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The world is a much stranger place than we could ever
have anticipated. We are now plagued by the spirits of
the restless dead, by grymkin sprung from the pages of
children’s storybooks, and by dreadful infernals from
beyond the worlds of the living or the dead who hunger for
our souls. We do not hide from these terrors but shine our
light on them without fear or flinching.
—Hamilton Jenkins,
Strangelight Workshop Field Agent (deceased)

This adventure is designed for three to seven 1st- to 4th-level

characters and is optimized for five characters with an average
party level of 1.
This adventure occurs in the Iron Kingdoms’ nation of Ord
in the city of Merin. There, a branch of the Strangelight
Workshop has put out a call for capable individuals who do
not balk in the face of the inexplicable, hoping to recruit a new
team of field agents.

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 BACKGROUND
The Strangelight Workshop is the foremost independent
institution in the Iron Kingdoms dedicated to the study of
supernatural phenomenon. Founded by the eccentric Jacob
Strathmoore to observe, catalog, and respond to all manner
of paranormal entities, the Workshop has spread to each of
the nations of humanity, with branch offices appearing in
many major cities across the continent.
To perform their work, field teams make use of several
technological marvels unique to the Strangelight Workshop.
These devices are mechanika, a fusion of magic and
technology that can achieve things neither field of study can
do on its own. The most iconic of these mechanikal devices,
from which the Workshop takes its name, is the Strangelight
projector. Under its shifting purple radiance, the invisible is
made visible. No manner of specter, infernal, or grymkin can
hide their true nature when bathed in the Strangelight.
A Strange Light Breaks centers on a new branch office of
the Strangelight Workshop. Far from the headquarters of
the organization, this branch office is just launching and is
looking for new recruits to fill out its first field team.
At least, that’s what the unusual senior field officer Emil
Todmann wants the characters to believe.
The Iron Kingdoms
The world you are about to enter is the Iron Kingdoms, a place
where the power and presence of gods are beyond dispute,
where mankind battles itself as well as all manner of fantastic
races and exotic beasts, and where a blend of magic and
technology called mechanika shapes industry and warfare.
Outside the Iron Kingdoms themselves—the human nations on
the continent called Immoren—the vast and unexplored world
of Caen extends to unknown reaches.
The Iron Kingdoms is a setting whose inhabitants must rely
on heroes with the courage to defend them using magic and
steel, whether in the form of rune-laden firearms or steam-
driven weapons of war. The factions of western Immoren are
vulnerable to corruption from within and subject to political
intrigue and power struggles. All the while, opportunistic
mercenaries profit from conflict by selling their temporary
allegiance for coin or other favors. It is a world of epic legends
and endless sagas.
Enter the Iron Kingdoms, and discover a world like no other!
Text that appears like this is meant to be read aloud
or paraphrased to the players, typically at the start
of an encounter or when the characters arrive at a
location for the first time.
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OVERVIEW
The adventure’s overall story is split into three smaller parts.
Part One: First Day on the Job. In part one, the
characters are introduced to their contact within the
Strangelight Workshop and the jobs board of tasks the team
can undertake.
Part Two: Hard Luck Town. Part two consists of several
gigs in different parts of the city. Each gig involves a unique
paranormal entity and has its own objectives.
Part Three: End of Watch. In the third and final part of
the story, the team returns to the chapterhouse after a day (or
two) of hard work, where they discover things are not quite
what they seem within the Strangelight Workshop.
CREATURE INFORMATION
Stat blocks for the various creatures and entities the
characters will encounter are presented in Appendix
B: Creatures.
ADVENTURE HOOKS
In A Strange Light Breaks, the characters form a team of new
recruits working for the Strangelight Workshop. Players
should come up with their own reasons for why their
characters would take on a job performing such unusual
work: a desire to learn more about the supernatural, a brush
with similar creatures in the past, being down on their luck
and ready to take the first job that comes along, etc.
Players who need some inspiration can roll on the
Character Motivation table below or pick one they like
to determine their character’s reason for joining the
Strangelight Workshop.
Character Motivation
d6 Motivation
1 Fanatic
2 Glory Hound
3 Pact Bound
4 Pantomath
5 Survivor
6 Vendetta
FANATIC
What once may have been considered a healthy—if unusual—
curiosity about the paranormal has transformed into a full-
blown obsession. Whether due to constant stress or growing
delusions of grandeur, you have been consumed by the need
to be in contact with the supernatural. Everyone around you
grows increasingly worried about you, and you do not have
the heart to tell them the truth, which is: they should be.
GLORY HOUND
You’ve always known that true immortality belongs to
the innovators and trailblazers who redefine the borders
of human knowledge. You resolve to be counted among
their number, and you know that your best path to glory
is through the Strangelight Workshop. With this in mind,
you have committed yourself to being a pioneer of occult
research, either in actuality or—at the very least—in the
eyes of others.
PACT BOUND
Due to incredibly desperate or foolish circumstances, you
have found yourself caught in a pact with dark supernatural
entities. In a last-ditch effort to save what remains of your
soul, you joined the Strangelight Workshop, hoping to find a
solution to your predicament before you become the subject
of one of their next cases.
PANTOMATH
To you, the pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling.
Rather than restrict yourself to mere academics, however,
your passion stems from a visceral desire to unravel the
deeper mysteries of the world. In your mind, anything can be
understood and rationally explained, no matter how bizarre
or extraordinary a situation may initially appear. In times of
great mental stress, these same motivations can cause you
to withdraw into your intellect, leading you to compulsively
make observations at the expense of personal safety.
SURVIVOR
You suffered at the hands of the supernatural even before
you were aware of its existence. Though similar experiences
would cause most people to shrink from further contact with
the supernatural and the inexplicable, you will not let fear
control you. You know the best way to stay safe is to learn
more about these strange threats and then confront them,
but if things get too intense, you’re not above making a
break for it.
VENDETTA
Some say revenge is a dish best served cold, and if that is
so, then your blood must be ice. You lost a loved one to a
supernatural entity or suffered the effect of such a creature
yourself. Whatever the cause, you have a ceaseless need to
right the wrong done to you by preventing it from happening
to anyone else or by helping to imprison whatever occult
creatures cross your path. Under most circumstances, you
are able to act rationally, even when confronted with such
beings, but when exposed to too much, you are prone to
seeing red and losing control as you attempt to destroy any
specter, shade, or other similar creature you encounter.
PART ONE:
FIRST DAY ON THE JOB
In this part, the characters learn about the chapterhouse of
the Strangelight Workshop they will be operating out of,
meet important NPCs, and study the job board to find gigs.
OUTPOST #113
The Branch Office of the Strangelight Workshop has seen
better days. Half of the roof sags alarmingly, and the windows
that aren’t boarded over are paned with grimy panels of
soot-stained glass. Above the doors, a large sign declares the
structure as “Post Delivery Outpost #113.”
A much smaller, handwritten sign on the door claims
otherwise. Above an elaborate emblem in the shape of a
rune-circled lantern, it reads “Strangelight Workshop Branch
Office. Candidates: Inquire Within.”
Ask the players to introduce their characters and to share
what brings them to the Strangelight Workshop. The
characters don’t need to previously know one another, as
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they will be sorted into a team together by the chapter head,
Emil Todmann. However, characters may have relationships
dating back prior to their time with the Workshop—they
might be friends or rivals from the same town, signed up
for the Workshop on a bet, or one might be looking out
for the other.
When you’re ready to proceed, read the following aloud:
Within the front room of the structure, a skinny man with
a faded and drooping mustache and wearing a threadbare
mail carrier’s uniform stands behind the front desk of
the chapterhouse. He smooths his whiskers down and
clears his throat.
In a hoarse voice, the man says, “If you’re here to post a letter,
this office is no longer engaged in such activities, despite my
current uniform—I assure you, had the rail company not lost my
luggage, I would be wearing something much more appropriate.
If, however, you seek to pull back the veil of mystery on matters
supernatural and unfathomable, to shine a cold light into the
deep shadows of ignorance and burn away the darkness of
superstition, then I welcome you to this, the newest branch office
of the Strangelight Workshop.”
The man’s eyes dart to something just out of view behind
the front desk, as if he’s reading his speech off a note card.
He finishes his short delivery with a stiff gesture at the
dilapidated and dusty office before looking you in the face.
Todmann introduces himself as the senior field agent of
the new branch office. He explains to the characters that the
Workshop decided on this location due to a proliferation of
supernatural occurrences in town. He advises the characters
to look at the jobs board to see what the locals have been
complaining about recently. He then tells them that he’ll see
to their equipment supplies once they’ve chosen a job.
EMIL TODMANN
Neutral male undead desk clerk
Todmann is, in fact, a specter, though he is not aware of
this condition. He appears as a cynical brown-skinned Ordic
man in his early fifties dressed in a mail-carrier’s uniform—
which he has explained away to himself as an issue with
his luggage.
He strives to be helpful to the field agents. This specter was
one of the first encounters of the Strangelight Workshop in
the city, and while they were unable to make him pass on to
the other side, they were able to give him some purpose to
prevent him from becoming a violent spirit.
Motivation: Ignorance. There are holes in Todmann’s
memory, and he’s happy to stay in the dark about them. He
focuses on his work at the field office to avoid looking too
deeply into his own past.
Mannerisms: Todmann is always faintly scowling, even
when he’s being friendly.
Quote: “New jobs are posted on the board.”
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 THE JOB BOARD Horses, not Herring
The Strangelight Workshop deals in an odd world where things
The job board is a corkboard covered with small postings.
are often not what they seem. While the Iron Kingdoms crawls
These have been written by people looking to hire the with extraordinary monsters, unusual grymkin, ghosts, and
Strangelight Workshop to deal with their supernatural infernal menaces from the Outer Abyss, sometimes perils have
complaints. Todmann has added notes to each of the job a more terrestrial and ordinary origin.
postings, including some requests from the Head Office about “The Third Gig” reflects this reality. It was sent to Outpost
what the Workshop would like to investigate or acquire #113 by an enterprising group of street criminals. The
from each job. Limegate Gutters have heard about the strange—and
The job board currently has three notices. The notices expensive—devices the Workshop uses and hope to ambush a
contain the following jobs. field team to steal and sell off their gear.
The First Gig. “Branston Gunwerks is reporting
systematic failures in its fabrication machinery. The repeated
failures of new equipment have led to suspicion of gremlin
presence. Gunwerks cats have been found dead on sight.
Speak to Roan Branston for further information.”
PART TWO:
Todmann has added the following information to HARD-LUCK TOWN
this posting.
In this part of the adventure, the characters pursue one or
Workshop has no more gigs on behalf of the Strangelight Workshop. The team
em lin -whacking. The
Thi s is ju st gr emlins—especially
pt ur ing or studying gr O is able to tackle these gigs in any order they like.
in te re st in ca HQ back in ’14. D
te r th e “G re at G litch” situation at GEARING UP
af .
CK A GREMLIN
NOT BRING BA Before the characters head to any of the gigs, Todmann issues
them their standard Strangelight Workshop gear. Characters
Accepting this job leads to “The First Gig.” are allowed to distribute this gear in any manner they see fit.
The Second Gig. “Residents of Aurora Street have See Appendix C for details on the equipment.
reported a return of Headless John. This specter is believed
to have been executed some seventy years ago and has been ENTERING THE CITY
harassing the occupants of 210 Aurora Street—the former When the characters leave the field office for the first time,
residence of the city’s executioner. Speak to Gerren Billings you can give them a sense of the city around them with the
for more information.” following text:
Todmann has added the following information to
this posting. The streets of the city are choked with fog from the cold moors
and clouds of coal smoke billowing from its many chimneys.
Standard procedure for all incorpo People move through the cobbled streets, making way for horse-
real undead: try to convince
the spirit to move on to the afterlife drawn carriages and eight-foot-tall steam-powered laborjacks
. Using issued equipment,
capture spectragraphs of the mom clomping down the center of the road, massive cargo held fast in
ent the spirit passes over to
the other side. their steel grip.
Note: Survivor of previous field You move into this maze of bodies, ’jacks, and more, navigating
team reports spirit is
“resistant” to heavy-handed negotia to your first job for your new employer.
tion. Teams accepting this
posting receive a 10% funerary stip
end for field agents lost
while on-site. The characters can proceed to the gig they have chosen
from the job board.
Accepting this job leads to “The Second Gig.”
The Third Gig. “Reports in the Limegate area of the
Docks District have described a burning figure astride
a red horse, setting ablaze several warehouses. Speak to
Dockmaster Finley Reed for details.”
Todmann has added the following information to
this posting.

rkshop records match the entity

This report is unusual! No Wo
mkin? Infernal?
described within. Specter? Gry t to
accepting this job must attemp
Proceed with Caution. Teams sibl e for fur ther
ity. Capture if pos
capture spectragraphs of the ent
investigations and study.

Accepting this job leads to “The Third Gig.”

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THE FIRST GIG:
BRANSTON GUNWERKS
The team’s first assignment focuses on a gunwerks
experiencing an infestation of gremlins. Normally, a few
dozen tomcats would solve a problem like this, but the
gremlins in the gunwerks are a particularly nasty bunch.
ARRIVING AT THE GUNWERKS
Branston Gunwerks is a mile across town from Outpost #113.
As the characters approach the large stone building, read
the following:
The gunwerks is a massive stone building that takes up most
of the city block. Soot covers the barred windows on the ground
floor, blocking the interior from view, but the noise of bullets
cooking off crackles through the streets. A group of bewildered
gunsmiths stands outside, flinching at the noise. One of the
smiths, an exasperated-looking human man in his thirties,
shouts at the building, “Get out of my damned gunwerks, you
little bastards!”
The shouting man is Roan Branston, the owner of the
gunwerks and its senior gunsmith. When the characters
mention the job posting, Roan Branston’s expression
becomes grim. He explains the situation to the best of
his abilities. Use the following information to guide
the conversation:
• The gremlins showed up a few weeks ago. Roan started to
suspect the troublesome grymkin when tools went missing,
tacks appeared on his stool, and the machinery began to
act up. He hasn’t seen the creatures, but he’s heard they’re
invisible.
• He took the advice of some fellow smiths and filled the
gunwerks with cats, well known for being adversarial to
gremlins. He found three of them hanging from his rafters
by their tails the next day, so these gremlins must be a
particularly nasty bunch.
• Roan has a large and urgent work order that he needs to
complete. If he can’t get rid of the gremlins, he’ll have to
refund the purchase of goods, which would likely put him
out of business. A successful DC 12 Wisdom (Insight)
check reveals that the man is desperate to get in and finish
the order. Roan offers each character 20 gp to purge the
gremlins from his workshop, along with a single Branston
Longbarrel, one of his custom pistols.
• A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma
(Persuasion) check can convince Roan to increase the
payment to 30 gp per person. If the character making the
check succeeded on the Wisdom (Insight) check, then this
check is made with advantage.
If the characters agree to help with the gremlin problem,
Roan unlocks the metal door to allow them access to
the gunwerks.
ENTER THE GUNGEON
When the characters enter the gunwerks, read the following:
Alchemical lanterns cast a warm glow in the large gunwerks’
interior. The high ceilings cause even small sounds to echo, and
an acrid haze of blue-white smoke hangs like fog in the air.
AREA INFORMATION
The gunwerks has the following important features:
Dimensions and Terrain. Rooms and corridors are stone
walled and reinforced with iron beams. Ceilings are
20 feet high.
Light. The rooms within the gunwerks are brightly lit by
alchemical torches.
Sounds and Smells. The air reeks of blasting powder
smoke. Tittering laughter and scrabbling claws echo from
the shadows.
GUNWERKS LOCATIONS
The following descriptions are keyed to areas marked on the
Branston Gunwerks Map in Appendix A. The players start
outside area 1.
1. FACTORY FLOOR
A haze of blasting powder smoke hangs in the air of the
large, tall chamber. Debris and half-finished firearms litter
workbenches in the area. A tittering laugh and scrabble of
claws echoes across the factory floor, followed by the crash of
something tipping over.
The main floor of the gunwerks is 60 feet wide and 45
feet deep. Six workbenches have weapons in various stages
of completion on them, and each one has the contents of a
gunsmith’s toolkit.
Factory Gremlins. There are two invisible gremlins in the
factory floor, prepared to cause mischief. A character with a
passive Perception of 12 of higher notices movement at two
of the tables as the gremlins scurry about.
A DC 12 Wisdom (Survival) or Intelligence (Arcana)
check allows a character to recall that the gremlins are
innately invisible. Fortunately, the tools of the Strangelight
Workshop can help to reveal them.
Once per minute, roll a d6 for each gremlin to see which of
the six workbenches it is currently on.
Unless they are discovered or attacked, each gremlin spends
its time trying to break apart the incomplete firearms, destroy
or eat tools, or otherwise meddle with the factory floor. If
a character begins searching for them with the Strangelight
projector, the gremlins try to get close enough to use their
Glitch ability on it.
2. STOREROOM
This square room contains a trove of fine examples of the
gunsmith’s art. Each piece is masterfully crafted and engraved
with meticulous scrollwork along its metal body and wooden
components. A rack of long-barreled guns in the center of the
room shudders as tiny mischievous hands fiddle with one of
the weapons.
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 The storeroom is a 25-by-25-foot square. The door on
the south wall leads to the supply storage area. Completed
projects are kept here until collected by a buyer.
Firearms. A rack holding long guns like rifles and scatter
guns is in the middle of the chamber and has eight military
rifles and two scatter guns in it. A dozen single-shot pistols
hang in leather holsters on the walls.
For safety reasons, the firearms are not stored loaded, but
the gremlins have other ideas.
Storeroom Gremlins. A trio of gremlins in the storeroom
is playing with one of the scatterguns. One gremlin has
consumed a mixture of blasting powder and is currently
vomiting into the scattergun’s breach, a second gremlin is
stuffing random bits of scrap metal, screws, and other debris
into the barrel, and the third gremlin is grappling with the
weapon’s trigger.
The first character to enter the room must make a DC
12 Dexterity saving throw as the gremlins discharge the
scattergun. Fortunately, the langrage in the gun is not
as dangerous as normal scattershot. A character takes 5
(2d4) piercing damage on a failed save or half as much on a
successful one.
The gremlins attempt to repeat their accidental discharge if
they are attacked. It takes the gremlins three rounds to reload
the weapon. If two of the gremlins are killed, the third dashes
through the door to the storeroom (area 3).
3. SUPPLY ROOM
The unlit interior of the supply room is filled with shadowy
heaps of materials. Billets of steel, planks of rare hardwoods,
ingots of brass, and bins of firearm components fill the 25-foot-
wide, 15-foot-deep chamber. The sound of malicious giggling
starts to echo from every corner of the room.
Door Trap. The gremlins have set a crude trap above the
partially ajar door to the supply room. Billets of steel are
stacked up in such a way as to fall on the first person who
enters the room. The DC to spot the precariously balanced
steel is 10. A character who sees the trap can disable it with a
DC 12 Dexterity (Athletics) check by kicking the door open
and moving out of the way before the payload falls. On a
failed check, the trap triggers.
The trap is triggered when the door opens, causing the
steel to fall. A creature passing through the door must make
a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 5 (2d4) bludgeoning
damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one.
Supply Room Swarm. There is a swarm of gremlins in
the supply room, causing mischief, eating brass screws, and
generally making a mess of Branston’s supplies.
If not dealt with quickly, the swarm collectively animates
the supplies as a junk automaton. After one round, unless
reduced to half its total hit points, the gremlins form this
construct (see “Attack of Industry”).
4. OFFICE
An exterior door leads into this office, where Branston manages
the business side of the Gunwerks. File folders, a small desk with
a typewriter and purchase orders on its surface, and a wooden
chair are the only items in this modest room.
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Branston’s office is a 25-by-15-foot room accessible only
from the street. The door is locked, but Branston will offer
to unlock it if asked. There is a single gremlin in the office,
currently possessing the typewriter. If the characters enter
the room, the typewriter begins to function on its own as
the gremlin within causes it to bang out a number of short,
poorly spelled insults. Suggestions for what the gremlin
types include:
• Bet U kant reed.
• Tak dis jahb ant shuv et!
• Ur muttr smel liek grehmlyn.
• U mite need uh nu tiepiritr.
The solitary gremlin is not up to a fight and flees if the
typewriter is disturbed.
ATTACK OF THE INDUSTRY
Before the characters have a chance to clear the last of the
swarm out of the gunwerks, a mob of the tiny grymkin rush
into a large pile of machinery and work together to animate
it into a shambling figure of wood, scrap iron, gears, and
miscellaneous parts. Read or paraphrase:
There is a chorus of malicious giggles as the contents of the
supply room begin to move. Gears roll, timbers thump together,
and a crude humanoid figure of loose parts rises up from a heap
of various components.
Characters who succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception)
check aren’t surprised. Characters actively investigating the
supply room with a Strangelight projector when the gremlins
animate the construct have advantage on the check.
The gremlin machine attacks the team. As the machine
takes damage, it becomes decreasingly effective. The gremlins
animating it try to patch it up with other debris during the
fight, but there are limited supplies to do so. The machine
can use its Patch Up feature only once in each of the Factory
Floor, Store Room, and Supply Room.
DEVELOPMENT
Once the machine is destroyed or the gremlin swarm
defeated, any surviving gremlins in the gunwerks attempt to
flee into the city.
Branston is true to his work, paying the characters
whatever amount of gold was agreed to. He also offers the
team a single Branston Longbarrel, a simple pistol. For the
weapon’s rules, see Appendix C.
RETURN TO OUTPOST #113
After completing the gig, the characters can return to the
branch office to report their success. Todmann listens
disinterestedly to anything the characters have to say,
eventually cutting them off:
“Of course, of course. Gremlins. Fascinating. I’m truly thrilled,
don’t let my—” he yawns long and theatrically, holding up a
finger for you to wait as he does so, “—my tone let you think
otherwise. Now. I trust that you’ll be taking a more challenging
job in the future?”
THE SECOND GIG:
210 AURORA STREET
The team’s second assignment takes them to Aurora Street, a
lower income part of the city. In days past, Aurora Street was
the home of the city’s head executioner. The spirit of one of
those condemned to die now walks the city’s streets, furious
and ready to exact vengeance on its killer—who passed
peacefully in his sleep decades ago.
Now the specter is harassing the innocent residents of the
executioner’s former home. The team needs to convince
the angry specter to pass from the physical world to end the
haunting—and will be rewarded if they manage to capture an
image of its passing over.
THE STORY OF HEADLESS JOHN
The spirit was once John Addlestow, a Cygnaran soldier of
the 95th Trencher Division. Following a campaign against
the Khadoran army in a border skirmish, the soldier was
separated from his unit and made his way into the Ordic
city. There he remained for several months, trying to scrape
together enough coins to make his way home.
After a night dicing in order to earn funds, John got into a
scuffle with an opponent who accused him of cheating. In the
fight, John’s opponent fell back and cracked open his skull on
the hearth of the tavern where they’d been playing.
John’s gambling partner was a distant relative of the Mateu
family, an influential trade family in Ord. The Mateu’s pushed
for John’s swift execution as reprisal for the death of one
of their own.
John went to the executioner’s block, but the (already
aging) headsman, a man named Lowen, failed to kill him
cleanly. The axe fell most of the way through John’s neck, so
he died bloody and slowly. His angry spirit remains, bitter
about the circumstances that led to his sloppy execution.
ARRIVING AT AURORA STREET
Aurora Street is not far from the branch office, just a few
minutes south in one of the older regions of town. Once the
characters reach Aurora Street, read:
The cobbled Aurora Street is more like a narrow alley joining
two major roads. Tall, narrow buildings hem in on either side,
preventing anything but the sparsest light from reaching the
street below.
Farther down the way, a woman passing one of the houses
clutches a symbol of Ascendant Corbhen as if to ward off bad
luck. The house: 210 Aurora Street. A man standing outside the
home scowls at the woman’s back as she passes.
The man is Gerren Billings. Billings is tying bundles of
white hemlock over his door. A successful DC 10 Intelligence
(Arcana) check reveals that this is a folk practice for warding
off evil spirits—and not a particularly effective one.
If the characters approach Billings or announce their
affiliation with the Strangelight Workshop, add:
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Caen & Urcaen
In the Iron Kingdoms, there are not many different planes of
existence. There are Caen, the physical world that mortals
inhabit, and Urcaen, the spirit world that is a spectral reflection
of Caen. Mortal souls pass from Caen to Urcaen unless
something causes them to linger in the mortal world as spirits.
Documenting the passage of spirits from Caen to Urcaen is one
of the paramount responsibilities of Strangelight Workshop
teams. The organization’s founder is obsessed with Urcaen and
how spirits reach it and demands as much research into the
process as his teams can manage.
The man dusts off his hands and approaches you for a
handshake. “M’name’s Gerren. I’m the one what spoke to the odd
bloke in the old post. He told me your lot would be able to help
with Headless?”
Characters who question the man can learn more. Use the
following information to guide the conversation:
• There had been rumors about the spirit for some time,
but Gerren never put much stock in them, having never
encountered the spirit himself. Yet stories going back years
described the apparition demanding justice outside 210
Aurora. “Might be why I could buy it for a song.”
• Locals call the spirit “Headless John.” Gerren says that the
name is a bit of a misnomer. There’s a head all right, just
one that’s not well attached. To illustrate the point, Gerren
flops his own head over to one side.
• He first saw the spirit a month ago. At first he mistook it
for a Cygnaran soldier, a trencher, who had gotten drunk
and wandered onto the street—until it vanished before his
eyes.
• Another team of Workshop agents promised him they’d
deal with the spirit. They tried to fight it, and several of
them came to a bad end. The last he’d heard, the rest of the
team retired from ghost-hunting altogether.
• Each night since, just after sundown, it has returned. The
spirit stays longer and move closer to his home each time
it appears. He’s started hearing its voice as well, calling to a
person called Lowen for justice.
• Gerren looked into the name Lowen and discovered he
used to live in 210 Aurora, “a few decades back.” Lowen
was a headsman who performed many executions during
his tenure, but Gerren saw no records of Cygnaran soldier
killed by decapitation.
Gerren says that he can’t let ghouls, ghosts, or any of the
undead drive him out of his home. He is a simple laborer who
works at the town docks, and having his nights interrupted
by a “moaning crybaby of a ghost” is causing him to endure
sleepless nights. He offers each of the characters 30 gp,
taken from his personal savings, if they can rid him of his
spectral harasser.
AREA INFORMATION
The buildings on Aurora Street are made of wood. Their
walls require a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics)
check to climb without equipment. The interior areas of
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 buildings are built to accommodate creatures of roughly
human proportions sizes and have 7-foot-high ceilings
and doorways.
Gas lanterns in the alley provide bright illumination after
sundown. During the day, the shadows cast by the buildings
cause the street to be dimly lit.
BYSTANDERS
During the day, the inhabitants of Aurora Street go about
their business. If the characters begin setting up their
equipment or donning Strangelight Workshop gear, they’ll
earn a few puzzled looks from the locals and might even draw
a small crowd of onlookers.
However, once the sun goes down the inhabitants of the
street hide away in their homes. These commoners peer
out of their windows at sounds of combat or other unusual
noises but are mostly too afraid to interfere with anything
supernatural on their street.
If the characters spend some time talking to the other
locals on Aurora Street, they might be able to gather some
information about the specter. Headless John has been
visiting the area for several decades, always around the
anniversary of the execution.
A character can spend 1 hour talking with locals about the
spirit. At the end of an hour spent in this way, the character
can make a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check. On a
successful check, one of the older residents of Aurora Street
recounts the story of the Trencher’s execution in “The Story
of Headless John.”
Getting Out of a Bind
The specter of Headless John is likely tougher than the
characters and can present a challenge to groups who go in
guns blazing. If the characters become incapacitated, some of
the braver inhabitants of Aurora Street can come to their aid,
pulling them inside and out of harm’s way.
PASSING OVER
WITH HEADLESS JOHN
The specter makes its appearance just after the sun passes
below the horizon. Read the following to set the scene:
The last light of day begins to slip away, its burning red-orange
light fading from the rooftops of Aurora Street. Down on the
street level, a stilt-wearing lamplighter hurries along the road.
With a soft thump of gas catching fire, one by one pools of warm
light fill the alley.
As the lamplighter scurries away, she calls back to you, “I
wouldn’t stay here long, if I was you!” Then she goes loping off,
leaving Aurora Street behind.
Cool fog from the moors begins to creep along the street,
swirling in eddies by the gas lamps. The team can see
silhouettes of people in their upstairs windows, watching 210
Aurora and any activity outside it.
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A Tough Fight
Note that this encounter is going to be a very difficult
challenge for groups that choose the path of violence. The
team might end up incapacitated, have to flee, or need
rescuing from bystanders. If the ghost does defeat them in
a combat, don’t let their story end here, though! The team
can awaken the following day back in the field office, with a
disappointed Todmann suggesting they take some time to
consider what went wrong and do their best to not repeat
those mistakes.
At roughly one minute after sundown, the specter of
Headless John makes its appearance. Read or paraphrase
the following:
The figure of a man appears in the swirling mist. Though he
stands upright and walks—his steps a jarring blur and flicker
of movement followed by an eerie stillness—there is no way the
man could be alive. His head hangs at a gruesome angle, attacked
only by a thin strip of flesh and muscle on one side. The spirit
grabs itself by the hair, pulling its head into position and howls
with a voice like a distant echo, “Lowen. You owe me justice…”
The ghost advances on 210 Aurora with irregular, staccato
movements. Its flickering passage brings it ever closer to
Gerren Billings’ home.
The spirit wears the uniform of a Trencher commando, a
soldier from the nation of Cygnar. A character who makes
a DC 10 Intelligence (History) check recognizes a symbol
on the ghost’s uniform: the emblem of the 95th Trencher
Division, the Northguard Gravediggers. These Trenchers
often fought alongside Ordic forces against a common foe,
be it the expansionist northerners of Khador or the undead
legions of Cryx that infiltrated the mainland.
Dealing with Headless John. The ghost largely ignores the
characters, provided they don’t attack it or try to interfere
with it. The spirit advances on Gerren’s home, continuing to
demand justice. If not stopped, the spirit passes through the
door of 210 Aurora Street and attacks Gerren. Because the
man is not who the spirit seeks, killing him will not provide
it with any comfort, and it will continue to haunt the street
for years to come.
The team has its choice of how to deal with the spirit. The
two most likely courses of action are to either try to destroy
Headless John or somehow convince it to pass on to Urcaen.
GHOST PUNCHIN’
If the characters act with hostility toward Headless John
or try to capture, impede, or otherwise interfere with it,
the spirit becomes enraged. This causes it to attack the
characters. The ghost refers to each of the characters as “the
Damned headtaker” and shrieks that their clumsy swing left
him to suffer.
If provoked into a fight, Headless John is difficult to
convince to stop. The spirit is powerful and furious, and it
vents its wrath on anyone who tries to put up a fight. Only a
DC 18 Charisma (Persuasion) check can convince the spirit to
stop attacking for a round, allowing the characters a chance
to convince it to pass on to Urcaen (see Talk Therapy).
TALK THERAPY
Though it will not be an easy task, a much safer path would
be to convince the spirit to pass on to Urcaen.
To do so, the characters must convince the spirit that
the subject of its wrath, the executioner Lowen, is no
longer in the world of the living. To start, a character must
sway the spirit not to attack by making a DC 15 Charisma
(Persuasion) check.
After that, a character can try to explain by making a DC
15 Charisma (Persuasion) check that the person living in 210
Aurora Street is not the Lowen the spirit hates. On a failed
check, the spirit becomes more agitated, its face turning
skeletal as it loses some of its grip. A character can try again,
but after a second failed check, there is no way to convince
Headless John not to attack. If provoked in this way, the spirit
fights until it is destroyed.
SOUL PASSAGE
If the characters succeed in convincing the ghost that Lowen
no longer lives in the house, its appearance becomes more
tired and haggard. The ghost looks around the street as if
seeing where it is for the first time. Read the following:
The specter’s shoulders sag. It slowly shakes its head, causing the
wound on its neck to flop open and closed.
“I was never supposed to be in Ord. We had one more month on
the border and were going to be rotated off the front line. I just
wanted to go back home.” The spirit looks at you with sad eyes. “I
think I’m ready to leave, now.”
With that, the spirit begins to fade. Under the illumination
of a Strangelight projector, the characters can see a swirling
vortex of light like a whirlpool that the spirit of Headless
John passes through.
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RETURN TO OUTPOST #113
After dealing with the specter, the characters can return
to the branch office. When they arrive, Todmann is
busying himself with the construction of an overlarge and
elaborate sandwich.
The senior field agent inquires after the haunting. If the
characters managed to convince Headless John to pass on,
read the following:
The senior agent only seems to be paying half-attention to
you as he struggles to balance another layer of filling on the
preposterously large sandwich he is assembling on the front desk.
“Ah, good. I’m pleased that you could talk it into going over to the
other side. Such pesky business, ghosts. So many of them aren’t
even aware that they’re dead. Tell me, were you able to capture
spectragraphs of its transition between worlds?”
If the characters were successful in taking a spectragraph,
read the following:
Todmann almost looks impressed when you confirm you
have. “What an uncommon display of competence! If I had a
blackpenny for every time someone had failed to follow the
simplest of directives, I’d be as rich as the Mateus.”
If the characters failed to capture a spectragraph or were
forced to destroy the spirit, instead read:
When you tell him of the outcome, the senior agent scowls and
jabs a finger at his towering pile of meats, bread, and cheese.
He watches with disinterest as the food topples and spills onto
the floor. “There, now. Now at least we will have both failed at
something. No worries, though. In a place like this, there’s always
going to be the opportunity to see another ghost.”
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 THE THIRD GIG:
THE RED MARE OF LIMEGATE
The team’s third job takes them to the Limegate area of the
docks. Like the dockyards in most cities, the Limegate district
is a rough part of town, where gangs carve out small areas
of control. In fact, it was one of the gangs of Limegate who
posted the gig with the Strangelight Workshop. There is
no supernatural entity—just a band of robbers who want to
ambush the team and steal their expensive gear.
The gang has concocted a monster of their own: the Red
Mare. In reality, the Red Mare is just a horse the gang painted
with some cheap red paint, being ridden by one of their
numbers in a fireproof alchemist’s coat. Before the Red Mare
rides, the gang smears the rider with an incendiary gel, and
thus the “supernatural” entity is born.
ARRIVING AT LIMEGATE
The Limegate area of the docks is west of the field office. A
district of large warehouses and grimy alleys. It is a haven for
gangs, thugs, and other criminal elements in the city.
When the characters arrive in Limegate, read the following
to set the scene:
Small clusters of dockworkers, beggars, and rough-looking men
and women stand outside the enormous warehouses of Limegate.
Graffiti on the walls declare “Beware the Red Mare!” The
chatter among the street people seems to focus almost entirely on
this entity.
You overhear one group talking. A heavyset dockworker loudly
says, “The beast showed up last night! I watched it ride through
the Kendar Industries warehouse, setting everything on fire
as it rode!”
If the characters ask for information, the dockworker
introduces himself as “Big” James McOnlen. McOnlen can
give them directions to the ruins of the Kendar Industries
building but cautions them about going that way, saying:
“That’s where the Red Mare has staked her claim. There’s
nothing but fiery death for you that way.”
KENDAR INDUSTRIES
When the characters arrive at the burned warehouse, read:
The large structure that was once Kendar Industries is now a
scorched, blackened ruin. The interior is a skeleton of charred
beams. A gray-haired woman stands outside the ruined
structure, tapping her chin with the stem of a pipe as she
surveys the damage.
Dockmaster Finley Reed stands outside the warehouse,
smoking her pipe and surveying the damage. Reed is a
commoner with +3 Insight. If the characters approach her,
she gestures at them with her pipe, offering them her name
and asking if they represent the Strangelight Workshop.
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TALKING TO REED
Use the following information to guide a
conversation with Reed:
• People in Limegate started talking about the Red Mare a
few days ago. She chalked it up to too much of the wrong
kind of hooch…until the first fires started.
• People who’ve seen the creature describe it describe a
blood-red horse with wild eyes, a column of fire blazing off
its back.
• Three buildings have burned down since the Red Mare
first appeared. Kendar Industries is only the most recent.
• A DC 12 Wisdom (Insight) check reveals that Reed is
holding something back.
• A character who passes the Wisdom (Insight) check can
attempt a DC 14 Charisma (Persuasion) check to find out
what Reed is withholding. If successful, she explains that
the businesses that burned down all used to pay protection
money to a gang of thugs who call themselves the Limegate
Gutters. The first building to burn down was the Tinbelly
Fish Cannery, which coincidentally was the first business
to stop paying protection to the gang.
Reed answers any questions the characters might have
about the Red Mare, but the woman doesn’t put too much
stock in the description.
Before letting the team see to their business, Reed says
the following:
“Ghost, grymkin, or otherwise, you take care of this business and
I’ll put twenty-five gold in each of your palms. I don’t care if you
kill the horse, exorcize it, turn it to glue, or sell it to the damned
circus. Just get the thing off my docks. For good.”
Reed observes the characters for half an hour, at which
point she lets them know she has other business and to find
her in the dockmaster’s office when they’re done. The Gutters
wait to strike until she is gone.
INVESTIGATING THE WAREHOUSE
The characters might investigate the Kendar Industries
building for more clues about the mysterious Red Mare. If
they do, there is a chance they can discover evidence pointing
to its more mundane origins.
For each 10 minutes they search the warehouse, have the
characters make a DC 14 group Intelligence (Investigation)
or Wisdom (Perception) check. If the group fails a check,
they make no significant discovery during that 10-minute
period. If the group succeeds, the group discovers one of the
following clues during that 10-minute period.
Horse Droppings. There is a pile of fire-scorched manure in
the center of the large building. The Gutters’ horse is usually
a panicked mess during the burning rides, and it leaves
behind a telltale pile of fear-induced droppings in its wake.
Menoth’s Fury. Dark patches of thick, tar-like fluid are
spattered near some of the most intensely scorched area
of the building. A successful DC 15 Intelligence check
made with a field alchemy kit or similar tools identifies the
substance as Menoth’s Fury, a volatile flammable substance
produced by alchemists.
 Red Hair. Several strands of horse hair are snagged in
the unburned doorway of the building. A DC 10 Wisdom
(Survival) check identifies the long strands as coming from
a horse’s tail. Smeared on one end of the hairs is a thick
red pigment.
CREATURE INFORMATION
Four bandits and Sly Dob, a thug of the Limegate Gutters,
wait in a building across the street. The thug’s painted mare
(a draft horse) is tethered around the back of the building.
They aren’t interested in stoking hostilities with the
dockworkers and do not attack as long as Reed is present.
When the characters are alone, the Gutters launch their
ambush, starting with the Red Mare Rides.
RED MARE RIDES
The Limegate Gutters start their attack with the Red Mare
emerging onto the street. The thug mounts up, smears his
upper body with accelerant, and rides out ablaze. Read:
The sound of hooves clattering on the road echoes among the
warehouses. A moment later, a blood-red horse emerges onto the
street, its eyes rolling and nostrils flaring in a mad panic. Sitting
astride the beast is a human-shaped figure lit ablaze from the
shoulders up, its head wreathed in flames. The scent of singed
horse hair and chemical fire hits your nostrils as the creature
begins charging at you.
The Red Mare is meant to act as a distraction, allowing
the bandits to attack while the team is surprised. The thug
on horseback comes charging at them and tosses a pot of
alchemist’s fire at the most convenient target as he rides by.
While the characters are dealing with the flames, the
bandits emerge from hiding to swoop in and attack. The
bandits encircle the characters to the best of their ability.
Following the attack, the Red Mare returns. Whooping
with laughter, Sly Dob throws off his burning cloak. He rears
his painted horse near the characters and mocks them:
“That’s the problem with smart people. They’re so damned
stupid,” the man on horseback says. “You get so obsessed with
chasing grymkin stories and ghosts that you forget the world has
regular old robbers. All we had to do was toss a coat of paint on
my horse and you came running! Now, hand over your gear if
you want to live.”
Sly Dob and his crew of bandits are only interested in
walking away with a large score of stolen technology. If the
characters hand over the gear, the Limegate Gutters head
off as a rowdy bunch, cheering about their score. If the
characters put up a fight and the gang overpowers them, they
simply incapacitate the characters. The characters awake a
short time later, stripped of their gear and their pockets a bit
lighter than they were before.
If the characters put up a fight, the Gutters are happy to
oblige them. The Gutters keep fighting until half of their
numbers are incapacitated. If he survives the fight, Sly Dob
promises to gut the characters the next time he sees them—
while he tries to flee.
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Cheese it!
It’s entirely possible the characters won’t want to stick around
and fight the Gutters gang. In that case, you can run this
encounter as a chase scene with the characters trying to flee
through the Limegate District from pursuing gang members.
To run the encounter as a chase, let the players know that
they’ll need to succeed on three group checks contested by
the Gutters before they roll two failures. Let the players make
creative use of their characters’ skills and narrate how they
apply them. The pursuing Gutters contest the characters’
group check with Strength (Athletics).
If the characters fail on two of these contested checks, the
Gutters catch up to them and a fight commences as normal.
If the characters net three successes, they manage to get
far enough out of the Gutters’ territory that they break off
the pursuit.
DEVELOPMENT
After confronting the Gutters—whether the team succeeds
or fails—they have the truth of the Red Mare’s identity. If the
characters bring this information to Reed, the dockmaster
pays them the agreed upon amount, grumbling about
“Morrow-damned theatrical gang scum,” and she assures
the characters she’ll look in to kicking the Gutters out of
Limegate for good.
RETURN TO OUTPOST #113
Following the investigation to the Limegate District, the
characters can return back to the branch office to report
their discovery.
When the characters mention the true identity of the Red
Mare, Todmann looks disappointed but not surprised. Read
the following:
“Well, I can’t quite say that I’m surprised, but I am disappointed,”
the senior field agent says. “Identifying a new type of
supernatural creature is how one makes their name known
among the Workshop’s leadership. Ah, well. It seems that things
are not always what they seem.”
EQUIPMENT LOST
If the characters surrendered their equipment to the Gutters
or if it was taken from them by force, also read:
Upon hearing about the loss of the expensive Strangelight gear,
Todmann scowls.
“Well,” he says, “that is an unfortunate turn of events. There is
some older equipment left behind by… a previous team, but I
cannot speak as to its overall quality. Let’s hope the bandits who
robbed you decide to take up amateur ghost hunting, perhaps?”
A successful DC 14 Wisdom (Insight) check reveals
that Todmann is reluctant to bring up the gear from the
previous team. If this is the final gig the characters undertake
before Part Three, his reasons become clear momentarily.
Otherwise, the senior agent remains evasive and promises
that he’ll explain his hesitation “in due time.”
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 PART THREE:
END OF WATCH
After the characters complete the third gig, it is time
for the team to learn a bit more about the nature of the
Strangelight Workshop.
Following the Return to Outpost #113 portion of the final
gig the characters complete, read the following:
Senior field agent Emil Todmann welcomes you back to the field
office with an expression more severe than usual. “After you’ve
been handling these little issues around town, I have to confess
that it’s reminded me of some of my… former companions. I see
a bit of them in you, if I’m honest. And I’m inclined to be honest
with you. Please, would you follow me?”
Todmann leads the characters deeper into the branch
office, past a mail-sorting room that has been transformed
into a makeshift barracks. At the back of the space is
a wooden door with a tarnished brass plaque, reading
“Postmaster Todmann.”
Todmann stops by the door and looks back at the
team, saying:
“I keep this door locked at all times. I thought to keep people from
interfering with our important work, but in truth… well. Let
me show you.”
With that, the senior agent walks through the door, fading
into an insubstantial specter. A moment later, the door’s latch
pops open, and the door cracks open into the room.
THE TRUTH COMES OUT
Inside the postmaster’s office, there is a spread of bodies.
One, sitting at the desk, is a mummified corpse wearing the
threadbare uniform matching Todmann’s own. Three other
bodies are carefully laid out in the room, each with small
shrouds pulled over their faces.
If the characters escaped without losing their gear during
the Third Gig, the three bodies are wearing dusty and old-
fashioned looking Strangelight Workshop gear.
Floating in the center of the office, Todmann tries to
explain the situation. Use the following information to guide
a conversation with him.
• His memories have been progressively returning to him,
thanks to the characters’ efforts around town. The gigs
they took reflect ones taken by their predecessors, most of
which are here in the room.
• The field team wasn’t sent to work with Todmann but to
move him on to Urcaen. The haunted post office was one
of the gigs they tried to complete while in Merin.
• Todmann befriended the Workshop field agents, who
really did try to help him pass on. They had difficulty doing
so, however. While they puzzled over his situation, the
ghost offered his post office to them as a field headquarters.
• Following a string of difficult jobs, including the spirit of
Headless John, the team came back, battered and bloody.
After failing to make Headless John leave Caen, the team’s
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caller, a young man named Josiah Wales, took it on himself
to force Todmann to the other side. It did not go well.
• Todmann responded violently, but that was not his intent.
The prospect of going to the other side terrified him so
much that he lashed out, losing control of himself. By the
time his senses returned to him, the three field agents were
all dead.
The ghost begs the characters to try to move him on to
Urcaen. He wants to find the souls of the three agents he
unintentionally killed to ask for forgiveness in the afterlife.
Failing that, he wants the characters to destroy him, if
they are able.
BREAKTHROUGH
Despite his desire to go to the afterlife, there is an irrefutable
instinct within Todmann that causes him to lash out
whenever an attempt to push him over is taken.
Convincing Todmann requires a character to make a
Charisma (Persuasion or Deception) check contested by
Todmann’s Wisdom (Insight). If a character wins the contest,
Todmann takes 1d10 + Charisma Modifier psychic damage. If
he is reduced to 0 hit points by this psychic damage, his spirit
no longer resists and can be made to pass on to Urcaen.
However, once the first contest begins, the ghost becomes
agitated and violent. He attacks the characters, focusing
the majority of his effort on the character with the highest
Charisma bonus.
If the characters manage to bring Todmann down to 0 hit
points through this psychic damage, read:
The spirit hangs in the air, its form sagging with exhaustion.
With an expression both grateful and sad, it says, “Thank you,
my friends. The office is in good hands. I go to the life beyond
this one looking for the companions who paved the way for me.”
A twinge of fear moves in the spirit’s eyes. “I hope they can
forgive me.”
With that, the spirit begins to fade from existence. In a moment,
nothing at all remains of the former postmaster, stand-in agent
of the Strangelight Workshop, and unusual ghost.
NEXT SHIFT
After the characters deal with Todmann, read the following:
A bell over the door of the office jingles, and a young woman
enters. She looks around the room, eventually settling on you all.
“I’m sorry, but is this the, uh, Strange Shop? I have a problem and
don’t know where else to turn. A friend of mine told you people
can help me…”
With that, the characters’ reputation for dealing with
problems of a supernatural sort begins to spread, first
throughout the city, and then across the kingdom.
One thing is certain: the Iron Kingdoms are a place filled
with the unusual and supernatural. There will always be a
place for those who try to shield the innocent from strange
and grim creatures and always coin to be made by dealing
with such perils.
APPENDIX A: ENCOUNTER MAPS
BRANSTON GUNWERKS

OFFICE

FACTORY FLOOR STOREROOM

SUPPLY ROOM

AURORA STREET

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 LIMEGATE AMBUSH

WAREHOUSE

GUTTERS
HIDEOUT

OUTPOST #113

TODMANN’S
OFFICE

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APPENDIX B: CREATURES
THE FOLLOWING CREATURES APPEAR IN A STRANGE LIGHT BREAKS.
THE FIRST GIG
Gremlin
Tiny fey (grymkin), chaotic neutral
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 4 (2d4)
Speed 20 ft., climb 10 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
3 (−4) 15 (+2) 10 (+0) 6 (−2) 10 (+0) 14 (+2)
Skills Perception +2
Damage Vulnerabilities piercing and slashing from cats
Condition Immunities exhaustion
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages an incoherent babble of strange chirps, grunts,
and yowls
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Incorporeal Movement. The gremlin can move through
other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain.
It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an
object that is not a machine or steamjack.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
creature. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
Glitch (Recharge 5–6). The gremlin chooses one steamjack
or one device not being worn or carried within 15 feet of
the gremlin and causes it to suffer a mechanical failure. If
the target is a steamjack, it can ignore the effect by making
a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw. The gremlin
chooses one of the following options when it uses Glitch:
• Breakdown. The device takes 2d6 force damage.
• Component Loss. A critical component of the device (a
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repeating pistol’s ammo wheel, a mechanikal device’s capacitor,
a steamjack’s arm, etc.) falls off.
• Malfunction. The next ability check or attack roll made with
the item in the next hour automatically fails. If the item is a
weapon with the misfire property, it misfires.
• Random Discharge. The item turns on, triggers, or activates
randomly once during the next hour.
• Touchy. Sensitive components of the device keep slipping
out of alignment the moment the device is used. A creature
has disadvantage on any ability check made with the device
for 1 minute.
Invisible Passage. The gremlin magically turns invisible
until it attacks or uses Glitch or Machine Merge, or until its
concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While
invisible, it leaves no physical evidence of its passage and can’t
be tracked except by magical means. Cats are unaffected by this
action and can see the gremlin normally.
Machine Merge (1/Day). One steamjack that the gremlin can
see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving
throw or be possessed by the gremlin; the gremlin merges
with the machine, and the target steamjack is incapacitated
and loses control of its body. The gremlin can use its action
on a subsequent turn to cause the steamjack to move up to its
speed in a random direction. At the end of this movement, the
gremlin can force the steamjack to make a single attack against a
creature of the gremlin’s choice.
The possession lasts until the steamjack drops to 0 hit points,
the gremlin ends it as a bonus action, or the gremlin forces the
steamjack to make an attack. When the possession ends, the
gremlin reappears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the
steamjack. The steamjack is immune to this gremlin’s Machine
Merge for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or
after the possession ends.
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 Swarm of Gremlins
Medium swarm of tiny fey (grymkin), chaotic neutral
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 20 ft., climb 10 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
3 (−4) 15 (+2) 10 (+0) 6 (−2) 10 (+0) 14 (+2)
Skills Perception +2
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,
grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages an incoherent babble of strange chirps, grunts, and
yowls
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Incorporeal Movement. The gremlin can move through other
creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5
(1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object that is
not a machine or steamjack.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and
vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large
enough for a Tiny gremlin. The swarm can’t regain hit points or
gain temporary hit points.
Actions
Bites. Hit: 10 (4d4) piercing damage or 5 (2d4) piercing damage
if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer.
Glitch (Recharge 4–6). The swarm chooses one steamjack
or one device not being worn or carried within 15 feet of the
gremlin and causes it to suffer a mechanical failure. If the target
is a steamjack, it can ignore the effect by making a successful DC
12 Constitution saving throw. The gremlin chooses one of the
following options when it uses Glitch:
Gremlin Machine
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 37 (5d8 + 15)
Speed 30 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 (+3) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 5 (−3) 10 (+0) 7 (−2)
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
nonmagical weapons
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,
paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Diminishing Returns. As the machine takes damage, it
becomes less effective. For every 10 hit points it loses, the
machine’s walking speed drops by 10 feet. If it loses 20 hit
points, it loses its Toss Junk attack.
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• Breakdown. The device takes 2d6 force damage.
• Component Loss. A critical component of the device (a
repeating pistol’s ammo wheel, a mechanikal device’s capacitor,
a steamjack’s arm, etc.) falls off.
• Malfunction. The next ability check or attack roll made with
the item in the next hour automatically fails. If the item is a
weapon with the misfire property, it misfires.
• Random Discharge. The item turns on, triggers, or activates
randomly once during the next hour.
• Touchy. Sensitive components of the device keep slipping
out of alignment the moment the device is used. A creature
has disadvantage on any ability check made with the device
for 1 minute.
Invisible Passage. The swarm magically turns invisible
until it attacks or uses Glitch or Machine Merge, or until its
concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While
invisible, it leaves no physical evidence of its passage and can’t
be tracked except by magical means. Cats are unaffected by this
action and can see the swarm normally.
Machine Merge (1/Day). One steamjack that the swarm can
see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving
throw or be possessed by the gremlin; the gremlin merges
with the machine, and the target steamjack is incapacitated
and loses control of its body. The gremlin can use its action
on a subsequent turn to cause the steamjack to move up to its
speed in a random direction. At the end of this movement, the
gremlin can force the steamjack to make a single attack against a
creature of the gremlin’s choice.
The possession lasts until the steamjack drops to 0 hit points,
the gremlin ends it as a bonus action, or the gremlin forces the
steamjack to make an attack. When the possession ends, the
gremlin reappears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the
steamjack. The steamjack is immune to this gremlin’s Machine
Merge for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or
after the possession ends.
Patch Up. When it is within 5 feet of a broken machine, pile of
scrap components, or other bits of junk, the machine can use
a bonus action to absorb the material to regain 5 (1d10) hit
points.
Actions
Multiattack. The machine makes two attacks: one slam attack
and one toss junk attack.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature.
Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
Toss Junk. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 40/120 ft.,
one creature. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) damage. Roll a d4 to determine
the damage type. On a 1–2, the attack deals bludgeoning
damage; on a 3, it deals piercing damage; and on a 4, it deals
slashing damage.
Free Fire (1/Day). The machine unleashes a barrage of bullets
in a 60-foot-long, 5-foot-wide line. Creatures on the line must
make a DC 10 Dexterity check or take 7 (2d6) piercing damage
on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
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Headless John visible if it attacks or attempts to possess a creature.

Medium undead, neutral evil
Armor Class 10
Hit Points 45 (10d8)
Speed 0 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
7 (-2) 15 (+2) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 17 (+3)
Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,
grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Cygnaran
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Incorporeal Movement. The ghost can move through other
creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5
(1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Invisible Passage. The ghost can use a bonus action to become
invisible. It can end this invisibility as a bonus action. It becomes
Actions
Withering Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Possession (Recharge 6). One humanoid that the ghost can
see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving
throw or be possessed by the ghost; the ghost then disappears,
and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body.
The ghost now controls the body but doesn’t deprive the target
of awareness. The ghost can’t be targeted by any attack, spell,
or other effect, except ones that turn undead, and it retains its
alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and immunity to
being charmed and frightened. It otherwise uses the possessed
target’s statistics but doesn’t gain access to the target’s
knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the
ghost ends it as a bonus action, or the ghost is turned or forced
out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the
possession ends, the ghost reappears in an unoccupied space
within 5 feet of the body. The target is immune to this ghost’s
Possession for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or
after the possession ends.

THE THIRD GIG

Draft Horse (SRD) Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)

Large beast, unaligned Actions
Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Armor Class 10 target. Hit: (1d6 + 1) slashing damage.
Hit Points 19 (3d10 + 3) Light Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 80/320
Speed 40 ft. ft., one target. Hit: (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

18 (+4) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 2 (−4) 11 (+0) 7 (−2)
Thug (SRD)
Senses passive Perception 11 Medium humanoid (any race), any non-good alignment
Languages understands the languages of its manufacturer but
can’t speak Armor Class 11 (leather armor)
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Hit Points 32 (5d8 + 10)
Speed 30 ft.
Actions
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage. 15 (+2) 11 (+0) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 11 (+0)

Skills Intimidation +2
Bandit (SRD) Senses passive Perception 10
Languages any one language (usually Common)
Medium humanoid (any race), any non-lawful alignment
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Pack Tactics. The thug has advantage on an attack roll against a
Armor Class 12 (Leather Armor)
creature if at least one of the thug’s allies is within 5 feet of the
Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.
Speed 30 ft.
Actions
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Multiattack. The thug makes two melee attacks.
11 (+0) 12 (+1) 12 (+1) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) Mace. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
creature. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage.
Senses passive Perception 10 Heavy Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range
Languages Any One Language (Usually Common) 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d10) piercing damage.

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Emil Todmann
Medium undead, neutral good

Armor Class 10
Hit Points 58 (9d12)
Speed 0 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

7 (-2) 15 (+2) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 17 (+3)

Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning,

piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,
grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Cygnaran, Ordic
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Incorporeal Movement. The ghost can move through other
creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5
(1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Invisible Passage. The ghost can use a bonus action to become
invisible. It can end this invisibility as a bonus action. It becomes
visible if it attacks or attempts to possess a creature.
Rejuvenation. If it is destroyed, the ghost re-forms after
24 hours. To truly destroy the ghost, characters must lay
Todmann’s spirit to rest by convincing him to pass on to Urcaen.
Actions
Withering Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Possession (Recharge 6). One humanoid or giant that the
ghost can see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 12
Charisma saving throw or be possessed by the ghost; the ghost
then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses
control of its body. The ghost now controls the body but doesn’t
deprive the target of awareness. The ghost can’t be targeted by
any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn undead,
and it retains its alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and
immunity to being charmed and frightened. It otherwise uses
the possessed target’s statistics, but doesn’t gain access to the
target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the
ghost ends it as a bonus action, or the ghost is turned or forced
out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the
possession ends, the ghost reappears in an unoccupied space
within 5 feet of the body. The target is immune to this ghost’s
Possession for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or
after the possession ends. If a creature possessed by the ghost is
forcibly removed from Outpost #113, the ghost is expelled from
its host and re-forms in the middle of building.

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APPENDIX C:
TOOLS OF THE
STRANGELIGHT WORKSHOP
The following describes the tools used by the Strangelight
Workshop’s field teams. Prices and weights are listed in the
Tools of the Workshop table. Unless stated in its description,
Todmann provides one of each item.
Tools of the Workshop
Item Cost Weight
Antispectral Ammunition Cost+2gp 1/2 lb.
Hostile Encounter Suit 1350 gp 35 lb.
Charged Gauntlets 600 gp 2 lb.
Lumitype, Handheld 25 gp 2 lb.
Sensory Augmentation Hood 125 gp 1 lb.
Strangelight Goggles 60 gp 1/2 lb.
Strangelight Projector 460 gp 15 lb.
ANTISPECTRAL AMMUNITION
Antispectral ammunition, sometimes called “ghost chaser”
rounds, are bullets treated with a solution including
ectoplasm and Ashes of Urcaen in order to make them
effective against incorporeal entities.
A firearm loaded with antispectral ammunition is treated
as magical for the purposes of determining resistances for
incorporeal creatures such as ghosts and specters.
HOSTILE ENCOUNTER SUIT
Worn exclusively by jammers, the hostile encounter suit is
a complex piece of equipment developed to aid in defending
against and capturing incorporeal entities. The hood includes
a set of Strangelight goggles, and both gloves contain charged
gauntlets, allowing the wearer to physically interact with and
damage otherwise incorporeal foes. While powered, the suit
inflates with special gas containing a finely dispersed form of
Ashes of Urcaen that receives an arcane charge from the suit’s
capacitor. An arcanodynamic accumulator set into the back
piece powers the armor.
A hostile encounter suit is leather armor. While the armor
has power, the wearer cannot be possessed or charmed
by supernatural or magical means, and creatures with
Incorporeal movement cannot move through the character.
The wearer can activate or deactivate the armor as an
action or bonus action. Activating the armor costs 2 charges
from its arcanodynamic accumulator for 1 minute of
operation. The arcanodynamic accumulator has 16 charges.
CHARGED GAUNTLETS
Charged gauntlets are a pair of heavy mechanikal gloves
incorporated into the hostile encounter suit. Able to be
switched on or off, while active and drawing power from the
suit they produce a powerful electrical charge proven capable
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of damaging supernatural creatures or giving a living threat a
nasty shock.
While wearing charged gauntlets, you can perform
unarmed attacks with them. If you hit with them, you
deal lightning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength
modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an
unarmed strike.
Additionally, you ignore immunity to the grappled
condition of undead creatures like ghosts and specters while
wearing charged gauntlets.
LUMITYPE, HANDHELD
The handheld lumitype is one of the most effective pieces
of field equipment used by the Strangelight Workshop.
Combining a small Strangelight projector and an image-
capturing system, the lumitype gives agents the ability to take
images, called spectragraphs, of the supernatural entities they
encounter. The Strangelight Workshop also deploys larger,
fixed lumitypes at sites known to have high levels of spectral
activity. Fixed lumitypes are typically unmanned and shoot at
predetermined intervals, using an automated feed to reload
blank spectragraph plates.
A lumitype includes a small Strangelight projector able to
produce Strangelight in a 40-foot cone.
A character can use a bonus action to capture an image
with a lumitype.
Reloading a lumitype with a blank spectragraph is a
bonus action.
Blank spectragraph plates come in packs of five.
Investigators are issued a pack of spectragraphs before
undertaking a job on behalf of the Strangelight Workshop.
Additional packs can be acquired at a cost of 1 gp.
Developing the image on a spectragraph requires a field
alchemy kit and five minutes spent processing the plate
followed by an INT + Alchemy roll against a target number
of 10. If the roll fails, the image is distorted or otherwise
unusable at the Game Master’s discretion.
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 SENSORY AUGMENTATION HOOD
The sensory augmentation hood, or “ghost hood,”
grants these spiritually sensitive individuals the ability to
communicate with spectral entities by cutting off their ability
to perceive the outside world. Ghost hoods also include
standard Strangelight goggles mounted within the hood,
though these tend to be less precise than the bulkier dedicated
goggles worn by most field agents. While activated, the
ghost hood prevents the wearer from effectively hearing or
seeing while drastically increasing their ability to perceive the
spirit world.
You can activate or deactivate a ghost hood with an action
or a bonus action. While it is active, you are blinded and
deafened and can perceive only undead creatures with the
Incorporeal Movement trait. While the hood is active, you
double your proficiency bonus on Charisma (Deception)
and Charisma (Perception) checks made to influence such
undead creatures.
The hood includes a pair of Strangelight goggles.
STRANGELIGHT GOGGLES
The special goggles worn by Strangelight Workshop agents
are elaborate, consisting of multiple sets of alchemically
treated lenses within a heavy-duty housing. Controls allow a
field agent to select different combinations of lenses to filter
wavelengths of Strangelight.
Goggles are a key piece of any field agent’s equipment.
Without them, things illuminated by Strangelight are at best
blurry and indistinct, but with the appropriate selection of
lenses, the invisible become visible. Further, goggles help
delay the process of becoming voided, a term used for the
effect of long-term exposure to Strangelight.
In combination with a source of Strangelight, like a
lumitype or projector, a character wearing Strangelight
goggles can see invisible creatures and objects as well as
spiritual energy.
Todmann provides the team with enough sets of goggles
for each member to have a pair.
VOIDING
An unfortunate side effect of long-term exposure to
Strangelight, voiding is an irreversible condition that causes the
iris and pupil to turn white. Within the Strangelight Workshop,
voiding is seen as an unavoidable condition and a marker of
experience. Most outside the Workshop consider voiding an
unfortunate disfigurement. Some experienced researchers
believe there may be a supernatural, spiritual component
to voiding as well, but as yet this is speculation and requires
further study.
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STRANGELIGHT PROJECTOR
The Strangelight projector is one of the most critical pieces of
field equipment deployed by the Strangelight Workshop. A
dedicated piece of mechanika, a projector emits Strangelight
wavelengths, which, in combination with specially treated
goggles, allow the user to perceive spiritual energy and
otherwise invisible things. Every field team brings at least a
single portable projector into the field, and most also bring
multiple backup projectors that can be mounted on tripods.
A Strangelight projector produces a 60-foot cone of
Strangelight. In an affected area, characters wearing
Strangelight goggles can see invisible, incorporeal,
or otherwise magically hidden creatures and objects.
Strangelight allows the viewer to perceive spiritual energy of
all kinds, though without a pair of Strangelight goggles, such
energy appears as hazy, indistinct, or faint.
A Strangelight projector is powered by an alchemical
capacitor. It can operate continuously for one hour on a
single charge. The capacitor has a total of 15 charges.
BRANSTON LONGBARREL
During the First Gig, the characters have a chance to get their
hands on this finely-made repeating pistol.
Simple Pistol
Name Cost Damage Weight Special
Branston 45 gp 1d10 piercing 6 lb. Firearm
Longbarrel (range
90/270), light,
magazine (5)
Ammunition
Item Cost Weight
Light rounds (5) 2 gp 1 lb.
Firearm. You can use a weapon that has the firearm
property to make a ranged attack, but only if ammunition
is loaded into the weapon’s magazine. Each time you attack
with a firearm, you expend 1 round from the magazine.
Rounds fired from a firearm are destroyed.
A firearm produces a loud report when fired. Unless
affected by mechanikal or magical silence, creatures with the
ability to hear can hear the sound of a firearm discharging
from a great distance, sometimes up to a mile or more in
open conditions. Pistols use light round. Rifles use heavy
rounds. Some firearms have unique ammunition types.
Magazine. A weapon with the magazine property has
an amount of ammunition stored inside it (noted in
parentheses). Once you use the weapon to make a number of
attacks equal to its magazine rating, you must use an action or
a bonus action (your choice) in order to reload it.
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