Apollon mountain peak sundial fane
Thousands of worn granite steps (4,732) wind round westerly the mountain leading ever steeper to its summit, the base and the apex terminus of the case of stairs on the north face. With seven gold flecked stairs the ascent begins, finding a similar set of seven stairs every several hundred steps (357), eleven more times this pattern repeats (6 total sets are lower then 6 sets higher with a set of golden stairs lacking midway on the south face, a gap of 721 plain grey steps).

Upon attaining the heights facing south, the very pinnacle a sheared granite table 150' in diameter. Dominating the center of the tangential vertex of twelve faded golden circles stabs a translucent white conical spire of unknown material, 7' at the base rising 84'.
Hellenic Greek (Hyperborean nearest dialect) in weathered gold script set in the hewn-smooth stone, betwixt the intersections of gyres, twelve of the thirteen esoteric years (sans the 7th) circuit the middle with Apollo round the outer bands.

{I'll key this once my crew checks it out first...}

Last edited by Monkeydono (2/12/2019 11:52 pm)

lige wrote:

Love the cave goat!

 Haha! Thanks!!
Forgot I mixed that critter together late last night (even forgot to add it to the other local mountain random encounter chart for (from?) which it was born!) until you mentioned it!

Monkeydono wrote:

I believe everything is as ready as it can be for my crew...until we start gaming tomorrow and they decide to trailblaze somewhere I haven't given a spark of thought (as they did last week when midway through the Brittlestone Parapets they about-faced and trekked toward the mountaintop fane, ingrates!)....

Typical!

You're back! Huzzah!

Monkeydono wrote:

...after too two many moons, our fair to middling heroes have once again found themselves on the nearby slopes headed back to the sundial fane of Apollo, hopefully in time to celebrate the approaching Apollonalia...
The string of encounters they, and I, have rolled has made for a great wilderness trek!
In the last couple of days of game-calendar that took place tonight:
-Having tracked Formorians to their mound the party retreated to prepare
-Rested, then on the way to the hill giants, they first avoided a feeding chimæra only then to cross a simi-glaciated field to have 5 Elder things erupt from an ice pocket to ruin their day
-On the return to their cave to lick their wounds for the day, they were snuffed upon by 4 good ol’ trolls
-After a second rare night without incident, they duck an overflying griffin on the trail back to the mound
[quickly dicing a supermini dungeon for the giants from ye ol’ DMG only to roll two 20s in a row, 20 being an encounter, first rolled up a Man of Leng, then to see what might be with it, or possibly separate, waiting for the party if and when they win then exit the mound, lo and behold! rolled up harpies - yay! what a fun team for everyone!]
-they fight 8 Formorians and their chief and, surprisingly, do a tidy job on the giants while sticking to then adapting their plan! The heroes seem to be learning and improving, weird - I’ll need to monitor them for other unusual behavior, they might be up to no-no-good...

Awesome! Love all the random encounters (formorians are great too). Laughing out loud at "learning and improving, weird." Haha!

How long did you spend dicing up the supermini dungeon? How many rooms was it? Care to post a pic?

monkeydono wrote:

We had to call it at that point before there was time to search...then once they leave will begin all of  the singing, and the singing leads to the dancing, and the dancing leads to the topless dancing, and then it’s off to the races...!!!
See y’all in the funny pages!

Haha!

gizmomathboy wrote:

You're back! Huzzah!

Hiya Joe!
I’ve always been about and using this as a reference when needed...
But we’ve done some of the Diamond Desert[so plz no-talk about it here, thanks!]

Chainsaw wrote:

Monkeydono wrote:

...after too two many moons, our fair to middling heroes have once again found themselves on the nearby slopes headed back to the sundial fane of Apollo, hopefully in time to celebrate the approaching Apollonalia...
The string of encounters they, and I, have rolled has made for a great wilderness trek!
In the last couple of days of game-calendar that took place tonight:
-Having tracked Formorians to their mound the party retreated to prepare
-Rested, then on the way to the hill giants, they first avoided a feeding chimæra only then to cross a simi-glaciated field to have 5 Elder things erupt from an ice pocket to ruin their day
-On the return to their cave to lick their wounds for the day, they were snuffed upon by 4 good ol’ trolls
-After a second rare night without incident, they duck an overflying griffin on the trail back to the mound
[quickly dicing a supermini dungeon for the giants from ye ol’ DMG only to roll two 20s in a row, 20 being an encounter, first rolled up a Man of Leng, then to see what might be with it, or possibly separate, waiting for the party if and when they win then exit the mound, lo and behold! rolled up harpies - yay! what a fun team for everyone!]
-they fight 8 Formorians and their chief and, surprisingly, do a tidy job on the giants while sticking to then adapting their plan! The heroes seem to be learning and improving, weird - I’ll need to monitor them for other unusual behavior, they might be up to no-no-good...

Awesome! Love all the random encounters (formorians are great too). Laughing out loud at "learning and improving, weird." Haha!

Indeed, brave new world, I’ll give em’ another week or three to regress...

chainsaw wrote:

How long did you spend dicing up the supermini dungeon? How many rooms was it? Care to post a pic?

TinyPicts (or Orcweb) hates me so can’t upload a pic atm...
It was about 16-20 rolls for the shortened dungeon then all the roll for stocking a giant lair...(stuff PCs wouldn’t understand...) so about five minutes...!
Time to get even with the PCs...

Chainsaw wrote:

monkeydono wrote:

We had to call it at that point before there was time to search...then once they leave will begin all of  the singing, and the singing leads to the dancing, and the dancing leads to the topless dancing, and then it’s off to the races...!!!
See y’all in the funny pages!

Haha!

Hey Chainsaw! How’s your cullings., er, gamings going?

Last edited by Monkeydono (12/10/2018 2:14 am)

Ugh, if it seemed I was dicing on the Drunken Debauchery tables in those responses, I was, sorry. Suddenly, distractions abounded...

Our crew has had a great run since these starting adventures (after Rats! run by another).
First was Ghost ship, I ran Calencia for Bealltainn then a third guy ran the rest (and since we will probably go back to explore more in the future, please no spoilers).
Upon return to Khromarium only to find the Eel and the surrounding buildings quarantined due to an extreme rat infestation that they are required to clean up or face fines and/or imprisonment. So they clear out a fully stocked wererat lair handily to reclaim their basement abode in the Eel.
Then on to the Sightless Serpent which was a fairly quick affair for them...at least I petrified one of them!
On their return, I made them fight Xxubleks, with the innkeeper so happy to see them so they can take care of the ooze bubbling up in the sub basement...
On their ascent on the other side of the pocket dimensions, they exit into the basement of a local gang/thieves guild cell, slap the snot out of the dozen having a meeting...
Takes the thieves about a month to track them then a week or two to wait for the right time and place then try to kill jus over half of them (the fewest that they see them at), the party, surprisingly, fully survives that fight with an opening assassin attempt and multiple poisings!
At this point the party has a rep so most mundane city encounters are moot...
Plutonia happens and they mostly hide, rrrr...
Monk talks to an Archæopteryx that flies in to the Eel, starts to nest there and peeps start calling the joint the Cock-N-Eel.
After nearly a year of game-calendar, they return to the Hut Top & Dock-fort region with new info they have studied and learned to finish the two low lvl modules, which they did.
Now they’re on the snow-choked slopes of the penultimate mount before the one capped with the Sundial fane to Apollo...and the approach of Apollonallia...!!!

I’ll post the deets in that later...

[new add:]
Also, to test out a potential cast of henchmen, we ran a crew of 1st lvls up to the Black Moss-Hag to pay her a discreet visit before dealing with your odd Roman degenerate, which was right before they all set oar and sail for Dock-fort and Hut Top.

Last edited by Monkeydono (12/11/2018 10:09 pm)

(one of the best children’s books I’ve seen)
Weapons: music and merrymaking!

Last edited by Monkeydono (12/21/2018 10:40 pm)

Interesting tome, Monkeydono:  what is it?  Echidna is a favorite Greek figure of mine!

Allan.