NEOLITHIC INFERNO

ADAM IN HELL

“ADAM FREEZES

THE ETERNAL COLD OF SHEOL

FORESAKEN AND FORESWORN

ABANDONED FOR HIS SINS

AND IN THAT ETERNAL COLD

HE HOLDS EVES HAND

REMEMBERING THE DAYS OF PARADISE”

INTRODUCTION

According to some Christian doctrines the only way to heaven is through Christ and knowing the gospel. Unfortunately for our players they are 5,000 years to early for knowledge of gospel, so they are condemned to

HELL

Hell, Sheol, Eternal Damnation and The Lake of Fire. A multilayered scape of ashen lands and towering fortresses. Hell is divided into competing fiefdoms of demon lords. Lucifer remains asleep frozen in Lake Cocito.

 

John Martin Pandemonium, 1841

THE PARTY

A group of neolithic humans, each having died a violent death and were buried in the

TALHEIM DEATH PIT

Talheim, a small neolithic settlement, is the last place the party remembers being. They died fighting or running from an attacking force. Either dead from Adze’s or Arrows, before being buried and waking up on the ashen plains of Hell.

THE DEMONS

Capricious, murderous, traitorous and other deplorable adjectives applicable. The original denizens of hell. The Demon lords competing for land and the underlings vying and infighting for more power. The demons come from various mythologies varying from  Sumerian to Christian.

SAMPLE NPC’S                                                                                            

·         Lightning of the Grasses- A Homo Erectus Shaman, having survived hell for millennia. Willing to teach the party for a price of course

·         Feldhofer- A neanderthal ‘warrior’. Violent and asocial. Knows the best way to skin a demon

·         Anzu- A massive eagle with a lion head that is able to breathe fire. Preys and enjoys the flesh of hominids.

SAMPLE OBJECTIVES

·         Steal an apple

·         Murder a hell knight and don’t die

·         Grow wheat and start the agricultural revolution

·         Tame a horse

·         Create copper weapons

·         Make a library

ITEMS AND WEAPONS

·         Flint Knife- A small blade made from flint collected from gravel pits in hell.

·         Flint Spear- Made from flint collected from gravel pits in hell and a poplar tree pole.

·         Stone Axe- A river stone from the phlegethon turned into a hand axe, can be attached to a stick for leverage.

·         Clay tablets- A proto writing system engraved on clay, used to gain and share information from other hominids.

·         Skulls-used for a variety of rituals and magic, can be human or demon.

 

CONCLUSION

This blogpost is designed to give some ideas on how to run a game in which neolithic humans are stuck in hell.