Sounds great, Great_Lestrade! I hope you post updates on how it all goes.

Where will you let them generate new characters from to replace the slain--or is that what you mean for the Kingdom of the Dead? Otherwise, will you keep them to Hyperborean new characters even though this version of Underborea touches other places?

Will you use the Dreamlands supplement for Call of Cthulhu, or do you have something else in mind of they go that way?

Heres a map of a bath house for the opening adventure im working on. I'm going to fill it full of demons. Could have a very high fatality rate, but the idea is to teach the players that caution is the better part of valour.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting the maps - always fun to see maps.

ran this today with 3 players. they all wanted to play magic users, so I ended up with a necromancery, a magician, and a warlock. They recruited two mercenary swordsmen before they departed on their voyage to the northen islets chain to investigate, with some students of the Mage Tygrippa, what was believed to be the remains of a ruined bathhouse from the ancient atlantean kingdom.

On arrival one the magican hunted crabs on the beach with his fireball spell providing a good meal.

The following morning the party including some of the students slashed their way through the islands thick scrub and came across the rather intact bath house. complex. They investiagated the two out houses activating both the traps. They then went in to the courtyard awoke two smilodon guards and fought them mostly in mele for five or six rounds. The smilodons armed with glaives diced up one of the mercs and nearly finished the necromancer. The warlock threw his weapon at one to kill it and then refused to help the other two (everyone is chaotic). 

The Demon Lizard Naa Hosh a little while later emerged from the portal in room 16 to frequent the bathhouse. The warlock being in that room bowed down and grovelled thus earning the mercy of Naa Hosh. The necromancer hid on a step above the mercury pool in room 5 and the magician waited until Naa Hosh entered the sulphur room (3) and then through a some flames in deducing that the sulphur dust would explode. It did. Both the necromancer and Magician failed a test of constitution (perhaps i should have used some sort of save instead, no difference though really) and each took 1 d6 damage from the blast that leveled about a quarter of the bath house and killed Naa Hosh. Amazingly both survived. 

After this they explored the ruins a little never finding the underground. The necomacer found the portal in the base of the pool in room13 and left the overworld, the warlock prized two saphires out of the eye sockets of a statue to Khalk-Xu in room6 earning the gods wraith, who responded by sending a tsunami wiping out the island. 

I have an over arching plot of a conflict between Apollos and Khalk-Xu mostly described in mosaics around the bathhouse. It is implied that Khalk-Xu was involved in the destruction of the Atlantean empire and that Apollo failed before him. This plot will losely involve Apollos using the players to exact vegence upon Khalk-Xu.  Before the wave hit Apollos intervined to snatch the remaining two characters away. The next session will start on the underground map deep in the underborea. I need to rework it abit now i have an over arching plot to give the players the opportunity should they choose to take it to deal with Khalk-Xu in some form.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-jkAzINP6sq1pqQ85CoUAiMztxDhKMyp5zDges_HG0w/edit?usp=sharing

Heres a link to my notes if you're interested. I might edited it up a bit more an submit it too a zine at some point.

Just wanted to chime in and say I love what you're doing, Great Lestrade! Your campaign sounds and looks fantastic.

Wow, that is so cool. Please move to my town here in the U.S. and be my referee.

Have you considered running a G+ hangouts game? I must admit that I was very, very skeptical of how well it would work, but joined one recently and have been pleasantly surprised. Sure, there is the occasional internet failure and the natural, expected social and logistical limitations of the medium, but I would run a game in G+ hangouts with no hesitation. Plus, it does have its benefits, like allowing for more flexible times (late weeknight evenings, when most people wouldn't normally travel to be in a game) and participation (geographic location irrelevant).

Anyway, you seem pretty good with compters, so you have probably already looked into it.

The_Great_Lestrade wrote:

I'll look into G+ hangouts. I know a lot of people do use it. I'd never given it serious consideration.

Trust me, I had not either, but as I said, it's not a bad substitute for face-to-face if you have no other options. Certainly beats any sort of playing-by-post/e-mail/text chat format by leaps and bounds. If you ever want to check it out sometime, PM me. You'd be surprised how easily you can set it up. I was!

continueing the trend of absurdly over done maps, heres a map of the cave the giant crab city will wander around in;

Each of the numbers will correspond to a location. The only ones decided so far are 4, 3 and 1. 4 and 3 are just entrances/exits to other regions. 1 is going to be a spiral stair case up a rock column to the ceiling of the cave. Some nastie flying things will roost on ledges on the way up and at the top, built into the column is going to be a malfunctioning huge lighthouse that acts as the sun for the cave. Its going to be a bit sci fi and probably ancient Hyperborean. Will make a good quest target / dungeon. 

 

Love it!