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Hm. Huh? Where am I? :) No update at the moment, but it won't be too much longer now. My crunch is drawing to a close, and so I am able to peek at the bits of life I've left behind these past 5 months. Apparently I have a 2.3 year old daughter, a lovely wife with whom I am expecting a...

I promise, the story is not dead, just sleeping. It's the nature of my job as a video-game designer that for a few months every couple of years, work rises up to consume almost all of my time. Family pretty much gets the rest. Once work calms down, I'll return to writing the story -- and...

The party has never met Cranchus before. They've heard of him a few times -- a reclusive and mysterious dwarven wizard who has helped the Spire on occasion (though no one in the Spire has ever actually seen him). The Company is currently about 2000 years in the past, which would make the...

Hi everyone. Updates are likely to be even fewer and farther between than usual for the next couple of months. We're "crunching" on BioShock at work, which means late nights every night and leaving me even less time than usual to work on the Story Hour. I'm still chipping away, 10 minutes...

By the way, I didn't intend to ignore the previous few posts. It's extremely gratifying to know that our stories have inspired people to get back into this wonderful hobby. As for darkhall's specific question: trying to write out my campaign as a publishable setting would take much, much more...

Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 268 Earth Magic “We’re sinking!” There’s panic in Flicker’s voice. They’re not sinking fast, and that’s something, but the wind walk no longer seems strong enough to keep them aloft. In only a few seconds they are below the edges of the chasm and wafting downward...

Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 267 Killer Magic Rats The first thing that occurs to Aravis and Grey Wolf when the rage subsides is that it’s uncomfortably hot, standing so close to a wall of fire. It’s not long before it and the various blade barriers vanish, leaving the Company in a suddenly quiet...

Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 266 A Nasty Surprise for All Concerned The Company discusses plans for their imminent subterranean journey. Wind walk has been their preferred travel method of late, and it’s still cast upon them, but in a series of underground tunnels and caves they’d be forced into...

Hi everyone! Sorry I don't have an update yet -- I've been chipping away at the next one in my scarce free time, and I wanted you to know I haven't abandoned the story. I'm in the midst of transcribing a particularly chaotic and harrowing combat from tape, which can be time consuming. I don't...

As my father was fond of telling me while I was growing up: "Nobody said life was fair." ;)

Regadring the Evil Black Liquid: It is true that, by use of a wish, black goo was physically expelled from Ernie and Aravis. It is also true that since then, the two of them have not been evil, have not felt any desire to do evil, and furthermore have maintined that state of non-evilness...

I apologize for any typos -- it's late, and I need to sleep, and don't have time for a thorough proof-read. Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 265 The Legend of Crunchy “This dragon sucked! It wouldn’t eat me! What’s up with that?” Dranko complains even as pulls hard on a tooth, freeing it from the...

Remember: My players should not follow that link! (Also, the Null Shadows the party fought last night were different from these in several respects, in terms of abilities and overall power level.) -Sagiro

I'll tell you this for free: if you're willing to blow 5000 XP on the more powerful version of miracle, you'll probably end up with a pretty good idea of where the cauldron is. Certainly, a miracle with XP cost should be more powerful than discern location, and as such might give you the same...

A quick correction on this: Aravis got sprayed in the face by much more than just a drop of the black liquid. Ernie became Evil not because he touched Aravis, but because when he cast dispel evil, his hand came into contact with a single droplet of the black stuff that was still on Aravis's...

Hammerhead and Everett are correct: the "Kalkas" in "Daynell Kalkas" is the same as in "Hae Kalkas," "The Kalkas Peaks," etc. It's probably not spoiling things to point out that in the future the Company comes from, in which the Emperor had long ago been defeated and driven into Exile on the...

Piratecat has pretty much got it, but he accidentally sowed some confusion with his point #5 (since corrected... thanks PC!) Brogarn, I think you're confused because PCat refers to two DIFFERENT assassins from two different time periods. Consider for a moment that the "normal" campaign year...

Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 264 Exit, Pursued by a Dragon It has been over one hundred years since Naloric Skewn slaughtered the elves of the Greatwood and took Kinnet Vulthani as his capital. After razing most of the exquisite elven buildings and cutting down swaths of ancient trees, he...

Hey there. Sorry again for the long delay, which occured for two main reasons: 1. My wife and I became hooked on "Lost," and for a while we spent every evening watching an episode or two until we were fully caught up. 2. 17 months straight of averaging 5 hours of sleep per night finally...

I agonized pretty good ahead of time about my time-travel mechanics, vis-a-vis paradoxes and continuity issues. In the end I came up with a simple set of "rules" that were (fairly) easy for me to keep track of. (I won't spell them out here, for fear of spoiling things. But, yeah, I did decide...