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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 11548" data-attributes="member: 67"><p><strong><em>Ocean Deeply Sleeps’ player could not be present for this session. Session 6 is written by the author of Strong Dwarf Stands and is written from his point of view. I have edited slightly.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Session 6, part 1:</p><p></p><p>I finally make it to the party and the first thing that greets me is a crowd of people in the courtyard of the Governor’s Palace in the new Silver City. The city still looks exactly the same as it did five years ago, before it burned down. I don’t like it. Makes my beard itch. And all these rich fops lookin’ at me make me want to axe some necks. So what if I didn’t take a bath before I came? I don’t have time for sissy stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>The stench of human aristocrats mingles with the shouts of praise at my brother and his comrades. Apparently they went and did something like help some guy protect the human’s precious Emperor from some assassins or something. Before too long, the crowd splits us up somewhat. I don’t even know where that Ocean Deeply Sleeps she-human went off to.</p><p></p><p>Well, it’s a party, so I help myself to some food. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I have a belly to fill; killing Nightmares takes something out of a body, that’s for sure. If it weren’t for these damned nobles, this party would be fun.</p><p></p><p>I spit at a noble and try to feed the halfling’s monkey some monkey brains from the table. That damned ingrate wouldn’t take any! I find my way to the kitchen and get into a food-fight with the staff. One of them asks if I killed the colossal spider on the "Night of the Spiders."</p><p></p><p>"Er…um…Of course I did! Now outta my way!" I says real smooth-like.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, they’re impressed, alright. ‘Course, I didn’t tell them which big spider I killed. How do they define "colossal," anyway? Well I’ve had enough talk with these humans, so I head back out into the party and start filling up my burlap bag with food. I notice that these noble fops have a lot of respect for me, because they’re all keeping their distance.</p><p></p><p>Looks like the halfling has let his monkey get too close to some fancy fop of a noble that they call "Smiling Bobcat Rules," or "Grinning Tiger Rules," or somesuch. He looks more pissed than a gnome with a gem up his arse. He grabs the monkey and takes it to the halfling. I don’t know what they’re talking about, but they sure don’t seem to like each other. The man tosses the monkey to the halfling and I head on out to the courtyard in search of me brudder [my brother]. Looks like some big human caught him stealing leaves from the silver trees.</p><p></p><p><em>DM note: I still haven't determined that either bobcats, or gnomes, exist on the continent, but...eh.</em></p><p></p><p>That man is big. He has the look of someone who has…er…"given his man-hood to the Empire," as the saying goes. He has an unnatural glow about his eyes. He may be big, but he’s clumsy; he almost trips over the halfling, who has just showed up.</p><p></p><p>So I says, "Hey, he’s stupid, but he’s our halfling, so don’t step on him!"</p><p></p><p>The halfling is concerned about the Emperor’s well-being (they took him away to other parts of the palace before I got here), but the big eunuch-guy won’t let us back into the party. He points his finger in my face and I nearly bite it off, but my brother pulls me away. Fine. We’ll go back to that inn that my brother and the halfling are staying at.</p><p></p><p><em>DM note: leaving behind...Ocean...Somebody...</em></p><p></p><p>We are walking down the street toward the center of town when the gong tower sounds. Now, here’s a funny thing: everything in this town is exactly the same as it was before it burned down, even the cracks in the walls. But I could swear (and my brother agrees) that there was never any gong tower in the center of town. I simply don’t remember it being there; it wasn’t there. A dwarf never forgets!</p><p></p><p><em>DM note: ...but a halfling does! Actually, dwarves do too, just not as quickly.</em></p><p></p><p>Then things start to get really weird.</p><p></p><p>We catch a glimpse of the old Captain of the Guard, Night Softly Calls. I catch up to her, and sure enough, she remembers us. What she doesn’t recall is being devoured by the colossal mother-spider. She must be forgetful; you’d think that since human’s lives are so short, they would remember something like that. Anyway, she gets angry with me for some reason or another, and tells us to go to our inn and walks away. Bah.</p><p></p><p>Well, we’re not quite ready to sleep, so we go to the gong tower to snoop around. There are some ratlings there that say that the tower has been there since the city was rebuilt and they claim it was there before the city burned. But <em>I</em> know it wasn’t. He won’t let us in tonight, so we agree to come back tomorrow and head to the inn and grab a drink or few. All they have some piss they call "sockie" or something. Nasty crap. They need to order some good dwarven liquor.</p><p></p><p>There is a drunken (presumably) off-duty guard mumbling something about unexplained murders, a mutilated Captain of the Guard, rats, a bribe that he is not currently drinking, and the Southern Ward. Nothing important, really, just drunken ramblings. When he passes out, I dump his last drink over his head, but he’s out cold.</p><p></p><p><em>DM note: ...nothing important. Really.</em></p><p></p><p>We should get to our room and grab some sleep, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rune, post: 11548, member: 67"] [b][i]Ocean Deeply Sleeps’ player could not be present for this session. Session 6 is written by the author of Strong Dwarf Stands and is written from his point of view. I have edited slightly.[/i][/b] Session 6, part 1: I finally make it to the party and the first thing that greets me is a crowd of people in the courtyard of the Governor’s Palace in the new Silver City. The city still looks exactly the same as it did five years ago, before it burned down. I don’t like it. Makes my beard itch. And all these rich fops lookin’ at me make me want to axe some necks. So what if I didn’t take a bath before I came? I don’t have time for sissy stuff like that. The stench of human aristocrats mingles with the shouts of praise at my brother and his comrades. Apparently they went and did something like help some guy protect the human’s precious Emperor from some assassins or something. Before too long, the crowd splits us up somewhat. I don’t even know where that Ocean Deeply Sleeps she-human went off to. Well, it’s a party, so I help myself to some food. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I have a belly to fill; killing Nightmares takes something out of a body, that’s for sure. If it weren’t for these damned nobles, this party would be fun. I spit at a noble and try to feed the halfling’s monkey some monkey brains from the table. That damned ingrate wouldn’t take any! I find my way to the kitchen and get into a food-fight with the staff. One of them asks if I killed the colossal spider on the "Night of the Spiders." "Er…um…Of course I did! Now outta my way!" I says real smooth-like. Yeah, they’re impressed, alright. ‘Course, I didn’t tell them which big spider I killed. How do they define "colossal," anyway? Well I’ve had enough talk with these humans, so I head back out into the party and start filling up my burlap bag with food. I notice that these noble fops have a lot of respect for me, because they’re all keeping their distance. Looks like the halfling has let his monkey get too close to some fancy fop of a noble that they call "Smiling Bobcat Rules," or "Grinning Tiger Rules," or somesuch. He looks more pissed than a gnome with a gem up his arse. He grabs the monkey and takes it to the halfling. I don’t know what they’re talking about, but they sure don’t seem to like each other. The man tosses the monkey to the halfling and I head on out to the courtyard in search of me brudder [my brother]. Looks like some big human caught him stealing leaves from the silver trees. [i]DM note: I still haven't determined that either bobcats, or gnomes, exist on the continent, but...eh.[/i] That man is big. He has the look of someone who has…er…"given his man-hood to the Empire," as the saying goes. He has an unnatural glow about his eyes. He may be big, but he’s clumsy; he almost trips over the halfling, who has just showed up. So I says, "Hey, he’s stupid, but he’s our halfling, so don’t step on him!" The halfling is concerned about the Emperor’s well-being (they took him away to other parts of the palace before I got here), but the big eunuch-guy won’t let us back into the party. He points his finger in my face and I nearly bite it off, but my brother pulls me away. Fine. We’ll go back to that inn that my brother and the halfling are staying at. [i]DM note: leaving behind...Ocean...Somebody...[/i] We are walking down the street toward the center of town when the gong tower sounds. Now, here’s a funny thing: everything in this town is exactly the same as it was before it burned down, even the cracks in the walls. But I could swear (and my brother agrees) that there was never any gong tower in the center of town. I simply don’t remember it being there; it wasn’t there. A dwarf never forgets! [i]DM note: ...but a halfling does! Actually, dwarves do too, just not as quickly.[/i] Then things start to get really weird. We catch a glimpse of the old Captain of the Guard, Night Softly Calls. I catch up to her, and sure enough, she remembers us. What she doesn’t recall is being devoured by the colossal mother-spider. She must be forgetful; you’d think that since human’s lives are so short, they would remember something like that. Anyway, she gets angry with me for some reason or another, and tells us to go to our inn and walks away. Bah. Well, we’re not quite ready to sleep, so we go to the gong tower to snoop around. There are some ratlings there that say that the tower has been there since the city was rebuilt and they claim it was there before the city burned. But [i]I[/i] know it wasn’t. He won’t let us in tonight, so we agree to come back tomorrow and head to the inn and grab a drink or few. All they have some piss they call "sockie" or something. Nasty crap. They need to order some good dwarven liquor. There is a drunken (presumably) off-duty guard mumbling something about unexplained murders, a mutilated Captain of the Guard, rats, a bribe that he is not currently drinking, and the Southern Ward. Nothing important, really, just drunken ramblings. When he passes out, I dump his last drink over his head, but he’s out cold. [i]DM note: ...nothing important. Really.[/i] We should get to our room and grab some sleep, too. [/QUOTE]
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