Adventure Report: The Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen #2

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...