fixing item placement
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Roll or choose. The entries are deliberately short; fuller versions appear later
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| d20 | Complication |
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| 1 | **Thera catches the cellar party returning.** She asks what they found and gently reminds them that Mags owns every secret below. |
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| 2 | **Mags notices the black key is missing.** She closes the kitchen and searches everyone who passed through it. |
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| 2 | **Mags notices Orenn's black key is missing.** She closes the kitchen and searches everyone who handled the body or passed behind the bar. |
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| 3 | **Dace recognizes stolen evidence.** He offers silence in exchange for seeing it first. |
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| 4 | **Haddon recognizes old summoner equipment.** He publicly asks why the party is carrying it and who opened the lower rooms. |
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| 5 | **Sevra demands a chain of custody.** Evidence without a named finder and location will not move the House. |
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@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ The clues are designed to point at both factions while the truth (the fiend) hid
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| The brawl timing | Witnessed | — | The brawl (started by Kael) provided perfect cover for the murder |
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| Assassin code violation | Conversation with Kael | — | If the guild is willing to brawl in neutral ground, are they willing to kill? |
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| Dace's helpfulness | Social observation | Insight 16 | Dace is too eager to help — steering investigation toward cultists |
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| Dace's ritual-marked dagger | Debris just outside the bar | Medicine or Poisoner's Kit 12 | The blade carries Essence of Ether and Order markings, but no blood; it links Dace to the cult without explaining Orenn's death |
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| Contract dispute motive | Both factions | — | The guild has a financial motive — Orenn's neutral ground protects the cultists too |
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| Mole evidence | Kael, Haddon's journal | — | Someone in the guild is selling kills — how deep does the corruption go? |
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@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ The victim vanishes during one of Xarrul's manufactured distractions.
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- The disappearance is noticed.
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- Twinkle's agitation, a disturbed lower ward, or Mags's private alarm confirms that someone entered the Deep Cellar.
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- Haddon knows enough about the building's original containment to understand the direction, but Mags refuses to let the cultists enter her secret operation.
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- She takes the black key and goes alone, intending to retrieve the missing person and keep the cells hidden.
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- She takes her matching black key and goes alone, intending to retrieve the missing person and keep the cells hidden.
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- Xarrul kills her before beginning the Hollowing. It will not risk the owner of the house interrupting the transfer.
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### The Hollowing
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@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Counterplay should remain possible:
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- A PC follows Mags or refuses to let her go alone.
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- Twinkle or the lower alarm reacts to the wrong scent and movement.
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- The false Mags lacks the black key, gets a private memory wrong or handles Orenn's body without genuine grief.
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- The false Mags may fail to take Mags's matching black key; Orenn's copy may also remain in a PC's known possession. It may instead get a private memory wrong or handle Orenn's body without genuine grief.
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- Mags escapes Cell One or leaves a message in the scratched door.
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- A PC with truesight, Moonbeam or comparable shapechanger detection exposes it.
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