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24x02 Twiggy took notes as the group made a list of tasks. To save time, the group split up for the various tasks, and agreed to check in at various times during the day. Tavi sat down to write the letter to his family. Everyone else set out to post notices warning people off the bounty...

24x01 A breeze ruffled the torn jerkin of the beaten Questor at Tavi’s feet. The sun was rising. Staring at the Ehktian holy symbol hanging around the man’s neck, Tavi was sure he knew what was going on here . . . but he wasn’t ready to admit it, even to himself. “Should we take him back to...

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22x03 TWIGGY Twiggy awoke before dawn. It felt strange not to awaken Rose—but Rose had released her from that responsibility for the day. Dressing alone, in the dark, Twiggy felt the weight of the day and the solitary nature of her responsibility as heavily as ever. Go is a game of...

22x02 “Kiyari’s down!” —Kiyari’s naked!” “Perfidy?” “It means malfeasance.” “—cheating! It means cheating! Kiyari was cheating!” A cacaphony of voices surrounded Mena as she struggled to sit up. Kormick pushed his way into the ring. Brother Soburu was hot on his heels, followed...

22x01 Ehkt Ascendant Wind whistled through the bell tower of the Priesthood, carrying the echoes of the bells at the close of midnight services on the eve of Ehkt’s Judgment. Below, through an aura of highly repressed excitement, activity bustled as arenas and viewing stands arose across the...

21x03 WEEK 7 | MONDAY After Dawn prayers, Savina returned to her bedroom, opened the screen, and watched the day turn from pink to blue as the sun began to bathe the crater city. Two months here, and she had become part of Cauldron’s high society; she would soon meet Lady Funaki Chinatsu, the...

21x02 WEEK 6 | MONDAY Arden sat with a few other servants on a narrow bench near the entrance to the kitchen and watched Savina move among the partygoers. Savina had found her niche, it seemed: listening to the daily crises of Cauldron’s gentlepeople. The Blessed Daughter had even become...

21x01 Lord Ono rushed past Twiggy, disturbing the acrid, fetid air on his way down the stairs into the dungeon, now strewn with the bodies of the black-clad intruders. Tidesmen, surely. Beyond that, they knew nothing: Who were the attackers? Whom did they report to? How did they know to...

Obviously, your son is a budding GM. I am shocked. Shocked.

Thanks, Seonaid! And ooh, Rughat, that's a great question, to which I don't know the answer. The original inhabitants of Bountiful were a tribe of Go'nah-li (that is, Old Ones) and so was the Sheh -- but I don't know whether they were the same tribe of Go'nah-li. Somehow I suspect not -- but...

And a DM's Note From Fajitas: As an example of the Skill Cascade mechanics at work, the information that Kormick obtained about Lady Mochizuki at the Inn of Teporary Respite opened up a new Skill Challenge in the Cascade: “Learn Go”. By learning to play Go, one PC could attempt to draw the...

19x02 On Sunday night, Nyoko lay awake on her mat at the Inn of Comfortable Repose, cataloguing the events of the last week in her mind and dreaming, ever so slightly, of the dormitories in the Adept House. Here at the Inn, the others had turned in for the evening. The Adept House would still...

19x01 “So,” Kormick began, “last night’s service. That was a bit more. . . rape-y than I expected.” A warm morning breeze ruffled the window-silks of the sitting room at the Inn of Comfortable Repose, carrying with it the sulfurous aroma of Cauldron—what Nyoko thought of as the aroma of home...

Love it! And I look forward to the friendly dragon.

Thanks for the question, Rughat. This is one of those questions for which different PCs might give different answers, so I'll ramble on about it for a moment. As a matter of Halmae theology, angels are very different from gods. Gods are incorporeal divinities. As a result, angels are more...

17x03 Savina struggled to calm her horse as it reared back from the ice monster. The creature was the size of four men—or more—and as it roared and growled, its heavy breath coated the road with thick, reflective ice. It would be hard to get close—but then again, Savina did not want to get...

17x02 It feels good to be the ambusher, for a change, Kormick mused, as the party crept silently toward the ridge. Familiar. Like coming home. He took the lay of the land: they were on one side of a canyon, which flanked the road with steep rocky cliffs. Between the party and the cliff...

17x01 -lesta! Chelesta! Chelesta! Chelesta! Twiggy felt the tingle of a late-spring breeze on her face as the world oozed back into her consciousness. The sun was hot, but her skin cool. The ground rocked and wobbled below her. Blood rushed in her ears. Acorn’s panicked voice rang in her...

Thanks so much, DaveBeth! It's so gratifying to hear that people are enjoying our story -- we are sure enjoying the process of playing and writing!