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A small town has been shrouded in gloom and despair. Suicide, which was extremely rare considering the Church’s teachings on taking on one’s life, became frequent. Even though the town is on a busy trade route, the merchants seem to lose the will to barter, inn-keepers lose their chatter and even bards avoid the place. The cause of all this despair? A Faerie Cat, Caithsee.

Caithsees usually lust after magical energies and their usual haunts are graveyards and the wilderness. Magic usually failed in the presence of a Caithsee; but what is one doing in an urban environment like a trading town? (The Caithsee is detailed in the Dragon Warriors’ Bestiary, page 52).

1. An uncollected cargo is the cause of all this trouble. A certain merchant had smuggled an ancient relic, stolen from a church, and was set to meet with a fence; however, the merchant was double-crossed and was injuried in an ambush. He had the relic stolen somewhere in the town, and before he went to meet with the fence, had the map entrusted to an old friend of his. The Caithsee was lured to the town by the aura of the relic, and have been causing trouble ever since.
2. The Faerie Cat tagged along with a group of merchants who were transporting Elven artefacts, and had ‘dropped off’ at the merchant town when the artefacts switched hand. Ironically, an ancient pagan worship place has the effect of keeping supernatural creatures – it also kept them in. Somehow the Elven artefacts have the properties of negating the magic of the worship place (which is clumsy by Elven’s standard, anyway). Irritated, and without the comforting aura of magic, the Caithsee turns to prey on the mind of mortals around it.
3. Townsfolk tends to be more practical and better educated, and pay little heed to the supernatural…which is why they decided to expand into an ancient cemetery. The Caithsee, furious at the intrusion of the mortals, decided to thwart their effort. As such, the expansion into the cemetery is half-completed, as the townsfolk lost their will to finish it. However, powerful though a Caithsee may be, it could only strike at specific targets, and faerie creatures lack understanding of the human ways. How does the Caithsee knows who are the masons, mortar mixers and building foreman? What else is in that ancient cemetery?

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