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"I was a mapmaker and well-regarded, travelling distant lands recording the world for nobles, universities, warlords. My craft was my joy. Once I found the Quill everything changed. I craved power and sought strange magic to sate my hunger to create. Eventually I realized this need was not mine but the Quill's. It drove me like a beast of burden. When I could longer please it, it trapped me here."

Adventure Hooks

Map of the Entrance and Drafting Room

Loud noise in this area will attract Mountain Birds from the Nest.

0 Entrance

15’ wide slab of rock extends from a cave opening.
Covered in bird droppings.
Sturdy, weather beaten chair slammed into a crevice.
- Hidden underneath - small wooden case containing the Telescopic Eye.

1 Drafting Room

Faint breeze blows through the wind-smooth stone chamber.
20' long drafting table, deep claw gouges along the top.
Scraps of torn maps everywhere - piled in the corners, lazily drifting in the air.
Hazard: The tunnel in far wall slopes downward towards a 50' drop - wet and very slippery.
- DEX save or slip down the tunnel.
- STR save to catch the edge before falling.
Hazard: Every few minutes a strong wind roars through the chamber.
- DEX save or be caught in a parchment whirlwind, d6 damage.
- STR save or be pushed d20+10' towards the tunnel.

Map of the Nest

2 Nest

d4 Mountain Birds roost in a nest shredded parchment.
Secret door: Refuse in the corner conceals a hidden bird graveyard.
- Mountain Bird skeletons arranged neatly.
- Piles of shiny objects sit in front of each.
  - d66 gp in small coin, gems and trinkets.

3 Ink Storage

5 barrels of ichorous black ink.
- Hidden runes on the underside of the barrels infuses the ink with magical energy creating the Ink Ooze, which will continually regenerate until the barrels are destroyed.
- Close inspection reveals ink is dripping through the floor.
- Secret door: Significant damage to the floor will open a passage into the Storeroom.
  - Ink Ooze will grow through the passage if opened.

4 Parchment Storage

Dozens of cubbies line the wall full of blank rolls of parchment.
Half finished map, covered in inky smudges sits on the floor next to a small keg of Cleaning Spirit.

Map of the descending ramp and Living Quarters

5 Living Quarters

Loud noise in this area will attract Living Sketches from the Study.

Long descending passage, transitions from rough hewn tunnel to masonry block walls.
- "Through me, creation" written on the wall, glowing like metal in a forge.
Door has been broken from the inside, debris is scattered around the hallway.
An inky drawing of a door fills the doorframe. It functions as a normal door although it is clearly a drawing.
Touching the door leaves black smudges on hands.
Inside is a modest bed chamber in disarray - clothes and furniture haphazardly spread around the room.
- Hidden under the bed - chest containing the Wand of Wind and d4 Preserved Eyes

Map of the Study and Store Room

6 Study

Fine rug, leather sofa, book case
- Tucked away - Scroll of True Sight (Cairn, pg 18)
"I am the tool that none can wield" burned into the rug.
d4 Living Sketches guard the room

Living Sketch

Animated drawing made of eldritch ink

6 HP, 6 STR, 12 DEX, 2 WIL, see below for attack

mindless goon created by the Quill
fights to the death
roll to determine appearance and attack
Critical Damage - wound leaves a permanent inky scar

d6	appearance	attack
1	vaguely canine form	bite (d6)
2	abstract mountain landscape	landslide (d12)
3	portrait of an oaf	punch & belch (d4), stinks
4	still life with flowers	vase smash (d6)
5	scene from a bullfight	gore (d10), DEX save or lose your next turn
6	detailed architectural rendering	bell tower slam (d10), STR save or deafened for d4 rounds

7 Storeroom

Dried foodstuffs, ale, lard, rope, candles.
10' foot puddle of Ink Ooze seeps from a crack in the wall.
Secret door: Significant damage to the wall will open a passage into Ink Storage.

8 Inner Sanctum

25' vaulted ceiling.
- The Quill floats high above, concealed by the dark.
Stone dais and lectern, dimly lit by 3 three candles.
Shelves along the north wall, full of maps.
- Trail through Windy Pass to the Forgotten Observatory, 75 gp.
- Atlas of Northern Counties and Trade Routes, heavy, 350 gp.
- d4 maps by the Great Cartographer, 50 pg each.
- Any map or document needed to introduce an adventure.

3 closets with false backs concealing hidden rooms.
1. Fine robes, red and black velvet with jewel adornments, 100 gp.
  - Secret door: Decades of hand written business records.
2. Extra bedclothes.
  - Secret door: Shrine to lesser god, defaced by glowing, profane doodles.
3. Empty closet.
  - Secret door: The Cartographer in an ornately sketched birdcage, which behaves as an Astral Prison (Cairn, pg 16). If freed, the Cartographer will tell their story, explaining how the Quill drove them to strange magic to enchance their creative ability. They will freely offer any magical goods taken from the lair as payment for rescuing them. "I need a break from magic."

Is Mightier

An Adventure for Cairn

Cartography by Dyson Logos / Art by Perplexing Ruins