This totally derivative adventure is blatantly based on the G1 module by Gary Gygax for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (the good edition). Like the original, it promises a flimsy premise and much slaughter. Characters may be of any type, and technically of any number, although 3-6 is suggested.

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…Nothing appears quite right to you.  The air itself is electric and unnatural, not charged with life, but blurred, as if this part of the world has been neglected by a forgetful god.  As you turn your head objects seem to disappear even before they leave your field of vision and return lazily, clumsily, slowly coming in focus as you try to catch their disappearance.  You see flashes of places you have never seen, sights and sounds that are always gone when you clear your head to attempt to focus on them.  Even your life seems hollow and stale in the same way; you have been attempting to solve a mystery that has no end, only continuing threads of leads that loop back upon themselves and lead nowhere.  Logic itself seems absent.  And then, again, there it is!  That recurring scene, the one you keep seeing, the tired or dying man lying on a divan.  His face looks familiar, as if you have seen it in a dream or another life.  Beside him, out of focus, is a strange blockade or screen set upon a table.  You somehow need to know what lies behind it, as if the answer to so many mysteries is behind that shimmering screen…

Welcome to The Shimmering Screen, a reality warping adventure that will test your player’s creative skills.  Tired of the same old cliched RPG plots?  Watch the players attempt to solve the ultimate mystery, one that strikes at their hearts more than they’d care to admit…

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