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TwilightKing
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The Savage Tide
Savage Tide Campaign, continued from the OG myth-weavers site: https://www.myth-weavers.com/game.php?g=13075- Pathfinder 1e
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mildly_competent
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The Sea of Swords
The Sea of Swords
Era of Upheaval
1364 DR - Year of the Wave
Located along the Sword Coast, including the port city of Waterdeep, the Sea of Swords is part of the Trackless Sea that covers the western side of Faerun. It harbors trecherous storms and chill weather that blows from the north. It is also home to the Moonshea Isles, the Northlander Isles and the dreaded Nelander Isles to the south. Many ships navigate the sea ways for trade along the Sword Coast from Amn in the south to Luskan in the north.
Passage may also be sought to the Moonshea Isles, who some claim to be the jewel of the Sea of Swords, where mines produce a rose gold found no where else on Faerun. It has been ruled by a dynasty of Kings who maintain relative peace and stability and thrive on trade with the mainland. Between the Moonshea Isles and the dreaded pirate Nelander Isles to the south, is the underwater kingdom of the Sea Elves. Not many ships are brave enough to sail it's waters from fear of Ship attack by the bloodthirsty Nelander pirates or undersea raids from the Sea Elves.
This is a land and sea adventure for heroes of Faerun who find themselves in Waterdeep during a year of drought. Times are harsh in the port city as political unrest, heat, shortages of food and water cause chaos. Monsters plague the countryside as drought takes it's toll. Trade prices have also skyrocketed lately.
At a portside tavern in Waterdeep a notorious pirate's bosun has been spotted setting up shop, and the word on the street is tonight he's recruiting for ship hands, with a gold coin and a free mug of ale as a down payment for any who sign up as crew. Alternatively paying passengers may also be an option to go somewhere for a price.
- D&D 5e
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DarkAngel
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- D&D 5e
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SirLoganofGilead
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- D&D 5e
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TheWordWeaver
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- Fate: Core
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Butchern
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- D&D 3.5e
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Chaz Hoosier
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The Shattered Obelisk
Original art by DZO
- D&D 5e
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TricksterArcane
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- Shadowrun 4e
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Driftglass
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- D&D 5e
- closes December 31
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Hiram Claibourne
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- Worlds Without Number
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SerakHawk
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- Dresden Files
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Josh
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The Starfire Protocol
The world is threatened, and it falls upon the shoulders of four random citizens of Golarion to secure her destiny!
- Pathfinder 1e
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Sovereign Sojourn
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The Suicide Squad - Bite the Curb
You used to be a supervillain.
I mean, you still are, but you used to be one too. A mad scientist, mercenary, metahuman, whatever - you used your powers for personal gain, and you got caught. The Big Blue Boy Scout, The Bat, The Amazon if you were worth it- or maybe fucking Bouncing Boy or Matter Eater Lad brought you in. Either way, you got caught; they locked you in a hole and threw away the hole.
Belle Reve is the worst prison on Earth. Life is hell, and it's a slow hell at that. But one day, you got an offer - just a simple little job, and they'll shave a few years off your sentence. After all, they can't ask Superman to destabilize a foreign power, right? There would be Hell to pay, and down that road lies a metahuman arms race that will only end one way - a superpowered boot on the neck of the human race, forever.
So instead, they have you - the blackest of Black Ops. Task Force X. That's what your handler insists on calling your little team. But that's not what everyone else call you...
Welcome to the Suicide Squad.
Character Creation
I have a collection if premade villains, which might be useful depending on how quick we go through characters! Players are also free to create their own supervillains (either existing ones, or their own creations).
We'll be using a homebrew system based on an old hack of the Ghostbusters RPG - I'll post the system and the sample characters up in their own thread shortly.
Setting Notes
Superhero universes can be big and difficult to pin down. They are like the world we live in, until they aren't. The Big Two have always had different approaches to this; Marvel focused on "The World Outside Your Window", where heroes operated out of New York City and could find themselves fighting actual real-world "bad guys", whereas DC was always more of a "secondary world" approach - things were different, and always had been. The heroes were based out of two separate "capital cities" - Metropolis was New York by day, while Gotham was New York by night.
In saying that, Marvel has massive changes like the Savage Land existing in the Antarctic, while DC has real-world geopolitical tensions being reflected in their fictional countries (look up the history of Qurac, for instance), so there is a decent amount of overlap between the two styles.
But, writers will have these constructed worlds behave just like our own, even as reality-warping heroes have been around for generations; Gods are provably real and can be spoken to, yet Republicans still run on a Christian ticket. Science hasn't cured cancer, when there are scientists who can turn people into dinosaurs on the fly. Cosmic-scale catastrophes threaten the fabric of reality roughly once a decade, but everyone just keeps on truckin' without collapsing into existential dread.
Similarly, the "world outside your window" approach has become... somewhat more difficult of late. Frankly, the world today is just too fucking depressing as it is to be much fun to play in. So, in my opinion, choosing a point in the past gives the best of both worlds. For me, the ideal point for a Task Force X game is the mid-80s.
In world terms, the 80s was the perfect time for villains. Greed was good, the world was suddenly a lot darker than it had been - the future focus of the fifties, the free love of the 60s, and the anti-establishment tone of the 70s were replaced with unchecked capitalism, racial tensions and an increasingly complex geopolitical situation.
The US was in a strange place - while the glitz and glamour only increased year by year, the Republican Party was advocating "trickle down economics". Regan tried to portray the US as the "good guys" of the world stage, just a few scant years after the debacle in Vietnam. The darker side of the US government had come to the front; a perfect backdrop for a game about playing government-sponsored black ops supervillains.
The world was also much more "global" - as telecommunication became more and more widespread, people could communicate around the world, leading to the world feeling smaller and the cultural footprint of America becoming all-consuming. Simultaneously, Eastern cultures like China and Japan were becoming world powers in their own right, and the 80s began the boom of Asian influence in media as a direct response to the US's cultural grandstanding.
From a style point of view, the 80s was the decade of the ridiculous, big-budget action movie - exactly the tone you should be aiming for. Especially the ones with the harder edges - Heat, Predator, The Running Man, Scarface. Even the more ridiculous ones, like Commando, Bloodsport, shit even Road House can make for excellent inspiration fodder.
And finally, from the point of view of the source material, the 80s was the transitional period between the Bronze Age and Modern Age of comics. Comics were more serious, willing to explore darker adult themes and more social issues. Villains like The Suicide Squad could become headliners of their own books; The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen changed what comics could be about. Hell, Swamp Thing showed you could make the absolute weirdest shit, and people would love it.
The 90s would take this edge and make it edgy - everyone was covered in spikes, new heroes could only be anti-heroic, and the prevailing method of drama was stuffing women into fridges or having a once-silly supervillain become a serial killer, a drug addict or a rapist.
The 80s held that awkward blend of bright, garish costumes with serious subject matter in just the right way for a Suicide Squad game; you can have murder, mayhem, hijinks and political commentary all in one session.
And I don't want to hear any of this "modern comics are too political" bullshit either - Suicide Squad missions from the 80s included tackling domestic and foreign terrorism, race relations, US intervention in the Middle East and fighting Russian supers. Shit has been political since the very start, and politics should play a role in your games!
- Homebrew
- closes January 29
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PiebaldWookie
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The Sword of the Dales
Eager for an opportunity to become legendary adventures, your band has traveled to Shadowdale to answer a call for aid from Lhaeo, scribe to Elminster, the infamous sage of Shadowdale. Instructed to meet Lhaeo at the Old Skull Inn, whereupon additional information will be provided, you have chosen to rise to the call. Lhaeo has decided to entrust the future of Daggerdale to your band of adventurers--its fate, along with that of Randal Morn, lies in your hands.
The Sword of the Dales is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2e module set in the Forgotten Realms. It is designed for three to six characters, and provides a very nice balance of social encounters and puzzles with a relatively low amount of combat. Your ability to communicate and work together will prove more valuable than your ability to whack a goblin with a sword.
As an established band of adventurers, the assumption is that you know one another at the start and have worked together before. I encourage you to perhaps collaborate and come up with a name for your band, maybe even choose a leader. In any case, your exploits would be well known to one another and to those around you. Certainly Lhaeo would have heard of your actions in the Dalelands. Please include a brief description of one such exploit when you create your characters that would be known to the group.
This is the first of a trilogy of adventures, I would very much like it if we continued on once this first adventure is complete! Please read below, and if you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks!
Posting Rate: I post from work during the week, but realize that not everyone has that luxury. For a game to succeed, it has to proceed at a reasonable rate. I will post most days, I expect characters to post at least 3-4 times per week to keep the game moving.
Starting Experience: 5,000 XP plus any applicable bonuses for prime requisites. The module is designed for characters of 1st through 4th level, this will start most characters around level 3 while also allowing some flexibility for multi-class or even dual class characters.
Attributes: Roll 4d6 dropping the lowest die, scores may be arranged to taste. If the result is completely unplayable (I trust your discretion), then you may scrap the scores and roll again.
Sources Allowed: Player's Handbook, Tome of Magic, Forgotten Realms Adventures.
Starting Gear: Roll for initial character funds as usual. Multi-class characters use the most advantageous die range of their classes.
Show Spell Acquisition:
- Bards: Bards who reach 2nd level receive a spellbook with 1d4 spells (intelligence checks must be made to see if the bard can learn a given spell), additional spells must be acquired through play.
- Wizards: Wizards begin with a spellbook containing 3d4 1st level spells, two of which must be read magic and detect magic, which all wizards learn as part of their training. The remaining spells may be chosen by the player (intelligence checks must be made to see if the wizard can learn these additional spells). At each level beyond 1st, the wizard may choose a new spell for their spellbook (intelligence checks must be made to see if the wizard can learn these additional spells).
- Specialists: Specialists follow the same rules as wizards, except whenever a specialist reaches a new level, he automatically gains one spell of his school to add to his spellbook (no roll for learning the spell need be made). Note that specialists receive +15% when learning spells from their school and -15% when learning spells from other schools.
Show Optional Rules:
- Proficiencies: Rules for proficiencies are not in effect. If your character would possess a certain skill set, we can explore it through background and roleplay. Weapon specialization is available to single-class fighters only.
- Encumbrance: I'm not interested in tracking encumbrance, but rely on common sense.
- Initiative: Standard initiative procedure is in effect, I think it's particularly well suited to pbp. Players declare actions prior to initiative being rolled. Casting times for spells apply. For characters with multiple attacks, the standard rules apply.
- Hovering on Death's Door: While I hope it won't come into play, the rules for hovering on death's door are in effect. Not trying to kill you guys, trying to have a great time.
- Hit Points: Maximum hit points at first level, roll for any additional levels. This helps increase survivability a bit.
- AD&D 2e
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Sellsword
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- Starfinder
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Peff
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The Trail of Henderson
35 days ago, all Hell (or possibly something even more alien and sinister) broke loose in the city of Rochester, New York, and its surrounding suburbs. This came to be called the 'Rochester Outbreak'.
Within 24 hours, Martial Law had been declared in the State of New York, Rochester was quarantined, and every US Army National Guard and US Army Reserve Unit within 150 miles (plus several from outside that radius) had been called up. A news blackout about what was going on in Rochester was enacted.
Within 72 hours, two full Brigade Combat Teams of the 82nd Airborne Division (that being all that was still in the US with ongoing deployments) supported by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, along with several various units of US Special Operations Forces, had deployed to the Rochester 'Quarantine Zone' to "contain the situation". At this time, the White House declared that "a devastating bio-chemical weapon was deployed against Rochester and its surrounding area by unknown actors"...and everything to do with what is going on in the Rochester Quarantine Zone is classified Top Secret as part of Special Access Programs RAMPANT HART and/or BLUE VARSITY.
It still took another 25 days to restore order to most of Rochester and its suburbs. Reinforcements from the 101st Airborne Division (also giving up two Brigade Combat Teams, the Combat Aviation Brigade, the Sustainment Brigade, and the Division Artillery), 10th Mountain Division (Division Headquarters & Headquarters Battalion, Division Artillery, Combat Aviation Brigade, Division Sustainment Brigade), Vermont National Guard (86th Infantry [Mountain] Brigade Combat Team), and every other New York Army National Guard unit not already deployed to the Rochester area, as well as those New York US Air National Guard units with "relevant assets" were deployed there within another week from the deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division.
At 25 days after the 'outbreak', the United States Government, at the direction of the President, had set up a joint-agency task force to review all available information and determine what focuses a follow-on, "boots-on-the-ground" investigation should look into. This group is fully read into RAMPANT HART and VARSITY BLUE, and is called the 'Rochester Incident Study Group', or RISG (pronounced "riss-gee"). In reviewing all collected information, the RISG focused on various intelligence collected by "technical means" (probably by the NSA using domestic wiretaps), as well as fragmentary reports surviving from before the 'outbreak' and interviews with the few surviving local and federal law enforcement personnel working in Rochester and its suburbs.
At 32 days after the 'outbreak', the RISG delivered its findings to the United States National Security Council. Several orders were immediately issued, and various personnel gathered and briefed within 24 hours.
Those personnel were you. All of you are United States Government employees or contractors, from a wide range of agencies and professions, and possess Top Secret/SCI clearances. All of you were awoken in the middle of the night within the last 72 hours, allowed to hurriedly pack work-related materials and enough clothing to last ten days, and rushed to the Rochester Quarantine Zone Command Post in Batavia, New York, to be briefed by the RISG. You have--after two days of waiting around, being issued equipment, given full medical work-ups, and having thorough psychological dossiers compiled--finally been called in for your actual briefing by the RISG.Mechanics
This game is essentially a hybrid of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition in a modern setting and Delta Green, and will be using elements from both. There are unique modifications in use, mostly in regards to PC Generation and the Skills in use. That being said, the Player Characters ARE NOT members of Delta Green, although they will be members in good standing of the United States Government with fully-valid Security Clearances, or at least Cleared Contractors with fully-valid Security Clearances. All of your PCs will have had at least one brush with the Mythos, thus start with Cthulhu Mythos 10% and a maximum Sanity 90.
You will, as the above states, start your campaign by being deployed to Rochester, New York, USA after it has been overrun with the Mythos and then reclaimed by the actions of unknowns as well as many thousands of US Military and Law Enforcement personnel, plus disaster relief personnel. It is not, however, fully safe yet. Your PCs will actually start the campaign arriving to be briefed by the RISG in the Rochester Quarantine Zone Command Post in Batavia, New York.
Everyone will generate at least one PC; you are welcome to generate two PCs, whichever one is not initially selected will be used as a spare forwhenif your first PC isjoyously struck down by an amused GMsuccumbs to the hazards of the investigation. If your PC dies and you do not have a back-up PC ready by that time, you as a Player will be shifted to being a Reader and another Player recruited. As long as you have a back-up PC ready, you will continue to play, barring other issues.
The inspiration for this campaign comes from the epic and entertaining story of Old Man Henderson, helped along by things such as the Monster Hunter International series, the Special Circumstances series, the Taken movie series as well as the Taken mini-series, plus several other influences I probably haven't noticed.- Call of Cthulhu
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Prestar
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The Ullanor Crusade
This is a concept I've wanted to do for years, ever since I first found the Deathwatch RPG - a game set during the Great Crusade, before the Heresy, before Horus was even declared Warmaster. I'll readily admit I'm not super knowledgeable on 30k lore, I haven't read the Horus Heresy books or anything, but I still really like the idea of a Deathwatch game set back when all eighteen (surviving) legions were nominally loyalist and the Emperor was still alive and active. The Ullanor Crusade seemed like the perfect setting for such a game.
Obviously the Inquisition and the Deathwatch itself don't exist yet, but this campaign would follow a small strike force of Astartes taken from the many different legions and sent on special missions. The Luna Wolves, Ultramarines, and White Scars were the most heavily involved in the Ullanor Crusade, but I think fourteen of the legions were involved in some capacity; your characters can come from any of the eighteen legions.
I'll most likely be using a heavily modified version of Rising Tempest, with the first chapter replaced with probably Extraction from the core rules. If the game goes on long enough, and people are interested, I may continue the game into the Horus Heresy era, either continuing in Deathwatch or porting over into Black Crusade depending on which side the squad goes with.- Deathwatch
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Trish_the_Nugg_Queen
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The Vipers
Join a gang! See the city! Travel, excitement, cyberware, and magic, all at your fingertips.- Fate
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dauphinous
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The Walking Dead: Tales of the Ozarks
The Ozarks. Occupied by various peoples since the ice age and visited by some of the most recognizable names in American history. The last hunting ground of Daniel Boone, the home of industrialist Moses Austin and his son Stephen F., the “Father of Texas.” It is the birthplace and childhood home of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver. It was home to Hermann Jaeger, a Swiss immigrant who saved the European wine industry in the nineteenth century. It was the site of “Wild Bill” Hickok’s first shootout and Jesse James’s first train robbery. It was where a teenage Charlie Parker honed his licks on the alto sax and the birthplace of network television’s first regularly scheduled country music show. Home to the world’s largest retail corporation, the nation’s leading meat-producing company, and the premier collection of American art.
The Ozarks are a region settled overwhelmingly by white pioneers from the Appalachians, some of whose descendants were still singing seventeenth-century British ballads and making moonshine whiskey in hidden caves at the dawn of color television. That it is a place where the rules of neighborly civility melted in the heat of the Civil War, where racially motivated violence occurred at a per capita rate matched by few other areas in the years around the turn of the twentieth century.
Vast stretches of its rocky, infertile ridges and hollers have provided little more than bare subsistence for generations of families and that these families once composed a significant percentage of the country’s migrant labor supply. The home to at least one community tucked so far back into the inaccessible hills that electric power lines finally reached it the same year that humans piloted a rocket ship to the moon and back.
It's here, in this area at the intersection of Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas, that you found yourself just before the world changed forever. Whether you were born and raised here, came here to work, came to make a change, or just came to relax and enjoy the natural resources while on vacation, your lives intersected at a time when survival was the word of the day as infrastructure collapsed and the dead walked.
It's up to you to survive and perhaps rebuild what was lost. Six months after the fall of society, these are the...
Tales of the Ozarks.
- Miscellaneous
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Laird_Thorne
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- D&D 5e
- closes April 19
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codexgigas
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The Web of All Torment
You and your friends gave up the adventuring life long ago, the best decision you ever made. You were on a quest for... something. It's hard to remember back that far. You aren't sure how long ago. But then you came across this cute little town in the middle of nowhere.
The town only had one inn - the Kozy Kobweb. Luckily, they had vacancies. You had one of the best meals of your life, a fantastic time chatting with the locals, and enjoyed sing-a-longs over mugs of expertly crafted ale. You slept well and woke up refreshed and happy. You even told the owner - Ms. Alice - about how happy you were there and how you were sad that you had to leave and continue your quest.
But Ms. Alice told you there was no need. Several of her staff had just retired, and she offered you all jobs on the spot. You instantly accepted, the quest forgotten.
Now you spend your days working and socializing with your friends. You still have plenty of time to relax. All of your old weapons and equipment are packed away in the cellar - who needs them? Rather than the constant travel and danger of your old lives, you have endless peaceful days, one fading into the next.
And you couldn't be happier. Everything is just perfect.
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The Web of All-Torment is a one-shot module from the DCC Horror line, and it is not for the faint of heart. This is one disturbing adventure, ladies and gentlemen, and character death is far from the worst thing that can happen. It is dark, twisted, and gory, and the PCs will be thrust right into it. None will escape unchanged.All PCs will be third level, which is the equivalent power level of fifth or sixth-level PCs in a D&D system. Not that it will save you.
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
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cailano
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- D&D 3.5e
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Fallout_Monkey
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
The traveling extravaganza known as the Witchlight Carnival visits your world once every eight years. You have a dim memory of sneaking into the carnival as a child without paying for a ticket. That memory has grown foggy over time, though it still conjures a weird admixture of emotions—wonder and awe mixed with loss and regret. During this childhood visit, your character lost something. You tried to find it, but the carnival owners—a pair of elves named Mister Witch and Mister Light—were decidedly unhelpful.
"Silly little screeching cricket," said Witch. "You forgot to buy a ticket."
"The carnival goes round and round," said Light. "The multiverse is our playground. Nothing's free and nothing's lost. Every visit has its cost."
As time passed, your heart became less heavy, and you gave less and less thought to those childhood events. Now, for reasons you can't explain, the longing to retrieve that which you have lost has resurfaced, as though an old spell has faded away, allowing you to feel the loss as sharply as if it happened yesterday.
The Witchlight Carnival has returned, and you find yourself standing near a ticket booth by the entrance at twilight, just as the carnival is about to open. There you meet others who look as troubled as you. Without knowing how or why, you sense that each of them has lost something as well. Perhaps fate has brought you together.
- D&D 5e
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Guardian Angel Haruki
