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By Shanklimb
Self Published
OSR
Levels 4-6<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In recent months, strange mushrooms have erupted across a corner just outside the Mulchgrove. Local foragers reported vivid, peculiar dreams after extracting them \u2013 visions of mosslings sharing tea with mammoths, a boulder tucked in for naptime, and other odd sights. Now the dreams are coming uninvited, in daylight, to people who never touched the mushrooms at all.  The mosslings of Mulchgrove are divided. Most believe the fungi are a divine offering \u2013 though no two can agree which god sent them, or why. But it\u2019s to be sure: someone, or something, is broadcasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This eleven page adventure describes fifteen rooms, mostly linear, in some caves. Low on interesting, you get some sub-standard descriptions of slime mold rooms. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The locals have discovered a new type of mushroom. You\u2019re hired to check it out. You find some caves with some friendly trolls in them. They grow moss. In beds fertilized with corpses. Looks like slime molds have attacked their caves. You go kill the slime molds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aimless, perhaps, is how I would describe this. There just isn\u2019t much motivating going on in any sense. The situation in the local village is \u201coh, look, new mushrooms!\u201d with no real sense of urgency behind it. The hooks are all Hiring in one sense or another, usually with a \u201cI\u2019d some of that new mushroom variety \u2026\u201d There\u2019s little personal motivation in any of that, just a blatant appeal to your desire to play D&D tonight or go to a bar instead. There\u2019s not much of a hunt for an entrance, I guess all of the locals are blind or something, just \u201chere\u2019s the hole in the ground!\u201d and then, once inside it\u2019s more of the same. You enter a room with moss in it. This room has trolls and moss. The trolls are friendly. They don\u2019t care. Well, one room has some sleeping trolls in it who are not pleased at being woken up, if you hang around. I wouldn\u2019t be either. Anyway, they don\u2019t care. Yeah, they are fertilizing their ground with corpses, but there\u2019s no indication they are KILLING people. The descriptions are entirely neutral on that point. \u201cInvestigating the corpses: Human commonfolk, arranged with almost ceremonial care. Their hands are folded, mouths held agape with sticks. No possessions of any value.\u201d Sure thing man. No one cares. Well, the trolls are not happy that their moss tunnels have now been invaded by slime molds. Pretty please? This puts us, I don\u2019t know, halfway through the encounters? So you wander around looking at moss and trolls until you reach the barricades that block off the other half of the rooms. Once there things change. You kill gelatinous hulks and other mindless blob things. Yeah! You did it! \u2018 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last half of the room, eight rooms, are handled in two pages. So, two pages of content here. Two pages of things to do. You enjoy yourself here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Room descriptions are in the old OSE style and meh. \u201cThe Threshold Black walls (thicker roots). Translucent threads (hang from ceiling, like a curtain).\u201d This is ok, but not great. It\u2019s just not very evocative, but, at least, it\u2019s not overly long, thank god. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s just not much here. Stab the blob things. Maybe don\u2019t touch the pools that are obviously acidic. It\u2019s like The Adventure Of Getting Inzto My Condo! Avoid the church people in the drive and hit the open gate button on the app. Don\u2019t yell at the old person driving slowly in front of you. Open the garage door with the opener. Park in the garage being careful not to hit the concrete post on one side. Roll 1d6, if you get a 1-3 then the car on the other side is present also and you should not hit it. Push the elevator button. Wait forever. 1-3:d6 other people get off on floor one, slowing your ascent. Yeah. Ok. I guess things happen. I guess? Do they matter? No. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, I\u2019m annoyed that the numbers on the map are in a black font in purple background blobs. This is my usual Hard To Read rant. And, then, the dungeon proper, \u201cThis dungeon is made up of an expanding fungal root-system, the roots of which form mid-sized tunnels and rooms.\u201d I guess the roots are hollow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing here. Move along. Move along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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