Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Monsters
-
Today I heard from far-flung shores of the death of my first cat, Grandmaster Flash, aka Flashy Boy, Nemesis of Rockmelons, Master of the Cushions, and Squeaking Death. His exact date of birth is not known (I did not keep a diary then, and was drunk), but 6 weeks before I found him the skies…
-
Today while looking up a picture of a Tarrasque I found this entertaining and excellent post on how to kill a Tarrasque (hat tip to the blogger at cataloguing shadows). This Tarrasque-slaying thought experiment has some really excellent ideas about how to do it – my favourite is the plan to create simulacra of the…
-
Be careful going outside in London, there’s foreigners everywhere There are millions of undocumented asylum seekers in this country Maybe you didn’t feel welcome in London because they don’t want more foreigners there? Once David Cameron’s elected, them blacks’ll get what’s comin’ to ‘em Your new girlfriend’s not aboriginal is she? You’re not English, you’re…
-
In (my) final session of the Iron Kingdoms campaign, our heroes find themselves captive in the very underground complex they had come to explore. In this report I will describe the events leading up to Carlass’s death and final sacrifice. This isn’t the last session of the Iron Kingdoms campaign – I think there were…
-
[Note: this adventure report is rather old, but is precursor material for the death of my character, described here]. When we last viewed our heroes’ progress, they had stumbled on hints of a secret, evil collaboration between the Cygnaran navy and the undead rulers of Cryx. However, they had no time to further explore this…
-
Many people have pondered the real reasons for the Iraq war, the stated reasons being so blatantly false. Most critics have claimed it was a war for oil; some have suggested it was a stupid mistake by a clique of idiots; others have proposed the darker conspiracy theory that it was intended to unleash chaos…
-
In stillness a silent weight Pausing as the minutes each evaporate A desire to leave a scar To raise a voice from within the dark Decaying, cascading, existence falls apart Around me, within me So I must leave my mark This is a sacrifice To prove that I was here This is a sacrifice To…
-
Yesterday my group began a three month long Iron Kingdoms (IK) campaign. We’re starting off on a small ship called El Pollo Diablo (The Devil Chicken), with piracy and mayhem to follow. We are not yet a fully-functioning party, having only joined together under duress: some of us were captives on a slave ship, saved…
-
The murderer was clearly in the volcano. Our heroes, having been asked to go and find him, set off up the mountainside to the location of his victim, from whence they hoped to track him. Now they were joined by Grunstein the wizard, who had travelled ahead to Steamline Spa on his own business. The…
-
Today I visited Meiji Jingu to attend one of the stranger rituals I have seen in Japan: the Doll Appreciation Ceremony (oningyo kanshasai,お人形感謝祭). This ceremony takes place once a year under the sponsorship of the Doll Appreciation Society, and is held to venerate those dolls that are being passed out of use. The information we…
Compromise and Conceit 