Runic OA in The Dream Updated for, Like, the Second (9-11) Time in Ages!

[Rune]

The Runic Storyhour: An Oriental Adventure in The Dream

Allow me to post a brief excerpt:

Chunks of the rubbery creature slide down the walls as the Heroes creep forward, ever wary. Not a sound can be heard, save their own labored breath and rapid hearts. An intricately ornamented three-part screen, once shielding the stairway from view, is now tattered and lies in fragments on the floor.

The Heroes note that they can still feel the despair and hopeless nausea of the death-shift of The Dream. It has not subsided and, if anything, grows stronger as they approach the stairway. Nevertheless, they do approach the stairway, for what other options present themselves, at this point?

 

[Olive]

well thank ghod...

 

[Rune]

Does anybody even read this story hour anymore?

Horacio? Horacio? Anybody?

 

[Rune]

For anyone still intersted in this story hour, we're about to have a change of format (already do, actually) and a changing of the guard.

Only one of the original players is still in the game! The rest have moved away!

Also, we're not too far away from the Of Sound Mind storyarc, so watch for it, it's full of wuxia-goodness (we got two sessions of it in before summer!).

 

[Rune]

I was going to say something useful.

But, I ended up just bumping.

 

[Rune]

New update here!

Here's an excerpt:

The stairway twists ahead of the Heroes, visibly writhing; despite the Heroes' desperate attempt to remain grounded in reality, it is squirming away from them. Somewhere above--or below--them, the echoes of footsteps subtly dance through their heads.

Abruptly, the spiraling staircase opens up into a large room--far larger than the building that houses it--that trails off into darkness. A pale luminance plays on the walls; they are glowing softly in patterns vaguely reminiscent of tentacles.

Before they can move on, they distinctly hear the sounds of someone climbing the stairs behind them--in a hurry. They have no time to react before the entity is upon them.

Dashing Orcblood Croons faints with a short shriek.

 

[Rune]

Monkeys are funny.