My group just started this as sort of a side quest while restocking in Swampgate and randomly hearing rumors about the short humanoid creatures prowling the outskirts of the settlement. The group decided to spend some coin on carousing after getting quite the haul in the module Tomb of the Serpent Kings which I located underneath Lug Wasteland. One member of the party ended up drunkenly boasting to defeat the menace of the humanoid creatures of the swamp and so they were on their way to the Eastern Farms!

Long story short: they are still investigating the tunnels beneath Dagon's Mound and about to enter the Hyperborean mining complex. One of my players picked up Dagon's Harness and I told him that his character started to immediately become posessive of the suit of armor. What I'm wondering now is where to take things with this cursed armor. Any ideas?

My first gut reaction would be to give him weird dreams where he's lost in an underwater city of strange geometry and architecture when he encounters a fish-like creature that wraps him in its cold embrace filling his character with an intense feeling of love.

I'm starting the group with this tonight. I'll have a small hook to Ghost Ship if they want to pursue that.

I wouldn't expect a TPK since they've been playing 1e for the last 9 years or so. I'm just switching to AS&SH all the time because as I've said many times before, Ghul has taken the edges off and tweaked things so I let the whole system run as is with very, very, very little house rules on my part.

Finally got together to go through Black Moss Hag of Lug.  It was a success, though a close run thing.  The character party included a Half-Pict Scout, an Esquimaux Shamaness, a Viking Berserker, a Keltic Huntsman, a Hyperborean Pyromancer, and his sister, a Hyperborean Cryomancer.  Decided not to seduce the hag and had a run-in with bog zombies that had them weakened before even entering the dungeon.  Inside they took enough wounds in the first couple rooms that they drank all their healing potions (from the townies) and had to pull out and recoup a couple days.  [Lucky I give all my 1st level PCs 20 hp kickers]. They went back in and had more trouble so they hunkered down inside for a night as well.  Getting tipped off by the kids helped prepare them for the Snake priest at the end.  The Viking raged and that allowed him to shake off a hold person spell and overcome the sanctuary.  But it was the cryomancer who dealt the big blow, a critical hit with her ice dagger spell (we use house-ruled crits and exploding dice).  So the snake priest drank his potion and got away.  They later went back to town and recovered the stone.  The shaman and mages warned everyone not to touch it so they bagged it up (with the shaman invoking protection from Ithaqqa) and are planning on taking it to Khromarium where the former teachers of the mages will try to learn its properties.

All in all, a lot of fun for a first adventure using this system.  My only complaint is that I'd really like that DM's screen already!  Not knowing the full rules yet and having only really skimmed the massive rulebook once, I had trouble finding things a few times.  But I'm sure it will get better with more play.  Incidentally, 2 page character sheets would also be nice since our players had to spend time finding stuff sometimes as well.  But definitely very playable and fun.  I love having variant classes, especially with spellcasters and different lists tailored to them.  Adds a lot of flavor to the setting.  I think I'll be using this for the foreseeable future as I really like having just the one tome with everything in it as opposed to three or more books.  Even my old favorite Castles & Crusades has gone a bit too much into the splat book and options realm these days.  Looking forward to more adventuring in Hyperborea!

All in all