2024 5e: Darkness Over Falcons Hollow

TEXT ONLY GAME with ingame TEXT on roll20 and ooc TEXT on discord.

Settled in the darkmoon vale southwards of Droskars Grave a volcanic mountain range the village of Falcon's Hollow lies. A woodworking settlement of 1,400 brave souls near the borders of different kingdoms they have often to fend for themselves against monsters, bandits and invaders. Thus the village has wooden palisades surrounding it.

It is run by magistrate Vamros Harg who himself is in the pocket of the greedy lumber consortium and the boss of its local office Thuldrin Kreed.

The town proper lives from exporting the black timber of the darkwood forest, which is almost as hard as stone, while despite the Sheriffs best efforts to quell the underworld movements inside the village, the guards of Kreed alongside Payden "Pay Day" Teedum run the core of almost everything inside of it. Be it gambling in one of the inns, spying on adventurers and eliminating the most troublesome of their kind or just running the red-light district of the town, they are responsible for it all and nearly untouchable at that.

But that all is about to change when new threats arrive and darkness falls over Falcons Hollow. A white wolf hunts merchants heading into the village, and brings forth a food shortage. Kobolds are hunting woodworkers and also children playing outside. The halfway house a local orphanage also has seen better times, especially situated halfway between the village and the forest and last but not least a mysterious sickness is rapidly spreading among its inhabitants.

And to make matters worse, rumors begin to circulate that an ancient red dragon has risen near the Volcano and something else, something way darker is beginning to stir somewhere near it.

Are you hero enough to save the village from impending doom and lift the shadows surrounding it?

Houserules:
+1 starting feat, you can restart rolling once. If you still roll extremely bad (2+ values below 10), you get a free reoll each if you so want.

18+ so that I do not need to tone down brutality (the village is dark at times).