Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition/The Color of Ambition

"The Color of Ambition" is a short adventure module for low-level players set in an unspecified region of the Forgotten Realms and highlighting a typical Red Wizard enclave.

Synopsis
In the late winter or early spring of the, a small band of Red Wizards of Thay led by a woman named Hinnar formed an enclave near a small town of Faerûn. The log-fenced enclave contained six guard platforms, five buildings, and a well and was inhabited by ten guards and eleven wizards. The enclave collaborated with the local town, producing magic items and aiding in the defense against local monsters.

However, one of the Red Wizards, Kizzaf, had her own ambitions. Beginning at about the start of summer, she was secretly using spells and potions to charm various townsfolk with the intent to sell them into slavery. Her actions triggered the investigation of a group of adventurers, who learned of the nefarious plans when two young men, named Talf and Elonn, never returned to their homes one night around Midsummer. The men had been seen at a tavern speaking to a tall woman with long, dark hair. They were later seen by a drunk leaving the town with the mysterious woman.

The adventurers found that the tracks left by the woman and the two men joined with those of a horse-drawn wagon about a mile from the town. The wagon tracks continued on, but the woman's footprints led back to the Thayan enclave, where the adventures battled Kizzaf and her created zombie thralls, which were buried within the enclave gates. Hinnar, wanting to maintain peaceful relations with the nearby town, tried to aid the adventurers and capture Kizzaf alive.

The men, heavily drugged, had been sold to a Thayan merchant named Mahzed, who was transporting them along with two criminals who sold themselves into slavery to pay off their own debts. History does not record the final outcome of the adventurers' investigation nor the fates of Talf, Elonn, or the members of the enclave.