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1 A DISH BEST SERVED COLD

A Dish Best Served Cold (Odd Jobs 2.1), is an adventure for 4 6 Player Characters of 1st-level. It is
intended to be a side trek adventure to help the PCs
gain useful knowledge and experience in the Countdown to Armageddon campaign.

ABANDONED WATCH TOWER MAP

This commission is being offered by Yousef

Gebels, a road warden operating out of the
White Deer inn in the
town of Brookshire.
A reward has been offered for Hans Dekker,
a yeoman farmer who
recently turned bandit.
Dekker has reportedly
taken up with a band of
outlaws that operates
close Brookshire. The
offered reward is 50 gp
for Dekker alive; 25 gp if he is returned dead.

The Abandoned Watch Tower

In truth, Hans has not joined the bandits. The bandits'
leader Axel Letcher is a childhood friend of Hans.
Hans sought him out after the murder, hoping for
protection. Axel made a deal with the Huydermans
gang to smuggle Hans out of the area. They are
currently hiding out in the nearby ruins of an abandoned watchtower until a member of the gang comes
to escort Hans to a waiting ship. He will be at this
location for two more days. If confronted with his
crime, Hans will have this to say:
His name was 'Wilhelm; his daughter and my sister, Merdith, were friends. I didn't know it at first, but
Wilhelm had taking a liking to Mer. Fever took His
own wife five years ago, so he proposed to my
Meredith. He was much older than her and she
didn't want him; so she told him so. I reckon Wilhelm
didn't take too kindly to that. So, he stalked her, and
he raped her. 'Course, he was sorry afterwards. But,
I found Meredith hanging from a tree behind our
barn a week later couldn't live with, I suspose.
He came to me after her funeral and begged my
forgiveness. He told me he'd give himself up to the
magistrate and confess what he'd done. Meredith
was a gentle soul and I figured she'd want me to
forgive him so I did. Then, I drove my axe so deep
in his skull, they had to bury him with it!

* The bandits' (B) statistics can be found on page 343 of the

Monster Manual; Axel Letcher (A) has the same stats as a Thug
(MM, p. 350); Hans Dekker (H) is a Commoner (MM, p. 345).

AREA 1 LOOK-OUT POST

A bandit is secreted amongst this pile of debris; roll a
D20 + 1 to determine his Dexterity (Stealth) check. If
he is not discovered and neutralized quickly he will
alert the others, making surprise impossible.
AREA 2 ENTRANCE
A crude alarm has been rigged here a trip wire tied
to a series of old cow-bells. Unless the Players roll a
successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check they will
set it off once again making surprising the bandits
impossible.
AREA 3 CHAOS RUNE
This glyph was inscribed on the floor of the tower
decades ago (when followers of Slaanesh used to
meet here). It has no actual power and is merely a
curiosity for occult-lovers.