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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkAHart" data-source="post: 2019041" data-attributes="member: 20415">I owned this module at one time, but it vanished at some point along the way...I never had a chance to DM it.I did, however, have a chance to play in it for one evening.  I was visiting a friend in a small rural community in Iowa, and he invited me one evening to play D&D with him and his friends.  Excited, I agreed (I didn't know the DM planned to run this adventure, but I warned him ahead of time that I owned it and had read it).  I rolled up a paladin in anticipation.Trouble started soon after we arrived.  Of the six people present, two were well on their way to being drunk, while another person was high on something unidentified.  Our characters included a paladin (me), an assassin, a half-orc fighter, an insane wizard, and a bard (from the AD&D days of bard, which meant a high level character).  Naturally, most of the party had psionics (except my character) and the odd artifact tucked away for safekeeping.Once the adventure got under way, several players (the drunken ones) complained long and loud about any adventure with faeries, or the Romeo & Julietesque lover story.  The assassin started things off by pulling out his favorite magic item -- the Apparatus of Kwalish.  Our party wandered around the enchanted land, attacking everything that moved.  Since our party averaged 14th level, nothing much proved a challenge (not sure what the DM was thinking...). The hack-and-slashers mowed down everything they could, trampling any attempt by the DM at a story or mood.By the end of the evening, I promised never to play with them again, and had a marvelous headache from the drunken singing and shouting, intermixed with a DM who had no idea what he was doing...the adventure ended with Orcus making an impromptu appearance and attacking the party just to demonstrate the DM's abilities to kill PCs.  Being somewhat annoyed, I pointed out to the DM that Orcus wasn't part of the original party...Hmmm...I wonder if I subconsciously threw this adventure away shortly thereafter, never able to look at it without convulsive shudders?</blockquote>

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