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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book Three: The Price of Pain Ease

Fafhrd, wineless tonight, intoxicated only by his own idealisms and the thought of watchmanship, was hardly touched by the sensations, did not feel them as temptations at all.

The Mouser, much of whose nature was built on hates and envies, had a harder time, but he too in the end rejected the fog’s masterful lures—if only, to put the worst interpretation on it, because he wanted always to be the source of his own evil and would never accept it from another, not even as a gift from the archfiend himself.

The first edition Lankhmar adventure modules are a bit of a strange case. They walk a narrow tightrope between feeling like an old school D&D module and also feeling like a Fritz Leiber short story. In this case, that may or may not be thanks to the presence of a number of minor characters from said stories playing a major role.

CA1: Swords of the Undercity is divided into three parts. The first concerns an expedition to the Sunken Lands to recover a lost (and, unknown to them, cursed) treasure. The second involves getting drunk (and drugged) and losing said treasure. The final installment reveals a new threat from the sewers come to reclaim the treasure.