Corpse Trail to Hell

"And upon your splendid return, the Battercod Lubricate Company will award you fine folks one-tenth of the profits. Easy as fish pie … if you’ll pardon the pun."

Created as part of the Dreckgullard's Desolation Winter Jam, Corpse Trail to Hell is a first-party scenario for FRONTIER SCUM. 

• The whaling ship Ichabod Noster has been ice-locked and abandoned out on the Jetty Sheets, in the seas north of Dreckgullard's Desolation. 
• The PCs have been recruited by the Battercod Lubricate Company to reclaim the ship, and then keep it safe until the spring thaw.
• In the first act, the PCs are trekking across the ice sheets, following the corpse trail of the Ichabod's dead crew.
• In the second act (which can be played on its own as a one-shot), the PCs are faced with the challenge of securing the ship; but everything may not be exactly as it seems ...
• There is no third act.

Contents

• 30 stuffed pages containing two acts with material for approximately two to three 4-hour sessions of play. 
  • In the first act, a frosty eventcrawl with mechanics for food, drink, and the cold. Will the corpse route lead you right, or will you become part of it?
  • In the second act, a dangerous dungeoncrawl through an abandoned (?) ship, filled with weird shit. Can you reach the hold without losing everything in the process?
    • The second act can be played standalone as a one-shot.
• Horrible creatures, dreadful terrors, and other awful ways to die.
• Treasure, both mundane and weird.
• 4 new PC backgrounds for when you need to replace the sorry dead.

- ᛚᚮᛜ ᛚᛁᚡᛂ ᛐᛂ ᚠᚱᚮᛍᛐ ᚴᛁᛜ -

Touchstones

Corpse Trail to Hell was inspired by the following pieces of media, to name but a few. Consume them to get in the mood.

• The Terror, S1 (2018)
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2001)
• Society of the Snow (2023)
  
• The Snow Queen (1844)
  
• The Thing (1982)
• The Revenant (2015)
• The Hateful Eight (2015)

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