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Troika Cheat Sheet
Troika Generators

Prison Processing

• U-shaped rocks with open space in the middle ->
  • Holding Cells line one side
  • Guard quarters line the other
• Man at a table -> has tankard and cups and bread and a sign
  • Sign says "Need Coin?"

Holding Cells

• Large shell from the grub along the wall
  • 3 Different cells, 2 are empty -> Prisoners yell out for food

Guard Quarters

• Wooden structure two stories tall
• Tables out front with guards lounging and gambling

Man at Table

• Sign says, "Need Coin"

• Table has Tankard and cups and bread

• Man named "Hector" -> one-eyed dwarf, singed beard

  • Explains there is money to be made with the Dungeon Master (Exeter Hallow)
    • Cleaning up after games, and preparing for new ones
    • Its not safe, but pays well.
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    • Undercity Dungeon Notes

Adventures

• Corpse detail - Moving corpses from prison to the grub
• Delivery to Kitchen Bugs
• Hauling bricks

School

• Gated with stone and metal gate -> Sign above says, "Undercity School of Champions" -> Plaque on the wall saying school was built in the year 1098 (50 years prior), and letter of approval from the game master received in 2003.
• If they arrive around school start or exit
  • Professor Abel will offer a guest lecture paid at 6 silver -> Abel is dressed in a suit, his head is a stitched chimpanzee head.
• If they arrive at another time
  • Grounds keeper will ask if the party can secure a drug called Dig Quick.
    • He'll pay 3 silver per dose
    • DigQuick is a drug used by miners to stay productive longer than 10 hours.
    • Kids use it to study and train

Adventures

• Headmaster needs a Dolm that is haunting the school captured
• Investigate rumors of magically inclined kids kidnapping others for ritual practice
• Extra muscle is needed for the upcoming seafood boil. They lost too many people at the last one

City Center

• Large fountain built around a pillar -> Sprays a pearlescent ichor
  • Drinking is TYL or gain tremorsense and blindness for 1 day
• Manicured gardens -> Very bright streetlights provide light
• Lots of folks gathered around talking in group -> Some are doing business deals

Adventures

• Pickpocket going after someone else
• Pickpocket going after party member
• Overhearing business deal that is lucrative
• The fountain stops due to a clog in the dungeon
• Need buy/find/steal more daybug essence for the grow lights

Market

Market of Found Things

• Bustling market with between 100-200 stalls stretching numerous blocks
• Vendors deal in any and all odds and ends mostly from things that are "Found" from the games
• Has some police presence but spread out enough for folks skilled in crime to succeed

Notable Vendors

• Bernie's Saddles and Livery - Now a tavern
• Mad Mertle's Mining Emporium - Tent for tools and gear, spans multiple tent sites
• Quack Craft - Blacksmith making all kinds of things. Operated by a burly man with the head of a duck

"Tick" Market

• "Tick" is short for Ticket holders or Ticketed people
• A much nicer market that is backed by the arena itself only available to ticket holders
• A suited ape bouncer guards the heavy draperies that allow you in
  • Once inside it is crowded with well adorned stalls in twisting alleyways
  • Exotic smells and spices fill the air
  • Guard apes swim in the air above
• Only 20-50 stalls and vendors
• The arcade locks up at night
• Heavy police presence
• Magical, unique, and potent things are sold or made here

Notable Vendors

• Alchemical Victory
• Winning Weapons
• Luxury Imported

Black Market

• You'd have to follow a kid thief or criminal to find it unless you're told
• Exists in a pocket dimension inside a cardboard box.
  • The ceilings are awkward height for adults where you aren't sure if you should hunch or crawl.
  • Jazz music plays inside and it has a floral scent that is surprisingly pleasant
    • Floral scent helps eliminate aggression
• Operates in cooperation amongst criminal gangs
• 5 Stalls representing the gangs

Gangs

• Ticketless
• Little Hand Gang
• Army of the GM
• Stanfield Organization
• Grublords

Adventures

• Pickpocketed by someone from the Little Hand Gang
• Party tries to get scammed when they're seen buying a ticket
• Vendor of Found things wants the party to go fetch an item from somewhere in the undercity or another area
• Squatters need to be removed from Bernie's Saddles and Livery
  • Actually upper game contestents that are hiding out and refusing to continue

Gambling Hall

• Gambling hall is a large A-Frame style building floating about 100 feet up
  • Spotlights light it from the ground below
  • Bouncers at the bottom let you into a basket hauled up by Nermal, a person with 10 foot long arms
• Operated by Stanfield Organization
• Illegal but EVERYONE goes here
• Can gamble anything here at typical gambling games
• Operates on multiple levels based on wealth
  • 1. Lounge and exchange
  • 2. Low-rollers 1-100 silver
  • 3. Medium-rollers 101-1000 sliver and/or tickets
  • 4. High-roller or VIP 1001+

Adventures

• Someone bumps into party with chips that spill
  • Brings party up to high-roller as apology
  • Actually a con-man
• Couple gets into an argument about how much money they're losing, drags the party in. Party has to keep the one in a bad mood out of trouble
• An off duty prison guard recognizes the party
• Party is asked to collect debts
  • Losers
  • Government official by sending a message
  • Family

Eastern Ridge:

• Fires burned through over a decade ago but still many buildings are charred
  • Smells like charred wood and burnt bread
  • Char slugs live in the burnt ruins covering things with their slime that eventually hardens to plastic like material
• Home to Left Hand Gang and Ticketless

Adventures

• Memorial service for the fires lead to uncovering the truth
• Left Hand Gang wants "Adults" to provide cover in the market
• Ticketless believe in overthrowing the arena. Want the party to heist a load of gems
• Goblin lair has emerged in the ruins

North Central "NoCa":

• Most affluent neighborhood with many city officials
  • Many homes are fenced with carved grub carapice
  • Personalized lighting bugs the size of basketballs to light yards and homes
  • Truly affluent have "Petitioners" who are paid to act like they want something from the home
  • Homes are built out of polished stones, bricks, gems
  • Homes are often guarded
• Home to Stanfield Organization

Adventures

• "Ladies of the City" would like help distributing hot meals to the workers heading to Logistics and Automata
• A "Sleeping Sickness" is spreading because of a Separator
• Greg Silver never came home from work from the Logistics center
  • He's got another family and doesn't want to go home

West Ridge:

• Most populated with buildings reaching into the 10-20 story range
  • Buildings bend in gentle curves and look often like many buildings stacked onto one another
    • Some are brightly colored, some much more faded
• Home to Army of the GM

Adventures

• Porters run into party who can get some money for their trouble and are offered a job
• Neighborhood watch wants them to help track down a night thief
• A pet is floating, save it
• Venemous slugs are destroying gardens, get rid of them
• Army of the GM is having a party and games like target practice
  • Lead to recruitment
  • Main job is enforcement and thugs
  • Believe in the divinity of the GameMaster and protect the Arena and its "True purpose"

Tremor Town:

• Least built up, half ruined due to constant threat of dungeon
  • Often small grubs around the streets
  • Small burrows etched into everything
  • Yeasty smell everywhere
• Home to Grublords

Adventure

• Dungeon Master will hire for:
  • Corpse cleanup
  • Trap reset
  • Macguffin stocking

Arena

• Built out of bricks, the structure stands several stories tall like a amphitheater
• Contains gladitorial arena but the inner rooms contain many smaller or other games and administration
• Operated by Arena Staff
• Tickets are available at 100 silver for 1

Games

• Gladitorial 1 person 1 ticket, prize
• City Run 1 person 1 ticket, prize
  • Frequent sabotage by Grublords

Adventures

• Group offers to enter party with them, but wants to use them as human shields
• Contestants hire staff to sabotage other players on a city run
• Short staffed Arena needs party to escort kids and one disappears

Temple

• Main temple is to the Game Master who is an avatar of a god of chance
  • Lit by floating dice that spin periodically
  • Head priest is a floating disk with many faces that represent emotions that spin to the correct emotion
    • Named Elbion
• Many smaller temples exist in the area

Minor Temples

• Feculent Grub
• God of Patronage
• Go-lat the Champion

Adventures

• Crypt duty with oddly specific rules
• Guarding the donations
• Hired to disrupt Parade, then parade goers want to hire for the same against another based on how effective they were
• Corrupt priest offers exclusive prayer before drugging and robbing the party

Tables

Rumors

Point Encounters

Roll before the party enters the area

1. A religious parade
2. Pickpockets
3. Ruffians
4. Hawks stealing small children and pets
5. Slime has flooded the neighborhood
6. Raid by arena enforcers
7. Gang fight
8. Gang war
9. Building collapse
10. Fire
11. Lights out
12. Escaped monster
13. Bad spell causes strange effect
14. Travelling merchant set up shop and is yelling at everyone to buy snake oil
15. Prisoner march
16. Parade for contestants
17. Trade strike
18. Something has moved in
19. Something in the water has transposed language for another
20. Rapid growth of fungus is blighting an area