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M11P 26: SKULLPORT, UPPER LEVEL

were destroyed or driven out during the Spellplague, 34. NIGHTSHADE'S CARESS
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leaving behind a bleak, three-story stone mansion that Displayed in the window of this shop are various herbs,
the Harpers have seized and turned into a hideout. elixirs, vials of poison, and baskets of medicinal fungi.
Felrax, a dragonborn mage with copper-colored The store is cluttered with more such goods, all labeled
scales, watches over the mansion. A light cantrip cast on
his staff allows Felrax to see in the dark interior. If one and clearly priced. The apothecary, Nightshade, is an
or more characters are Harpers, Felrax offers to help undead creature (use the mummy statistics) that looks
like a withered crone dressed in a tattered black robe.
them in one or both of the following ways:
• He allows the party to use the mansion as a sanctuary 35. THE WORM'S GULLET
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and a resting place for as long as they need it. The only restaurant in town is located inside a petrified,
• If the characters need to leave Skullport in a hurry, hollowed-out purple worm. The food and the service
he tells them that Tasselgryn Velldarn (area 27) has have gone downhill ever since Xanathar installed a new
access to a teleportatioo circle and charges 50 gp per manager: a heartless duergar named Gharz Stonedark.
person for its use.
Gharz makes meals out of whatever his kobolds can
32. DUMATHOI~EST find, and patrons are expected to eat whatever Gharz
--- serves them. Common meals include stirge loaf, carrion
Ygarra Urmbaalt, a duergar, appraises gemstones for a crawler souffle, tlumph stew, and hot shrieker pie. The
flat fee of 20 percent of a gem's value. Her establishment house ale is Wyrmwizz, straight from the local distillery
is a one-story, ugly stone building. (area 16). A meal with a drink costs 5 sp per person.

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33. THE OVERFLOWING URN 36. TANOR THAL REFUGE
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This store rests atop another structure that is crumbling Carved by the drow of House Tanor'thal, this stronghold
with age. As a result, the building tilts slightly to the resembles an upside-down spider that looms above the
east. Inside, a man calling himself Garryth sells flasks rest of Skull port like a great, dark god. The spider's
of oil for 5 sp each and casks of pitch for 2 gp each. hollowed-out head, thorax, and abdomen contain win-
Five years ago, a doppelganger killed Garryth and as- dowless living quarters filled with thick webs and a host
sumed his identity after disposing of the body. The dop- of giant spiders. Other denizens of Skullport avoid this
pelganger is content running the business and has no place, making it an excellent refuge once the spiders are
qualms about paying money to Xanathar for protection. cleared out. The drow left nothing of value behind when
they vacated their refuge.

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