The Oneiric Hinterlands

Recently, I soloed my way through Oneiric Hinterlands (144 pages, DriveThruRPG) an adventure for Old School RPGs. For this, I used Torch & Sword (79 pages, free). I soloed this with the FlexTale Solo Adventuring Toolkit (613 pages) and the Bing AI Copilot

. So, Lena continued her adventures with five of her friends. They were on the way to Owlhaven (a quest destination) and had been travelling through grasslands. On the first day, they encountered a nomad who gave them quest #2. On the second day, they recruited a lost magic-user (Torlos). That night they had to fight skeletons. Lena was wounded but was soon healed. On the third day, they reached the quest #2 destination, but the information they had been given was not valid, so the quest could not be completed.

That night the PCs were attacked by ghosts. Seren the cleric used her prayer wheel of Gond to destroy the ghosts. On the fourth day, they reached the town of Esben. A rich woman gave Seren some money and asked her to...See more give it to the temple of Gond. Next, the townspeople complained about the necromancer problem. The PCs found out that he was living in an old fortified manor house. They went there and told the servants to run away and don’t come back. They did follow those instructions. The PCs then killed the skeletons they encountered. Torlos killed the necromancer in a magic duel. The PCs spent the night in that old manor house. The next day, the PCs joined a caravan.

On the sixth and seventh day, dead bodies were found near the road, but no investigations were started. On the eighth day a guard picket was encountered. The caravan leaders dealt with that problem. On the ninth day, more dead bodies were discovered. At dusk, they arrived in Owlhaven. They completed a quest when they joined forces with Albrecht and his men. This combined group will head north the next morning.

Give this fun adventure a try! :)

Question for the author which is unnecessarily complicated because I’m trying to avoid spoilers:
On page 50 you can rescue an NPC and on page 132 it outlines the rewards for rescuing the NPC if you defeat a bad guy (whose stats also appear on page 132). But the bad guy is a type of entity that won’t stay dead (page 129 bullet point 6).
This isn’t a problem for the other entities of that type because you are unlikely to encounter them again, or stay in their vicinity. But for the rescuer to get the benefits of the reward on page 132 they need to hang around.
Is there a means of permanently defeating the bad guy that I’m missing?

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Would love to see a PoD