Orator recalled that the Briarstone Asylum was located in Versex County in Ustalav. Where exactly those were was fuzzy. He believed that Ustalav was part of Golarian, but he was not absolutely sure. As for the Ustalav's Royal Accusers, the fringes of his mind said that they are secretive agents of the Ustalavic Crown warranted to enforce laws and extract justice without regard for the nation's baroque hierarchy of titles and rank.
Blondie opened the door the the west and saw a room filled with iron boilers, pipes piercing the walls and ceiling. Shadows and rust filled the narrow gaps between the tanks. The room did not feel hot or steamy. Blondie notices a faint glow from under the far boiler and moved into the room, laying down to peer under the tank. She was met by a glimpse of glowing eyes and writhing face tendrils as the creature and its compatriots move to attack.
A set of characters who do not know each other and in fact do not even know their own names or background are standing in a small room. They escaped from some cells, killed a doppelganger and climbed a chute out of the depths.
Six strangers find themselves in an alien city landscape. All around is a wall of sickly yellow fog, tumbling through the alley's canyon of crumbling, gray brick walls like some jaundiced flash flood. Ahead, the unfamiliar alley splits, curving to the left and right. Behind, from the silent swell of mist, emanates the sound of footsteps - slow, but somehow keeping pace with the careening hungry wave. The characters do not even know their own names, or their past, only that they have some skills. None of them recognize any of the other five characters.
