In my home game, I needed a "secret level" that was the terminus of a nasty trap and a hidden treasury for an undead necromancer. I wanted to highlight my methods for keeping room descriptions concise, immediate, and evocative. Hopefully I pulled it off. So, here's your free OSR adventure -- in the key of OSRIC. If there's interest, I'll convert it to DCC and Shadowdark, but for now, I'll keep it in my first love...

Stop killing the immediacy of your dungeons and encounters with story time.

When I first picked up Moldvay Basic (the precursor to OSE) way back when, I read a bunch of the rules which were gobbledygook to a 12...