Cult of the Carrion Crawlers

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A good GM can make an adventure of of anything. Here's one made of lyrics from a Genesis song

Elf: I return to the passage I was previously stuck in.

GM: This time you discover a long carpeted corridor.

Elf: What kind of carpet?

GM: There is lambswool under your naked feet. The wool is soft and warm, it gives off some kind of heat.

Dwarf (in a different room with the Barbarian and Wizard): What's going on where we are?

GM: You are in a small square room with a large unnatural looking flame burning in a pit in the centre and a golden fleece hanging on the far wall. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed and fleas cling to the golden fleece.

Barbarian: Can I move around to the fleece avoiding the flame?
 
GM: There's no room to avoid.

Elf: I move into the corridor

GM: The walls are painted in red ocher and are marked by strange insignia, some looking like a bulls-eye, others of birds and boats. Further down the corridor, you can see some people; all kneeling. With broken sighs and murmurs they struggle, in slow motions to move towards a wooden door at the end.

Elf: Having seen only inanimate bodies in this dungeon so far, Rael rushes to talk to them.

GM: You move toward them but Carrion Crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.

Elf: For my second sight of people, they've more lifeblood than before.

GM: They're moving in time to the heavy wooden door. The Carrion Crawlers heed their callers

Wizard: We've got to get in to get out  

Elf: “What's going on?” I cry to a muttering monk

GM: The Monk conceals a yawn and replies it's a long time yet before the dawn. A sphinx-like creature calls your name saying “Don't don't ask him, the Monk is drunk. Each one of us is trying to reach the top of the stairs, a way out will await us there”. You can move freely again now.

Elf: I'm not asking how I can move freely, but my hero goes boldly through the door.

GM: You open the door to another room, there is a table loaded with food and a spiral staircase going up into the ceiling.

Dwarf: There's only one direction that I see, It's upward to the ceiling, where the chambers said to be.

Elf: Like the forest's fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree!

Barbarian: We've got to get in to get out

Dwarf: I move up to next corner and look round

GM: Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight. You can see the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.

Wizard: We've got to get in to get out.

GM: as you move into the room you see a cracked porcelain statue

Barbarian: I attack it!

GM: The porcelain manikin with shattered skin fears attack. The eager pack lift up their pitchers - they carry all they lack.

Wizard: Can I see what's in their pitchers?

GM: The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through a crack. The Carrion Crawlers heed their callers

Barbarian: We've got to get in to get out!

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Re: Cult of the Carrion Crawlers

Hey! I like Genesis.
The Prodigal son