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ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5320384" data-attributes="member: 85362">I'm familiar with most of the tropes of the noir style narrative (and no I didn't go to TVTropes to look it up) but having you spell it out is really helpful from a structural POV.I'm thinking of swiping from Grim Fandango. The characters -- Bez, Tiefling Artificer (the thinker of the group), Mercedes, Half-Orc Paladin (the cool headed muscle) and Loq, Changeling Wizard (my leap before looking character) -- could, in a bid to find ways to bring back their fallen comrade, look for a means to travel into the Limbo/Hell plane and plan to bust him out of there, then take him to an appropriate means of revivification.They find that a Big Mob Boss, has a standing arrangement with a lesser demon, in which all the dead of the city are taken to a "Mournland" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> where they work as undying laborers -- a mineral quarry of some sorts -- in exchange, the demon receives... something? in exchange.So the party boards the train, the Number Nine Express, and travel to the Mournland to free their fallen comrade, but must pose as undead servants as most of the cars are devoted to shipping new laborers OR they pose as rich high society clientele who are inspecting their investment in the quarry or purchasing a valuable resource from there.Anyway, that's all I have for now... I'm gonna cook breakfast nao.</blockquote>

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