{"id":8598,"date":"2023-06-03T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2023-05-23T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:31:36","slug":"altogether-in-cahoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8598","title":{"rendered":"Altogether in Cahoots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Steve Jensen\nArchaic Adventures\nGeneric\/Universal\nLevel ?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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An illegal brothel in Havaroon City has burnt to the ground, conceivably along with the brothel’s greatest patron “Count Edmund Druet” who is missing and soon to be an embarrassment to the King’s Court. There are those that blame the courtesens for starting the fire, while others believe something more sinister is afoot. Investigators wanted\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This forty page adventure is a missing persons investigation in a burnt down brothel. I question why I care that it is basically boring and moderately incoherent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Count Fancypants is missing. He frequented this fancy brothel (no relation.) It burnt down yesterday. It would be an embarrassment if he died there. Brothels are officially illegal in the city, so the police(!) can\u2019t investigate \u2026 because that would be admitting they exist. So the party get involved with a fixer of the king. That part is pretty good. It\u2019s the kind of fucked up nonsense that society actually runs on. From here on, though, it\u2019s all nonsense. And not in the good way that I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DM is to hand the party a witness sheet for each person in the brothel. The cook, the madam, and a few of the girls. FUll background bio\u2019s and their sworn testimony about the arson. (That\u2019s a little too much civilization for my tastes \u2026 unless we\u2019re in Evil Elflandia, which we\u2019re not.) Anyway, you get to then go question the witnesses, who will only give their additional information if you ask the exact right question. There\u2019s a thread about one of the girls having a dude in her room \u2026 maybe Count Fancypants? No, an abusive ex-husband. A newspaper reporter is running around reporting everything the party does\/find\/leaks, so, that\u2019s a check on the old Fire & Torture party method of investigation,, I guess. He\u2019s not really supported, at all, in the text though in any meaningful way. Meh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, there\u2019s two ways to solve the mystery. Method one involves one of the party members being handsome, so the selkie, pretending to be one of the girls, takes a liking to them and tries to drown them in the lake. Which should lead the party to Count Fancypants\u2019 body. The other method involves some weird convoluted lie detection scheme and finding discrepancies in her story with another girl, in a tertiary manner. And then not falling for her 21 year old \u201cI guess it could have been Frank, I don\u2019t know, I am confused. This is all so confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did I mention the three page read-aloud at the start? It\u2019s hard to get excited about anything that follows after a shit–fest like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s just crap. Everything is crap. Info scattered all over the place. A convoluted story to break apart. A deus ex resolution. Nothing to help the DM run it, in the way of formatting or quirks. It\u2019s just drudgery. That\u2019s what I like in my D&D games. Drudgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s nothing really here. Things like this sap my will to live. My will to write. My will to game. My will to hang out in the lake with seven naked chicks, drinking. When your creation does that to someone then you really know you’ve failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Pay What You Want at DriveThru, with a suggested price of $3. The preview is ten pages. You get to see a couple of the NPC Bio sheets that the party will get. Joy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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