Out of Character

Aww shucks - you’ll all make me blush. Well, all except optimumsquare and their dice - they’ll make me duck.

Is anyone else excited? Mourning town? Dead children[1]? I smell a spooky setup.

What do you reckon? Zombies or ghosts? I hope they're not zombies. Helping dead children pass over is much more rewarding than bashing in their skulls with 3d6 sneak attack.

[1] Obviously I'm not excited by dead children. I just mean that they add pathos, and I'm pretty sure they're Chekhov's dead children.

ShrodingersChildren :D

I'm thinking mass suggestion but from what it sounds like theres been nothing like that since then and /or no additional disappearances. However, i bet that the dried creek may have stemmed from some tainting of that.

Ah, but you’re forgetting the prophesy (that I’ve just made up):
These children sleep, their dreaming done
‘til wingless dragon flies to mournington


Now Hehsh has arrived it’ll all kick off.
Either that or we’ll wake up and have breakfast.

smooth, I approve :D

We best get Ruby a snack.


If they are zombie children then our Ȇͧ͂̏̓ͬat͐́̌̀̊̈ͦ͞ë̷́̑r̊̆̇̾ͤ̚̚ ͨͨͧͯ͗̃͐O͊́ͪ̔f͊ ̴ͭ̊̾̏Š͟o͊ͧͤu͑͗͗̅͂ͥļ̓͑͂͛s̒̏̌͊ will go hungry.

Nonsense, Ruby has a strong sense of respect for food and drink, that would be unethical.

I’m not entirely sure how the science of souls and life force works in d&d, but consuming someone’s very life force seems a tad unethical all by itself. Dunno. Do the eaten souls still pass over to their afterlife? Is it subsumed into you? Is life force different to soul, to spirit? A moment on the lips, an eternity in the screaming void of oblivion?

This raises too many questions, not least - do they taste like chicken? Perhaps you could update us with tasting notes.
Hobgoblin: leathery notes with hints of cedar and citrus, pairs well with Shiraz.

That night, dreams come. You don't remember them, only that you awake, freezing. Your rooms are ice cold, despite the coals glowing in the fireplaces. Your breath fogs and you feel it, a dark presence, there behind you! No. Outside? You look, your eyes drawn to the east.

Somewhere a woman screams, heartbreaking sorrow. And the echo of laughter in the night sky. A flicker of light on some hillside. Impossibly far away, it is just a tiny blur, but you know. How could you not? Albionii, the unicorn. It beckons.


Ideas?

Light to the east = morning.
Heartbreaking sorrow = mourning.

Albionii is giving me problems. I can’t see an anagram.
Albion is the old name for Britain, the suffix looks Latin.
Fortunately I went to the sort of school that taught Latin! Unfortunately I was rubbish at it. I’ve forgotten so much that even the Internet doesn’t help. The best I’ve got is "I was Britain (or possibly white)" - but I’m probably very wrong about that. Anyway - I suspect I’m overthinking that clue. Perhaps the DM just liked the name.

Laughter and dark presence? Generic evil?

Dunno.

I know our characters might not pick up on the clues (hence ooc), but if the DM is going to write clues then it’s kinda polite to try and use them.

Albionii is the name of a unicorn from the prior adventure. An old guru type role.

As some of you may know, I have been in a wheelchair for 3 years (well, you know, not 24/7, I get in bed as well)
Anyway, my wife is my caregiver and is going on a well deserved vacation and I am going in to respite care. The facility is awesome but the wifi is not. From the 11th to the 28th of this month my posting may be down. I will do my best to get at least one post a day in.

Best wishes

Hey man, you take care of yourself.
Take your dice, you never know, maybe you’ll find an IRL game at the facility.

Thanks for the 7 headses ups!

Okay. I’m really glad that I didn’t spend an hour looking for anagrams of "albionii the unicorn", it was probably closer to forty minutes.

hahaha i was just assuming he made it up. I dont recall seein any unicorn so far

but i could always be mistaken

As I posted in Absences, I'll move us along on Sunday.

I look forward to it. I hope you enjoy your convention.

Potions of healing are on page 150 of the players handbook. 50 gp

They heal for 2d4+2 hit points, one action to use

K. I'll update my sheet. I'm ready to continue the story