Story

Our adventure starts in Atrebatia, a large continent home to many cultures and people, within a small town in the South of the Aradonian Empire called Baumbuck, most famous for the Baumbuck family ale business. The party have few options in the rural town of Baumbuck. There are small businesses selling boats, fishing tackle and agricultural supplies. There's a couple of run down taverns, the cheapest near the shore front. The richest part of the town is the historic centre around the old Baumbuck Fort which acts as a tourist centre with an ale brewing site with free samples, boat tours and festivals in the Green. The area is generally used as a pit stop along the Helms Way

If players choose to stay/investigate local folklore about hauntings and pirates, the oldest tavern The Gull's Gullet has an infamous reputation. The owner of the tavern is an old man named simply as Bill. The rooms are fairly cheap at a silver per person, but he offers to reduce the fees to a copper per person if they agree to help with tasks in the tavern during their stay. These tasks include cleaning the basement, where spiders and rats turn out to be an infestation of imps. Cleaning reveals a smugglers passage which Bill denies the existence of.

After leaving Baumbuck: Suspicious deaths of people begin to be linked to their ale, there is a ban on their ale and the family fall into disrepair. It turns out the family were cutting corners to make more money by importing ingredients from across the border with the Sidon Empire. Increased tensions result around Nostoc as investigations reveal only certain batches aimed at aristocratic families had been spoiled.

Baumbuck ale, sample different types in town. Outskirts of empire. Staying in tavern hear ghost stories and legends of basement. turns out basement is infested with rats that need exterminating, which turn out to be shapeshifting imps. The basement of the tavern leads to a blocked underground passage full of mould -

After they leave Baumbuck, have town criers talk about the Baumbuck Scandal - Series of Deaths attributed to consumption of Baumbuck ale.

The party for various individual reasons find themselves meeting in the town of