Do you know what adventure this is?

[Olaf the Stout]

This thread here asked what your first module/adventure that you played or DM'd.

I don't know the name of the module that I played in so I was wondering if anyone here could figure out what the name of it is. My first game of D&D was back in 1994. I was in year 8 (the first year of high school in Australia) and of my high school teachers ran it for me and my friends. I'm not sure whether it was 1st or 2nd Edition (I imagine that it was 2E).

From what I remember it involved us going into a temple of some sort. I threw some figurines that were in a diorama onto the floor and they grew to man size and attacked us.

I remember opening a casket and having a vampire start forming in front of us. Luckily we killed it before it properly materialised/transformed.

I also remember someone in the party climbing on top of a statue, causing it to fall over. Everyone was knocked down as a wave of water crashed down from behind the statue. After that happened I managed to lose my weapon but found a sword that made me invisible.

I vaguely recall mummies involved somwhere along the way also.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? What is the name of the module? It would be interesting to know exactly what it was that I played.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Lanefan]

A few bits you describe remind me of "Pharoah's Tomb", I3 I think is its number.

There's a temple, a bigass pyramid with lots of odd things inside including a mummy or two, a place where it is quite possible to generate loads of water where it shouldn't be, and so on. But I don't recall any vampires in coffins.

Lanefan

 

[cthulhu_duck]

From what I remember it involved us going into a temple of some sort. I threw some figurines that were in a diorama onto the floor and they grew to man size and attacked us.

That sounds like one of the early bits of the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

That sounds like one of the early bits of the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.

I remember some more of it now. We were stuck in the spot where the diorama was. The door was locked and had some sort of strange keyhole. I think that we found the key in the diorama, disguised as part of the diorama itself.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? The key/kehole may have been triangular in shape (or I could just be misremembering it).

Olaf the Stout

 

[diaglo]

That sounds like one of the early bits of the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.

i was gonna say the same thing.

 

[freebfrost]

I threw some figurines that were in a diorama onto the floor and they grew to man size and attacked us.

"If any of the human or animal figures are removed from their niche and placed on the floor of this vault, the item will grow to living dimensions inmmediately (2 segments) and spirits of the ancestors will animate the creature and it will attack."

I remember opening a casket and having a vampire start forming in front of us.

"This is the body of Tloques-popolocas, the vampire."

I also remember someone in the party climbing on top of a statue, causing it to fall over. Everyone was knocked down as a wave of water crashed down from behind the statue. After that happened I managed to lose my weapon but found a sword that made me invisible.

Actually, the falling statue was room 9 - the water wasn't until room 12.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? What is the name of the module? It would be interesting to know exactly what it was that I played.

Indeed, it was C1 - The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan for AD&D 1st edition.

 

[Henry]

Freebfrost nails it! I loved that module. Never ran it, though.

 

[Mycanid]

Yes sir ... C1: Hidden Shrine of the Tamoachan it is.

AND ... I usually plug this when appropriate in any such thread ... there is a good conversion of it for NWN1 at the website below:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modules.Detail&id=18797&id=3848

I loved that module. When I first went through it we played the three pre-generated characters. I was the half-elf mu/thf and we barely all survived the thing. I especially LOVED the illustration booklet (and wish there would be more of such things today in general) as several of the pics were drawn by my favorite 1e artist Erol Otus - especially the ones of the gibbering mouther (C1 was the module that introduced it to the DnD game) and the stone dragon rolling down the stairs with steam coming out of its mouth and a NASTY expression on it's face.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

"If any of the human or animal figures are removed from their niche and placed on the floor of this vault, the item will grow to living dimensions inmmediately (2 segments) and spirits of the ancestors will animate the creature and it will attack."

"This is the body of Tloques-popolocas, the vampire."

Actually, the falling statue was room 9 - the water wasn't until room 12.

Indeed, it was C1 - The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan for AD&D 1st edition.

Thanks for that Freebfrost.

Put the confusion between falling statue and the water down to a bad memory. I am remembering something that happened almost half a lifetime ago so I think it is fair that I get cut a little slack! Personally I'm surprised that I could remember as much as I did.

Do you know if the room with human and animal figurines did have a door with a triangular keyhole? And do you know what the properties of the magic sword were? Were there mummies in the adventure or was it something that my teacher added in herself?

I may have to download this from RPGNow just to reminisce on the memories of my very first D&D (and RPG) adventure.

Olaf the Stout