My reply...
I would recommend it. I love that adventure, and it flows well. I've used it with the guys back east, and when I was stationed in Korea. As for how it went...
Back East...
Brian, Billy and Jason played on it. Each had 2 characters. One guy died in the gladiator arena. Then Billy had a character who babysat, and at the Park, when Eppely ordered the PC to kill the kid who pushed him in the mud puddle, Billy thought it was a great idea. He killed the kid. The other PC's later saw Billy's PC in the torture gardens hanging upside-down naked from a hook off a tree with his skin peeled from his body. I think someone else tried to rescue him, scratch off a third PC. Finally, the remaining adventurers escaped. When they discovered Eppely was on the boat with them, they drowned him, and threw his corpse to the sharks.
In Korea...
The PCs were AD&D characters. (Scott was one of the fools.) They had taken sail on a ship with a blind captain, and wound up trapped in the Young Kingdoms, sort of. I was using an AD&D/Stormbringer combination. The degenerates of Org were gnomes; Melniboneans were drow elves; barbarians of the Weeping Waste were dwarves. Later, they did the time travel adventure with Dr Qua in the Melnibone book, and did a bunch of stuff there that changed the world into the regular Young Kingdoms, no more dwarves, gnomes, etc. It's just like the way it's presented in Elric! now. (I also stopped the AD&D/Stormbringer and went to Elric! rules. You can imagine how on the edge they were; they had just changed game systems twice in the span of 5 or 6 adventures... and knew absolutely NOTHING about how two of those systems worked, nor had they read the novels.) Anyway, everything was like Elric!, except for the time-travelling PCs, who remembered what the world used to be like, and had to deal with the differences. (So the PC half-elf is the only elf in the planet. Everyone else just thinks he's chaos warped.) Back to the Pan Tangian adventure, some of the PCs were from AD&D, not Elric!. Some guys were from Stormbringer or Elric!, replacing previously fallen characters. The party druid died almost immediately. At the arena, he was told to put on 1/2 plate armor for a fight. Being a druid, he refused to wear metal armor. The jailer clubbed him, and told him to put the armor on. Again, refusal. Again the club. Refusal. Eventually, the druid was bludgeoned to death. See the quote list. Next, two guys died in the gladiator fights. Then on to the household. One guy attempted escape while on a shopping errand, and was killed by a Pan Tangian soldier. One guy refused Eppely's request (rather rudely!) to kill the other child, and found himself tortured to death. Another got into a fight with, and was killed by, Mustak the Reserved at the banquet. One guy was slow to leave the murder scene, and was separated from the rest. He was killed by Valil's Lakreet demon while trying to avoid capture, so he didn't give away her scheme. The final two managed to escape with Eppely. They were bringing him along at first, until Eppely had a tantrum, and spilled their fresh water overboard. So they killed him, then threw his corpse to the sharks.
Moral: Don't expect your PC's to keep Eppely alive.
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