'Don't forget to tick your skill for a successful check, sir.' 'You don't need to call me 'sir' all the time. That's a bit weird.' 'I'm just trying to stay in character, sir.' '...whilst talking about my character sheet? It's an interesting choice.'
'As you continue through the forest, looking for a suitable place to camp for the night, you begin to realise that the sun has been almost setting for the past hour.' 'That is rum. I check my watch.' 'It says its about sunset-time.' 'That's even more messed up.'
'You go to sleep normally, you wake up normally, and you have breakfast normally. In fact, everything seems particularly normal, except—' 'Particularly normal? What's peculiar is just how damned normal everything is!'
Whilst exploring some ruins, looking for traces of an expedition that went missing some months ago, we encounter an ageing witch doctor tailing us. We confront him, and he turns out to be mostly friendly. He tells us that the expedition had indeed come this way, and left. That's a starting point. After buying a […]