Slumbering Ursine Dunes Omnibus
This has been in my serenity prayer zone. Do you remember when you used to download things from Windows and the blue bar would get stuck at 98 percent for hours? Yeah it’s like that and basically that last bit is the last revisions on layout and getting it print ready.
Kezmarok Novella
My first novella The Cerulean Vaults continues to take shape, with new scenes like ritual duels, dreamlike interludes, and intrigue-laden dinner parties. The draft manuscript (19,000 words) is actually done and in revisions of uncertain magnitude. The novella expands the ruined metropolis of Kezmarok layering in its surreal politics, decaying manses, and hostel-based social life. It might be a POS or it might be good, I can’t tell.
The Great Aviary Upper Works and Dungeon
The Great Aviary is now fully keyed across 42 rooms both the topside great domes Aviary and first level of the dungeon, from the great glass dome and vertical museum to the portal mural that opens into a pocket dimension. Maps in multiple styles and zine-format drafts are bringing it into playable, publishable shape. And lots and lots of weird birds.
The Underbridge
Hidden in the foundation stone of a bridge just outside Marlinko are strange vaults. A 12-room Hyperborean hall of ancient murals and horrible levitating tombs. A done short mini-dungeon.
Oiorpata and the War-Barge Contest
I have about 3000 words on an adventure. The western Amazon island of Oiorpata is detailed with its society of warrior women, helot crews, and the lavish Contest of the Barges. Rival teams, magical barge designs, scorecards, and Queen Hisfytla’s court make it a fully playable centerpiece.
Lady Nardja’s Manse
I have roughly 2000 words also on Lady Nardja’s manse out in the Marlinko Cantons backwoods, its velvet-draped master bedchamber and husbands’ hall of locked rooms still whispering of aristocratic excess. Polyandry as adventure site.
Temple of Habeka
The temple of Habeka the Celestial Lady stands in ruin, its eight chambers echoing with the disputes of her bandit-rebels and rival lodges—the Evening Star, Morning Star, and Starry Void. Adventurers find both divine relics and dangerous zealots within, caught between her chained star-myth and blood-rain vengeance.
NPCs and Shit
Wizardry in the Cantons now has factional depth with groups like the Invisible College, alongside a roster of named wizards with dual OSE/5e stat blocks. I’ve also written a number of top ten colorful NPC rosters for hirelings, prisons, wildernesses, hostels, and bathhouses. You’ve seen some of these.
If people want to glare at someone for the HCO delays, I am the appropriate recipient of ire, scorn, and slightly overripe beets.
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