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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6117610" data-attributes="member: 55680">The Old WellHex 16.05Inspired by crackpot theorizing about A Song of Ice and Fire that I read on the westeros.org boards.The lies the ruin of an ancient well surrounded by what appears to be three caved-in clay ovens. Its shaft was dug when the High Kings of Gore (05.20) still ruled this far north and sinks down all the way into the Sunless Sea (18.10.01). Until the fall of the Verlimes (18.07), infants born during the Long Night (28.04), conceived during the Fight Night and any others that were unwanted were lowered carefully down into the well.Certain beings that live down in the waters of the Sunless Sea have grown impatient with the lack of infant offerings.Hooks:-What is the "First Night?" Is/was there a jus primae noctis or it it referring to something else?-What other children were send down the well?-This well isn't good to drink out of, is it?-What things took the infants? What did they do with them? What will they do now that they have grown impatient?-Why were these offerings given? Why was the practice of doing so stopped?From wikipedia:In the nineteenth century, many French people believed that several immoral rights existed in France during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime" target="_blank">Ancien Régime</a>, such as...the droit de prélassement (right of lounging; it was said that a lord had the right to disembowel his serfs to warm his feet in).The <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />?The DuelistAdditional information about hex 17.11Inspired by a character in an old campaign I ran who showed me that the Balance skill was a lot more powerful than I had thought.A dwarf of singular appearance named Droesh has recently arrived at Newhill. He-she has the sun-blacked skin of dwarves of the south (31.27), great golden bracers, a finger bone on a leather thong around his-her neck and a great spear. Droesh is exceptionally sure-footed and agile and often performs martial exercises by burying his-her spear in the ground and performing stretches while balanced on one foot on the other end.The finger bone that Droesh keeps around his-her neck is all that remains of his oath-bound lover who died some months past. Since then, the distraught dwarf has been seeking any excuse he-she can find to challenge strangers to duels in an attempt to gather enough money to pay for the resurrection of his-her lover.Droesh has already killed one of Abdul's best customers (05.04) and shaken down several burghers of Blind Midshotgatepool (26.20) for money in return for cancelling scheduled duels before being run out of town by the thieves guild (26.20.01). What Droesh usually does is allow his-her opponent to choose the duel's weapons if he-she is allowed the choose the place of the duel and then Droesh chooses locations such as on tightropes, on top of trees or on rooftops. A few of Droesh's opponents have fallen to their deaths before the sure-footed dwarf could lay hands on them.Hooks:-What gender is Droesh and his-her lover? Does it matter?-Who is Droesh planning to pay for the resurrection?-What sort of pretexts does Droesh use to challenge people to duels?-Who has Droesh fought so far?-Again with the finger bones? What's with all the finger bones?</blockquote>

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