Munkao’s gorgeous, hornet-filled temple run demands cleverness to crawl through
An automata-filled, systems-agnostic dungeon crawl, Stirring the Hornet’s Nest at Het Thamsya layers fanaticism, Southeast Asian legend, and Buddhist histories within a claustrophobic setting.
The college of Het Thamsya is full of two things: the giant hornets that have built a hive at the back of the college, and automatons. At the heart of the temple sits Satur, a monk who has entered a meditative state in order to more completely understand how automata might bring humanity closer to a nirvana. If all life brings suffering, perhaps the solution to suffering lies within the automata; the created life itself.
A system agnostic dungeon crawl, (but written for use with lightweight old school roleplaying style systems like Into the Odd and Cairn) Stirring the Hornet’s Nest at Het Thamsya by Munkao offers a multi-narrative pathway through a detailed and concise college temple. When the adventurers arrive at Het Thamsya, they are asked to retrieve the monk, Satur, from inside the temple. He is only a few weeks away from the end of his ten year meditation on automata and his own relationship to created life. But massive hornet’s nest has overtaken the back of the temple, and the noise now threatens Satur’s meditation, which would surely destroy the low-status Het Thamsya college.
Adventurers must navigate the automata-filled temple, avoid the hornets, find Satur, and bring him to an alternative arcadian retreat. All without disturbing the relative peace and quiet in the temple.
