Casting the characters as a patrol of Rangers - although they could be any party of travellers - going about their business, and stopping for the night at a small settlement, this adventure thrusts them into the thick of the neighbourhood's problems.
A young girl has disappeared, and various people report having seen strange figures wandering around at night... including one lady who is convinced that her long-dead husband was gazing in the window at her! It doesn't take much to find a disturbed graveyard.... nor is it much of a surprise to find a horde of angry undead spoiling for a brawl... but the real interest lies in discovering just why the dead have risen and what can be done about it.
Ostensibly a simple interlude to throw at the party when they think they're just going to have a night's rest, the plot complexity crammed into just two pages is little short of genius.
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Reviewed: 28 March 2009