[SH]New Runic Story Hour: Kingdoms of Kalamar in The Dream!

[Rune]

I've just started another campaign set in The Dream (the same Dream as the one featured in my sig), this time with the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting!

The first post to the corresponding story hour has been posted and I encourage you to check it out.

Here's an excerpt:

Today is autumn and leaves of gold and red and brown layer the harbor of Loona, even as trading vessels insist upon cutting through them. One smaller vessel is docked, likely for an indefinite period of time; it is a coastal trade-ship and in very poor condition, at that. Recently, it has changed hands. Its new owner heads toward it, but is still several blocks away when the two Fhokki pilgrims step aboard. Their attention is drawn to what looks to be a prepubescent boy, but is, fortunately for their purposes, actually a gnome. The gnome is wearing a false eye-patch over his left eye and an equally unconvincing hook over his right hand, presumably to look tough--a particularly difficult illusion to pull off while lingering aboard a long-loved ship with tears in his eye.

The old man mutters aloud a dubious inquiry as to whether or not the two Fhokki had finally found their "salty-tongued wee one."

By way of a response, the little fellow lets forth a string of obscenities unfit for the public ear, which include, but are not limited to, insults on the heritage of the two strangers? immediate family and ancestors, accusations of various types of sexually awkward exploits (both physically possible and most certainly not possible), and finally, a resounding denouncement of the two Fhokki men's personal character.

Dakken replies, "Yes, he's the one."

So drop by! Comment, if you like, or just browse, but above all, keep in mind that if you're having trouble wrapping your mind around The Dream, you're in good company!

 

[wsclark]

Hey Rune,

I caught this yesterday in the Story Hour Forum. I mentioned it over on the Kenzer Boards and there are a couple of people from there who will be checking it out. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.

 

[Rune]

Thanks! I also have high hopes for it, if I can manage the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting, which, lets face it, has a whole lot going on!

However, running my other campaign in The Dream has taught a few things, one of which is that, in order to run a surreal game successfully, you have to have a firm grounding in reality. Kalamar was a perfect match!

Hope you enjoy the tale, even as things get stranger...

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Rune,

Cool! Looking forward to checking it out!

Mark Plemmons
Kenzer and Company
www.kenzerco.com

 

[Rune]

Rune,

Cool! Looking forward to checking it out!

Mark Plemmons
Kenzer and Company
www.kenzerco.com

My greatest concern with running your setting has always been that I would not be a good enough DM to keep up with all of the events in Kingdoms of Kalamar, after I've set them into motion. I hope that I do the setting justice (and just maybe show all of the naysayers out there that they don't know what they're talking about when they accuse the setting of being dull ).

 

[Rune]

A bump in honor of Horacio's vacation.

 

[Rune]

Bump.

 

[Rune]

One final bump before my next game.