The Convent of The Weeping Moon

The Convent of The Weeping Moon

A stand-alone Adventure for 4+ characters of APL 4+

A self-contained scenario, that can be easily slotted-in to any campaign, of the appropriate level.
Contains: The Village of Stoneleigh, four levels of dungeon: convent ruins, upper cellars, and catacombs for 52 dungeon locations.

On a misty hill, far from the hustle and bustle of the big cities, lies the blasted ruins of a long-forgotten Convent.
A village living under the shadow of the darkened moon.
An Innkeeper's daughter and her fiancé are missing. The PCs are asked for help.
Have the tentacles of an ancient, long-banished heresy resurfaced, to glide silently through the Convent's moss-covered stones?
... Probably.

INFO FOR THE DM ONLY:

Where to locate The Convent
The ruined Convent is located in a forested area, on an infrequently travelled road, the players stop at the only village for miles around.
The decrepit village used to host pilgrims for the now-ruined Convent, once a place of healing and pilgrimage. A shrine of Umara the Moon Goddess.

The overground convent is now ruins, there is an intact, trapped cellar level below. Below that, a large barracks area, and cathedral-like underground temple.
The opponents are undead, traps, and the insane Clerics of Umara themselves.
 
Plot and background
Forty years ago, a new Mother Superior turned to the dark side of her Moon-worshipping religion: from Umara to Umara in Darkness,
and slowly the convent changed from healers to a sacrificial Witch-cult.
As the Heresies reached fever pitch, the local lord had the place sacked & burned to the ground.
The Catacomb Complex below the ruins survived however, and 35 years later, it has been reoccupied by the same insane Moon Cult.

Difficulty
The Cultists are organised and will put up merciless resistance. The players better be very careful: stealthy and smart play will be needed. They wanted a challenge, right?
 
The Players' Goal
Rescue the Innkeepers daughter and her fiancé from the clutches of the crazed moon cultists, before they are sacrificed ... or worse.
 
SPOILER ALERT
What they don't know:
The inkeeper and his cronies are in league with the cultists, his "daughter" just another traveller they sent up there to be sacrificed, and the adventurers are heading the same way.

44 pages of dark-tinged, Convent-based adventure, with a sting in the tail.
Intended for all 5e-compatible, fantasy role-playing systems, including "the world's most popular RPG".

The Players are travelling far off the well-trodden trade-routes, and in the late afternoon come across the the sleepy village of Stoneleigh. The signs and portents were not good, had they but known.

The Longshadow Inn ... A good place to get a hot meal, and warm bed for the night.
Later, that evening:

Jed: “You gonna tell ‘em then?”

Bran the Inkeeper: “Well I ... er ... Might you fine folks be able
to help me out with a little matter? It’s my daughter
you see, her and her fiancé have disappeared.
They went off two days ago and haven’t been seen since.
We went looking yesterday but there was no sign of
them at all, and I’m worried to death now something’s happened.”

Merin: “We went up there yesterday, found nuthin’
- I reckon they ran off, is all!”

Against the Evil Moon Goddess: Umara in Darkness: twin-sister to the Sun, blasphemy on the face of the blackness.
Just as there is no shadow without light, there is eternally Umara, in Light and Umara in Darkness.
The sickle reaps the bountiful harvest, and the sickle-claw slashes throats at midnight...

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Contains all 6 maps straight out of the Scenario book The Convent of the Weeping Moon, but converted to top-down Battle Maps. Can be used for any other scenario or homebrew.
Maps are numbered and titled for easy use, scaled for pixel-perfect VTT importation.

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The players will need all their guile to survive the sickle-sharp claws of
The Convent of the Weeping Moon.

A scenario for a party of 4+ players of 4th+ level.

One new Divine Domain, with Divine Domain Features
New Divine Domain Spells
4 Poisons