HYPERBOREA / In Umbrage Taken

**Posted by Iron Ranger** 4/22/2018 7:44 pm

Has anybody made it all the way through this little gem?

**Posted by mabon5127** 4/23/2018 8:55 am

Not heard of this...

**Posted by Brock Savage** 4/23/2018 10:24 am

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.

**Posted by Iron Ranger** 4/23/2018 10:31 am

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.

**Posted by DMPrata** 4/23/2018 5:31 pm

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.

**Posted by Iron Ranger** 4/23/2018 7:31 pm

Ha! I wasn't the one who cast it!

**Posted by Iron Ranger** 5/01/2018 10:42 am

Just took at look at Terror in the Tropics, and gotta say, I think I like where In Umbrage Taken was headed more.

**Posted by DMPrata** 5/03/2018 8:07 pm

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.

SPOILERS FOLLOW
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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.]

**Posted by Iron Ranger** 5/04/2018 12:32 pm

Well, definitely felt like there was much more intrigue at the table - great re-skin!

**Posted by achiriaco** 9/16/2018 12:19 pm

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!!!!