Diary of a Monster Hunter

The Opening of the Eighth

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A Brief Glance at coming horrors
This is an excerpt from Diary of a
Monster Hunter, a collection of
short adventures for Alone Against
Fear.
The Opening of the Eight Gate
When to play: This is a new
mission for the standard Alone
Against Fear campaign. You should
play this adventure after you have
played at least one of the missions
in the core AAF book. If you prefer
a random, procedural approach,
you should play this mission the
first time you roll a mission that you
have already played. For example,
if you already played Bring Home
the Bacon mission, and you roll
that mission again, play thius
mission instead.
Introduction
You meet an old occultist who has
been fighting against the hellish
invasion like you do. He is in no
shape to help you in actual fights
against monsters, but he seems to
know some valuable information.
At first he seems rambling, but as
you piece together his seemingly
incoherent words with your own
occult knowledge and the
information that you have gathered
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in your recent adventures, you
understand he has a point.
The opening of the Hell Gates is a
continuing process. An Eight Gate
is opening somewhere in town, as
the psychic energies released by
the slaughters in the streets mount.
If the opening of the Eight Gate is
not prevented, yet another Gate
will open soon after that, and your
attempt to close all the Gates will
become even more of an uphill
battle.
The occultist has a rough idea of
where the Gate could be. To find
the exact location of the Eight Gate,
you must move as normal on the
town map and collect 3 Clues ONLY
for this reason. You must label
them as “Eight Gate Clues” and
must NOT spend them for any
other game effect. Spend them in
any new location you visit, after
dealing with whichever dangers or
obstacles you find in the area.
When you spend the Eight Gate
Clues, roll d6 on the Eight Gate
Table below. Roll at +1 if you
already travelled 7 to 9 boxes, and
at +2 if you travelled 10 or more.
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Eight Gate table (d6)
The gate hasn’t fully formed yet. You arrived in time! As you
approach the place to perform a ritual and seal the Gate, roll on
1- the Gate Guardian table. You will have to defeat that creature to
3 seal the Gate. However, as the creature is weak, all your attacks
will be at +1. If you kill the creature, you automatically seal the
Gate. You do not need to use the Gate Arcane Skill.
The Gate is opening - right NOW! Perform a L7 Occultism roll. Add
+1 if you have the Gate Skill and +2 if you have it at the Expert
level. You need to use at least 1 candle in the process. On a
success, you close the Gate and complete the mission. You may
attempt this multiple times. Every time you fail, you must roll a 1
in 6 chance that a random monster from the Gate Guardian table
4- will attack you (acting first). If this happens, you must deal with
5 the creature and then attempt the ritual again. At any moment,
you may decide to flee with a successful Escape roll, but this will
abort the mission and have consequences in the campaign. Every
time you fail the ritual, the chance of the Gate Guardian attacking
you increases by 1 in 6. So the second time it is a 2 in 6, the third
time is a 3 in 6, and so on. Killing a Gate Guardian resets this
chance to 1 in 6.
The Gate is open! Two random Gate Guardians from the Gate
Guardian table attack you. If you roll the same monster twice,
reroll until you select a different monster. You must kill both
before you can seal the gate. Sealing the Gate requires spending
6
1 Clue, 6 candles. You must have a holy book available and
perform a L5 Will roll as explained under the Gate Arcane Skill. If
you do not have the requisites, you may return here later, but if
you do so, the Gate will have generated two new guardians.

Closing the Eight Gate successfully gives you 2 XP for completing

yoir mission, plus of course XP for any creatures defeated in the
process.

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Consequences of Not Closing campaign longer and more
the Eight Gate difficult.
Until the Eight Gate is closed in a
Fighting Two or More Major
campaign, the following will
happen during your adventures: Monsters at Once
When you encounter two or more
1) Any time you try to close any major foes (monsters with 1 or
other Gate, including those that more Life points) you may attack
for some reason can be closed only one at a time. All creatures will
automatically, you must roll a 2 attack you at the same time, and
in 6 chance that a random Gate you will defend normally against
Guardian from the Gate their attacks.
Guardian table will attack you
and interrupt the ritual. If this If you have aweapon that allows
happens, you will have wasted for multiple attacks, you may split
any material components (such them against different targets as
as candles) used in the ritual. desired. You may wait to see
This attack happens AFTER you whether an attack hits a target
have started the ritual and have before rolling for another attack on
dealt with any other creatures a different target. If you use a
or dangers found at that grenade or other weapon capable
location. of performing an area attack, you
can apply its effect against ALL the
2) Every time you close a gate, you targets in the encounter.
must roll a d6 and add the
number of Gates that you have
closed so far in the campaign.
If the result is 6 or less, nothing
happens. On a 7 or more,
however, a new gate opens
somewhere in town. To find
and close this new gate, you will
have to perform this mission
again. This can potentially spiral
into continuous opening of
gates that will make your

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Gate Guardian table (d6)
The Floating Eye. L6 demon, 4 Life, damage 1. At the beginning of
every turn, until you manage to avert your eyes from the demon
(which requires a L5 Will save) you must perform an L4 Strength roll
or lose 1 Life) When you manage to avert your eyes, you must fight
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at -1. If your Attack roll is a 1, you accidentally look at the eye and
you must start the process (rolling to avert your eyes etc) again. If
the Floating Eye kills you, your two eyes will become two additional
Floating Eyes, with 2 Life each, that will haunt the current location.
The Headless. L5 demon, 6 Life, damage 2. Every time this large
headless body is damaged, roll d6. On a 1 or 2, the attack passes
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through the creature’s rotting flesh and deals no damage. Explosive
attacks and hits from enchanted weapons ignore this effect.
The Gaunt Revenant. L5 demon, 5 Life, 1 damage. This glowing
skeleton is immune to attacks from bullets. Once killed, its skull may
3 be fashioned into a candle holder, effectively reducing the number
of candles to be used in a ritual by 1. No more than one candle
holder may be used at the same time.
The Keeper of the Key. L4 demon, 8 Life, 1 damage. This robed,
misshapen humanoid holds an enchanted key. If you take the key,
4 you automatically lose 1 Sanity, but you may reroll any result on this
table and you will get +1 to all Defense rolls against Gate Guardians
as long as you keep the key.
The Writhing Mass. L3 demon, 12 Life, 1 damage. Any Defense roll
of 1 means that the writhing mass has engulfed you, forcing you to
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roll on the injury table. If you defeat this thing, you will find 2 random
items (roll twice on the Useful Stuff table) in its body.
The Raven-Headed Lady. L4 demon, 6 Life, 1 damage. She
appears as a tall, gaunt woman with a large raven’s head. If she is
not killed within 3 turns, she will haunt you. Every time you find a
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Clue in the game, you must also make a L4 Will roll or lose 1
Sanity. To break this curse, you must successfully use the
Exorcism Arcane Skill against the Lady’s Level.
Defeating a Gate Guardian gives 2 XP, or 3 XP if it implies the closing
of a Gate.
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