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The flock of birds that entered the tower when Starn opened the double doors of the entrance suddenly explode into flight over his shoulder. They ascend high into the core of the tower's chamber. A corona of radiance imbues their beaks which work at a feverish pace to channel their strange...

* Below is the pending consequence for the last violation of temporal continuity. Its late in the evening and a Dolg Hana thriving (aqueduct, flowing river, planted date palms, wall w/ parapets; the works) under XIN MAE's stewardship is taking in a beautiful desert evening post-celebration...

Complexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20) Goal (Staged): Gain entrance to The Septarch's Tower Clockwork Platform to ascend to the forbidden upper levels (Success 3), configure the platform to reach Nimozaran the Green's Penthouse Chambers and make the transit (Success 7), resolve the conflict at...

Complexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20) Goal (Staged): Gain entrance to The Septarch's Tower Clockwork Platform to ascend to the forbidden upper levels (Success 3), configure the platform to reach Nimozaran the Green's Penthouse Chambers and make the transit (Success 7), resolve the conflict at...

UPDATES SARIEL The elder member of Fallcrest Infantry nearly lost his life in the battle with the Dark Feygrove Tree. The old man staggers over to Sariel as he unfastens his leather jerkin and pulls it over his head. "My fighting dies are over...long past me in fact. I wore this through...

Complexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20) Goal (Staged): Gain entrance to The Septarch's Tower Clockwork Platform to ascend to the forbidden upper levels (Success 3), configure the platform to reach Nimozaran the Green's Penthouse Chambers and make the transit (Success 7), resolve the conflict at...

Complexity 1 SC, Level 4 (DCs 10/14) RESOLVED Goal (Staged): Stealthily scale the crag of The Bluffs and ambush the dairy trader caravan as they ascend the pack animal trail. XP/LOOT * Skill Challenge 175/3 += 58 xp apiece. * Lief Minor Quest (confront dairy trader and sellsword) Completed...

@Grendel_Khan , you've expressed you want to stalk and slay the sellsword and the dairy trader. See below. The moment the violent, supernatural conflict with the tree and its undeadspawn resolves, LEIF rushes off, trailing the distant sellsword rider and ranch-hands/dogs as they corral the...

Complexity 1 SC, Level 16 (DCs 16/22) Goal: Escape the pursuit of Vezzuvu, the Primordial's remaining forces, and Nerull's Aspect, surfacing in the saved Bantouk! 3/4 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/1 Secondary Skill Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Athletics, Endurance...

Posting for @Grendel_Khan LEIF breaks into a run, his ears twitching toward the boy’s cries, charging on all fours as he nears the Dark Feygrove tree. He bounds from branch to branch, higher up the dead thing until he smells fear—Elijah’s sour sweat. Lief closes his eyes and lunges where the...

Posting for @AbdulAlhazred STARN recognizes this tree from an illustration in an ancient book he, typical Starn, was reading on the sly because Master Nimozaran had restricted it. When Fallcrest was founded, there were dark deeds done under this tree, best forgotten. Among the humans and the...

Complexity 2 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20) Goal (Staged): Investigate the dark influence on the Market Green (i), force it to reveal itself (ii), banish it or destroy it (iii), and save Elijah from its clutches (iv). (iii-iv) being a nested conflict to resolve. 2/6 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC...

Complexity 1 SC, Level 16 (DCs 16/22) Goal: Escape the pursuit of Vezzuvu, the Primordial's remaining forces, and Nerull's Aspect, surfacing in the saved Bantouk! 2/4 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/1 Secondary Skill Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Athletics, Endurance...

It takes some creative interpretation to not read the above as a straightforward manual for Railroading101. There are multiple iterations (both contemporary and dating to 20+ years ago) of words and sentences to communicate to the GM (a) an anti-railroad ethos and (b) how to pull that off. The...

@AbdulAlhazred VIGNETTE OF EXPEDITION TO TOWER OF WAITING RUINS W/ GARRISON CAPTAIN EDMUNDS AND HER TROOPS FREE PLAY AT SILVER UNICORN INN EXTENDED REST/BOOKKEEPING As the other two socialize and plot, STARN begins to fiddle around with the remains of the constructs Sariel recovered...

But more seriously, I actually think this sort of project (where the system fights you) is a good idea because it can help you and the players focus on the fundamentals of GMing and playing a Story Now game. Those fundamentals of orientation of communication of discipline and constraint over...