The Arsonists Almanac Issue 2

The Arsonists Almanac is an unofficial fanzine for Spire: The City Must Fall RPG, a game of revolution in the mile high city where the drow struggle to overthrow their Elvin oppressors.

Here in Issue 2 is the one-shot scenario "The Mellified Man". Complete with maps, tables and pre-generated player characters, it includes everything you need to get playing at the table (apart from the RPG rules themselves for which you will have to go to games publishers: Rowan Rook and Decard ).

"The Mellified Man"

TLDR: Crash a party and ruin everyone's day. A sticky end!

The Council of Seven is the face of Aelfir government in Spire, but a complex dance of interested parties operate in the background trying to corral power, craft policy & influence decisions. Clubs, drawing rooms and private dining salons are the battlefield on which this clandestine political tug-of-war takes place. Aelfir high society being what it is, the fashionable, wittiest, & most debauched hold sway. Whoever can host the most outrageous party, deliver the purest experience or evoke the deepest emotion can capture the ear of the Councils influential advisors.

Viscount  Bright-Warden-of-the-Grey-Castle hosts an exclusive, invite-only dining club, where unusual and exotic delicacies are consumed and the jaded senses of the Aelfir are revitalised. He has organized a sensory coup, having hired the Azurite drow Mologa Milhouse (“the import and export of exotic rarities a particular speciality”) to secure a legendary confection, the Mellified Man. The Viscount is convinced that this will turn the head of several key figures, gaining him unfettered access to the Nujab hinterland and the treasures that lie therein, fueling his inevitable political rise. His rival, Her Eminence Under-Bishop Tiller-of-the-Palm-Trees has caught wind of this planned sensation and will stop at nothing to spoil the Viscounts plans.

But the Mellified Man might bring other complications - its existence would be important to the Deep Apiarists who will likely regard it as a holy artifact, the Morticians claim the dead as their property and the legendary preservation and healing properties of the Mellified Man are right in their bailiwick, the Knights of St Gwylim, ostensibly hired to provide security, aren’t above a little larceny on the side, and agents of Plür are already searching for their purloined relic. On top of that, the Mellified Man may not be, strictly speaking, fully 100% dead.

As agents of the Ministry the players are tasked with ruining the party and spoiling  everyone's day!

The scenario includes:

• Floor plan to the Inn of the Brittle Bow
• Menu handout
• Random Knight Generator for the Order of St. Gwylim
• A host of NPC's and encounters
• 6 pre-generated player-characters
• A random drow generator for servants, patrons, stevedores and various ne'er do wells