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By Ripley Caldwell  Graphic design and art Johan Nohr

Editing Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader (MRC)

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T
he streets of Galgenbeck are littered
with corpses, twisted, inhuman things:
a goblin isn’t an attractive sight on a good
day and dead they are truly distasteful.
Their mottled, ropy flesh rots but never
decomposes; even the oldest skins in the
darkest alleys hold their shape to warn passersby of
their swiftly approaching end.
There’s also the living goblins—probably the bigger
issue here. They crawl inside basements, nest within
cupboards, use dogs for target practice and generally
wreak havoc upon the hapless Galgenbeckians.
More and more townsfolk appear to be afflicted
with the dreaded Goblin Curse and, with such a large
infestation of the little scoundrels, it’s becoming
very difficult to figure out which one to snuff saving
yourself from becoming one of them.
Not to worry! For the low cost of 40 silver local
alchemist Nagel Krat has a cure. Until the price rises
tomorrow, anyway. And the day after that. And the day
after that...

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WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON? WHY DO THE PCS CARE

Nagel Krat recently inherited the ABOUT ANY OF THIS? (d4)
Derelict Mill from his father, mentor
and teacher: Urvan Krat. Prior to this 1. They’re aff licted with the Goblin Curse
mysterious occurrence Urvan perished due and lack funds to keep up with Nagel’s
to poison planted in his medication by an prices. A goblin ambush and subsequent
unidentified assassin. Despite fulfilling retreat could leave them worried about a
a threefold role in Nagel’s life, Urvan was possible transformation and even the
never very good at any of them. most aff luent traveler has difficulty
Inside the mill Nagel found a large keeping up with the cure’s steadily
stash of alchemical supplies as well as an inf lating price.
enormous contraption labeled The Goblin 2. Nagel hires them as Medickal Shoppe
Grinder. Using the meagre income his guards. Nagel serves increasing numbers
father’s Medickal Shoppe left, he purchased of Galgenbeckians daily and, for some
his scheme’s necessary supplies. reason, they keep getting more agitated.
Qarg can’t keep up with every broke
peasant “actively transforming into a
goblin” and “needs the cure now.”
NAGEL’S SCHEME
3. They’re hired by a suspicious noble.
1. Get a steady supply of corpses for the Goblin
Jota Klefunheim of Klefunheim (tall,
Grinder. Nagel is paying a gravedigger named
perpetually annoyed, some kind of
Qarg to deliver the occasional body.
baroness or princess) presently unaffected
2. Make goblins. The goblins infest Galgenbeck,
by the goblin curse but—with those
cause the townsfolk issues, but most
disgusting peasants running around all
importantly, inflict as many people as possible
the time—it’s bound to happen. She
with the Goblin Curse*.
wants the PCs to uncover what’s going on
3. Create a Goblin Cure. It’s not really a cure, it just
and stop it quickly, paying 200 silver
postpones the symptoms, but it’s enough to give
(reduced by 20 each day the problem
a desperate Galgenbeckian some hope. Sell it.
isn’t resolved) for the trouble.
Sell a lot of it.
4. They’re hired by a worried peasant.
Repeat!
Urgrip Wikt (tells wild stories, large
family, infected, exceedingly poor) isn’t
able to pay, per se, but will trade a family
heirloom if PCs resolve Galgenbeck’s
goblin issue. Urgrip knows he’s likely
*Remember: anyone attacked by a goblin doomed, but his family isn’t. Unknown
irrevocably transforms into one in d6 days, to Urgrip, the heirloom is a Calumny
unless the attacking goblin is killed before then. Pearl. Whoever places it underneath their
Any attack is sufficient—it doesn’t even need to tongue entirely believes the first lie told
be a successful hit. Goblins suck. to them.

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Characters of note
THE BASTARD, goblin mutant, leader, torturer
Using the Goblin Grinder and his own alchemical knowledge,
Nagel tried to create a “leader” goblin to direct the others
creating “The Bastard.” The corpse was a torturer for a group
of unsavor y royals, so he eased right into upper management.
He’s aware enough to speak, mostly used to throw crude
insults.

HP 10  Morale 6  Mutant hide −D4  Knife d4

Goblin overlord, allied goblins fighting with The Bastard are DR16 defence
(including himself) and cannot be shaken (Morale is –) unless he’s killed.

NAGEL KRAT, alchemist, murderer, con man

Nagel cares about one person in the world—and his
name rhymes with “Vagel.” He killed his father to
inherit a grain mill that could no longer process grain,
has no loyalty to his goblins and begs, pleads, bribes
and cries to avoid harm. Nagel is a (smart) worm,
running back to the mill at the earliest sign of trouble.

Thin, curly hair, red apron, obsessively clean.

HP 6  Morale 6  No armor  Knife D4
Smoke bomb DR14 Presence or Nagel gets away.

QARG, gravedigger, mercenary

Nagel pays Qarg 50 silver per body delivered. She’s
not picky about what happens to them afterward
and works as muscle for the Medickal Shoppe for
10 silver/hour. She’s a simple woman and likes the
opportunities afforded to her when she has a salary
beyond gravedigging’s pennies.
Easily bribed: convincing her to leave her post or
miss a delivery is a DR8 Presence test if she’s offered
more silver.

Dirty, grim stare, shovel strapped to her back, broken nose.

HP 9  Morale 7  Filthy furs −D2  Cudgel D6 or Shovel D4

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TheMedickal
Shoppe
THE STOREFRONT SOLD HERE:
Smells vaguely metallic. Shelves brimming Goblin Cure (40s +5)
with Goblin Cure. Not actually a cure, but nobody knows that
• Nagel has Qarg stand around and look yet. Postpones total transformation by d6
tough during the busiest hours of the day days. Costs 40 silver in the beginning rising
(the afternoon). Occasionally she breaks by 5 each day Nagel remains in business.
up fights or protects Nagel from angry
townsfolk. Flash Powder (45s)
• Nagel insists on carrying all his silver in Creates a brilliant flash as likely to blind you
his apron before storage at the mill. It’s as it is your opponents. Stuns all opponents
pretty heavy. He can shed it if chased to that can see it for d3 rounds. You and all allies
make any Agility tests to catch him DR16. test Toughness DR12 or are also stunned.
If he drops the apron it has a total of
D10 × 10 silver in it. Healing Tincture (30s)
• There’s a crate hidden underneath Mostly mouse dung, dirty water and red
the f loor behind the counter via latch. pigment. When consumed roll a d4. On a 1
If Nagel is out of options and needs attacks and defence are rolled at −2 until a
to run he can pop the Goblin Crate. full night’s rest to get over whatever it did
d4 + 1 goblins leap out and viciously to you. Notably, does not heal wounds or
attack anyone nearby except for Nagel. diseases.

Invigorating Elixir (25s)

Really does provide short-term bursts of
energy. Also might stop your heart. Grants
+1 Agility for 1 hour after imbibing. When
the hour’s up roll a d8. On a 1 take d8
damage from sharp pains in your chest.

Juice (7s)
This is just juice. He uses apples?
It’s apple juice.

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The
NOTE
Whenever the PCs linger, hesitate or
spend too much time on something:
Nagel makes another goblin.

Mill
From Outside

1b
Enormous, boarded-up windows,
very faint mechanical grinding
noise coming from the top. If the
PCs put their ear to the door test
Presence DR14 to hear snickering
and chuckling from within

1a
Ground Floor

The Barricade and

Cannonball
-1
Basement

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Second Floor

Fire! Fire!

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Third Floor

The Laboratory

4 Top Floor

The
Goblin
Grinder
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1a. THE BARRICADE

Faint rotting smell, sof t noises from all directions, mechanical
grinding overhead.
1b • A crude barricade is in front of the entrance,
blocking the rest of the room from view.
It’s constructed from cabinets, chairs, smashed
alchemical supplies and a large bookshelf.
1a • Scattered books have fallen off of the downed
bookshelf. Heady, academic alchemical texts.
• Pool of black bubbling and popping liquid.
A volatile mixture of trashed alchemical ingredients.
LICK THE LIQUID (D4): • Trail of blood leading through the barricade’s
1. A jolt of painful energy travels down opening accompanied by scratches and grooves
the taster’s tongue. DR12 Toughness Qarg makes on the stone f loor delivering bodies.
test or take d4 damage. • NORTHEAST: Small opening in the trash wall leading
2. Tongue is permanently stained black. to the rest of the room.
3. Skin rapidly becomes covered in hard • SOUTH: The mill door to the mill.
calluses. When unarmored they
count as tier one armor. Stinks. MOVE THE BOOKSHELF: If the bookshelf is moved
4. One of the taster’s wounds the PCs find a hatch leading to the basement.
immediately scabs over and is
replaced with an eye. They heal LOOK AT BOOKS: A waste of time: half of the information
d4 and have +1 PRESENCE on any is useless and the other half requires hours of study.
sight-related rolls.

The moment the door is opened the goblins in 1b

light the cannon’s 1 minute fuse.

 hen the goblins in 1b light the fuse,

W
DR12 Presence test to notice it over
the Goblin Grinder’s roar.
The PCs may discover the basement
by hearing the impact of something
heavy against it (like a body),
revealing it’s hollow.

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1b. CANNONBALL NOTE

Sulfur smell mixed with rot and decay, the mechanical Whenever the PCs linger,
grinding continues. hesitate or spend too much
time on something:
• A cannon with a long, winding fuse (1 minute)
is positioned to fire upon the exit through the Nagel makes another goblin.
barricade.
• Three cannonballs squat behind it.
• A component shelf, largely intact, rests behind the 3 excited goblins
cannon. When the cannon goes off it jostles the shelf Given a chance to fire a cannon and are
knocking it over, splashing components across the going to take it no matter what.
f loor. Powerful acid eats away the stone, revealing HP 6  Morale 8  Ropy skin −D2,
the basement. Knife D4
• Up: Dirty stairs lead further into the mill. Quick: attacks/defense are DR14.
• SOUTH: The exit through the barricade.
One goblin: alchemical explosive:
Cannon fire. The goblins light the cannon’s fuse when any PC within 10’ of the blast must
PCs open the mill door to the mill. PCs have 1 minute pass a DR14 AGILITY check or take d8
to stomp out or otherwise douse the long fuse’s f lame damage and be set ablaze.
—otherwise the cannon goes off, killing any PC dumb
enough to end up in the line of fire. The goblins try to prevent the PCs
Firing also alerts every goblin on the upper f loors. from accessing and dousing the fuse:
all else is secondary.

-1. BASEMENT
Horrid smell, rot and blood, very quiet, distant rumbles.

• Rotting grain scattered across the f loor.

• The body of Urvan Krat, heavily disfigured, bloody
and rotting. Nagel recently took some anger out on
the corpse.
• A bloodstained shovel (D4).

SEARCH THE BODY: Nagel stole all of Urvan’s silver but

ignored two keepsakes:
• A vial of sour yellow liquid. An alchemical pain
remedy. Heals D6 + 1 when drunk but dulls the senses
(−2 Presence for 1 hour).
• A spare key, hidden in his boot. Activates the Goblin
Grinder.

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2. FIRE! FIRE!
Acrid gas stench, the mechanical grinding gets louder.

Cannon fired: the bucket goblin douses the

first person coming up the stairs, and the archer
goblins shoot immediately af ter.
Cannon not fired: they’re not able to hear the
commotion over the Goblin Grinder’s roar.

• An oil container in the room’s center. Floating

3 archer goblins within is the key to 3, painted black.
Like seeing things set on fire. • Two buckets, also filled with oil.
HP 6  Morale 7  Ropy skin −D2, • Three tall bookshelves, goblin perches.
Shortbow, flaming arrows D6 • Qarg’s trail of blood continues.
Quick, attacks/defense are DR14. • Up: Stairs lead up to the third f loor of the mill,
blocked via locked hatch.
One goblin: Unequipped with • Down: Stairs back to the first f loor.
anything besides an oil bucket,
has Morale 6 instead of 7, and OIL: Thick, black, adheres to skin and cloth alike. While
has “unlucky” written across their doused in oil PC’s take an additional D2 damage from
forehead. Tries to douse the PC’s f lame-based attacks and catch on fire more easily.
while the other two fire from afar. To remove oil a PC must spend their turn scraping it off.

EXAMINE BOOKSHELVES: Stocked with healing tincture

(see the Medickal Shoppe). Works to douse fire. Various
alchemical recipes, including one detailing the creation
of healing tincture.

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3. LABORATORY
Beakers bubble, the room shakes and the Goblin Grinder
is deafening overhead.

• Two huge tables, covered in smashed bottles,

scattered reagents, alchemical solutions, and
bubbling concoctions.
• A large puddle of amber orange goo, foaming
beneath the tables. Really Alchemical Ooze.
• Three shelves stocked to the brim with Goblin Cure. Alchemical Ooze
• Qarg’s trail curves around the table and snakes up Mindless, hungry.
the stairs to 4. HP 10  Morale –  Gooey −D2,
• Up: Stairs to the mill’s fourth f loor. Acidic splash D8
• Down: Stairs to the second f loor. Slow: defense is DR10.

GOO: If the cannon was fired the disturbed Alchemical Whenever a PC damages the ooze
Ooze immediately crawls towards PCs entering the they must test Strength DR8 or their
room. Otherwise it only attacks if they’re nearby. weapon becomes stuck to it. If not
removed the next round (Strength
ALCHEMY TABLES: Every round roll a D6. On 1–2 DR10) the weapon is destroyed.
something on the tables boils over and splashes
everything nearby with strange f luid the ooze is
not effected. Roll a D4:

Acid. Every PC must test DR12 Agility or take D4

1. 
damage (ignore armor).
Foul. Disgusting smell. Every PC must test DR12
2. 
Toughness or be stunned for the next round.
Weird. A Power from a random Unclean Scroll
3. 
is cast on every creature (including the ooze).
Sweet. The PCs heal D4.
4. 

NOTE

Whenever the PCs linger,

hesitate or spend too much
time on something:
Nagel makes another goblin.

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Nagel Krat
Really, really doesn’t want to die.
4. THE GOBLIN GRINDER
HP 6  Morale 6  No armor, Shockingly awful smell, ear-splitting churn of the Grinder,
Knife D4 smoky haze.
Smoke bomb DR14 Presence
or Nagel gets away. • The Goblin Grinder roaring, huge, and horrible,
spewing hazy smoke and stained with bloody ooze.
• A pile of corpses in every stage of putrefaction
—the end of Qarg’s blood trail.
The Bastard • down: Stairs to the third f loor.
Relishes in chaos and cruelty.
HP 10  Morale 6  Mutant hide −D4 Goblin Cavalcade!
Knife D4 Along with the Bastard and Nagel there are X goblins
Goblin overlord, allied goblins ripe for murder. X is 2 + however many goblins Nagel
fighting with The Bastard are DR16 created during the ascent. Nagel hides behind his
defence (including himself) and goblin horde until threatened, attempting to escape
cannot be shaken (Morale is –) unless down the stairs.
he’s killed.
THE GOBLIN GRINDER: Must be activated via key,
Fresh Goblins fuel and one human corpse fed into the east end
Newly born and ready to cause problems. (two consecutive actions). The only keys are Nagel’s
HP 5  Morale 7  Ropy skin −D2 and Urvan’s in the basement.
Bite D4
Quick: attacks/defense are DR14.

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