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Shadows of the Past by Michael Baumann SHADOWS OF THE PAST SHADOWS OF THE PAST A STORMBRINGER 5th EDITION ADVENTURE BY MICHAEL BAUMANN & MATTHEW HARTLEY The following adventure is designed for four to six moderately experienced Stormbringer characters, but Game Master's the adventure is easily increased in difficulty by adjusting the skill level and/or number of NPC Synopsis opponents. With a bit of work it can be modified for the Corum or Hawkmoon games as well. If the party is extremely skilled, has several bound demons, This adventure takes place after the events in The contrivances, or technological devices the Game Sands of Time. An alternate beginning is presented Master will have to radically redesign the opposition. for those Game Masters who choose to run this Information to be read to the players is always in scenario on its own. Italics while GM information is in plain type. The adventure begins as the characters awaken This adventure catapults the party to the Shadow on the Broken Plains of the Shadow Plane. Their Plane. This horrid place lies close to the plane of The unconscious selves are about to become the dinner Young Kingdoms. Moorcock's writings indicate that it for a band of roaming demons. Undoubtedly, they is a place of banishment for those who offend the will object to this and a fight will ensue. Once the Lords of the Higher Worlds. While it is easy to get to demons have been beaten off they will find a ginger- the Shadow Plane, leaving is an altogether different bearded dwarf inside a sack carried by one of the matter. The adventurers will remain stranded in this creatures. This turns out to be none other than awful place unless they can find a method to get back Jermays the Crooked. The dwarf will guide them to to the Young Kingdoms. The description and the city of Ameeron and along the way they may atmosphere of the Shadow Plane are found in the meet the Mute Piper, an Avatar of a Lawful novel Elric of Melinboné. Champion. When they reach the city they will be set This adventure was originally designed for upon, in turn, by beast-men, a hoard of loathsome Mike's Stormbringer campaign. He was inspired to beggars and cultists. Eventually, they will and meet a write it after re-reading Elric of Melinboné by Michael patron in Ahld. Moorcock. The adventure originally was run on the Lord Ahld is a Granbretan from the plane of the heels of The Sands of Time, where he used the Tragic Millennium. A member of the infamous Order shattering of the Crystal Heart to catapult the party of the Serpent, he has created a device that has the across the Multiverse to the Shadow Plane. Once capability to travel the Megaflow. Baron Kalan will there, the characters had to search for a way to return later use his research to create his own dimension- to the Young Kingdoms. traveling pyramid. Unfortunately, Ahld's device is by no means perfected and it has broken down stranding him on the Shadow Plane. The sorcerer-scientist knows of another traveler who has reached the - 1 - SHADOWS OF THE PAST CLEAR CREDIT Anastasia within his manse before she could escape. Ironically, the same device that imprisons the Liche This adventure is ©2003 Michael Baumann and powers the barrier of her own prison. Matthew Hartley. It may be freely distributed for When the adventurers enter Morbant's prison, personal use provided that it is not modified and no they will free Anastasia to act. The Liche and her are fee above the normal cost of distribution is charged for evenly matched in power and both will beseech the it. characters to help them destroy the other. Again they Stormbringer is a registered trademark of Michael will be faced with a choice between two opposed Moorcock. forces. No matter whom they side with at the end of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the struggle the device powering the prison will no Matthew would like to dedicate this to his wife, Carol longer be needed and they can use it as a power for letting him play games instead of painting the source for the dimension traveling machine. If they house. Michael also dedicates this to his wife, Gina for manage to avoid betrayal by Lord Ahld they will soon being "grossed-out" by the description of Bazak. be back in The Young Kingdoms. Play-testers: Tom Eiler, Andrew Gilbertson, Chris Privetere, and Barry Tebon. The Saga of Anastasia & Morbant The Mabden of the plane of Prath are not content to Shadow Plane - Gunther Pugh. Pugh and Ahld have drift placidly amongst the Million Spheres. Like so met before, when the Granbretan poisoned him in many other poor souls, its inhabitants are embroiled order to steal his dimension traveling machine. in the never-ending war between Law and Chaos. Unfortunately for Ahld, Pugh was able to escape and The struggle for this world is played out in the wars is now hiding in the city. Ahld has hit upon the idea between the minions of Mirath, of the White Hands to hire the adventurers to find Pugh for him. and those of her antithesis Chardros, The Reaper. The Pugh is also a native of the Tragic Millennium, saga of Anastasia and Morbant is one of the battles of but he is from the fabled continent of Amerkha. He this war. too was stranded on this plane after his machine's Anastasia is a powerful and fanatical servant of power source burned out in a particularly turbulent The Lady of Mortality. Rising from humble beginnings portion of the Megaflow. The characters should be as a street urchin to become the most powerful able to track him down with some persistent Champion of Law on Prath, she earned her sobriquet questioning, and must affect his rescue from more "The Hammer of Mirath" by smiting the worm-eaten beast-men. When they find him they will be surprised forces of Chardros wherever they lurked. to discover that Pugh already knows them! This is In contrast, Morbant was raised in the luxurious purely to show the players how odd the flow of time surroundings befitting a scion of the Duke of is in the Multiverse. Later adventures may reveal Braidlund. Trained by the best scholars, he quickly Pugh's first meeting with the characters (at least from became a fine courtier, skilled duelist and expert their perspective). sorcerer. At the height of his career the young The players should come to the conclusion that nobleman contracted the Sleeping Plague, a deadly in order to get off of this Plane, they must either disease for which there was no cure. With nothing to betray Pugh or Ahld, or persuade them to work lose (or so he thought at the time), he petitioned fell together. Either way, in order for a machine to work it Chardros for eternal "un-life". For some perverse must have a suitable power source. The only one reason The Reaper chose to grant his request and available is currently used to restrain a Liche named Morbant rose from the dead as a liche. Morbant. This undead sorcerer came to the Shadow Rumors of Morbant's atrocity soon reached Plane over two decades ago, fleeing from a Anastasia and she gathered an army of the faithful to Champion of Law named Anastasia. Much to his lay siege to Castle Braidlund. As the forces marched dismay, "the Hammer of Mirath" had little trouble on his estate Morbant's father, the Duke, disowned following him here. Anastasia confronted and his son, taking him captive. The Duke had counted imprisoned Morbant with a marvelous techno- that this act of betrayal would redeem him in magical artifact that encased the manse of the Liche Anastasia's eyes. In the end, he only gained a quick in an impenetrable barrier seemingly made of stone. death from "The Hammer of Mirath". Imprisoned though he was, Morbant was still not beaten. He managed to use his sorcery to trap - 2 - SHADOWS OF THE PAST With no hope or allies on Prath, Morbant called adventurers who can bring the shard to her and free upon his magical powers to open a gate to the her from her prison. Shadow Plane. Feeling confident that Anastasia could not follow him to this dismal plane, he ensconced himself in Ameeron and began to plot his next move. After Castle Braidlund fell and Anastasia The Shadow Plane discovered that her enemy had slipped through her fingers, she determined to make certain Morbant would never befoul Prath again. Gathering her The Shadow Plane lies close to the plane of the staunchest companions, she beseeched her goddess Young Kingdoms, but it in no way resembles that to allow her to follow the liche and put and end to world. The Young Kingdoms, the World of the Fifteen him forever. Mirath happily granted her request. Planes and even Tragic Millennium Earth are vibrant, living worlds. The Shadow Plane feels as if it has They were not long in finding Morbant's lair - an been drained of life, happiness and all that could be ancient manse on the outskirts of Ameeron. Anastasia considered good. The Game Master should strive to and all save one of her followers entered, bringing make this world quite alien and unpleasant to the with them a miraculous techno-magical artifact players. The following notes should aid him in this known as the Stasis Engine. They planned to use this task: device to imprison the liche on this plane forever. Anastasia's followers defended her to the death while THE PASSAGE OF TIME she set the Stasis Engine in place.
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