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      2 			   SUNLESS CITADEL NOTES
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      4 				   RUMORS
      5 HOOK:	The legend of the Sunless Citadel is well known! Discovery, glory,
      6 	and treasure await!
      7 HOOK:	Another party of advenenturers delved into the Sunless Citadel a month
      8 	past. They were never seen again! Talgen and Sharwyn Hucrele went off
      9 	with Sir Braford and Karakas. Braford had a magic sword. Kerowyn
     10 	Hucrele offers salvage rights to you and your team if you can find
     11 	and return the two lost members of her family--or at least return with
     12 	the two gold signet rings worn by the missing brothre and sister. She
     13 	also offers a reward of 125 golds per signet ring. If you can bring
     14 	both children back, she will triple the reward.
     15 HOOK:	A goblin tribe sells a perfect apple at midsummer that cures all disease	What is their game?
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     17 No one knows for sure what the Sunless Citadel once was, but legends hint that
     18 it served as the retreat of an ancient dragon cult.
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     20 The Old Road skirts the Ashen Plain, a lifeless area. The long ago rampage of
     21 a dragon named Ashardalon caused the desolation.
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     23 Cattle herders don't graze their stock too far afield these days. They're
     24 frightened by stories of new monsters that maraud at night. From time to time,
     25 cattle and people who have gone out alone at night have been found dead the
     26 next day, bearin dozens of needle-like wounds. No one has seen the creatures
     27 that cause the mayhem, nor do they leave a discernable trail.
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     29 If the seeds from the perfect apples the goblins give out are planted, they
     30 grow into a twiggy mass of twisted sapling stems. Not too long after they
     31 reach 2 feet, though, they are stolen. Every time.
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     33 The missing adventurers include a fighter (Talgen Hucrele), a wizard (Sharwyn
     34 Hucrele), a paladin of Pelo (Sir Braford), and a ranger (Karakas). Sir Braford
     35 was not a local, and he had a magic sword called Shatterspike.
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     37 Sometimes the goblins offer a different apple at midwinter. This apple is corpse
     38 white and poisonous, even to the touch. No samples of either apple are to be had
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