“There’s trouble at the Blakros Museum again,” Venture-Captain Adril Hestram growled when you first entered themeeting room in the Grand Lodge earlier this afternoon. “The museum’s curator, Nigel Aldain, came to me this morningasking for help. Apparently, a wayward daughter of his illustriouspatrons, the powerful Blakros family, has disappeared, alongwith a few of the museum’s watchmen who went looking forher. The Society has helped him in the past, and he wants us tofind her, before he loses his job, or worse. Now Nigel’s an oldfriend, and a former Pathfinder, but this kind of missing personcase isn’t really our bailiwick. Normally I’d tell him to find thedistrict guard and leave the Society out of it.“But then he made me an offer that was too good to passup. Not only will he allow the Society access to the BlakrosMuseum’s extensive and very private library, but apparently thissame missing daughter just returned to Absalom with a packfull of ancient relics collected throughout Osirion and northernGarund. And Nigel promised the Society first pick of any ofthose pieces that catch our fancy. I don’t need to tell you whatthose kinds of things might be worth, so it looks like you’reheading to the Blakros Museum tonight.“The missing daughter is named Imrizade Blakros—half-Osirian herself and a pretty successful adventurer and fortunehunterby all accounts. She just arrived in Absalom out of the bluea few days ago, after a couple of years’ worth of tomb-raiding inthe Osirian deserts, and carrying an odd metal cylinder coveredin hieroglyphs, like nothing Nigel has ever seen before. Nigelsays she went straight to the basement of the museum to dosome research in the family’s library, muttering somethingabout ‘whispers in the dark’ and ‘old tapestries,’ or something.He didn’t hear from her for a couple of days, which isn’t unusualwhen someone is deep into their research in the archives, buthe got worried when strange noises started coming from thebasement. He sent a watchman down there to investigate, andwhen he didn’t return, Nigel sent a few more. That was lastnight, and they haven’t come back up either.“Go to the museum and find out what happened to ImrizadeBlakros and the watchmen. Nigel would prefer them alive,of course, especially the Blakros woman, but the Society ismore interested in what she brought back with her. I’ve got ahunch it wasn’t just grave goods and pretty jewelry. Whatevershe found, the Society wants it, or at the very least someinformation about it.”
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