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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baramay" data-source="post: 2749604" data-attributes="member: 38158"><p>Boy, I hope the player who did this does not read this. lol  I was running a group through GDW's Dangerous Journeys.  Yes, what Gary Gygax right after DnD.  The adventure was low magic set in the England area.  Farms were suffering blight and people were moving away, or selling their land but then turning around and working on the same property.  The villians were a witch's coven ploting to swindle the land away.  There were two players investigating.  They both had to get jobs.  The one was hired on as the blacksmith's apprentice because he was strong.  The other was hired to work on a farm.  Once they started to ask alot of question the coven decided to scare them off with a fake book on devil worship will many illustrations.  The book was planted on the farm under a barrel.  As the player drew the water the barrel's cant increased slightly.  He began to investigate.   The barrel had show marks in the dirt that it had been moved recently.  He checked inside the barrel-tar on wood.  He checked outside.  He traced back the barrels path to where it originally came from-under the edge of the barn.  He summoned up his nerve and tasted the water-brackish.  Finally he started to empty the barrel.  As he did it the cant slightly increased-he stopped in wonder.  The other player looked as if he was having an epileptic seizure.  He had his hands clamped over his mouth stiffling his ability to say anything and shaking back and forth.  This was torture to him since his character was not there.  I showed the player using a prop, one of those metal football wastecans.  I tilted it so the one side was about two inches off the ground.  Still the player was confused.  He decided to return the barrel to the barn so he would not get blamed for moving it.  Lo and behold a book was under the barrel.  To add the icing to the cake.  He started to peruse the book.  Not wanting to get caught with it on the farm and thinking the farmer could be involved.  He started walking to town at dusk to meet up with his friend.  Curiousity took over and he sat down to read the book on the edge of town, just minutes before the sheriff was making his rounds.  The sheriff asked what he was reading and I think he tried to hide the book or proclaimed he had just found it and started to show the sheriff.  Well, that caused him to be thrown in jail.  Afterward he told me that Dangerous Journeys was a terrible world.  I had not realized how dangerous they could be.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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