TSR 9360 - WGR2 - Free

Terror in the Tropics
Terrain: Jungle
Total Party Levels: 54
Average Party Level: 9th
Adventure XP:
Full: 46,800
Partial: 35,100
Retreat: 11,700
This adventure is for five to seven characters
of eighth to tenth level. 7II-y to establish an air
of mystery early in the adventure. The party’s
first contact with the principle monsters
should be handled as an expedition into the
unknown, against a mysterious and deadly
foe. 7II-y to keep the players off balance by
physically describing the monsters they encounter
instead of naming them outright.
Also, picking out some small, but striking
physical details creates this effect quite well.
DM’s Background
They moved along the shadows, testing the
air with their tongues. Only shards of the
moonlight fell to the jungle floor to touch their
arms, their scales, their swords. Where they
walked, the darkness clung to them, wrapping
them in its concealing folds. The night’s
gossamer veil hid them as surely as if they
were concealed behind a wall of trees.
They could hear the soft rasp of their Brothers
’ scales brushing the ground, whispering of
the coming human deaths. They moved as
quietly as the summer wind among the bushes.
The leaves gently touched them, nearly
soundless; a quiet sigh as the contact was
broken. The air, still like a caught breath, became
a heated sigh mourning the imminent
deaths when it stirred.
The great cats carefully eased from the path
of these hunters. Monkeys, already high overhead,
sought the farthest heights of the trees.
Insects stopped so as not to draw attention, or
scurried away, and in doing, made nearly as
much sound as the hunters. It seemed even
the trees moved closer together to avoid their
wrath.
Contacted
An emissary of the Sea Princes asks the party
to undertake an urgent mission. He volunteers
no information, other than the mission
involves going to the jungle land of Amedio. If
offered a bribe of at least 50 gp, he will also tell
the party that the last ship to drop off supplies
at some new settlements found the first village
burnt to the ground. A second village was perfectly
intact, but deserted. No survivors were
found. The Sea Princes need a group of adventurers
to find out what happened.
Initial expenses will be paid, should they
accept. In addition, the job brings a special
bonus (which is unknown to the emissary).
The emissary will set up the fastest means of
(normal) transportation available to take them
to the Sea Princes (whether he has been bribed
or not). The trip is without incident.
At hunt’s end, the predators carefully encircled
their prey Their scales, greens and
browns and blacks, easily escaped the unwary
eyes of the doomed. Each drew a sword,
like so many hisses of steel, each ready to cool
itself this heated night in the blood of humans.
Then, as one, each lightly drew its
sword across its hand in thanks to Sarthis,
before kissing the naked blade to bind itself to
the Cause.
This done, they advanced, low to the
ground, in the void of a thousand shadows. At
the first human wail of terror, all were up,
rushing the last few feet to their chosen prey
It seemed to human eyes as though the jungle
had breathed life into the patches of darkness
all around, a numberless horde without
souls come to rid the world of life. The phantoms,
ripples in the ebon stuff of night, engulfed
the alien humanity
As the first sword pulled an arc of blood,
then for a moment did the moonlight throw
back the darkness, revealing snake heads on
human bodies, jaws spread in a blood-hungry
frenzy. . .
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