Hello everyone,

     On Saturday, May 27th, 2017, at Phoenix Comicon 2017, I ran Hole in the Sky as a Road Crew game for the Goodman Games World Tour 2017! Here's the report (SPOILERS if you're not familiar with the module!):

     I had three players, one of whom had played Sailors on the Starless Sea the night before and said something like, "I'm kind of hooked on this DCC thing!" So there's a success story right there! Each player had 4 0-level pregens to start. Things quickly went off the rails, which is always fun. Here was the lineup:

* Jacob: Drats the Trapper, Lorance the Caravan Guard, Crevan the Grave Digger, and Francis the Potato Farmer
* Ben: Barth the Dwarven Herder, Fred the Blacksmith, Bobby II the Urchin, and Julio the Elven Sage
* Colt: Raditz the Radish Farmer, Bobby the Caravan Guard, Ogre the Cobbler, and Dobby Jr. the Elven Chandler (apparently the player had lost an elf named Dobby in a game the night before, but wanted the Dobby family line to continue)

     The PCs came to the cliffside following their dreams of the Lady in Blue. Bobby II the Urchin, used to being hungry all the time, filled a sack with (unspoiled) food from the Lady in Blue's feast. There was a quick visit to the nearby fishing village, where Raditz, Bobby, Ogre, and Dobby Jr. bought fishing gear, determined to be able to feed themselves by fishing on the adventure. OK . . .

     At the appropriate hour, the PCs started out on the invisible bridge to the Hole in the Sky. Days passed, and the PCs squabbled over food (Bobby II refused to share his sack of food unless others had something to offer him).  When the storm came, Francis the Potato Farmer, Julio the Elven Sage, and Ogre the Cobbler were blow off to their deaths. Bobby II was almost blown off as well, but Fred the Blacksmith used a chain to rescue him (and the sack of food).

     When the sea-shrikes attacked, Lorance, Raditz, and Bobby were quickly killed. The other PCs decided to try to run while the shrikes feasted on their comrades. The PCs seemed afraid to fight them! They threw a goose to one of the shrikes to distract it. They did fight off the last few and escape, but this party's propensity for sacrificing their own to escape was well-established.

     Dobby Jr., who had become ill,  tried to steal food from Bobby II, starting another fight between characters. Several times it seemed the PCs were going to kill each other off, rather than any monsters or traps from the module getting them!

     When they finally reached the Hole in the Sky, Barth the Dwarven Herder and Fred the Blacksmith ganged up on Dobby Jr. the Elven Chandler and hurled him through the Hole first, to see if it was safe. Then they all entered the prison-world on the other side. They made their way through the misty bamboo jungle toward the structure in the distance.

     The party came across an abandoned campsite and a backpack containing a five day supply of rations. They decided to camp out so that the sick members of the party might have a chance to recover, but squabbled again over supplies. That night, their camp was attacked by an Arachnid Horror, , who killed Crevan the Grave Digger and Bobby II the Urchin. Some of the party fled rather than fight, but Drats the Trapper decided to stand and fight, and eventually ended up on the Horror's back. He decided to try to tame the creature for riding. He enlisted the aid of Barth the Dwarven Herder, and together they managed to rig up a bridle system for the Arachnid Horror (there were some natural 20s rolled here, and I rewarded their combination of craziness and lucky rolls).

     The party soon encountered a madman known as Ib the Mad. He might have been helpful, or even replaced one of the dead members of the party, but they decided to feed him to their Arachnid Horror. Ugh.

     Unfortunately, two of the three players had to leave early to catch a bus, so we had to end the game early. The remaining PCs were Drats the Trapper (rider of the Arachnid Horror), Barth the Dwarven Herder, Fred the Blacksmith, and Dobby Jr. the Elven Chandler. They rode off into the mists on the Arachnid Horror, apparently abandoning their quest on behalf of the Lady in Blue . . . And the way this party fought each other, my guess is that they would have killed each other off, one by one, until a single one remained . . .