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I made a mistake with the last post. It was Rebecca's fighter Treasa that pushed the guy down the hole.

Session 13 continued

Note: Just to keep things simple and easier for myself I photocopied page 4 and the top of page 5 of the module and gave it to the players to read before we started to play. 

The set up was that Simon Edgington had hired the group to take a well-sealed coffer to Vienna and deliver it to a colleague that lived there. On the way back they were taking a boat down the River Main with the intention to get to the Rhine River and travel to the North Sea so they could get back to England. The boat stopped in Karlstadt and the boat captain talked to some locals about the situation. He then informed the PCs he was going back upriver and would take them no further.

So, the group took a look at the refugee camp. They found a makeshift tavern someone had set up in a large tent, talked to folks about what was happening and eavesdropped on some conversations.

I took Rebecca aside and told her she overheard someone say they thought the Karlstadt witches were somehow connected to a village to the West that has an unaccountable shadow that falls over it as if there were a tower stretching into the sky. The person said there is a normal sized tower in the woods to the West.

I took Rob aside and told him he overheard a person speculating that the Karlstadt witches might have something to do with an old mound in a marsh South of the camp. The person said that the mound is supposed to be so old that it was there before any Christian missionary ever came to this part of the world.

I took Tanya aside and told her she overheard a man saying that the Karlstadt witches must surely be have something to do with Goblin Hill to the East. The man indicated that it has long been thought to be haunted.

I'll write more soon.

The post in the "I Miss Laura" thread is neither nonsense nor meaningless. Perhaps the bot is close to developing true artificial intelligence. In which case, we should tempt it into an online LotFP game so that it is distracted and won't try to take over the world.

Okay, time to finish the report on session 12.

After going back to the courtyard they decide to break into the back door of the scribe's office. They explore the ground floor and find only mundane things. They go up the stairs and go into the office thus finding the safe. Tanya's elf uses the tip of a dagger and quills from the desk to try to pick the lock. She fails to open it but triggers the needle trap. She makes her save so she feels dizzy but does not pass out. Since I told them that the safe is chained to an iron plate that is bolted into the floor, the dwarf uses his miner's pick to bust up the floor and get the safe loose.

For some reason I had thought there was a window on the second floor overlooking the courtyard and had told them so when describing what they saw from the courtyard. So, in my world there is a window in the Northwest corner right next to the stairway. They decided to bust open the safe by dropping it out the second floor window. I reminded them that the cobble stones don't extend that far over. It is just dirt and grass below the window. They tried it anyway and I ruled the safe was intact.

When they had circled the block upon first arriving, they learned of all the businesses on the block since I figured they would all have some sort of sign identifying themselves.

When they got down to the courtyard again Tanya remembered the butcher shop. She had the idea they could get tools to break into the safe in that shop. So, they broke into the back door and were quickly confronted by the mutant dog-thing. A fight ensued and they killed it. But, the dwarf had been hit by the tentacle/barb and made his saving throw. Tanya's elf (Ra'Thel) also got hit. Ra'Thel failed her save.

They move the safe into the cart that is in the courtyard. Ra'Thel notices that the skin around the wound is starting to look weird and lumpy. They realize something is very wrong and push the cart back to the inn where they are staying with Simon. He sees the wound and it is now worse. Simon tells them to stay there and he leaves. He comes back an hour later with an experienced cleric. The cleric agrees to cast Cure Disease if Ra'Thel promises to do him a favor at a later time. Tanya does not like owing a favor but agrees to the deal through gritted teeth. The cleric casts and leaves. By, this time it is night fall so the group goes to sleep.

In the morning, the group pushed the cart back to the courtyard. The dogs are no where to be seen and presumably are now wandering the town. They spend an hour breaking the safe and get the contents. Then, they break in the back door of the dog and bastard.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I just realized that I was misremembering things. Once they got the master key they just used that whenever they could. They were not breaking a bunch of doors. They did have to break the safe.

So, then they unlocked the back door to D&B and found themselves in a small storage room with two other doors leading out and a trapdoor in the floor. They sent the dwarf (Urli Redhelm) down with a lantern. He sees mundane items and a stinking goop on the floor. They surmise the goop has some connection to the dog-thing and Urli comes back up. He then goes through the West door to the bar area where William Hyde had been waiting in ambush. I make a bad roll on the surprise attack and so it misses. After we roll initiative Rob goes first so his elf (Adam DeVine) successfully casts Charm Person on Hyde. There is a conversation where a raving Hyde insists his new friend Adam (and the others , as well) must leave the block immediately. Adam allows himself to be pushed into the courtyard and the others follow. Hyde pushes Adam down the alley to the street all the while telling him it is for his own good. The others follow. Adam promises Hyde he won't go into the block and Hyde goes back into the Dog & Bastard through the back door.

I'll finish this account later.

I'm going to assume you meant Maria Cristina rather than Littlemute.

My impression is that this person was simply communicating personal approval to the OP. Like if you were in the same room with someone and they brought up an interesting topic you would not just stand there silently staring at them. You would say "that's cool" or something of that nature. This person was doing the cyber-equivalent of that kind of thing.

Yeah, it happens on other message boards. It does not harm your message board, your company or you. No real need to eliminate someone's account because of it.

P.S. The first link did not work so I was referring to the second link.

In case I was not clear, no, the module has no description of the tower. It is left to the GM.

We did session 11 yesterday. The players were Tanya, Jonathan and Rebecca. Since Rebecca's hobbit got killed last session, she made a fighter for this session. The PC is a Welsh hellcat named Treasa.

This session I used a scenario called In Heaven, Everything is Fine. It can be found in a book entitled Forgive Us.

The PCs were contacted by Simon Edgington and met him at his house in London. Through his network of scholars, spies and adventurers he had heard rumors that travelers through a village called Ashmanhaugh were reporting that is haunted. He hired the party to go and find out what can be found out. He offered them 100 silver each with more money forthcoming if more than just basic knowledge was gained.

They travelled on foot uneventfully for several days and made it to the village. They arrived about 4 pm. Tanya's elf had memorized Hold Portal and Shield for that day. They went to the center of the village and found a church, a tavern and a smithy. They went to the tavern first. There they met a barmaid and a owner/barkeep who were both merely psychic illusions. They talked quite a bit the barmaid and pumped her for information. She told them it was a wonderful and prosperous village. They asked her about any strange or interesting locations in the village and she told them about the old tower in the nearby woods. I figured the alien baby would go ahead and try to give them a reason to stay fairly quickly. A growing boy needs to drain life essence, after all.

After the tavern they went to the church and met the Rev. Larch (who is real). They talked with him about any strange occurrences and he indicated that he knew of none such. They questioned further about the tower and he was certain there was no tower nearby. Since the book only talked about the baby creating illusions in the moment and nothing about implanting false memories, it seemed to me that the real people would have no knowledge of the tower.

Naturally, the fact that they got two different stories made them suspicious but they decided to go to the tower right after leaving the church while there was still a little bit of daylight. The barmaid had given them directions on how to get to the tower. They walked Westward past some Farms to the woods and soon found the tower. The fighter made a architecture roll while the dwarf failed his. Treasa was able to figure out that it looked like old Roman construction. It seemed to be a three story structure. They walked around it until they found a door and forced their way in the old warped door. They a found ground floor that was one large room with the broken remains of some furniture. The fighter and the dwarf went in to look around but the elf was too frightened to do so. She stood at the doorway with her crossbow ready. The others found a staircase leading up and a trap door in the floor. While the elf stayed at the main door the dwarf and fighter went up to the second floor. There was a hallway with two doors. Behind one was a barracks room and behind the other was a kitchen and dining area. At that point, I mentioned it was getting dark outside so they went back to the tavern to get supper.

At the tavern, rev. Larch and Helen Cox were dining together. She had brought her child along. The party asked the barmaid about the woman and were told that Helen was a widow and she and the vicar were only friends. The group ate supper and rented the one room available at the tavern. The elf slept in the bed and the other two used bedrolls to sleep on the floor.

At that point, I had the players write down their PC's ability scores on scrap paper and then mark off one constitution point. I told them that the PCs felt really bad and but did not know why.

Let me point out that I had not forgotten about Willis. As they left the church, they saw a tuft of grass suddenly catch fire for no reason. As they were walking to the tower, the fighter got jostled but saw no one there. Also, a small stone got tossed at the elf's head. More would happen the following day.

In the morning, they got breakfast at the tavern then went to the church. They asked Larch to come with them since he had no knowledge of the tower that they had seen the day before. He agreed. When the group got to the tower, Larch was startled. He assured them that he had lived many years in the village and had been through these woods before. There was never a tower before now and he assumed some deviltry was afoot. He asked them to come back to the church so they could all pray to God for guidance. They indicated they were going in the tower so he went back to the village.

All of the party went in this time and they went straight to the third floor. There they found two small bedrooms, a storage room and an empty room but nothing of value. So, they went down to the ground floor and opened the trap door. Finding a stone lined shaft with iron rungs, the elf descended with a lantern. She found a small room at the bottom with a tunnel leading out of it. The other two followed her down. They went down the tunnel some 40 feet and found and intersection with a tunnel on the left and one on the right; no way forward. They went to the right with the dwarf in the lead and then the fighter and then the elf. The first two did not trigger the pit trap at the intersection but the elf did. She fell 10' feet and lost one hit point. They moved 30 feet down tunnel and came to a door. The dwarf opened it and saw a 30 x 30 room. Torches in sconces burst into flame and they could see everything in the room. In the center of the room was a low platform with something that looked like a wood and iron golem lying on it. They saw a dais at the back wall with a wooden chest on it. The dwarf tried to move around the platform to get to the chest and the golem got up and started to attack. A brief fight ensued where the fighter lost two hit points and the golem was inoperable after losing eight HP. They checked the chest and got three hundred silver pieces. They then backtracked to the pit area and came up with a good method for getting everyone across so they could explore the other tunnel.

At that point, I indicated we had been playing for 4 hours and needed to stop. I kind of steered the conversation to the idea of quitting this scenario and starting a new one at the next session and they agreed. So, I said that the party left the dungeon and headed back to London. When they got about half between Ashmanhaugh and the previous village they had passed on the trip up North they started to feel strange. Their packs felt lighter and they had no injuries from the dungeon. They checked and confirmed that they had acquired no coins. They went back to London and told Simon their story.

The players indicated that they really wanted to know what had gone on so I gave told them the whole story.

Session 10

Tanya, Rob and Rebecca were the players for this session.

I used the Carcosa supplement this time. My plan was to run them through Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer.

Tanya's elf (Ra'thel), Rob's elf (Adam DaVine) and Rebecca's hobbit (Roscoe) had all been contacted by Simon Edgington about possible employment. He told them that he had heard of a strange incident on the Isle of Man and he wanted them to investigate. He would pay them 100 silver each just for basic information and more if they brought back deeper knowledge. Simon had heard that someone had found a massive steel object that was buried underground. He wanted the PCs to check it out.

Below is part of the text that I sent to the players a few days before the session.

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You leave on an uneventful journey to the Isle of Man. You follow Simon's directions to a small village next to a large hill. From the locals you find out that a herdsman uncovered a strange bit of metal on the hill. You go to the spot and find the metal thing that had been exposed. You dig out some more of it and find it be one big thing made of steel and you find some strange buttons on it.

When you experiment with the buttons a strange light emanates from the object and the dirt and rock that covered it seems to evaporate like water out of a steam pot. At that point, you now see that it is a large steel object whose shape is much like that of a disc or saucer about 20 yards in diameter. What seems to be a door slides open to reveal a fascinating interior of seats and panels. The group goes in and the door closes behind you. A strange voice emanates from the wall speaking a language you have never heard. You spend some minutes looking around at the interior seats and panels that have strange lights. The voice repeats itself but you have no way of knowing how to respond.

The voice rings out a third time and then the entire object becomes suffused with a soft glow. Some of the panels seem to become transparent and now act as windows. You can see outside. The disc begins to rise in the air and you see the ground receding away from you. Soon you are so high you can see the curvature the Earth. It seems your speed increases with each moment. You leave the bounds of Earth and speed past the Moon. As you go by it you realize you are the first people to see the far side which is partly in shadow. Somewhere in that shadow you see a bright gleaming spot as if there was an illuminated city on the Moon.

You leave the Moon behind and your speed away from it increases with each moment. Soon you fly past a planet that looks to be covered with a red desert except for icy poles. Perhaps it is Mars. Soon you see the Sun as a mere bright speck.

At that point, there is a shudder in the disc and a horrifying feeling like reality has pulled itself inside out. Whereas the windows had been showing you a vast blackness with pinpoints of light that are the stars, now things are different. You see a vast field of whiteness and it is filled with pinpoints of black. These black dots speed past you for more than an hour. Then, there is another lurch and the color scheme of the cosmos goes back to its familiar pattern.

Through the windows you see that you are approaching a star whose color is a little different than the Sun that you know. After some minutes you approach what you realize is a planet with two moons. Parts of it have a purplish color and parts are brown or beige. As you approach, you see two ice caps at the poles. There are vast seas of blue water.

Your craft moves through the air and past clouds. Unlike your world, the vegetation seems to come in various shades of purple. The saucer comes down gently in an area of vast grasslands. You saw a desert immediately to the North. Some distance to the West there was a large lake with an island in the middle. It seemed like there was a city on the island. To the East you saw vast purple prairies extending as far as you could see. As the craft descended you saw a tall plateau to the South with the top covered in ice.

A panel opens in the interior revealing some strange objects. The door to the outside opens then all the lights are extinguished and there is silence from the craft.

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That's where we started the session. One of the objects was somewhat wheel-shaped (and had some buttons) and one was roughly apple shaped (and had some buttons). They played with the wheel and got a green button to illuminate. Eventually, they learned that it was a universal translator. They made guesses that the other object was a grenade.

The saucer had landed in hex 2005 of the Carcosa map. In regard to the detailed map of that hex, they had landed in sub-hex 1224. They encountered and befriended the lone wanderer but I decided he would be Green rather than Brown. They used the universal translator to communicate. From the long conversation that followed they learned about the various humans of the world and the "gods" that plagued and tormented them. They learned about the Grey Ones who made the spacecraft. They asked their new friend if he could knew how to use the saucer. He indicated that he did not. They asked about the Grey Ones and he told them he thought they were many days to the West. They asked if anyone else might know about the saucer and he told them a sorcerer might know and that there was one across the desert to the North. They asked the Green man to guide them to the sorcerer's cave and he agreed to do so.

They made their way North and into sub-hex 1220 where they encountered the dinosaur riders. The riders questioned them about what kind of beings they were and what they were doing in the area. The party simply told them the truth about these matters. The Red Chief offered them jewels if they would bring the Bone Sorcerer to him after the PCs had gotten the sorcerer to help them go back to Earth. They party agreed to the deal. The Chief sent to riders to escort the party to the edge of the desert.

The enlarged group went North and made their way into sub-hex 1506. A small number of the yellow cannibals attacked but were easily routed.

The group got close to the cave then made camp for the night. The riders left in the morning. The PCs and their Green friend approached the cave mouth. They found a small stream (just a trickle, really) flowing into the cave mouth. They entered and found lots of fungus growing along the stream. Admittedly, I did not describe the place as so full of fungus as the book does.

They went some distance in and ignored the first tunnel to the left. They went forward and found the Bone Cave. They walked around the perimeter of the cave to find its size then went back to the stream. I had decided that the stream would flow into the Mere in room 8. They decided to follow the stream and wound up in that chamber. The hobbit peered into the pool of murky water and was attacked by the Lake Monster. After a couple of rounds of fighting the hobbit was pulled down into the depths never to be seen again. The two elves fled back to the Bone Cave.

They made their way to the Cavern of Bats and I completely forgot about the bats so they did not encounter them. They moved down the tunnel leading to the apprentices and of course they were heard coming before they got there. One apprentice told them to halt before they could see him. They halted and began to parley. The apprentice told them to wait and he would fetch his master. Many minutes passed and the Bone Sorcerer and his apprentices walked down the tunnel and into view. The party saw that he had a pistol that looked like it was made by the Grey Ones. Some negotiation followed. Eventually, the two groups agreed that the sorcerer would go with them to the saucer and try to figure it out. If successful, he would take them back to Earth and keep the saucer.

The party camped outside and the following morning the sorcerer, one apprentice and 10 of the White Lotus zombies came out to begin the journey. The PCs decided the travelers should veer to the East in order to avoid the dino-riders. They wanted the sorcerer to live long enough to help them. Eventually, they got to the saucer. The sorcerer had brought tomes about the Grey Ones. He worked for more than a day but was able to get the saucer working. He took them back to Earth then went to his home planet.

The PCs went back to London and recounted their story to Simon who was much interested. They got some bonus money.

Session 9

Once again, Rob and Tanya were the only players and we used Blake's fighter as an NPC.

The PCs were in the Hall of Memory. They took some time to skim through all the books. They got the general idea about the books but did not read in-depth enough to find the clock reference. They did find the inserted note.

They went back to the Embalming Room and looked again at that book (how to make UnThings). They took the time to figure out what it was and took it with them. They also took the 4 bottles of liquid time.

They then went back to the chapel and read the glyphs at the basins and the writing at the murals.

Afterwards, the PCs again went through the door that exits the chapel to the North. They saw the door to the left had a lock and tried the key from the dungeon entrance. Since it did not work, the went further down the corridor to the second room on the right. Quickly realizing that it was a toilet, they left. The PCs went to the Slaves' Room and saw the map scratched into the
floor. They did not search thoroughly and did not see the musical notes. They went to the Chamber of Pedagogy next. They looked around and figured out that the objects were torture devices. They looked at the title of the book but did not look inside and did not take it. Then, they went to the kitchen and looked around. Tanya indicated she would look at the smoke vent and was surprised there was none. They made a human pyramid with the fighter on the bottom, then Rob's elf, then Tanya's elf on top. She made the search roll and found the secret panel. She managed to get it open. I told her how narrow it was so she took off her armor and they boosted her up to it. She made her way in pitch dark to the intersection. Finding one way sloping down to the West and the other going straight up, she decided to go back to the kitchen. They chose not to use those smoke vents any further. They went to the locked door they had seen earlier that leads to the bedroom-library-toilet complex. They spent a lot of time and effort to get through the door and damaged their grappling hook in the process. Going through the door, they saw three doors with one of them having a lock like the door they just went through. They went straight ahead into the library and started searching. After an hour of searching they found the Liquid Time book. They promptly left with out examining anything else. About when they got to the foot of the mountain the timestop effect ended. They went back to the village then started to head back to London.

They met with Simon and gave him an account of what happened. They agreed to loan him the translation eyepiece and he arranged for the buyer to get the liquid time book. He also arranged a buyer for the UnThing book. They sold their acquired treasures (thus passing the altar curse on to others) and took their money.

Session 8

Rob and Tanya were the only players to be able to show up. Since Blake had missed so many sessions I decided to use his fighter as an NPC to beef up the party.

It had been many months since the last adventure and the PCs had been selling crystal-embedded skulls. The two elves decided to try their hands at Simon Edgington's quest for the liquid time book (a.k.a. Death Frost Doom). As indicated, they took the fighter with them.

They travelled overland many days to the village of Murton (see post for session 6). Simon had told them that Murton Fell was the mountain where the witch coven had dwelt. Once in the village, they found a tavern and talked with the locals. They learned the locals call the mountain Death Frost Mountain and there are rumors it is cursed.

They find some rooms for a few coppers then leave for the mountain in the morning. They find a trail leading from the village in that direction and follow it. They walk several miles and get to the base of Murton Fell. The trail goes up it so they follow the trail. About half way to the summit they come across the encampment of Ezekiel Duncaster. He greets them in a friendly manner and offers some meat. They thank him but decline and then ask him about the summit. He gets a bit agitated and tells them it is cursed. They ask about the witch coven and he confirms the story is true. They talk of going up and he tells them he can not allow them to go to the summit. The PCs ask if he goes up and he replies that he does so only to place gravestones and get names from the book. Tanya's elf says she wants to help him and offers to go up and get some names for him. Ezekiel hesitates at first then agrees if they promise to just get some names then come right back. The PCs agree then head up the mountain.

They get near the summit and see gravestones. They proceed and start to hear the horrible, unearthly wailing. The PCs see the cottage up ahead. The elves tell the fighter to stay on the trail and go up to the cottage while they skirt around the left side of graveyard and meet him at the structure. This is really Tanya's idea since she suspects the wailing is from some kind of zombie thing hiding in the snow and she wants to stay far from it. She is willing to have Blake's fighter be closer to it since Blake didn't bother to show for the session. The two elves move around the left perimeter and come across the frozen guy in a night shirt. They briefly examine him then move to the cottage and get there about the time the fighter does so.

I'm skipping some details but they did figure out that wood turns to stone on the summit. So, back to it...

They examine the well and draw up some water. Tanya's elf touches some water and feels the numbing sensation. Rob's elf takes a sip and gets the waking nightmares. They decide to leave the well.

They go on the porch and look in the West side windows. They go all the way around the cottage and look in all the windows. Not seeing any person or monster, they decide to go through the front door. I decided against the falling door routine and just had it open normally (for a stone door). As soon as they are in they hear the harpsichord. The PCs immediately go the sitting room. They had already seen the harpsichord through the window so they had a good idea where to go. The sound stopped when they came in the room. They saw the painting and the players were taken aback at the content.

They then went back to the main room and looked around having walked past the kitchen with out stopping. The fighter happens to be Chaotic so none of the PCs could be seen in the mirror. This fact kind of freaked them out. They examined the book carefully and eventually saw the list of names in English names at the end. They wondered if this was the liquid time book and talked of leaving but decided to continue. They examined the clock. I told them there was a panel on the side that looked like it would open. They looked in and saw the mechanism, the pipes going down and into the wall and the birds.

Tanya then said she wanted to take the mirror to the sitting room. I suspect she thought there was a ghost playing the harpsichord and the mirror would show it. I had forgotten that the mirror only worked in the main room so I had it working everywhere. But, it did not reveal a ghost at the harpsichord. They then turned the mirror to face the painting. Tanya suspected that the painting had stolen their souls and speculated that the mirror might counteract the effect. Of course, nothing happened so they put the mirror back in the main room.

They then looked through the kitchen and two bedrooms. They took equipment from the mountain climber looked at his journal and figured he was the frozen guy near the well. In the other bedroom they found the purple lotus powder. I figured the elves should recognize so they did. Neither one of them decided to try it.

They went back to the main room and looked closer at the clock. Rob moved the minute hand 5 minutes forward and disappeared. Tanya's elf (and the fighter) went looking to see if he had teleported to one of the other rooms. By the time they got back to the main room Rob's foppish elf was there again. Thus, they learned it could be used to go forward in time.

Rob had his elf move the hand back ten minutes ( 5 minutes back from the time when they first started playing with it). He got the "timestop" effect and thus made another important discovery.             

Rob suggested they use the "timestop" effect and explore the trap door. I had missed the part in the book that indicated only one person at a time could use the clock. They had the other two characters touching Rob's elf while he moved the hour hand back 12 hours. I figured it should work so they were all "timestopped" together.

None of them had a crowbar so they used a grappling hook to smash the lock.

{It's getting late so I'll try to finish this session tomorrow}

For session number 6, I started them on a mission with Death Frost Doom with the intention of soon diverting them to The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children.

Rob H. was the new player who started with this session. Tanya and Jonathan were there, as usual. Rebecca was not able to attend. Blake finally made it back to the game table to play his fighter.

So, there was Tanya's elf, Jonathan's dwarf, Blake's fighter and Rob's elf who had adopted a human name (Adam DaVine) and the mannerisms of a foppish cavalier of the early 1600's. He acts like the stereotypical whoring, boozing upper-class Englishman of the early Modern period. Of course, the pointy ears hidden under his long curly hair would get him burned at the stake as a demon if any NPC humans saw them.

I have the 2014 edition of Death Frost Doom. There is a random table on P. 32 for determining which books are found in the library. One entry is for a book about how to make liquid time but the book is supposed to only give hints rather than practical applications. I decided the book would actually give a formula that an alchemist could use.

We assumed that Rob's PC had already met Simon Edgington at some point prior. Simon invited all the PCs to his house and told them about the liquid time book and that he had a buyer lined up. It only remained for the party to get it and bring it back to Simon. I may have gone into "Monty Haul" mode but the buyer promised 1,000 silver for each surviving party member. Simon told them he had acquired info about the book's location. There was a mountain in the North of England that once had a coven of witches living on the summit. Some 50 or 60 years ago the coven was wiped out by a local militia and some churchmen. That's all Simon knew so they would have to go to the mountain and investigate. Simon gave them good directions to a village called Murton. From there they could make the trek to the mountain called Murton Fell. Both the village and the mountain are real places in England.

The party set out a day later. After traveling the roads of England for a few days they had made it almost half way to Murton. They stopped in a typical farming village with the intent to stay the night in someone's barn. After they had settled in, they were approached by some "village elders" about a problem. They told about the many women who think they have a son named Andrew when they really don't. They told about the shepherd who saw a boy in the woods fitting the Andrew description. They asked the party to investigate. After not getting a promise of a cash reward, the group declined the offer and left the village in the morning. At that point, I communicated to them that I did not expect them to decline and had not brought the Death Frost Doom module with me. They decided that their PCs had a change of heart and went back to help the villagers. They then had the shepherd guide them to the area and then he left.

They looked around the woods for awhile and found the clearing and the cave mouth. They wandered into the clearing and tried talking to the Andrews who merely stared at them. They approached the cave mouth, lit a torch and went in. I described the tunnel walls as seeming to be perfectly smooth. Even the dwarf had no idea how it was done despite the craftsmanship for which his people are renowned. I had decided the Great Crystal had released crystalline construction nanites that had made the wall so smooth that human eyes could not detect any texture.

Going down the tunnel they found more Andrews who did not bother them but were playing with rocks or napping or munching on leftover squirrel. They made their way to the main chamber and there met Wiki Dot Pod. He was cordial to them and a conversation ensued. The players did not ask questions that would explain the details of what was going on but Wiki did reveal that he plans to take over the world. There was some talk of the PCs serving him in his efforts and Wiki seemed possibly amenable to the idea. While most of the party talked with Wiki, Blake had his PC look at the crystal and he found the semen-stained bio-input hole. Once world conquest with a never ending army of Andrews became the topic of conversation, Blake had his PC put a fire bomb in the input hole, lit it and began running out of the complex without a word of explanation to his comrades. When they saw the fighter running away they also ran. Wiki was perplexed by this turn of events until the fire bomb exploded. Then he yelled for the Andrews "Kill then all!" and went to check the damage on the crystal.

I figured that the PCs could outpace little kids so the Andrews gave chase until they could not see the PCs then gave up and went back to the cave. The PCs went back to the village and gave a simplified explanation to the elders. Blake had his fighter attempt to rouse the folk to form a militia and go wipe out the obviously devil-spawned Andrews. I had him make a d20 roll plus Charisma modifier. If he exceeded 13 it would work. It did work.

The folk gathered up whatever weapons they could get and followed the PCs through the woods. When they got to the clearing they found a lot of Andrews ready for them. The villagers charged to the attack but the party did not join the main battle. They skirted around it to get to the cave mouth and let the villagers do the main part of the bloody business.

When they got near the cave mouth they did have to fight 4 of the Andrews. They slaughtered the little kids after taking a little damage and we stopped the session at that point.