Festering Crowns

From publisher blurb: A Mists of Akuma adventure for 4–6 PCs of 5th level. Delve into the eastern fantasy noir steampunk world of Mists of Akuma (original setting book | anniversary edition) with this impressive adventure by the author of Honorable Wills. The secluded bunki-mura of Byoki is a safe haven for tanuki from the cruelty of Shinko Prefecture but this peace is not without a price—in this case the souls of a wayward group of adventurers. Shortly after a bengoshi orders them to the hidden forest village the PCs awaken in an isolated grove with strange rotting crowns atop their heads, grisly clawed items that refuse to be removed. To save themselves from a terrible fate the party must survive the ritual grounds of a coven of mistwraith witches before finally confronting their duplicitous employer! The tanuki forest village of Byoki and maps for 8 different encounters and locations. Yaoguai (CR 7), mistwraith witch (CR 8), dread totem (CR 2), rotcrown cackler (CR 5), tanuki onryo (CR 3), baku (CR 5), tikbalang (CR 9), undead wyvern (CR 8), tanuki guard (CR 1/2), Imperial Rebuilder (CR 9), and of course a smattering of adeddo-oni (hunchlings CR 2, ninja CR 3, samurai CR 5, mage CR 8). A handout for tracking the curses afflicting each of the adventurers.