Contains spoilers for an upcoming one-off
Old Ma, a regular at Fu's Inn in the northern port city of Beigang, is an affable elder (with only a touch of dementia) despite being, supposedly, well over a hundred. He loves telling stories to you kids, some of which you may even believe. He has a lot of good stories - he was a great earthbender, back in his prime, and he got a medal from the Earth King for pushing a barge back and forth to Ba Sing Se along the Great Canal ten thousand times. He'd have shown you the medal, except he lost it escaping from a rabid badgermole.
Yesterday's story was different. He had proof. Golden coins, inscribed "Tiansheng," the last Empress of the Northern Ri. There was a treasure under the old Ganjinese bathhouse, a treasure whose owners had been too afraid to spend because of its incriminating origins. They'd buried it there, and it had been forgotten... all the gold he could carry. How do you think it is that Old Ma can afford to spend all his time sitting around drinking and telling stories to kids, hm? Why did he keep on working all those years after finding this gold? Well, for his health, of course.
Notwithstanding a few gaps, this seemed like something worth checking out. So, your young adventuring party set off, supplies in hand, in a quest for wealth and glory....
Pregens to follow.