Gilgamesh and the Golden Palace of Za-Hadrash: Complete Saga

This is not, sadly, an adventure journal as such.  

But it gathers together the pre-adventure build up story, the in-adventure infodumps (some of which may have longer-term implications beyond this adventure...) and a sort of rough albeit incomplete pictorial record of events.

1. Introduction, Part One
2. Introducton, Part Two
3. Introduction, Part Three
4. Introduction, Part Four
5. Introduction, Part Five
6. Introduction, Part Six
7. Introduction, Part Seven
8. Introduction, Part Eight
9. Introduction, Part Nine
10. Introduction, Part Ten
11. Gilgamesh's Band
12. Thorbjorn's Pre-Adventure Library Research
13. Dramatis Personae
14. The Janni Vizier's Tale, of the hubris of Ardishir the Magnificent
15. The Adventure Unfolds: Pictorial Account up to the rescue of Sunaeco
16. Sunaeco's Tale
17. Godratt's Saga
18. The Rakshasa's Tale
19. Scenes from the Golden Palace
20. Arlenoth the Incubus
21. The Adventure Continues: a Further Pictorial Account
22. The Court of Thezzakondrumas
23. Battle in the Court: Thezzakondrumas' Downfall
24. The Vanguard of the Chaos Horde
25. The Last Battle: Against the Dragon Spirit of Death
26. The Golden Palace: What If...

At some point I will hopefully get around to daisy chain linking all these together.

This was an extremely challenging adventure for players and DM alike (the latter of whom invested large swathes of time in preparing the various encounters and setting them up on Roll20).  I like to think it had quite an epic feel and for many of the characters involved a significant waypoint in their careers.

Miraculously, all of the PCs survived though at cost.  Revivifies and Fate Points flowed like water...

(The matter of Sunaeco's courtship of Mishari Al-Khalifa the wealthy Janni widow from the "Diplomacy" adventure which inadvertently dragged the heroes of two worlds into so much trouble was finally resolved and sadly for our blue-skinned hero, she chose Gilgamesh over him.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, some might say. 

All was not lost, though, as he was almost immediately propositioned by one of Mishari's attendants, Yasmina Al-Amara, also from a well to-do background among the Janni and who had taken a fancy to him, and so as one romantic door closes for our aquatic Casanova, another opens...

Meanwhile, on some distant world, the Rakshasa Maharaja Bruskamesthingas fumes at the thwarting of his plans.  Is Oerth now a place of interest to him?  What vengeful mischief might he be scheming next?)

The Golden Palace, Undressed vs Dressed

This adventure was based on DCC #32 The Golden Palace of Zahadran by Goodman Games, with various encounters upgraded to a greater or lesser extent.  (It's a frequent practice of mine to alter the name of an adventure slightly while in play until it doesn't bring up any page 1 Google hits).