Tuesday, September 6, 2011

September of Short Adventures #1

Well, I'm very late. My apologies; I haven't had any good thoughts for adventures. This is partly because of the format I was trying to use. Therefore, I'm going to use a different one, of my own.

A scream, cut off midway. Then it gets quiet.

If I stay, I might learn more. Or be the next to break the silence.

I settle down by the grate, to listen.


(When passing a sewer grating in a mostly abandoned area, at least one party member hears a scream from it, cut off in the middle.)

How odd. It sounds like there's sand shifting down there.

(If they stay, there is a faint but noticeable sound, as of moving sand, or, if the characters would be unfamiliar with that, salt or sugar. After a few days, if they wait that long or return...)

Is that someone digging? And a crank?

(...they hear the above sounds.)

If I could just see in... There.

What are those things? And is that a body?


(If they look through the grate, they will see several Carcass Fiddlers removing a mummified body from a pit full of salt, while one turns a crank, returning a pendulum axe to its set position. Where it goes from there depends on the players.)

4 comments:

  1. "How odd. There's sand shifting down here.." - gobble gobble "Oh dear there goes Greg."

    The blade at the end is very creative too!

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  2. That's an excellent format. A very good lead-in too - it's easy to imagine it taking off from there.

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  3. Thanks to both of you! Now I need to do my next one...

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  4. C'nor!

    I've put an "I Survived the osr Challenge" image on my blog for you to put up at the end of the Challenge.

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