I've nearly completed the story lines. Now I just need maps. I think Harniacs will pan it, bc there's a LOT of: "Well, this might not really happen, but eff it. It's happenin'." But that's not the target audience (although I hope they enjoy it). It's expected that the target audience will probably not even recognize it until it's over. It's almost an exact port.

SPOILERS -- assume deep familiarity with Keep on the Borderlands:

• Currently looking at Fort Taztos (it's almost PERFECT), but open to moving it to the continent.
• Taztos, like the Keep, doesn't have much to it.
• Giant spiders > nice intro fight; rescue a kid. Chance for combat and poisoning. Welcome to Harn Combat! Try to avoid this from now on, ok, puddin'?
• Lizardmen > early investigation. Early signs of trouble at said-Caves (that no one knows about). Turns out Lizardmen scavenged survivors; did not actually raid caravan. Lizardmen will be more realistic. (Have some minor personal experience with this. It'll be neat!)
• Brigand camp > Tulwyn scouting camp, spying on Taztos
• Mad Hermit > Shek-Pvar renegade gone nuts. Good back story allows for PC tie-in.
• Unknown Cave > Where Mad Hermit/Shek-Pvar creates a defective magic item that's making everything in a league radius go nuts.
• Caves > just.... all KINDS of fun here. A perfect confluence of crap that, once the artefact is created, makes everything go off the rails. These contain:

-- Couple of new Ivashu who have been living here (Minotaur type and Owlbear type; not total carbon copies, but close enough to trigger)
-- Fleeing Gargu-hyeka and Gargu-khanu from Korego, end up getting harried by Tulwyn, eventually find refuge here. Begin infighting and segregate into caves, licking their wounds, but plotting what to do next
-- Kainego arrive to winter here. Settle in their own cave (establishing themselves after conflicts with Gargun)
-- And then there's the hidden shrine, found by a cultist of the Midnight Dancer from Moleryn. This will involve a kidnapping that sets off a timed event to prevent a most-horrible human sacrifice.

The intended general flow is:

1. Characters arrive for REASONS
2. Characters rescue someone from Giant Spiders
3. Characters investigate raided wagon to the east
4. By now Characters hopefully begin earning notice from Garril at Taztos
5. (STILL IN THE WORKS) Characters have an opportunity to discover the Tulwyn spy camp
6. At any moment, Characters MAY encounter the Shek-Pvar renegade, stark-raving mad in the wilderness
7. Characters investigate a kidnapping that leads to the abandoned caves in the ravine. This can go a NUMBER of ways. There are opportunities to play the factions against each other. There are opportunities to make very fragile alliances, given the creatures' fragile statuses. They might even be able to manipulate the Ivashu to become rampaging terrors. I don't know! Lots of opportunities.
8. Ultimately, the best recommendation will be for characters -- who should have earned some trust with Taztos by this time -- to finally obtain military aid from the Fort against the nests in the ravine.
9. All the while, they have a victim to rescue deep in the recesses of one of the caves. And if they don't, they'll never discover who did it, where they came from, or even where they went.