Story So Far

The Call To Everlund

The party came to Everlund after receiving silver-ink invitations from Elaris Vaunthel, a scholar interested in old catastrophes, fallen stars, celestial disturbances, and places where ordinary life behaves incorrectly.

Elaris asked the party to investigate the abandoned Silent Coin Tavern in the Moonwood. Travelers avoid it, lights have been seen in its windows, doors open when no one should be inside, and nearby animals have acted possessive and territorial.

The Road North

Elaris arranged a carriage and driver, Tovin Reed, to take the party north. During the journey, the party was attacked by wolves whose behavior did not seem natural. After the fight, even Tovin was shaken by how wrong the encounter felt.

The next day, the carriage reached the Silent Coin Tavern. The old building stood dark and leaning in a clearing. A candle appeared in an upper window, something moved inside, and the front door opened.

Inside The Silent Coin Tavern

Once the party entered, the tavern shut the door behind them. The outside world vanished from the windows and sound of the road disappeared. An old ledger opened by itself and wrote:

Account opened.

The house then whispered:

Mine.

The party fought through the common room, destroyed mimics, and banished a copper-tongued host. Beneath the hearth, they found a warm black-gold shard that pulsed like a heartbeat.

The shard showed a vision of the tavern as it once was, then revealed a black-gold relic splitting into four pieces: one to the hearth, one toward the guest rooms, one toward the attic, and one below.

What The House Remembered

The party cleared the guest-room level and defeated the Keyless Shade outside Room 7. Inside the room, they recovered the second shard and saw a memory of trapped guests, bending keys, unpaid debts, and the house repeating:

Guests stay.

On the fourth floor, the party found the tavern's records layer: ledgers, debt cabinets, the Unsettled Account Box, and a hidden bookshelf mechanism that needed both a coin-shaped inlay and the right account language. After a records-storm fight, the party recovered the missing inlay and opened Oren's hidden records.

Those records revealed that Oren bought the black-gold relic he called the Coiled Coin. At first it helped him protect and control the tavern. Then it helped too much. Ownership became obsession, and the house began keeping guests, debts, keys, rooms, and belongings.

The Attic And Below

In the attic, the party found the belongings the house had kept: boots, letters, purses, toys, rings, keys, coats, cups, ledgers, and names. The hoard animated around the echo of Blackpenny, the man Oren became inside the house's hunger. After the fight, the party recovered the third shard.

The party then descended to the basement, found an old locked cell, and saw warnings scratched where warnings should not have been:

Do not open the cell.

The final shard was below, near the old cell and the power beneath the tavern.

Current Moment

The four shards have reunited into the Coiled Coin. For one breath, the warmth did not feel possessive. It felt whole.

Then the house refused to let go, and the old altar beneath the tavern woke. The house screamed:

Not whole. Not free. Mine.

A guardian formed around the relic. The party stands in the basement, between the house, the altar, and the Coiled Coin.