[silly] Sell me your setting - in haiku!

WanderingMonster said:


Well, they're not technically disallowed...

The gods got drunk and fell into a bliss;
A slumber lasting for a thousand years.
A world sprang forth in their golden chalice
From divine wine and all their hopes and fears.
When they awoke they cheered with elation
As they beheld the world made from their dreams.
They called it the finest in creation,
But nothing in Chalice is as it seems.
Of monsters are the chosen people made:
Griffons, blink dogs, unicorns, and gorgons,
Pegasi, displacer beasts all arrayed.
If there is more to tell, it is lore gone
For mysteries abound when down is up
On a world than sits in a Golden Cup.

-- I am Bic Pentameter! :D

Wow! Nicely done! *golf clap*
 

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Worst - haiku - epic - ever!

In the beginning
Northern SkyShips maraud south
veiled by belker-mists.

Taverns breed heroes.
Isn't it always the way
a party is formed?

Rumours are spreading
a cult of the Reptile God.
Heroes intervene.

Archmage builds golems.
Heroes bump into Archmage.
Bard bluffs his butt off.

Heroes look for help.
Mercenaries betray them.
Bard plans for revenge.

Disguised bard joins mercs,
Charming their female captain,
Archmage's henchgirl.

Archmage greets lovers
They tour the Archmage's lair.
Golems multiply.

The Lizard King stirs.
Our heroes investigate.
Twisted love goes on.

Dragons and romance -
a poor mix brings tragedy.
Bard mopes gothicly.

With great vengeance and
furious anger, heroes slay
the Lizard King - yay!

Their joy is short-lived.
Master Strahd lures heroes,
hooked by lost love's call.

Heroes torn between
Ravenlofts past and future,
Madness, confusion.

In the past, failure.
Bright future dimmed only
by love's fading ghost.

Returning to Mists,
They gain a Skyship.
The golem ranks swell.

Bard hires paladin,
seeking someone to inspire
hope within himself.

Ninjas teaparty!
Stolen ship beached in the sands
of Desolation.

Stuck in the desert,
the heroes free evil fire -
it was the bard's fault.

Wracked by guilt and doubt,
the heroes seek salvation:
Atmopryeetno!

The desert sands quake,
burnt by fire, battered by ice.
Martek's tomb holds hope.

Twisted by decay,
Martek restores and betrays.
The desert will heal.

The tale continues,
coming to a Story Hour
eventually...
 


Current homebrew:

Past Calamity
Results in melded eras
Past, future and now

The greatest gods- mad!
But the worst of them are trapped
Relative Peace reigns

Now the worst are free
And none can stop them except
Those they once trusted

But can new heroes
Be made from past fiends or will
Dark temptation win?
 

Birthright: the gods died.
You inherit their power
And rule as a king.

Some bad men did, too;
Became monsters of legend-
Tainted by dark blood.

The empire fell,
Squabbling nobles fortify,
The puissant win.
 
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Demon-Haunted Earth Again!

There once was an Empire of Men,
Whose power is far past our ken;
  But from King down to peasant,
  Happened Something Unpleasant,
and all fear It might happen again...

-- Nifft
 


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