dailyadventureprompts:Faction: Cereburg College “ Per sapientiam est calamitatis temperatam&rd
dailyadventureprompts:Faction: Cereburg College “ Per sapientiam est calamitatis temperatam” The old college motto meaning “By wisdom is calamity tempered” Setup: Nearly three centuries ago, a group of scholars came together to thwart an incursion into their world by a dread power from beyond the firmament. The battle was close, and the cost was great, and in its aftermath the survivors pledged that they would do everything in their power to stop the next such attack, even if it occurred beyond their own lifetimes. Cereburg collage is the manifestation of that oath, an organization dedicated to the study of great truths, such as the nature of the stars, the gods, and the weft of reality, as well as numerous mundane technologies that could provide a defense against future cosmic threats. Though most students are ignorant of the school’s purpose as the collage does not openly proclaim itself the bane of distant and terrible gods, those who have dealings with the unseen world know to expect the custodians of Cereburg to step in should they feel there is any sort of eldritch malfeasance occurring. Adventure Hooks: Attendance at Cereburg is available to those who pay several scaling fees and pass the rigorous exams, though exceptions are usually made for those who can prove themselves either academically or financially gifted. Though operating primarily as a traditional academy for middle and upper-class scions looking to receive accreditation in natural philosophy, the College fast-tracks those who the upper faculty feel could be useful to them in their campaign against the horrors of the cosmos. In particular, players may find themselves recruited into the school’s secret should they possess exceptional intelligence or skill, or are in possession of supernatural gifts that could be cultivated into weapons in the College’s arsenal. Needing to do research for part of their own quest, the party seeks to gain access to the College Library, one of the largest repositories of technical and arcane knowledge on the continent. Doing so will require the donation of several rare artifacts or historical volumes, but will be well worth the trip. On track to find their own answers, the party finds a diary hidden among the shelves which seems to detail a student investigation into the College’s many secrets, including hidden vaults, concealed passages, and the strange rituals conducted by the faculty in their lofty towers. The diary details enough to serve as a map to several of these mysteries, then cuts off violently, the writer apparently never returning to collect their work. Something valuable has been stolen from Cereburg, a relic apparently pertaining to one of the founders and worth a great deal in financial and historical value. Though the college has agents of its own to do this business, they make a public show of hiring the party without ever expecting them to catch the theif. Schemes like these seldom go to plan, and when the party unexpectedly catches up with the thief, a struggle for the relic ensues. IN the chaos, the relic ( a cumbersome reinforced box of beautifully carved and lacquered wood) is broken, revealing the true relic to in fact be the mummified head of a long dead scholar. Things are on track for the party to return their prize and obtain their reward, when the obviously dead head stirs from slumber, yawns, and then begins groggily hurling accusations at the party regarding who the HELL they are and where in the SEVENTEEN METAPHYSICAL SUPERPOSITIONS they are? Keep reading -- source link
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