The Infested Library

A band of doomed nobodies must survive an insect-infested ancestral library and kill the Brood Mother before they become lunch.

The Funnel

This is the funnel, a classic OSR mechanic where each player controls several fragile nobodies, then watches natural selection brutally determine which ones might become actual adventurers.

The Infested Library began with the sort of heroes who usually hide behind a locked door: an incapable funnel of peasants, a cook with a hooked hand, an elderly, grumpy gravedigger and a completely trustworthy thief who absolutely wasn’t waiting for the perfect moment to betray everyone.

Their mission was simple: cleanse the Infested Library, a sacred place built by their ancestors.

Getting there was less simple…

Several hopeful volunteers were pecked into retirement by murderous beak-things, way before the survivors even reached the entrance.

The Dungeon

Inside, they discovered the “library” was actually a vast underground ruin, half-submerged in sand, stretching far beyond anything sensible. Worse, it was crawling with alien insects whose chief dietary preference appears to be “human”.

Somewhere deep within the stacks lurks the Brood Mother, cheerfully producing more horrors.

So naturally, the remaining idiots had to go find her.