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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6181717" data-attributes="member: 55680">On September 28th, I'll be kicking off the dwarf fortress campaign at the World's Edge using Labyrinth Lord rules. Should be fun. If the campaign has legs, that corner of the world should get more developed.These two draw inspiration from my students and from the plant article in the 2011 Secret Santicore.The Fish of AngzenHex 32.21 Here in the Keening Sea floats the great rotting corpse of the Fish of Angzen. It has been dead for at least a century, when it nearly washed ashore at the City of Shuttered Windows and its great stench kept most of the City indoors for a whole week until it was towed out to sea. The smell of the great fish is as foul as ever and its putrefaction has gone far enough that enough of its flesh has decomposed into soil to allow a small stand of trees to sprout from its back. On these trees grow a parasitical vine known as the Hair of Angzen, that if brewed into a tea allows the imbiber to see the true nature of things: invisibility falls away, illusions are made clear and some say that the faces of gods are made plain. But perhaps it is better for us to keep our illusions for drinking this brew often results in convulsions, panic attacks and even catatonia. Generally the fish of the Keening Sea stay far away but various parasites feast on its decaying flesh and a small band of degenerate octoids cling to its underside. But the great wonder of the fish is its great emerald eye, a great gem the size of a cart wheel. Strangely enough, no one has ever removed it, even though a jewel that side would surely fetch a princely price. Connection:-The Princess of Seers relies heavily the Hair of Angzen to be able to communicate with the ghosts of the White Road (23.11).Hooks:-Who or what was (is?) Angzen?-How did this enormous fish get here? How did it die?-Why is it so dangerous to see the true nature of things?-What can you tell me about the octoids who live here?-Why has the emerald eye never been removed and sold? The people of these lands are hardly known for their lack of greed. The Spears of the DawnHex 50.22 In these lands it rains but once a year but the plants do not go without water. Here in the Burning Lands, great icicles known as the spears of the dawn often fall, generally in the early morning. The gnolls that live here know the warning signs and are careful to avoid the spears, but many unwary travelers have been impaled by them. The spears also play an important role in the life cycle of the moon nut, bursting open its seedpods and watering its young shoots. These shoots can be boiled down and used as the base for surprisingly effective perfumes but actually eating the flesh of the moon nuts is exceptionally foolish as the scent of those who eat it is subtly changed so that they come to smell incredibly delicious to all lycanthropes. Connection:-One of the factions in Ettin Castle (13.06) has gotten their hands on a tub of moon nut perfume, thinking that with the ettins having so many noses they would be especially vulnerable to the effectiveness of the perfume. But which faction? And just what is being plotted?Hooks:-What other strange forms of precipitation are there in these lands?-What’s so effective about the perfume?-What lycanthrope are about to attack those who eat the moon nuts? Just the were-jackals? In order for plants to survive despite it raining once a year I’m imagining lots of snow-fled streams, heavy morning dew, fog so thick that plants wave their roots in it and drink it down and stranger things... But generally being mist-shrouded is a look that I like.</blockquote>

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