Really liked the concept, it was fun to read. I'm not familiar with Troika, but I love that this adventure location is hidden in a city and ignored by the locals like a twisted urban legend. The mien table below the Paladin's stats really do a good job of humanizing it without explicitly telling the players what's up. Good job!
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Thanks for reading and sharing your reflections! Mechanically, Troika is an adaptation/retroclone of Fighting Fantasy. NPC and monster Miens are baked-in to that system. I wanted to write full Mien tables for the other NPCs in this adventure but ran out of room.
Troika is also the name of a city at the center of the game's implied weird science-fantasy setting. Troika city bears some resemblance to the city of Sigil from the d&d 2e setting Planescape, filtered through the thematic tone of writers like Terry Pratchett, Gene Wolfe and M. John Harrison.