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By: Jason Sonia

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THE SILVER BOX

Introduction:

With Khadoran forces entrenched within the once proud nation of Llael and Cygnar pressed to defend

her own borders, the forces that once policed these proud nations have all but disappeared. Even in Ord, who

has yet to act in the war that is rapidly sweeping Immoren, the roads have become a dangerous place to be

caught unprotected. With war nearly on all fronts, the Mercarian League and the Mateu Merchant Houses’

rivalry has reached all new heights. This competition has prompted both parties to secure Letters of Marque

from Cygnar, thrusting them into a battle for many of the trade routes used throughout western Immoren. In

doing so, both parties have taken to raiding one another’s vessels and have recently discovered a dangerous

Cryxian item in the process...

“The Silver Box” is an adventure designed for 4-6 characters ranging from levels 4-5, with a total party level

equal to about twenty-ﬁve levels. While this adventure was written speciﬁcally with Privateer Press’s ™ Iron

Adventure Background:

Box. Having received his orders, Brock began to do

his own research and discovered that the item was to

be shipped to Tarna. He then hired the “Blackwood

Adventuring Company” to intercept it with instruc-

tions to bring it to him afterward.

Brock, ever the fan of intrigue, discovered

among the “Blackwood Adventuring Company” an

ambitious young wizard named Jeriko whom ex-

pressed interest in one day running the band of merce-

naries. Using this information, Brock convinced Jeriko

to secure the box and then betray his friends (and laid

out the plans that would later result in the ambush

at the cave). Having summoned a Mechanithrall to

kill all of the senior members of the gang, Brock and

Jeriko ﬂed back to Five Fingers to await the arrival of

Captain Redcrowe and their due rewards...

In the spring of 605, a Mercarian League

trading vessel known as the ‘Moon’s Reprieve’ came

under ﬁre off the coast of southern Cygnar from a pri-

vateer believed to be aligned with the Mateu Merchant

House. After a brief but one-sided battle, the crew of

the ‘Sea’s Dawn’ boarded the ‘Moon’s Reprieve’ and

made off with most of her cargo. Among the booty,

Captain Douglas Nightengard secured a chest full of

items the captain of the ‘Moon’s Reprieve’ claimed

she had discovered ﬂoating adrift north of the Scharde

Islands. These items proved to strike the captain’s

fancy, and he placed them under lock and key until

he reached port (Dockgrav) in Five Fingers. Once

the ‘Sea’s Dawn’ made port in Five Fingers, Captain

Douglas Nightengard selected several items from the

chest to be gifted to the Mateu Merchant House as a

tribute. Among these items, the very curious ‘Silver

Box’ passed into the hands of Lady Ashley Mateu,

where it has remained until liberated by a recent bandit

attack.

Unbeknownst to Lady Ashley Mateu, the Mer-

carian League was recently contacted by a ‘mysterious

noble’ from southern Cygnar who claimed to own the

cargo picked up by the ‘Moon’s Reprieve’. After this

gentleman Lord Nameth (who is secretly an Iron Lich

Lord) made a sizable donation to the League’s cof-

fers, it quickly informed him that the items had been

claimed by the privateer Captain Douglas Nightengard

and were likely being sold off in Five Fingers. Lord

Nameth quickly contacted an agent named Brock in

Five Fingers and ordered him to retrieve the Silver

Adventure Synopsis:

This adventure commences as the PCs, who

are traveling to or from the city of Five Fingers,

encounter a group of bandits who are holding up a

noble’s carriage. The PCs are drawn into the conﬂict

when it becomes evident that the bandits plan on ex-

ecuting the helpless nobles and any witnesses while a

portion of their party escapes with the goods. With her

coachmen dead, the noble woman and her lover im-

plore the PCs to recover the items. The PCs then track

the bandits back to a cave, only to ﬁnd the group dead

in their own lair, the box and items missing. After sev-

eral encounters in the cave complex, the PCs discover

several clues that lead them by river or horse to Five

Fingers looking for the box (and those who made off

with it).

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