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dailyadventureprompts · 15 hours

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Dungeon: Grandfather's Hungering Maw

Said to have been carved by an exiled dwarven king after his name and ignominious deeds were stricken from the records of his clan, this brooding edifice contains a darkness far deeper than any normal glacial cave.

The dungeon's name comes from a settlement in the foothills, with a mostly human population ignorant of the monument's dwarven origins. In their myths the face is infact that of a great giant, tricked by the folkhero founder of their village into staying very, very still while he was served a great feast, growing so spoiled and indolent that he was eventually buried by the mountain snow and froze solid. A recent series of avalanches that've buried paths and even destroyed homesteads have put it into people's heads that grandfather might be waking up.

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A merchant caravan the party is riding along with takes a detour up into the highlands, following rumours of a village that's paying a premium for foodstuffs of late. Upon arrival they're strongarmed out of their cargo by a crowd of armed villagers, who heap the provisions on an overburned yak cart set to depart up the mountain on the next day. Fear of the giant has made some of the villagers turn into a panicked mob, emptying the granaries and raiding their neighbour's larders to supply ever larger and hastier "tribute" runs up to the mountain's mouth. Food is growing scarce in the village, and those with the foresight to worry about winter provisions dare not speak up: An old woman was accidentally killed trying to fend off the toughs uprooting her garden, and her still warm body was piled into the yak cart next to her unripe rutabagas.

Seeking the power of her infamous ancestor, a disfavoured daughter of the dwarven throne has ventured to the Maw with a group of sellswords in tow in the hopes of discovering the means of making herself queen. Down into the mountain's gullet they've found a great labyrinth, hewn over centuries by the still shuffling corpse of the nameless king, unable to fully rest until he has constructed a tomb worthy of his hubris. The would be ruler and her entourage are eating well thanks to the unsuspecting villagers' food deliveries, and have a few agents in town helping the process along while they continue their delve.

There's more than a stone worn skeleton and a few fortune hunters inhabiting the depths. A millennia ago Ahlkenahl the Vanquisher was a feared demon of war, thought invincible before the dwarven king forged a ring with the fiend's true name inscribed upon it and forced the Vanquisher to pledge an oath of eternal servitude. Driven into exile along with his mortal captor, Ahlkenahl has resentfully laboured alongside the king as he descended into witless undeath, even centuries after the ring was lost somewhere in the tomb along with the chipped fingerbone it rested on. The demon's occasional demolition filled bouts of rage cause the avalanches on the mountain's exterior, and they've only grown more frequent as he's attempted to stop the Heir and her underlings from finding the ring.

It's a three way race between the players, the dwarven heir, and the fiend to see who can find the ring first, having to not only battle eachother, but subterranean monsters, collapsing tunnels, and freezing glacier caverns along the way. Of course Ahlkenahl doesn't play fair, as the fiend can revive any body that finds its way into the Hungering Maw (such as dead villagers loaded on the Yak cart or slain sellswords) into undead minions, growing in strength as the situation becomes more desperate. The fiend can even send the undead down into the valley to do his bidding, chasing after whichever group managed to get the ring first or even go on a murder-filled supply run to bring back more bodies.

Simply getting the ring isn't enough to control Ahlhenahl, as the war-demon's true name is written in an infernal script that must be researched before it can be understood and spoken aloud. This gives the party a chance to catch up if the heir makes it out of the labyrinth with the prize and vice versa. It likewise gives Ahlkenahl's undead minions time to become a real threat both in number and as he deliberately creates more fearsome versions.

The Vanquisher can freely communicate with anyone holding the ring, an ability originally intended to allow the exiled king to command his bound demon in the field which now allows Ahlkenahl to whisper temptation into the ear of whoever holds it. Think of what he could do for them if they let him out of the labyrinth, the enemies he could slay, the kingdom he could carve on their behalf. Sure it would mean unleashing a walking massacre on the landscape but what's a little carnage between pactmates?

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#mountain #dungeon #dwarf #mountain dungeon #caravan #fiend #demon #highlands #mid level #low level #undead

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backroad-life · 2 months

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its-where-the-wild-things-are · 3 months

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#caravan

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opashoo · 7 months

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OCtober 2023: Shou, the Hidden Right Hand

A disillusioned fortune teller, scholar, and mystic, studied in old poems and proverbs. Their absent-minded demeanor belies a dangerous cunning and supernatural foresight with which they have cut down empires. Agent to a mysterious benefactor known only as "The Director".

Shou is nonbinary transfem (they/them)

The non-english text is in Caravan, a conlang I've been working on for about two years now. It reads from right to left:

"Hafii tokshj an, sa ejvo sheta-yjramea no / an im hafigaa eta shehn lumateh mu goro hjkkj."

There are monsters in the mountain, and we would seek shelter [from them] but / we will not find rest in the valleys.

EDIT: So I'm really indecisive and decided I really liked a dark background and no white outline, so I've replaced the original with that version. The original is below.

#OCtober #shou #kobold #transfem #nonbinary #amelieverse #pf2e #in pathfinder they are an #investigator #archaeologist #dnd #my art #Caravan #conlang #For those who have been there since the beginning of shou this is in fact their second redesign #trans

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intheblackofmyroom · 8 months

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prog fans that are still alive this is for you

#prog rock #progressive rock #pink floyd #yes band #genesis #van der graaf generator #rush #camel band #caravan #gentle giant #emerson lake and palmer #king crimson #jethro tull #too many bands to tag

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trailerite · 11 months

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#trailerite.net #caravan #house #trailerite #australia #architecture #bungalow #lifestyle #trailerite.nettrailerite.nettrailerite.net

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scheunensohn · 7 months

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You died by my side but it never felt right

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collageofnudes · 10 days

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Mikayla Demaiter

#mikayla demaiter #caravan #grey bed

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ozgur-ce · 3 months

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Çok bir şey istemiyorum hayattan, videodaki görülenler işte, minik bir karavan minibüs (turuncu hem de 😅) bi tutam sevgi, sevgi olunca huzur, huzur olunca sağlık, sağlık olunca keyif, neşe falan kendiliğinden gelir zaten...

Var bi' hayalimiz... 🧡

Peki sizin var mı bi hayaliniz?

#karavan #karavandayaşamak #doğa #nature #caravan #positivity #love #hope #var bir hayalimiz #dreams #landscape

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fliegenengel · 4 months

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Flowers are the things we grow, but my uncle doesn’t treat me so

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grendel-menz · 6 months

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going though hell with the people you love

#art #my art #digital art #character design #samir caravan #argeaux caravan #caravan podcast #caravan #audiodrama

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jacky93sims · 1 year

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Campervan with TV Projector Functional for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from Cowbuild, 20k poly. This object is a functional tv based on Elaine's Enchanted Picture Television (read the original post for info). At night lights are brighter. Found in electronics-tv in buy mode for 10.000 simoleon

DOWNLOAD HERE

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one-time-i-dreamt · 5 months

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I was at a campground with a bunch of tents and caravans and stuff. I apparently had this unfriendly rivalry with The Killers (the rock band). I have no idea what they look like irl, but dream me knew that this random group of guys were The Killers.

Anyway, partway through the dream, some unknown person had egged all the caravans in the park. A random old man came up to me and told me that The Killers and I needed to stop fighting and work together to find out who threw eggs at everything. Somehow, we put our rivalry on hold and agreed to help each other figure out what happened.

#dream #text #November 28th 2023 #campground #the killers #band #rock #music #tent #caravan #camp #rivalry #fighting #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

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jesawyer · 5 months

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Hey Josh,

So I’m trying to get all the achievements in New Vegas but two of the achievements I need are the caravan achievements.

Can you give me any advice to win caravan?

Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving this is the one F:NV question I'll answer this season.

This is probably the best guide I've seen:

IMO the short version is that 10s, 8s, and 6s are the most important numbered cards to have in your decks. Kings and jacks are also valuable: kings to double (or triple, or quadruple) the value of a card (or your opponent's), jacks to remove a card.

Queens and jokers have their place, but are more situational and usually the AI doesn't demand their use. When we were playtesting Caravan in 1:1 IRL games, they came up more often.

#fallout new vegas #caravan

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ginger-by-the-sea · 3 months

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#travel #camper?#caravan

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aclickbaittitle · 4 months

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*Which of this mediums IS more queer tm for you?

Please reblog for a bigger sample and put in the tags why.

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