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Book l: The Horror at Briarsgate

Chapter 1: The Shadow Over Briarsgate:
-Fear in Hochoch[/list]

Chapter 2: The Haunted Wood:
-Heinous Goblin Men of the Red Cloak Tribe
-The Mist-Veiled Depths of The Dim Forest
-Ghastly Undead Horrors of the Haunted Wood

Chapter 3: The Forsaken Village:
-Briarsgate

Chapter 4: Inn of the Damned:
-Secrets of the Golden Grain Inn

Chapter 5: The Doom That Came to Briarsgate:
-Ambush at the Decrepit Barn
-Escape From Briarsgate
-The Old Hermit's Hovel

Chapter 6: Beneath the Inn of the Damned:
-Return to the Golden Grain Inn
-The Nightmarish Tunnels Below
-The Burning of the Golden Grain Inn
-Flight From the Hellish Underworld

Chapter 7: The Lurking Terror:
-Hiding at the Inn of the Slumbering Serpent
-Kidnapping and Interrogating Baltus

Chapter 8: Against the Cult of the Reptile God:
-Sanctuary at the Farm of the Hanged Family
-Within the Old Foaming Mug Inn
-At the Widow Hochstedt's Spread
-Shadow Council Beneath the Abandoned Windmill

Chapter 9: Temple of Fear:
-The Church of Merikka

Chapter 10: Blessings of the Church of Horror:
-Beneath the Temple of Fear

Chapter 11: The Village of the Bodysnatchers:
-Escape from the Shrine of Terror
-Return to the Abandoned Windmill

Chapter 12: At the Marshes of Madness:
-Crossing a Bleak Landscape
-The Living Dead Rise Up from the Swamp

Chapter 13: Hell Mouth of the Dark Mother
-An Unnatural Island Within the Transformed Marsh
-Into the Pit of Hell
-The Heinous Shrine

Chapter 14: Abyss of the Damned
-The Unholy Sacristy
-The Cavern of Lost Souls

Chapter 15: The Slithering Chaos
-Nightmare Itself

Chapter 16: Escape From Hell
-The Journey Back


Book ll: The Horror at Vicar's Head

Chapter 1: The Shadow Over Briarsgate:

The Anchor And The Bell: Her barkeep, Alfredd: And her barmaid, Daisy:

Chapter 2: The Haunted Wood:

The Dim Forest:


...And the fell creatures that reside within her:

The Dim Forest continued:

After defeating the goblins and wolves of the Red Cloak tribe, our heroes venture further into the mist-veiled depths of the Dim Forest...

... and encounter the restless dead horrors of the haunted wood.

...Unholy, macabre carrion of the charnel house, doomed to stalk the earth plagued by a hunger that could never be quelled.

Ingrid looking happy despite the forest being flooded by the undead.

Horror movie poster of this chapter:

Chapter 3: The Forsaken Village

The party escapes the Dim Forest like a waking mind emerging from a quickly receding nightmare.
They journey on and see in the distance ahead - framed by trees, mist, and a thicket wall of bramble and thorns – Briarsgate.

...Briarsgate, where nothing is amiss.

Chapter 4: Inn of the Damned

The welcoming common room of the Golden Grain Inn (6)...



...the cook...
... a guest...
...and that which lies beneath the Inn...










...and that which lies beyond it:

Chapter 5: The Doom That Came to Briarsgate

Escaping the Golden Grain Inn, the heroes return to the Gade's farmhouse but arrive too late to save them.



Finding the Gade family violently taken, the adventurers seek refuge in a forlorn, abandoned barn for the night.













That night, the decrepit barn suddenly comes under fiery attack from assailants unseen!

The burning barn in the rain reminded me of Tarkovsky's "Mirror":

The adventurers flee Briarsgate under cover of night, watched by sheep...



... and others. The heroes escape to the outer farms...





... to an abandoned farmhouse leagues east of Briarsgate...





... shadowed by a friendly murder of crows.

With the murder of crows watching over them...





...the adventurers search the abandoned farm...



...and find its former owners.
The suicide note reads: "You won't get us."

Against the counsel of Sephus the crow...



... the adventurers return to Briarsgate.



They advance through another abandoned cornfield...





...and enter the dark grove of the mysterious "hermit."



There, they find his dilapidated hovel...



...his wolf...



...and the old hermit himself.

In the hermit's grove...







they are interrupted by the arrival of a an unknown figure...



... revealed to be Chief Constable Donavan Allard.

After Chief Constable Allard leaves, the heroes travel through the hermit's grove...



... back to Briarsgate village...
... and that house of horrors, the Golden Grain Inn.