Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons




And now the News...
In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today Morafans the Rickmaster, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, has issued guidelines for the “mauve plague” of crowned micro-psychonauts sweeping the borderlands this season. Hill Cantoners are advised to stay underground for extended periods of time preferably in small armed groups of 4-12 to avoid mauve plague infection.

Morafans also clarified a recent statement from Our Dear Overking Adaulf II that his people should “embrace chaos—we have the greatest chaos, the best chaos--and prepare for the End of All Things” as “poetic license that in fact means quite the opposite, all other interpretations are nuncupatory.” Construction of the Great Ziggarut will continue in order as part of the royal stimulus package.

Panic buying of white gravy and halushky has created severe shortages throughout the Cantons. Lady Draga, her most serene boyaress of Revoca Canton, is offering a cold hard cash bounty of 5,000 gold suns for the procurement of the Great Gravy Urn of Svat the Four-Faced from a nearly murderhole.

In equally important news “Little Szara”, the newly-arrived Marlinko high society bon vivant, has introduced mandiblar-bat frills into local fashion. Everyone who is anyone is wearing them, really darling.

7 comments:

  1. "In equally important news “Little Szara”, the newly-arrived Marlinko high society bon vivant, has introduced mandiblar-bat frills into local fashion. Everyone who is anyone is wearing them, really darling."

    ...has news of this newly arrived bon vivant reached locations like, say, King's Ten and the Feral Shore? Just asking out of curiosity, you understand.

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  2. Are the rumours that the tiny insignificant moon/dot/chariot in the sky called Satan Lite or Covid-666 has crashed to the ground, if it should be called the ground, in the Weird? AND is this the start of the New Weird Order? And more importantly are the giant's balls covered in suckers edible and if so should they be cooked first?

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  3. Chris,

    Are you guys still playing..? Curious to how the game is going.

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  4. And now for something completely different

    In this post http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2011/02/construction-rules-for-classic-d.html

    you mentioned revised rules for lovely modifiers and other crunchy tidbits of information.

    Are they still available somewhere?

    Thanks!

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  5. I hope you and your family are doing well. I was just talking to Keith Davies about our short Domain Level hexcrawl years ago. I think about that game a lot. It got me to purchase a Birthright set and fiddle with that. :D

    Anyway, have a good one. \m/

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  6. Where did you go? I miss the cantons and revoca!

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  7. Where you at? Hope things are ok.

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