Has anyone added this? How did it fit your storytelling? I'm worried about it being a one-off.
More specifically, did you connect it with a part of the AP? I'm thinking of either connecting the AP with the Mahathallah cultists or replacing the derro with another creature that would be a minion of the Aboleth. What do you think?
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I ran it for my group.
I actually planned from the earliest part of the AP. One of the character's cousins (a noble) was kidnapped during the Night of Ashes because of his rebel interests and sent to Deepmar to be used against the Vashnarstill's as leverage at a later date. I pretty much played it exactly as written.
When they were in Vyre the Queen offered the information that Deepmar had been out of touch and that important rebel prisoners had been sent there to her 'close associate' as a gift to cement their relationship.
I saved it in case of TPK. When my players lost a fight, I knew instead of killing them all, I could ship them to Deepmar instead.
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Aside from "because it's [set] there," there isn't much reason to run this adventure in the context of Hell's Rebels. You can bait and switch your players with the idea of rescuing prisoners to fill out their ranks, but 1) that bait gets heavy use in the campaign already and runs the risk of getting overplayed and 2) what's gonna keep them around to finish the adventure once they realized there's nothing for them there? Also, the setup assumes that the PCs are government contractors hired to check up on Deepmar after it missed scheduled reports, and while you can easily write around that, the question of why the government is leaving the field open for rebels and malcontents to usurp its functions?
You could introduce a competing party of government agents, but at this point you're rewriting the adventure so heavily that it's a question of whether it's worth it.
The PFS scenario Out of Anarchy might be a better fit if you're looking to expand Hell's Rebels beyond what's written. It deals heavily in the master tropes of the AP, and allows you to widen the scope of the Silver Ravens' activity beyond one piddling city, if that's what your players want.
It's more that I'm looking for a good tactical adventure for a player. And when the PCs do go throughout the duchy to get buy-in beyond the capital, I'm looking for options other than what's presented.
I'm using it right now. This is how they are getting in good with the Queen of Delights (I'm planning on the Dinner for when they get Vyre to sign a treaty assisting Kintargo, and the dinner companions will be the other Queens and King of Vyre.) While Cheliax controls the Deepmar colony itself, the Queen of Delights has a contract to keep the colony supplied. Also she owes a favor to the daughter of the Captain in charge of the colony (I tossed this in to explain some of the Queen's interest in Deepmar without her being part of the slavery/indentured servant policy of Cheliax).