Endless Night: Ref's Intro

A Fantasy Core Adventure

© Jerry Harris 2014

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Ref’s Intro

The house is indeed built on a convergence of mystical ley lines.  They connect Azimuth house to the Astral Plane (the Otherworld, the Dreamlands).  While the family was still alive, with their Fey tinged blood, they could easily cross between the worlds there.  Once they all passed, their supernatural spirits would remain and haunt the house, simultaneously linking it to both worlds.

This is a problem for the Sandman, the Lord of the Dream Realm.  As detailed in the Power Groups section, the house has become a battleground for competing Fey forces, the Elves and the Goblins.  Further, the presence of this piece of “reality” in the Astral Plane, is like an festering infection.  It needs to be treated.  Because of its ley line location and the fey nature of the spirits, even the physical destruction of the house won’t end the haunting.  It has to be exorcised. 

Thus the presence of characters.  It is by his careful maneuvering, the Sandman has made sure that this group of, hopefully, worthy adventurers have come into possession of a Veil Parting ceremony spell and knowledge of Azimuth House’s potential riches.  The Dream Lord cannot directly aid or advise them, but can indirectly guide them into exorcising the haunting spirits which anchor the house to the mortal world.  What the group doesn’t know is that their spell only works one-way.  Once the group is inside the Dream version of the house, their only exit is by severing these connections and gaining the Sandman’s favor.     

Various spirits of the Creighton family have taken up permanent, undead residence in the house and anchor it to both places simultaneously.  The party will hear the grandfather clock in the Saloon chime each time they put down a spirit.  Exorcising all of these spirits, will loose the anchors and place the house firmly back in reality.  The party hopes to return with the family’s wealth with them to the real world.  The characters will just need to stay alive to divide it.