This V&V adventure was originally written around 1986 (near the end of the heyday of releases for the game) but didn't see publication until 2010. For me the main draws were the authors and illustrator. Stewart and Stephan Wieck wrote several V&V adventures but are much better for their output at White Wolf, which was very much their baby early on. Jeff Dee hardly needs an introduction, having been a very big name in the gaming industry throughout the 80s and having helped write V&V itself in the first place.

Sadly, this is a very poor showcase of their respective talents. The adventure is a linear railroad of combat set pieces, the plot behind everything makes little sense, and the villains and their various henchmen are mostly quite uninspired (with a couple being downright goofy). Even more disappointing, this was apparently the last product Jeff Dee provided art for, and I suspect it may explain the long delay in publication. Simply put, this is the worst illustration work I've ever seen from Dee, worse than even the very start of his professional career, and far below par for his V&V work. It's simply unfinished, barely more than pencil sketches in some cases. Very, very disappointing from someone I know can do better. The adventure's cartography (uncredited, but probably - hopefully? - not Dee) is even more crude, even by the lower standards of the mid-Eighties.

This avoids a Very Poor rating only by virtue of having an interesting concept (regardless of dreadful execution) and the fact that even in its fairly raw state, the illustration of the monster Graulokk appeals to me. You can just see the edge of Dee's real potential there - and then you see things like Earthworm and Mole. Ugh. This should never have been published in its current state.