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WFRP Scenario: With a Little Help from my Friends

With a Little Help

from my Friends

A Short Adventure for a Small Party

Written by Carl Sargent

Updated for WFRP 2nd edition by Steven & Dawn Lewis

WFRP Scenario: With a Little Help from my Friends

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Written by Carl Sargent

Illustrations by Kev Walker

Updated by Steven and Dawn Lewis

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WFRP Scenario: With a Little Help from my Friends

With a Little Help From My Friends is a short adventure designed for a small party

of adventures. A magic user will be useful, as will at least one rogue type

character.

The encounter locations use Middenheim as an example, though any medium or large-

sized city in the Old World will do just as well. You could also insert the adventure as

part of the Paths of the Damned series, in Middenheim itself, Altdorf or Nuln, but be

careful of giving the adventures too much to do.

The encounter is designed to give players a chance to think before they bash. There’s

been a kidnapping, and the adventures are hired to rescue the hostage. The characters

should consider their rescue carefully, but may have to improvise quickly if things don’t

go quite according to plan.

Enter Alphonse

As the action opens, the adventures are approached by a rather short and thin figure

with the rather improbable name of Alphonse Hercules de Gascoigne. The figure,

dressed in well-tailored but old-fashioned clothing, has an almost perfectly round head,

and sports an enormous waxed moustache, which he pets and twiddles constantly. He

hails from Bretonnia, and speaks with the equivalent of an outrageous French accent -

well Belgian accent actually, but who knows how to do a proper Belgian accent?

Full details on Alphonse may be found at the end of the adventure.

Alphonse, a noted private detective, is working on

a kidnapping case; ands needs reliable, trust

worthy help. He gives the PC’s the information

below. Either read this aloud, or feed it to the

players as a series of answers:

“Mes amits, I am, as I am sure you know the

world’s greatest detective. You ‘ave ‘eard of

Alphonse, no?”

Gascoigne bows his head modestly. If the PCs

say that they haven’t heard of him, he looks

annoyed, but continues.

“I ‘ave been employed to ensure ze safety of ze

young son of Ludwig Orteli - an enfant named

Sigismund - who ‘as been abducted and ees

being ‘eld for ransom.”

“Ze kidnappers demand 5000 Gold Crowns for ze

boy’s safe return, and quell disaster! Ze father

‘as not the funds! If zey do not receive ze money

by mid-night, three days from now, ze villains ‘ave

promised to return ze child in -‘ow you say - tiny

WFRP Scenario: With a Little Help from my Friends

little bits. So, Alphonse will rescue ze enfant before zen!”

“I, Alphonse, ‘Ercule do Gasoigne, ‘ave brilliantly tracked ze villains to zeir lair, where I

am sure zey are ‘olding ze young Orteli. I need ze assistance of several discreet” - he

pauses and looks at the PC’s doubtfully before continuing - “gentlemen such as

yourselves to scout out ze enemy’s position, and zen, when the time ees right, rescue

Sigismund. Will you ‘elp?”

If asked, Alphonse explains that the local authorities have not been called in because

(though he puts it a little more delicately), they are a bunch of stupid louts who would

probably mess the job up and only get Sigismund killed.

Alphonse offers to pay the PCs 100 Gold Crowns if they help him rescue the boy

unharmed, 50 if the boy is mostly alive, but nothing should he die.

If the PCs agree to take the job, Alphonse tells them to meet him at a house he has

rented near the kidnappers’ hideout. He gives directions to Number 12 Wendenbahn in

the Altquartier, a disreputable part of town. Alphonse insists that the PC’s wear no

armour better than leather, no helmets, and carry no large weapons that might be

spotted by the kidnappers.

Broke PC’s can wheedle an advance of 20 GCs out of Alphonse to purchase necessary

equipment (or get it out of hock if they have had stuff confiscated by the Middenheim

watch).

Guiseppe the Dog - Tilean Manhound.

Guiseppe is a Tilean Manhound, a vicious terrier-like brute bred for mayhem. It is

completely loyal to Claudio and attacks in a frenzy when given a verbal or hand signal.

Guiseppe is midnight black, wears a spiked collar and has ugly scars on its back gained

from many previous combats.

INT

WP FEL

Skills: Follow Trail, Perception +20, Swim.

Talents: Flee, Keen Senses, Natural Weapons, Strike Mighty Blow.

Knud, Bruno, Axel & Mikhail - Thugs

These men are freelance legbreakers for the loansharks which inhabit the Altquartier.

None are particularly intelligent, and none would risk his neck to save another. They

are your basic vermin. Knud is 5’ 10” and blonde; Bruno is 5’ 9” and has brown hair;

Axel is 6’ 2” and Mikhail is 5’ 5” both with black hair.

Casing the Joint

INT

WP FEL

The hideout should be deep within the

seedy side of the GM’s chosen city. For

Middenheim this would be the Altquarter

(see Ashes of Middenheim page 17) and is

home to a large portion of Middenheim’s

underworld population. It is a maze of

winding streets and alleys lined with run-

down houses and tenements. During the

day the streets crawl with low-life; during

the night they crawl with even less

reputable sorts. Watch patrols are

infrequent and heavily armed. If you want

to set this adventure in Altdorf, the shadier

parts of The Docks or the east of the city

would work. In Nuln you could use the

Faulestadt, Neuestadt or Shantytown areas

of the city.

As the adventures head towards their

destination, they have to run a fairly heavy

gauntlet of beggars and pick-pockets.

Skills: Common Knowledge (the Empire), Consume Alcohol, Dodge Blow, Gamble,

Gossip, Intimidate, Secret Language (Thieves’ Tongue), Speak Language (Reikspiel).

Talents: Disarm, Lighting Reflexes, Quick Draw, Resistance to Poison, Strike to Stun,

Very Strong, Wrestling.

Trappings: Leather jerkin, hand weapon (cudgel), knuckle-dusters, pouch with D10

GCs and 3D10 silver shillings each .

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Claudio Carbonetti - Thug - Racketeer

However, once they reach the street containing number 12 (a map of the street is on

page 17), the area becomes suspiciously empty. The locals know something is going

on at number 17 - they always know something’s up in this kind of situation - and the

grapevine says it’s unhealthy to hang out in that neighbourhood.

Once inside number 12, Alphonse takes the adventurers upstairs and gives them their

assignments. He tells them that the kidnappers are holed-up in number 17 across the

street.

One character is to watch the front of the house through the telescope (carefully

surrounded by drawn curtains), while the others are to find a vantage point from which

they can spy on the back of the house. They are to carefully note down (or remember)

any arrivals and departures, plus anything they can see going on inside. Under no

circumstances are they to do anything to make the kidnappers suspicious.

Alphonse is off to check some other leads concerning the kidnappers’ criminal

associates, and will return at midnight to take their reports.

Claudio is a vicious and evil brute, but he does have a certain native cunning. He hails

from Miragliano, and together with his four younger brothers is currently setting up a

branch of ‘da business’ in Middenheim. He is a paunchy, middle aged man, swarthy of

skin and with a lecherous eye.

INT

WP FEL

Skills: Common Knowledge (the Empire & Tilea), Consume Alcohol, Dodge Blow,

Gamble, Gossip, Intimidate+10, Secret Language (Thieves’ Tongue), Speak Language

(Reikspiel & Tilean), Command, Evaluate, Perception, Haggle.

Talents: Disarm, Lighting Reflexes, Quick Draw, Resistance to Poison, Strike to Stun,

Very Strong, Wrestling, Specialist Weapon Group (Fencing), Street-Fighting, Street-

Wise, Strike Mighty Blow.

Trappings: Breastplate, rapier, dagger, Pouch with 28GCs, Gold Bracelet with motifs

of severed horses’ heads (worth 6GCs), bag of garlic toffee, very nifty suit, violin case

(containing violin).

The Telescope

The adventurer at the telescope has the easy job; all he has to do is stay awake and

avoid falling out of the window.

Through the ‘scope’, he can see the front door, and into Bedroom 1 and Bedroom 3 on

the first floor. On inspection the PC will note that all other windows he can see are

shuttered, and the front door is in good condition. On a successful Average Perception

Test (Excellent Vision +10) , the PC will notice that there is a skylight on the roof which

appears warped and slightly cracked….

Paolo Gentile - Thug - Interrogator

Paolo came with Claudio to Middenheim. While completely loyal to Claudio, Paolo’s

pathological sadism sometimes causes problems for his boss. It is completely useless

to ask Paolo to interrogate anyone, for example, since the victim usually dies before he

has a chance to answer any questions.

INT

WP FEL

Skills: Common Knowledge (the Empire & Tilea), Consume Alcohol, Dodge Blow,

Gamble, Gossip, Intimidate, Secret Language (Thieves’ Tongue), Speak Language

(Reikspiel & Tilean), Torture, Perception.

Talents: Disarm, Lighting Reflexes, Quick Draw, Resistance to Poison, Strike to Stun,

Very Strong, Wrestling, Specialist Weapon Group (Gun-powder), Menacing.

Trappings: Leather jerkin, sword, blunderbuss (with ammunition for 4 shots), dagger

pouch with 5GCs.

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