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Friends & Foes on December 24th, 2007 |
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Wilderness
One night, while gathered around the camp fire, off in the distance the players spot a little girl walking towards them.
The girl says nothing to them, but walks up to the fire and kneels down to warm her hands. She sits there for a few minutes, taking respite from the cold night, before leaving.
The little [...]
Off in the distance, the players hear dogs barking. There’s also another sound, somewhat harder to make out… a high-pitched voice with a bit of a growl to it yelping out “Help! Help!”
If the PCs investigate, they discover a lone kobold clinging for dear life from a root poking out of a rocky wall. He’s [...]
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Friends & Foes on December 19th, 2007 |
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While traveling through a sparse forest, the players see a donkey standing in front of an apple tree, looking up at the succulent red jewels dangling above its head.
The donkey rears up on its hind legs and puts it forelegs up on the trunk of the tree, reaching up but still unable to get an [...]
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Friends & Foes on December 10th, 2007 |
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In the beginning, there was harmony, and then chaos broke that harmony and the world was born. So teach the disciples of the Dissonant Chorus, a religion devoted to The Voice of Creation.
Those devoted to the Dissonant Chorus come from all walks of life, but it is especially popular amongst the poor, the wretched and [...]
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Friends & Foes on November 30th, 2007 |
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One morning, a shriek from the center of the town awakens the PCs slumbering in a nearby inn. A young maiden, running out to perform some errands in the early morning, has fainted after seeing a new structure apparently erected overnight: A simple gallows, with a body hanging from it! The gallows’s current occupant, a [...]
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Friends & Foes on November 29th, 2007 |
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Matikoi is a numerically-obsessed religion. Its adherents are known as great logicians and advisers, as they spend much of their time in introspection and working out proofs of various mathematical theories and constructing persuasive arguments based on the proofs.
The Matiks, as they are known, worship irrational numbers as gods, believing that the fact that such [...]
While traveling in the Mournlands, the players come across a troop of warforged standing motionless. The warforged are fully aware, but have been standing in the same spot since the mourning (which they survived, but do not remember) since they lack orders.
A male-personality warforged named Hammer is the leader of the troop, and his standing [...]