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In Umbrage Taken
Has anybody made it all the way through this little gem?
- mabon5127
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Not heard of this...
“How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound?”
- Brock Savage
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
It looks like a convention scenario. I'd love to see more of these available even if it's just a few pages of notes.
- Iron Ranger
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
David ran it GaryCon X, but unfortunately we Fireballed ourselves to death before made any headway on the mystery. Hoping to try it again one day.
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Thread Starter- DMPrata
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Oh, you were in that group, huh? What could possibly go wrong casting fireball in a five-foot-diameter tunnel? 
I adapted In Umbrage Taken from an AD&D® 2E adventure, “Terror in the Tropics”, in WGR2 Treasures of Greyhawk, so sadly it’s unfit for publication. Pick up the original if you don’t own it; you’ll find it lends itself quite well to the Hyperborea setting.
- Iron Ranger
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Ha! I wasn't the one who cast it!
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Thread Starter- Iron Ranger
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Just took at look at Terror in the Tropics, and gotta say, I think I like where In Umbrage Taken was headed more.
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Thread Starter- DMPrata
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Iron Ranger wrote:
Just took at look at Terror in the Tropics, and gotta say, I think I like where In Umbrage Taken was headed more.
I appreciate the sentiment, but the adventures were basically the same, apart from a dose of Hyperborean flavour.
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[In “Terror in the Tropics”, settlers are being abducted by yuan-ti for sacrifice to their deity, Sarthis. In “In Umbrage Taken”, settlers are being abducted by snake-men for unspecified diabolical purposes. Perhaps some are being experimented upon and/or eaten and/or transformed into snake-men via the sorcery-science engendered by their deity, Yig. The one substantive change I made was making all the snake-men classed NPCs: fighters, clerics, warlocks, necromancers, monks, priests, and assassins of from 7th through 9th level.]
- Iron Ranger
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
Well, definitely felt like there was much more intrigue at the table - great re-skin!
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Thread Starter- achiriaco
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Re: In Umbrage Taken
I was also in that game where the Fireball was cast. Haha!!
Great time. I do wish we explored further. But, I guess it had to be done!!!!
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