This is the sample adventure that I've included with Phantasie. Hopefully, it will help you to learn how to use the software.
The Start
During their travels, the group has come across the tiny town of Norgales. Upon entering the town, the only remarkable thing will be the silence. Norgales is a small town of about 500. There are several stores in town: a general store, a blacksmith, a carpenter, three pubs and several other shops (you may choose). The main street in town, looks like a street that would normally have some activity of some sort on it, but there's no one to be seen anywhere.
The only chance the group has for information is to visit one or more of the stores. If they enter a store, the workers inside will stare at them strangely. The group will feel some hostility and anxiety from them. The owners of the stores, unless convinced somehow that the group has no bad intentions towards them, will conduct business as professionally and coldly as they are capable. If some sort of a friendly relationship is struck up between the shop owners and the group, the shop owner may give information about the current happenings in Norgales.
Here are the happenings. The town graveyard was visited about a week ago by one of the recent widows in town, only to find that the grave of her husband had been emptied. The empty casket only remained.
If the adventurers get in touch with the correct people, some will also be able to tell the adventurers other information. Trackers were able to determine that about 2 or 3 individuals were responsible for the robbery. They were able to follow the tracks to the road that leads toward Kynkenadon, another small coastal town about a half days travel from Norgales.
If they are lucky enough to recieve even more information, they will find out that the same thing has been happening in the two nearby cities of Kynkenadon and The Isles.
From here your group may decide to do several different things.
If they decide to stay in Kynkenadon, nothing will happen. The town will continue to treat them coldly. After 8 days, another grave robbery will occur. The next day, the trackers will find the same things that they found before. The group will then begin to feel open hostility towards them from the village. If the group was watching the night the body was taken, they will encounter the evil wizard and his henchman Igor.
If the group travels to Kynkenadon or The Isles, they will be attacked somewhere by a band of goblins. These are no level goblins that have decided to come to this area to take advantage of the unrest. They have plundered a few homes already, and will continue to do so until it's no longer safe for them. Before the attack, each individual in the group is allowed to make a standard perception check to see if they notice that they are being watched. If this is passed, they may ready themselves, but otherwise, the group will be completely surprised. The name of this area is Goblins.
If they make it to Kynkenadon or The Isles, they will find that a similar situation has occurred. But in these two towns, the graves of all of the recent dead have been emptied. Between all three cities about 100 corpses have been taken. There has also been a report of a home having been ransacked. The occupants were not found and everything of value in the home stolen. When they first reach Kynkenadon or The Isles, they will immediately be seized by the town authorities and questioned. If they cannot convince the authorities that they are not responsible for the stolen corpses or the ransacked home, they will be placed in jail. They'll stay there for 5 days. After 5 days, another grave will have been emptied. If they were under lock and key while it happened, the authorities will know that they were not responsible.
From this point, if the authorities have some trust of the group, they may offer a position to them. The town will pay the group 5,000 if they can solve the problem for them.
The trackers in Kynkenadon and The Isles know that about 2 or 3 individuals were responsible for the taking of the corpses. After the theft, the group of individuals that stole the corpses went towards the seashore. Everyone assumes that they went to Storm Island. Storm Island is an island in the ocean directly north of The Isles. The neighboring folklore says that a band of storm giants live on the island. The townspeople, being wimps, have no desire to risk their lives just to get a few corpses back.
If needed, the townspeople will supply the group with some supplies (not a lot) and a large row boat that they can use to go to the island. The villagers will want the boat back if the party ever comes returns.
Storm Island is in fact not populated by giants. However, an ogre used to live there. Apparently a villager saw him, ran for his life, and started to tell stories about his experience. The stories eventually grew. The ogre died of old age a long time ago. If the group searches long enough, they will eventually find where the ogre used to live. The ogre's lair is called 'The Ogre's Lair.'
On the Evil Wizard's island are several small caves that the group can use to rest in, if needed. Every day that the group is on the island adds a cumulative 5% chance to the wizard or Igor being able to track them. If the wizard can track them, he will come at night to that spot with Igor and a group of 30 skeletons to attack.
The castle of the wizard is fairly small. The main entrance is a large door. The two stars on top of the castle are unarmed skeleton sentries. If the skeletons sense the presence of a living humanoid other than the Evil Wizard or Igor, they will go to report it to the Evil Wizard. They are not hiding and can be easily seen.
The Evil Wizard, is actually a just a guy who recently learned the spells 'Make Skeleton' and 'Make Zombie.' The Evil Wizard also happens to be pretty stupid and overly optimistic. Somehow, he decided that an army of the undead could overthrow the nearby cities of Norgales and Kynkendaon. Once these cities were overthrown, it would be a simple matter to reanimate all of the dead citizens, thereby making a larger army that could then be used to overthrow the next cities. What he doesn't realize is that the neighboring local law enforcement might actually fight back if an assault were ever to happen. Skeletons are scary looking, but are honestly, only average fighters. Nonetheless, The Evil Wizard is now preparing to invade the cities of Kynkenadon and Norgales with his mighty (looking) army of the undead. If the terrible smelly forces of The Evil Wizard are ever unleashed on either of the towns, the local noble will send his guards to quash it. The quashing will take roughly four hours once the aiding forces reach the troubled area. At the end of the four hours, The Evil Wizard will be in chains and his wonderful army will be in splinters.
The castle that The Evil Wizard lives in was originally owned by his father. The Evil Wizard's father was also a wizard. He had seven levels of magic before he died during the testing of a highly offensive spell that he was trying to create. The father managed to live on the island secretly with his son and his servants for years. No one knows about the castle's existence.
Brutus is The Evil Wizard's brother. Brutus helps his brother in his wonderfully evil scheme to rule the world. Brutus believes in his brother and hopes that he'll eventually be made the ruler of a small country as a reward for his help to his brother at such an early stage in his career as a totalitarian dictator.
If the group accomplishes the mission by killing Brutus and The Evil Wizard, give each player 50 experience. This amount is over and above all other experience earned throughout the adventure.
