Dungeon Crawl Classics:The Portal Under The Stars (Level-0 Adventure)

This will be a Roll20 and Discord virtual game of the 0th level funnel adventure The Portal Under The Stars.

The Discord Server link is: https://discord.gg/NQ6MHbfU

For long years, you labored in the fields like all the peasants,
sweating hot and dirty in the summer, only to shiver under
threadbare hides when winter came. This year’s harvest ended
like all the rest, and autumn’s work was hard on Old Man Roberts.
When you visited his bedside at the end, he spoke in labored
breaths of constellations that hadn’t been seen since he was a
young lad. The last time the Empty Star had risen in the sky, it
was more than fifty winters past, he said. Under the light of that
strange star a portal had opened by the old stone mounds. He’d
seen jewels in there and fine steel spears and enameled armor, but
he’d run when the iron men had attacked. Now, old and dying,
he wishes he’d taken the chance on a life of adventure. The Empty
Star is once more rising, and a young person with courage could
be more than just another peasant – if only they’d take the chance
Old Man Roberts hadn’t.
You’re taking that chance. You stand before the monolithic rocks
of the old stone mounds, under the dark light of a starry sky. The
Empty Star is clear and bright above you. Three of the large stone
blocks lean haphazardly together to form an upright rectangular
portal about the size of a person. They seem to be placed directly
beneath the star’s path. As the Empty Star ascends to its brightest
point, its light catches in the portal, and a shimmering stonelined
corridor is visible through the stones, but only from one
side of the opening. Grasping your pitchfork with white knuckles,
you step into the starlit portal which was not there before today,
thoughts of jewels and scorching wheat fields foremost in your
mind.