joey and the other had to face variety of bandits occupying the town

* **Boris** - A bandit who volunteered to drink transmog potion on behest of his boss, Edgewater. In his altered form had become combined with a furred spider, causing extra limbs to sprout from his back and giving him a terrifying visage of gaping maw and many eyes. Boris's loyalty to Edgewater was absolute, and he had been left in charge of Scadam in Edgewaters absence. Upon being defeated and as a last act of loyalty to his boss he used mutterbottle to warn Edgewater that Scadam had fallen.

* **Neffa** - A bandit who drank a transmog potion by accident. Even before her transformation Neffa was considered violent and crazy and was often under the influence of different substances. After accidentally drinking a transmog potion, Neffa had transformed in to a combination of a Rhinoceros and a ternion species. All, but Edgewater were in danger of being attacked on sight by her. Neffa regained some lucidity upon death, having been freed from anger and agony that had been driving her before, and she thanked Joeys and the others that had given her release.

* **Thugs** - Main force of bandit stationed in Scadam, most of whom were armed with percussion pistols. Different variety of thugs were also present, most notably **Heavy Thugs** and **Elite Thugs**.

* **Gopnicks** - Lowest rung of the bandit hierarchy, with the exception of baseheads.

* **Baseheads** - Baseheads are addicts and victims of excessive snakewater consumption. By drinking snakewater, the use can channel magic even if they could not do so before. Many get addicted to the concontion, causing them to drink excessively along with mana and health potions, leading to loss of sight and further cognitive ability. At the end Baseheads behavior resembles that of an zombie, moaning and shuffling around, attacking magic users that they are now able to detect instinctively. As an additional result of their affliction, Baseheads are able to cast a single spell, different to each Basehead. If Basehead is damaged sufficiently, the coalescing magic in their system becomes volatile, resulting in an explosion.
* **Green Slime** - A Green Slime lives in the town well, but apparently doesn't bother anyone while in there.

### Locations:

#### Smithy

Smithy in scadam is owned and run by ork, **Stukka**, it's walls are lined with boxes and boxes of gunpwder that Stukkas uses to make bullets. During the bandit occupation Stukka was forced to work in her smithy by Edgewater to produce ammunition for his Bandit gang. In order to secure her compliance, Edgewater had Stukka bolted to the floor of her own smithy and had her tongue cut out. Stukka had managed to hide a percussion pistol and a trollstopper round that she had planned to shoot in to the boxes of gunpowder in the room if she ever had decided to give up and Edgewater happened to be in the room at the same time. Upon being freed, Stukka had her injuries healed by Burstock.

Edgewater had left one of his transmogged henchmen, **Chimken**, to guard the smithy along with two baseheads. Since Chimken didn't instantly attack, Joey opted to bribe him to betray Edgewater and abandon his post. After receiving payment it became apparent that Chimken held his boss in contempt for having transgmogged him.

#### Gopnick House

Gopnick house in Scadam that was used by Edgeater to house gopnicks of his gang along with the animals he had stolen from the surrounding area. One of the gopnicks, **Milosh**, was present when Joey and others were cleaning out the town. After being treated in a friendly manner, Milosh offered intel to Joey before given some gold to get a better lease on life somewhere else.

Animals kept in the house included chikens and byfuglian. Two Scadam Citizens had been stuffed into the lockers to keep them pacified.

#### Standing Bar

Main holdout of various thugs in Edgewater's gang. Bar was used by thugs as accommodation and to pass time by drinking.

#### Tobacconist

Used as second Gopnick house by Edgewater's gang. Only notable features are few rugs and few crates of tobacco and cigarette paper.

#### Wash House

Protected by Neffa and a single basehead. While most features within are not out of the ordinary, the shower curtain upon inspection turned out to be made off a very strong material, making the holes on it seem odd. Later Joey and others were able to piece together the hidden meaning of the holes.
Additionally Joey managed to fish out some coins from the drains. Score!

#### Mayor's house / Concrete house

House that belongs to the mayor of Scadam, Happ Anderson. While under bandit occupation this building was also used by Edgewater to store his loot.

The entrance of the house was trapped by Edgewater, so any bumbling adventurers or would be heroes would end up killing the current mayor if the house were ever entered carelessly. Two rings attached to ropes leading inside and tied to a hostage with a hangman's noose on his neck had been affixes on both sides of the entrance. Unless the rings and the ropes attached were pulled taut as far as possible, opening the door would cause the mechanism inside to drop the hostage, either snapping their neck or causing them to suffocate. fortunately for Happ Anderson, Joey, Highball, Burstock and Richter were able to save him from the trap.

Further in the house Edgewater had his throne, as well as chests of loot. The clever bandit leader had trapped most of the chests so that if a trapped chest were unlocked they would explode. Only way to find the non trapped chests were to place the shower curtain from the wash house against the window in the back of the room. Light from the outside would filter through the holes on the curtain in to the room, highlighting the correct chests.

#### Well

Town well was used by town as a garbage disposal ever since a Green Slime had made it it's home there. After Edgewater took over he used the well to throw people in alive to be consumed by the Slime. Joey and others found Lettuce, a large tabby catloaf, sleeping at the well.