Screenshot of our delve tonight, going into the Chernobog Death Cave (tm).
Screenshot of our delve tonight, going into the Chernobog Death Cave (tm).
Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being).
Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
also the Veles bull cave it turns out
ReplyDeleteSounds cool, is twidla still the only game in town for easy hangout mapping on the fly? Seems like others would emerge.
ReplyDeleteScott Mob I don't know that it's the only game in town, it's just the one we've stuck with from familiarity.
ReplyDeleteQuick map notes:
ReplyDelete1. Switchback trail descending into cave, with 8 or so dead Pohaskan soldiers scattered across (throats slit). Blue globes similar to those of Cerulean Vaults set into ceiling. Rhythmic white-noise sounds.
2. Antechamber with shallow pool of water to the north, two paths. Northern path (minimal working, but still used) has fainter, deeper white-noise sounds. Southern path (more developed) the sounds are clearer.
3. Chamber w/ two long pools of water. Two square columns with four demonic faces looking in cardinal directions. Blast lightning bolts when trying to cross room. On other side of room, spikey door with small copper bowl on gravel pile next to it. Bowl has blood offerings; when blood dropped into bowl, "vague grinding" from center of room. Suspect trap disarmed (short term) but unwilling to test empirically. Bowl was very heavy when Taurus took it from room.
4. Room beyond had big white limestone statue of bull/aurochs, feeling and association similar to Veles.