Pillars Built on Sand

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Pillars Built on Sand

Swords of the Sertpentine GUMSHOE Campaign by Pelgrane Press

A masked vigilante!

Mortals made monstrous by a sorcerer’s chains!

A wedding, to summon the goddess who soaks the sands with blood!

Plunge the heroes of your Swords of the Serpentine game into an epic campaign of mystery, intrigue, and swashbuckling action with Pillars Built on Sand. Designed with dark bravura by fantasy master Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this thrilling cycle of five interconnected investigations features warring merchant houses, resourceful urchins, ancient curses, loot-hungry pirates, and marauding toad folk.

In the twisted streets of eternal Eversink, and on its winding canals, your player characters uncover the strange truths of:

• Forty Days and Nights, in which a trading vessel docks at the city’s piers under the yellow flag of plague, bearing a deadly cargo—the dread vampire Gorges, unslain veteran of countless battles.

• The Beast of Sag Harbor, slavering monstrosity by night, child in need of rescue by day.

• Dead Men Sell No Sails, wherein an arsenal blaze sends the heroes up the river and into the forested wilds to protect the city’s lumber supply from the machinations of a secret cult.

• The Stylite of Ironcross, in which the cultists uncover the identity of the costumed adventurer who knows too much about their plans. Can the heroes find her before corrupt magics shatter her mind?

• The Red Foreclosure, when it all comes together and nuptial bells ring, the city’s elite fills its basilica, and a terrible goddess manifests in the titanic, rotting flesh.

One day Eversink’s troubadours will sing of your heroes, and how they courageously raised their swords against this sorcery… but only if they survive the inevitable crumble of Pillars Built on Sand.

Pillars Built on Sand is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.