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Dangerous Mines

July 15, 2013 5:14 am / Leave a Comment /

Picking back up where I left off months ago…

R. Silva
onsaid:  


I request some horror scenes for an exploration of a dwarven mine, please.

Entrance collapses.

A fire in the tunnels above. You must head downward…

Loose timbers. Oh and look, here’s a dead giant termite. I bet there are others.

A dead canary (you did bring one, right?).

A trap involving a long and disorienting mine car ride.

Random noises will get the party on their toes.

A skeleton is strewn along a passage. Every ten to twenty paces a few more bones are found. The first are foot and toe bones, the last a skull.

Several pellets strewn about (probably an owl bear)

One single mithril object. Worth maybe half a kingdom. Don’t think that’s scary? See what the players might do to one another…

Players think they see a dead girl every few hours. Or some other creepy imagery. This is caused by gasses in the air. What one player ‘sees’ from a hallucination will be the topic of player conversation and more will see the same thing through the power of suggestion.

 

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Minor Noble’s Entouage

February 4, 2013 1:53 pm / 1 Comment /

Claytonian
on said: 


Members of the noble’s entourage. Interesting and dangerous characters that attend to the noble and protect him while doing in vogue things too.

This request is from the Mundane Request Thread.

Minor nobles will allow almost anyone into their entourage for the sake of having an entourage, which is of course a sign of great importance.

 

Firstly, there is the body man or handmaid—the servant who knows the noble most intimately as They also know what wig powder to use, which eau de toilette to use as the most recent bath fades further into memory and gernally deal with the soiled handkerchiefs, spurned milkmaids/stable boys and stained smallclothes of the minor noble.

 

The Cook. They are generally quite bad, as the good cooks are already taken, but he entire entourage is obliged to publically praise the food so as not to shame the noble for not being able to hire a good one.

 

The Syncophant: Usually a cousin or even lesser noble, this person desperately hangs on to the nobles ever word, laughs at the worst jokes and secretly hopes to have a torrid affair with the noble.

 

The Guard: This is by far the most well-paid member of the entourage, for without the guard, any number of people might kill the noble out of sheer loathing. The Guard, in fact, would be first in line were he not paid well.

 

The Secretary: The minor noble may have been tutored (see tutor below) but when it comes to actually writing an eloquent letter, the secretary puts quill to paper. He also keeps the schedule and acts as a social director (begs for invitations).

 

Driver/Groomsman: takes care of the horses, carriage and does the driving.

 

Protégé: Every noble must have a protégé artist in order to be called a patron. Poet, musician or painters only. Actors are gauche. Jesters are for kings.

 

Prostitute: some nobles have a bed-warmer. If so, this person is near the top of the hierarchy.

 

Beast: A noble will typically have a deformed person or beast (read: orc) hanger-on who serves as the bottom of the pecking order.

Banker: Entourages are expensive and many minor nobles are deep in debt in order to support them. The banker is a minor representative of the bank that keeps the noble afloat. Why? Influence.

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The Ratmen

February 3, 2013 5:34 pm / Leave a Comment /

Arr Mateys. I be answering your requests in a mundane way. Don’t be askin for no potion mishaps or magical codpieces in the request thread.

Trent B
on September 27, 2012 at 1:29 am said:

Well if you like you could create a small selection of ‘things some nonchalant 3ft ratmen pirates might be doing when they have stolen basically all of the ships/supplies and are now sitting pretty on an island off the coast which might have just been landed upon by some unscrupulous adventurers and their mysterious meatshroom tavern’? 
If you’re bored or whatever =P

Here’s your mundane answer, ya lubber:

The “3 foot ratmen” are a gang of nine brothers known for their longish faces and short stature. They are horrible sailors but excellent gunners, usually tasked with mending sails and swabbing decks when not in combat. Last August they were hired as crew on board Galadriel’s Garter, a privateering vessel backed by the Dutch. The garter’s officers were greener than their crew and at first encounter with the English frigate HMS Astonishment, the captain, first mate and both lieutenants were taken by chain shot. The Ratmen were the highest ranking left on the ship and they never, ever stop firing. They managed to cripple the English vessel so badly the remaining officers surrendered in exchange for a tow.

Which they did, after slitting the English throats. Alas, as I have mentioned, they are horrible sailors and managed to steer both vessels into the Fog of the Unknown and have landed on DedSkull Island.

Unaware of the dinosaurs, oversized animals, witches, fishmen, truant officers and weresharks surrounding them, the Three Foot Ratmen and their crew have declared a shore leave and have hauled the English rum and tinned beef to the beach. What are they up to when the party arrives?

 

  1. Drinking
  2. Burying “treasure”, mostly gold buttons and swords taken from the dead.
  3. Buggery
  4. Arguing over who is captain, first mate, “leftenant” and cook.
  5. Trying to figure out maps
  6. Making time with the native women
  7. Trying to open a hatch in the ground
  8. Target practice on oversized tree-living sloths
  9. Industriously harvesting lumber and straightening out nails to repair the ships
  10. Torturing a native to get the location of the lost city of gold from him
  11. Cooking a giant sloth over a spit
  12. Singing filthy sea chanties while (roll again)
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