D&D General What is Guns of Azzagrat?

[Hexmage-EN]

I've just learned of an interesting-sounding RPGA module from 1999 called Guns of Azzagrat, but I'm having a hard time finding any details or sources on it. Does anyone have any leads or info?

 

[Morrus]

First Google result gives me this:

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guns_of_Azzagrat

Not much there, though there's more detail if you click through to the individual adventures.

 

[Alzrius]

Here's the background from round one ("The Brigadier") of that adventure (which is itself a sequel to another module, The Ebulon Affair):

In The Ebulon Affair, a group of unlikely heroes (the PCs) were selected to combat the release of a powerful tanar’ri lord trapped beneath the city of Ravens Bluff. The party’s benefactor, a mysterious new noble called Beliakas, armed the group with weapons and information to track a cult of drow, duergar and derro intent to free the tanar’ri, Ebulon, from his elaborate prison.

The party may or may not have been successful. Regardless, at some point before he could return from Toril to Azzagrat, the triple layer of the infernal Abyss ruled by his liege, Prince Graz’zt, Ebulon was laid low by adventurers from Ravens Bluff. Because he is a tanar’ri lord, however, the death was not a true one, and had little effect greater than barring Ebulon’s return to the Prime Material Plane for 100 years.

Now, from the nether-corners of Azzagrat, Ebulon plans a dark revenge on those responsible for dispatching him. Since he cannot himself venture to Ravens Bluff to capture his enemies, and since sending lesser tanar’ri to do his work risks drawing the attention and ire of powers far greater than himself, Ebulon has decided to bring the citizens of Ravens Bluff to the Abyss – one-by-one, if necessary.

To this end, and with Graz’zt’s assistance, Ebulon has created the Scour Perilous, a horrific artifact with the ability to “zero in” on a location in the Prime and literally draw local lifeforce to itself. In the month since Ebulon began experimenting with the Scour, citizens of Ravens Bluff literally have been vanishing without a trace. The artifact is imprecise, however, and Ebulon has not yet captured his “killers.”

Likewise, here's the background for round two ("A Celestial Crown"), which largely recaps how round one went:

In The Brigadier, the PCs investigated a strange disappearance on the Celestial Monitor, a foreign ship under the command of the Grand Emperor of far-off Shou-Lung. The missing first mate, Weng Chen-Seng, was only one of several dozen citizens and visitors to Ravens Bluff to vanish in the last two tendays. The importance of this fact was brought home to the PCs upon a visit to the Wizards Guild, where they and the captain of the Celestial Monitor, Minh Lao-Tsing, learned that the abductions were the result of an Abyssal power, Ebulon, tampering with a foul artifact known as the Scour Perilous.

The Guild, determined to stop the abductions, enlisted the party to track down a reclusive hermit said to have intimate knowledge of Azzagrat, the Abyssal layer home of Ebulon. The hermit turned out to be a Giff, a hippo-headed alien obsessed with revolutionary smoke powder, and a determined enemy of the tanar’ri.

This Giff, the Brigadier by name, returned to the City of Ravens to tell his tale. Once a minor officer aboard a spelljammer ship known as the Tarsus, the Brigadier was on board when the ship fled through a portal in arcane space, was magically transported to the Abyss, and crashed. The guild, enchanted with the Brigadier’s story, figures that a spelljamming ship using that portal might just be the best way to bring the captured citizens from the Abyss back home, but the city has no spelljammers at its disposal. Enter Minh Lao-Tsing, Captain of the Celestial Monitor.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

Okay, this sounds even more awesome than I expected. I wish I could find the whole thing, but it seems like a lot of these kinds of adventures are effectively lost media.

 

[Alzrius]

Okay, this sounds even more awesome than I expected. I wish I could find the whole thing, but it seems like a lot of these kinds of adventures are effectively lost media.

Not lost, just hard to find. An old college buddy of mine has been looking into finding old RPGA adventures for a long time, and has amassed quite a collection, for instance.

 

[Zardnaar]

Sounds interesting.

Hmmnn.