The Hollow City is a shadow-cloaked sprawl where stone towers rise like broken teeth and gaslamps flicker through the perpetual fog. Built atop the remains of a vast, ancient dungeon, the city hums with whispered legends and unresolved fear. Recently, the last great detective— Arden Vale—vanished without a trace while chasing down the truth behind a string of disappearances. Since then, the city has settled into uneasy silence, its officials uninterested or unwilling to face the truth lurking beneath their streets.
The campaign begins as disappearances spike once more. Street urchins, merchants, and every day citizens vanish in the night, leaving behind only cryptic signs and empty broken rooms. The authorities turn a blind eye, too entangled in politics, debt, and fear. When a desperate patron hires the players to dig into the mystery, they become the city’s last hope. As they trace cryptic clues through rain-soaked alleyways, forgotten manors, and ruined temples swallowed by the city’s foundations, they find themselves walking the same path that consumed Arden Vale—one paved with lies, secrets, and horrors clawing up from the depths.
What begins as a missing persons case quickly unravels into a deadly conspiracy. Cults, corrupt officials, and ancient powers stir in the dark, bound together by something festering in the bowels of the Hollow City. The players must descend into the city’s underlayers—once-sealed dungeons riddled with traps, monsters, and arcane echoes—where the line between past and present, man and monster, grows dangerously thin. Every step deeper reveals more of the truth Vale died chasing. But will the players survive long enough to bring it to light, or will they vanish into legend like so many before.
- Characters will start at level 1 with max HP and should choose a profession suited to the urban environment that would befit being hired to the party.
