So I finished my pitch just a few minutes ago, and now "Foul Sacrifice" is heading through the fiberoptics of the internet to some server at Wizards of the Coast.
"Foul Sacrifice" is a side trek adventure meant for level 8 PCs. The party must stop the evil Fow'ljaaw from using stolen children as the fuel to open a portal to the Abyss, unleashing his demonic master's minions on the region. The adventure is only three encounters long. First the PCs will need to save a band of pilgrims from the gnolls attacking them, then they must track the gnolls who stole the pilgrims' children back to their lair. Inside they face another group of gnoll guards accompanied by demonic allies. Finally the PCs face off against Fow'ljaaw and his remaining servants even as the life force of the children is drained to form the ever-growing portal to the Abyss. This last encounter requires the PCs to complete a Complexity 2 skill challenge during the battle or the children die and the portal opens, flooding the area with dark energies that weaken the PCs.
And within 60 I'll either hear a request for the full manuscript or... well, I won't hear anything at all. That's the unfortunate part of this submission process. If they don't like my proposal I'll never actually hear why.
Oh well. I think it sounds like a good adventure (and I really like the skill challenge I developed to stop the portal from opening, though as I'm typing this I just thought of few changes I can make to it). I'm going to keep working on the manuscript in the meanwhile so it's ready should Wizards contact me. And I'll keep brainstorming more ideas to send them. If they won't buy "Foul Sacrifice" they'll buy something else dammit!
(Plus when all is said and done I should have some nice adventures ready for me to run whenever I get around to starting a 4e game.)
End of Demented Rambling.
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