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Adventure Report: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen #2

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Mystery and Mischief in Taineri Manor (played 05/03/2024) System: The Black Sword Hack Adventure: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen (from The Chaos Crier issue #0 ) Players: Faaya (Capingreen) , Kvam (Janitor911) GM: Me (Feirsteax ) Session length: 2h ish   Figure 1: The duke’s manor. A chopped up, one-floor version of the map from Ben Milton's The Waking of Willowby Hall .   A Royal Conundrum Another stack of paperwork has arrived, courtesy of the Black Sun. Nijmauwrgen’s bureaucrats seem to have the average attention span of a pickled herring. Four times I’ve had to complete the same blasted form. A pox on this city and its arcane regulations! Just when I thought today couldn't get any worse, I was accosted by a most peculiar pair of visitors. A hardy, dwarfish looking fellow who exuded a rank, salty aroma like the tooth of a mermaid’s comb and a much more elegant lady with a pale complexion who seemed to derive pleasure in tripping me up with words. Eventually...

Adventure Report: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen #1

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A rocky landing in Nijmauwrgen   (played 27/02/2024) System: The Black Sword Hack Adventure: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen (from The Chaos Crier issue #0 ) Players: Faaya (Capingreen) , Kvam (Janitor911) GM: Me (Feirsteax ) Session length: 2h30m ish   Figure 1 : Path taken by players during session 1 . Morning path = Red; Afternoon path = Green; Night Path = Blue   Moonaagdag, 3rd of Lathspell What a miserable start to the year. This morning, we set sail from The Pictlands with gold glittering in our eyes . Tonight, we’re stuck on the battered bridge of the Babaselem, beached for the foreseeable and the last of her rum dripping down my chin. A huge storm—one of the biggest—snapped our mast in two. We’ll be stranded here for at least a week. As for our little operation... Well, that idea may as well be drowned now, too. Two of the crew haven’t been seen since we first crashed into this grey hole of a city . Alcantor is nowhere to be found. And the Black ...