#DIY30 Day Four

Who Possesses False Chanterelle?

Today's #DIY30 project is to place the painting False Chanterelle somewhere in my campaign.  To access the Maze of the Blue Medusa, it must then be stolen by the PCs and careful instructions of it's placement followed.  Due to the Escheresque "interdimensional nonspace" of this megadungeon, the only other entry/exit point I have to place is a set of stairs on an island called Eliator.  Hooray for pocket dimensions!  So imma not even gonna worry bout Eliator for now.  In reading the chronology of MotBM, I was excited to see Lizardmen and Reptile Women featuring prominently in the history as well as a Saurid holocaust.  Coincidentally, there was a mysterious rise and fall of a Lizardman Empire in my campaign's ancient history that I've hinted at to the PCs when they were adventuring over in the capitol Chizhova.  They inadvertently assisted a Lizard Shamaness and a Talking Iguana (polymorphed wizard) in awakening an "Old Sleeper" who had been in stasis for millenia.  They (Talking Iguana, Shamaness, Old Sleeper) all buggered off to the east with an NPC cleric/scholar of Tycho who had also been searching for the Tomb of the Old Sleeper.  So Talking Iguana (I'm too lazy to go dig through my notes for his name, will update with that later) speaks telepathically and first approached the PCs in dreams.  So I think he will start contacting the PCs in dreams requesting they steal False Chanterelle for him and the Lizard Shamaness.  The painting is the newly acquired possession of Halwic Magistrate Saad Abahsh.  A month ago in the great northwestern city of Vornheim, the painting had been hanging on the wall in the home of Eshrigal, another medusae and possible sister of Psathyrella (Blue Medusa.)  It was stolen from her, eventually landing in the hands of the fence in Halwic, Niole Paliyenko.  Magistrate Abahsh is ignorant to the true nature of False Chantrerelle.  He has had it installed in his lavish home and loves showing it off to any visitors.  Eshrigal might have dispatched a retrieval team to "liberate" the painting...