Episode 4: Dran Enterprises - The Orrery of the Wanderer

Episode 4: Dran Enterprises. Dran Enterprises' Dangerous Business The attacks on Acquisitions Incorporated franchises have left signs indicating that Dran Enterprises is involved. The characters (now 4th level) head to Luskan, seeking to find that organization's secret headquarters, infiltrate it, and determine what Dran Enterprises is up to-and what plans they have for the Orrery of the Wanderer. The search for the headquarters takes the characters first to the rough-and-tumble Fishbone Tavern, then to Arla Razortongue, a disgruntled Dran Enterprises ex-employee running a well-known peg and hook shop. After dealing with thugs sent to quiet Arla, the characters learn the location of Dran Enterprises' secret headquarters, and can plan their infiltration. That headquarters is a seemingly small and unimportant ship at the Luskan docks. But Dran Enterprises' magic has filled the ship with portals leading to some of the faction's many franchises, ships, and business locations. When the characters visit, those portals lead to: A dead ship being consumed by the power of the Far Realm-which quickly threatens to consume the characters as well. A faction warehouse whose overworked attendant will help them only if they help her. A Dran Enterprises cargo ship caught in a raging storm, and which will founder on rocks unless the characters lend the crew a hand. Another cargo ship whose well-armed crew will finish the characters off in short order unless they make their way through the rigging unseen. A Dran Enterprises pirate crew under attack by undead at a remote dock. An array of merchant barges that must be crossed while moving along a busy river. Only by traveling through a sufficient number of these portals can the characters key themselves to activating the portal to Dran Enterprises' true headquarters-a palatial ship named The Maverick. There, they are met by a Dran Enterprises operative who is aware of their quest, and who informs them that Dran Enterprises in fact ha...