1. Locations

The Glitterdust

Establishment
Den'iyas in Upper Menthis Plateau

The Glitterdust is a smoky nightclub in Sharn, legendary among adventurers. Lord Boroman ir’Dayne’s Frostfell expedition launched after a night of revelry here. The royal Aundairian twins Wrel and Wrey danced on the tabletops before they set off on their Dragonreach excursion. The house band is the Jumping Horns, and hobgoblins in jet-black glamer suit guard the doors against the canaille. The hobgoblins collect all weapons at the door, enforcing the policy of the current owner, Vachel Thrace (NG male human rogue 5/bard 1). When asked about his policy, Thrace observed, “The ladies don’t like blood on the dance floor.”

Wailing shardhorns, deep bass, and the lilting contralto voice of Minette Rouge (CG female half-elf bard 5; Perform +7) fill the club every night. Hart Brantby (NG male gnome bard 6; Perform +9), the conductor who doubles as shardhorn soloist, is fond of taking his instrument onto the dance floor and wailing away among the dancers.

The interior of the club is dramatically dark, with the only light coming from the red crystal everbright globes on the small cabaret tables and the luminous purple and red illusory glitter constantly snowing from the ceiling over the dance floor. The clientele is glamorous: nobles with thunder guides about to go on safari, dragonmarked house scions enjoying the fruits of their monopolies, and Sharn debutantes celebrating after the conclusion of their official ball.

Adventure Ideas

From Skyway aristocrats to Cogs miners who have stumbled across a golden Dhakaani heirloom, Sharn’s wealthiest citizens come to be entertained at the Glitter - dust. On any given night, one or more of the following could happen.

  • Graspar Vength (N male gnome bard 3/rogue 3) lost the club to Vachel Thrace in a game of Zilargo Darts sixteen months ago. After forging a deal with House Thuranni to allow the Shadow Network to use the Glitterdust as a front once he recovers ownership, Graspar moves to strike.

    Along with six Thuranni agents (CE male elf rogue 4) and three iron defenders, the vindictive gnome wraps himself in concealing black gauze and assaults the club during its busiest hour. He hopes to slay as many people as possible, with the hope that Thrace will be discredited and forced to relinquish the title back to him.
  • A crash and the scream of splintering wood stop the Jumping Horns in mid-measure. With a mighty goblinoid war cry, Rak Torkaan charges into the room. Armored in the spiked full plate of a Ghaal’dar warlord, the hobgoblin brandishes a serrated falchion and cuts a path to the bandstand. He has planted his own warriors on the Glitterdust security staff; still wearing their jet-black glamersuits, the four hobgoblin bouncers charge the bandstand with him.

    Rak’s target is his first-born son, Mulk, a mighty hobgoblin warrior who has spurned his father’s warband to play the shardhorn in civilized Khorvaire. Mulk (LN male hobgoblin fighter 1/bard 1) begs the PCs to help him so that Rak (LE male hobgoblin fighter 5) cannot drag him back to Darguun.
  • Lady Elspeth d’Wrallin (N female half-elf aristocrat 1/expert 3; Bluff +9, Forgery +4) is carousing with her friends and tossing 10 gp rubies to the wait staff. Quite caught up in the merriment of the evening, she beckons the PCs to her side and vouchsafes a secret: her husband passed away recently, leaving behind a store of Xen’drik artifacts. Rather than go to the trouble of selling them at auction, she is willing to sell them to the PCs. She claims that the rainbow fan is made from lillend feathers, the emerald comb is a Esh’tarn Age barrette, and the iron jar is a drow burial vessel. In fact, the fan and comb are worth only 75 gp each, though Elspeth demands ten times that amount. The iron jar contains a bound hellcat that springs free and attacks its bearer the first time either the jar or its bearer enters the area of effect or is the target of a divine spell.
September 20th, 2019