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Fan Material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay : To Hell Pit and Back

TO HELL PIT AND BACK

Written by Dave Allen

Fan Material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay : To Hell Pit and Back

C ONTENTS

Page 3 — The Road to Hell Pit is Paved with Bad Intention.

Whilst visiting the bazaar at Putrid Stump the party are gathered by a powerful patron and his

footlicker who give them a task to do.

Page 4 — Straight to Hell Pit.

The party journey down the underway to their destination, with stop offs at Skaven lairs under

a couple of Dwarf Holds in the World’s Edge Mountains.

Page 6 — Hungry as Hell.

A chance encounter in the dirt lanes offers a potential solution to any provision problems the

PCs might have.

Page 6 — At the End of the Driftmain.

The party is assailed in a vulnerable position.

Page 7 — More than a Dozen and One Ways to Skin a Cat.

The trouble getting through the back door to Hell Pit. Bribe, bluff or battle?

Page 8 — Life in Hell Pit.

Fixed locations and random encounters in the 3rd Circle of Clan Moulder’s chief stronghold.

Page 11 — Maleff Ikk’s Laboratory.

The working space of a prodigious Clan Skryre Warlock Engineer provides the scene of the

climax.

Page 13 — Like a Rat Outta Hell Pit.

Their prize secured, the party head back to collect their just desserts.

Page 15 — Experience Awards.

Earn up to 100 XP!

Page 15 — Handouts and Maps.

Squint at the scrawlings of Skeely-Splicer Vrgl and explore 3 exciting locations!

Page 19 — Sample Characters.

Snikkitt, the self-doubting Apprentice Grey Seer, Drittskritt, the war-porn bore Black Skaven

Bodyguard, Meffit T’kk, the slave-taking sycophantic Bounty Hunter with a heart of iron

pyrites, and Flens Visspikk, the Surgeon with ambitions to become a great poisoner one day.

Page 21 — Subplots for Sample Characters and Acknowledgements.

Some more reasons to complicate the plot and some well-earned thanks.

Page 22 — Spells.

Fan Material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay : To Hell Pit and Back

The Road to Hell Pit is

Paved with Bad Intention

The scenario begins at a bazaar or other busy

Skaven meeting area. The exact location is

unimportant, though somewhere to the south or

west of Karak Ungor would make sense - as

written the scenario assumes you begin at

Putrid Stump.

Trikk’exx Hhreest’t - Skaven Grey Seer

The Seer has grey fur and pallid skin. He has a

noble bearing, for a Skaven, and exudes

confidence. This goes some way to disguising the

vast megalomania and paranoia typical of his type.

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The bazaar is a busy meeting and gossiping

place for Skaven, and the following rumours

could be heard by various party members to

help set the atmosphere or provide the impetus

for getting involved in subplots:

Skills: Academic Knowledge (Magic), Channelling,

Common Knowledge (Skaven), Magical Sense,

Perception, Read/Write, Search, Speak Arcane

language (Magick), Speak Language (Queekish),

Speak Language (Reikspiel).

Talents: Aethyric Attunement, Coolheaded (added

to profile above), Dark Lore (Warp), Dark Magic*,

Fast Hands, Lesser Magic (Aethyric Armour, Dispel,

Move), Meditation, Night Vision, Petty Magic

(Warp), Public Speaking, Suave (added to profile

above).

* See Children of the Horned Rat or Terror in

Talabheim for details.

Armour: None.

Weapons: Quarter Staff, Dagger.

Trappings: Grey Robes, Quarter Staff, Dagger, 8

Warpstone Tokens, Poisoned Wind Globe,

Mummified Cat Corpse, Rotten Tooth, Vial of

Warpstone Powder, Brass Bangles.

• Seers’ eyes are on Clan Mors and their

blatant war-growth. Gnawdwell better get

subtle soon, or else.

• A Seer may reward those who find more

proof of Warlord Gnawdwell’s plans to

expand his armies.

• Last week the Horned Rat himself

appeared at Under-Karak Ungor and ate

their Grey Seer. No, no one saw it

happen as such, but they found his body

all alone in the temple half eaten up -

what else could it have been?

• The bazaar at Hell Pit is the best place in

all the under empire to pick up poisons,

as many of the plants that grow up there

are warp-touched and deadly.

• Some say the Horned Rat looks

favourably on those who eat the hearts of

thirteen lesser Skaven.

• Need for slaves at Under-Karak Ungor.

Likk Spttl - Skaven Footlicker

This scrawny Clan Kisk Skaven is a master of

flattery, and has been clever enough to attach itself

to a powerful Grey Seer who appreciates it’s ardent

sycophancy.

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Trikk’exx Hhreest’t, a Grey Seer of some import,

is looking for some expendable stooges to

undertake a task for him. If the party are already

formed then he will grab the most important

looking member (a Chosen Skaven if there is

one, or the member with the highest Strength

score if there isn’t) and hiss excitedly at him that

there is an important task that needs doing and

that the Horned Rat himself will look favourably

upon any who accept it.

Skills: Blather, Charm, Common Knowledge

(Skaven), Dodge Blow, Perception, Speak

Language (Queekish).

Talents: Etiquette, Luck, Night Vision, Savvy

(added to profile above) Schemer, Suave (added to

profile above).

Armour: None.

Weapons: Dagger.

Trappings: Tatty brown shift, Dagger.

If the party is not yet formed then this can be a

perfect opportunity to create one, as the Seer

and his attendant footlicker invite lone Skaven,

who show the right combination of promise and

naivety, to form a team.

mentally disparaging them for their inferior

displays of sycophancy. After introductions have

been made the Seer chitters excitedly:

The party are led to a quiet niche in which to

plot with the Seer. The scrawny dun-furred

footlick busies himself making bows and

flattering remarks to the Seer, overtly wetting

himself in fear and respect as he does so. From

time to time he gives the PCs a dirty look,

“The Lord of Decay, the one we worship-adore

and who gifts grey-furs with voices and plans

and has, has, has been telling me to look for

you, yes, you all. Wants something done yes,

done about a nastybad runt better eaten up by

his broodmother at birth, yes, yes, yes! Malef

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Ikk, yes, heard of him, yes?”

shattercracks and through the burroway, there

will you find crosscutting and, brrrr, feel chill-air,

nearer now, steal down the bore-well there and –

hungry now little things – have another foodstop

there then up, up along the driftmain ‘til gets dark,

darker for even rat-eyes to pierce and feel, feel,

feel with whiskers and right paws for the crack in

the wall and follow it to the crawlspace, a pothole!

A pit whole enough for just a toady a-time yes-

yes? A capillary of underway, not known well but

guarded still, yes, yes little ones, big black rat and

wretch-help they station there with distress-bell

but hush, hush, not need for such a flavour of fear

- here! A tool for such circumstances!”

“Ooh yes, yes! We hate, hate, hate him!”

Squeaks the footlicker.

Clan Skryre Skaven may well of heard of him if

they succeed a Challenging (-10%) Common

Knowledge (Skaven) Skill Test - he is a

Warlock Engineer who has spent a deal of time

residing in Hell Pit, creating sets of cybernetic

implants with which to augment Rat Ogres.

The Warlock is proving a prodigy at this sort of

thing, and his work could cause a power

imbalance that might upset the Seers’ grasp on

Skaven society (besides, Seer Lords such as

Thanquol quite like their own technologically

upgraded mutant Rat Ogres, and don’t want such

luxuries to become devalued). The party are

asked to locate the warlock and return to the

Seer, with his head.

He pulls from a large pouch at his waist a globe

of thick green glass, bound in heavy hawser. Clan

Skryre characters will recognise the object as a

Poisoned Wind Globe, but other characters will

have to pass a Common Knowledge (Skaven)

Skill Test to realise what the object is and how it

works. If no one understands what the object is

for, and one of the party is brave enough to admit

their ignorance, the Seer will be frustrated but will

explain the object’s function.

“These inventions not Horned One’s way! He

plans for day when swarm from the underway,

inherit surface from all things up there, yes, yes?

Us, yes? Us, us, us! Not steaming warp-powered

gimcrack! Not widget-popping jigger gizmos! I

need some sneaks to bring me his head yes, and

uneaten at that, yes? There’d be food and warp

tokens and rights to the breeding pits for any

Skaven able enough yes, yes, yes! And if not

able enough they help with haruspexy, yes?”

The Seer also gives the PCs some Warp Tokens

(1 per party member) for provisions.

Lastly he hands them a map made by an Eshin

scout (who did not carry out the murder because

the Seer thinks the party more expendable). The

map is not good and when the party reach Hell

Pit they may find they have to compensate for

many errors and simplifications on the map. This

will not be helped if the party are illiterate. Give

the party Handout 1 - this is the map drawn by

the Eshin scout.

“Wise words! Wise words lord, lord, lord, your hair

is so sleek, your eyes is so bright!” Squeaks the

footlick. The Seer gives it a dismissive pat on the

head, at which it gives a self-satisfied squeal of

delight.

The main entrance to Hell Pit is too well guarded

for the party to break into without some serious

challenge as to their reasons for being there, so

the Seer suggests an alternate route, a tunnel

branching of the main underway straight into the

circle the Warlock works in. This is guarded but

the Seer gives them a tool to help them enter

unannounced – a poisoned wind globe.

“So my little stinking petties, everything clear,

clear? Bring Maleff Ikk’s head back, back, back to

the Temple here quick, quick to get what’s

coming to you, yes, yes?”

The party should have some time to get

prepared, but impress on them the fact that they

are far more likely to gain the regard of their

important new patron if they make haste. A single

warp token should be enough to get all the

provisions needed to see the party safely from

Putrid Stump to Karak Varn.

“A tunnel branching off the main underway to Hell

Pit” probably doesn’t sound like a decent set of

instructions to human ears, but bear in mind that

like Eskimos and snow the Skaven language has

a multitude of terms for “dank hole”. Indeed, there

are more words for “tunnel” in Queekish than

there are varieties of Averland sausage, so the

Seer’s instructions could be along the lines of:

Straight to Hell Pit

The most direct route to Hell Pit from Putrid

Stump is to travel to the lair underneath Karak

Varn (a journey of about 7 foodstops), then from

their to the lair under Karak Ungor (about 6

foodstops) and from there to Hell Pit.

“Scuttle slipshod from our lair under the stunted

things’ Ungor, down dirt lanes for three foodstops

my uglies, then quick, quick over the

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If you have trouble thinking up some ways of

adding flavour to the journey use the following

table to bring the trip to life a little.

The Skaven of Karak Varn are undergoing a

famine and the party will find it very hard to buy

provisions here. A Warptoken each will provide

them with enough food to make the 6 foodstops

to Karak Ungor, but other Skaven may well steal

from or mug the party for their food.

Features of the Underway

Old Fight: The ground here is soaked with blood

and urine. A Skaven corpse lies nearby. Everything

of value (including the edible parts of the body) has

been taken.

Dirt Lanes: Near to Skaven settlements the

underway becomes well trodden, with soft packed

earth underfoot and torches in sconces along the

tunnel sides. Other Skaven are regularly

encountered here and many rats nest in the graffiti-

covered walls of the Dirt Lanes, feasting on the

refuse that passing Skaven leave behind.

Tunnelside Shrine: To the left of the tunnel is a

small alcove containing a sconce for a torch, a bell

and a brazier fixed to the wall for passing Skaven to

burn a small offering to the Horned Rat in.

Shattercracks: An old limestone pavement forms

the floor of the tunnel here, making the journey hard

going. Water is easy to find in this area, gathering in

the cracks between the stones. There is no lighting,

and even Skaven need to light some sort of lantern

or torch to see their way.

Abandoned Skryre Weapons: A Challenging

(-10%) Perception Skill Test reveals that a

warplock pistol and a shattered poisoned wind

globe lie to one side of the tunnel here. The pistol is

corroded but a talented warlock engineer might be

able to get it working again.

Burroway: The tunnel becomes a narrow dirty

hole, and the party may have to establish a

marching order to pass through, which might be a

good opportunity to instil some paranoia. There is

no lighting.

Plague Pilgrims: A group of Plague Monks make

their way down the tunnels, heading south, they are

swinging censers and chanting holy maledictions.

Avoiding them might be a good idea unless the

party want to risk catching something virulent.

Crosscutting: Cold northern winds mix with the

tepid atmosphere of the underway at this cavernous

crossroads. A torch burns in a sconce here and

daily a patrol from a nearby settlement escort a

Skaven here to change the torch.

Slave Train: A group of slaves, mostly Skaven, but

some human and goblinoid too, are led through the

tunnels in a chain gang. Burly Skaven slavers guard

the line at regular intervals.

Bore-well: Another tight tunnel through hard

igneous rock. The marks of some great drilling

machine can be seen screwing their way through

the stone here. There is no lighting.

Skirmishes with the Dwarfs above are common

occurrences here, and the party will see lots of

Skaven clanrats being mustered to defend their

lair.

Visiting the Temple

The temple here is well attended, the Seers here

(there are two) regularly hold sermons extolling

the wickedness of the Dwarfs and urging the

Skaven of Under-Karak Varn to fight this foe.

Under-Karak Ungor

Another Typical Skaven lair - though it’s proximity

to Hell Pit means that there is a high percentage

of members of Clan Moulder here.

The population of Karak Ungor are also starving.

Food is very hard to acquire and is eagerly

stolen. The usual chaotic hurly-burly of a Skaven

lair is absent, the ratmen here seem apathetic,

sullen and tired, despondent even. Another

resource that the lair is short of is slaves, many of

whom have been cannibalised, and the prices for

decent slaves here are now very inflated.

Stories here are rife of a manifestation of the

Horned Rat some time ago. Apparently whilst the

lair’s Grey Seer was tending to the temple the

god appeared to him and, after a heated

exchange, gobbled him up. This event was

apparently witnessed by Flem Skree, the Seer’s

attendant.

Flem Skree - Maddened Attendant

Flem used to be the attendant to the Seer here.

Witnessing the death of his master has made him

quite mad. He is suffering from starvation too.

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Under-Karak Varn

This is a fairly standard Skaven lair, and using the

information for Under-Delberz from page 56 of

Children of the Horned Rat is apt. Note that the

entire warren is very damp and smells strongly of

the rotten remains of the Black Water fish which

is the chief source of food for the Skaven here.

Skills: All forgotten.

Talents: Black Hunger.

Insanities: Near-catatonic and uncommunicative.

Armour: None.

Weapons: Claws.

Trappings: Tatty brown shift.

Visiting the Temple

Should the party investigate the local temple of

the Horned Rat they will find it very sadly

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