The Case of the Missing Monk

The adventure to bridge the gap between the Cult of Tiamat campaign and the Ravnica campaign

Plot points/Scenes

The morning after the cultist's raid, Greenest is in ruin. Like in the book, Governor Nighthill approaches the party and offers them gold to trail the raiders, and soon after a young monk approaches and begs the party to rescue his master. This begins their pursuit of Leosin Erlanthar.
Unbeknownst to the party, Leosin is secretly a mage who King Harold wishes to recruit to his side. After his many messages went unanswered, the King assumed he was captured and sent a "rescue party". It was actually members of the Cult of Tiamat in Ravenport who were commanded to travel all the way to the Sword Coast and bring Leosin back alive. What the King hadn't expected was that the long journey slowly warped the image of the peaceful rescue mission in the minds of the cultists to a raid of gold for their queen and maybe a monk for the King. This idea was further cemented when they passed a Kobold encampment along the way.
The party tracks the cultists East and will first discover the Kobold encampment. From here, the party has many ways to go about things. They could try to peacefully talk to the Kobolds, or just go buckwild and start doing a lot of encounters. If the Kobolds know they're coming there can definitely be some traps involved. The kobolds don't know much, the least they can say is absolutely nothing and the most they can say is that the cultists who hired them left them with most of the loot.
From here they continue to track the cultists east through the Aster forest. There are many dangerous magical encounters and they come across a wizard who protects the forest. He tells them about the hatred of magic in the kingdom and guides them out of the forest. They begin to catch up with the cultists in the Serpent Hills where they encounter cyclops and Serpentmen. After a serpentman spies the party working with a cyclops, he informs his camp who decide to kidnap the group. The party's food is poisoned and they wake up captured alongside the cultists and Leosin himself.

Plot type

Book 1