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Adventure Report: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen #15

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Finale (played 03/09/2024) 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: 4h ish    Incomplete snippet of campaign notes taken using OneNote for this adventure. Explosions in the Deep The players ingeniously brought a big barrel of gunpowder with them to blast open the portcullis below the temple and were therefore able to enter the evil Black Sun Temple from below! This did not spare them, however, from a cruel ambushing at the hands of four Deep Infiltrators of the Black Sun, who had been tailing them in secret for some time now. These four assassins were quite brutal, and through the battle, managed to kill all of the player characters’ allies (including poor old Bonifacio , the dog-shaver and secret hit-man for hire). The rules for inter-NPC combat in Black Sword Hack mean that PC allies will take d6 damage four t...

Adventure Report: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen #9 - #14

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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: 3h ish   Off The Rails A lot transpired over these five sessions. I thought sesh 9 would be the big rebel meeting to prepare for a raid on the temple. But the players decided the morning of the meeting would be a good time to pull off a quick prison break. So that led to 3 more sessions of temple crawling under extreme cover. Cover got blown at the end of a session, very good cliffhanger. Both PCs stuck in a dark underground cult hole, one of them drugged up and drowsy. The other tied up as a false prisoner (her cover).   tldraw: a fantastic resource for collaborative mapping Eventually they got out, not without casualties and chaos being unleashed. Prisoners were all freed, but only some escaped. Templars, cultists and priests were all going haywire; killing, fleeing, screaming...