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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9092591" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000part 2/6Deep Freeze: Our cover story does indeed send you to an asylum which is being mismanaged in a particularly peculiar way and expects you to solve it. The director found the ruins of an ancient alien civilisation buried in the ice near the asylum. Unfortunately, it’s mind-control artifacts are still fully functional and now he’s taken all the inmates to be enslaved as well and dig the place up. Someone soon notices that the place isn’t operating as usual and hires the PC’s to investigate. When you get there, it’ll be almost empty and the owner will fob you off with a plausible but not particularly clever excuse in the manner of the magically mind-controlled. Figuring out something is fishy is pretty easy, but no amount of questioning or intimidation will get a straight answer out of him. The few remaining inmates will be more honest but don’t have any solid answers either. Probably the most obvious options would be exploring the glacier in the direction the other inmates were taken, or waiting for the doctor to leave and stealthily following him to the ruined city. Most of it is still frozen, but there’s enough weirdness to be a challenge. Can you destroy the mind-controlling artifact and free everyone from it without either being taken over by it yourselves, or killed by the people already controlled for interfering? The dungeon-crawling part of this adventure is pretty short, and the whole thing is definitely much easier if your characters use their brains and stealth skills rather than trying to hack their way through everything. Fairly average in terms of overall quality, but it does introduce an interesting new monster and remind us that 3e will lean more heavily on the lovecraftian horrors set of influences than the previous editions. Now the rules themselves are less humancentric it’s much easier to create truly ancient civilisations filled with creatures capable of matching or exceeding us in flexibility.</blockquote>

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