Honour, your long time adventuring companion needs to find her mother. Many years earlier they were separated when she was taken into the foster care of her uncle and, the last she heard was that her mother inhabited the gang controlled flesh pots and low places in the Mistshore area of the great city of Waterdeep. In truth she is not sure her mother is still alive, and if she is, she is not sure how much she cares. She knows that she must find her though, she is determined to meet with her one last time.

But your task is not so simple and it soon becomes obvious that you are not the only ones seeking Maria Lestry. It appears that the difficulty is not just going to be in finding her, but in making sure you are the only ones who find her and not getting her or yourself killed along the way.

This module follows on from the module series Tales from the lake of Sorrows. The story begins a few months after the ending of Vault of the Damned and carries on with the story threads from that module. It can be played without having played the main campaign and is stand alone in terms of story content.

Text is supplied to give your character and the main npc some background for those who read such things.

Update to 1.1 contains the following modifications:

• Honour's reaction to your finding Mortimer Lestry's diary is extended. Her response is important to the progressing story.
• Yondala is now male and his conversation has been extended if you go and speak to him in the temple after your first meeting.
• The Foxes will attack when provoked,
• The red gate tavern is now properly populated.
• The Maria Lestry painting is no longer an xp mine.
• There is a change in layout to the lower floor of the Lestry mansion and you can now find an artifact that is important to the progressing story.
• Jack Blacks father appear later in the mod under a lamp post outside the Selune temple in the Sea Ward.
• Quite a few typos ...  
  

Things you should know.

Location Forgotten realms – in the area of Water deep.
SettingThe gang controlled area of Waterdeep known as The Mistshore.
Play time7+ hours
Level14 – 16 (17)
Class Any

This story may be played using any character of fourteenth level, you should target around 100,000 exp if you are rolling up a new character yourself, a character of less than level 13 will have their experience set to 102000 in the first conversation and will be awarded enough cash to buy basic supplies.

There are three companions. One will not join until the very end of the module, the other not till you reach the Mistshore. All are required for this module but may be dropped later should you desire. I shall not spoil but there will be a mage, a bard and very much later a swashbuckler variant. There is no custom party building in this mod and no party chat.

Note on combat – Unless you are an experienced tactical player keep all the companions offered to you with you when you can. The combat is balanced to be achievable at Normal difficulty. In general the hardest fighting is in the side quests.

Known Bugs
1.Journal - The journal does not work. I tried many things to fix this and none worked for me so the journal (J key) is blank. Instead talk to Honour and ask about our quests and she will have a journal entry at each stage as well as showing you which are open or closed.
2.Incendiary cloud – During testing, some post combat conversations did not fire when incendiary cloud was used during combat. I take this to be that the spell causes the spell keeps the player in combat mode? I have tried to fix this with scripts and it has been okay since however I would suggest not using this spell.

Transitions are always made without a world map. In some outdoor areas you will find a stone, a sign or an area transition that will get you out. Indoors, stairwells may have area transitions allowing any floor in the building to be selected.

The npc's have back stories which you can access as the module progresses. There are the seeds of the romance options for later in this module series.

Loading instructions

Loading instructions are included in the zipped file.

The module will run from your campaigns start up screen.

Time
This mod is very time based. Shops shut at night and certain npc's are not available at certain times. Resting is restricted in places but generally you can rest where you need to. All of the innkeepers and the occasional sundial, will allow you to pass up to 4 hours without resting so you should never be stuck waiting.

To enter the shops in the Sea ward, walk through the door and the roof will fade. There is no transition to these shops.

What the mod has:
This is a linear story driven module. There are side quests but limited possibilities for sandbox style play. That said there are places to explore with rewards for doing so. The module has a good degree of npc interaction talk to them and they will talk right back :)

Big thanks bit:

Thanks go to the following for their parts in the making and testing of the mod.

Arkalezlth for his play testing and advice on character builds.
Gcoyote for play testing and support.
Septreves for play testing
Officer don for play testing and advice on lore.

Pains for his monster and appearance compilations.

All of the modders who have placed most excellent custom content on the vault in particular RWS for the creature and tile set mods.

Finally my thanks to the forum users who helped with my questions.

Music

There is a fair amount of custom music in this module. I hope that I have captured it all below.

Tillman Sillescu
Opening Well
The Mistshore Holy Grail
The laundryDark Spirit
Tanners GuildThe plauge is on us
Hope Tombsdark flow
Peter Calandra
The Warrens In the mist
The sewers Under the world
Celestial Aeon Project
The ArenaChallenge
Hawkspit Island OuterStraight into ambush
The keepThe Ancients
Epic Soul Factory
Castle Hopememories of a geisha