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Post by Dartanian on Aug 17, 2022 17:47:02 GMT -5
hengest have an exalt, this is an awesome, incredible, inspiring thread. We should all do one of these or at least try.
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Post by hengest on Aug 29, 2022 15:09:36 GMT -5
413) A talking mouth doubles as a fountain, but talks reluctantly because water is always flowing from it.
414) The wizard has great magic trinkets for sale at good prices, but can't get anyone to buy them.
415) A very long arm reaches down from the overcast sky and is feeling around for something.
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Post by hengest on Aug 30, 2022 17:56:29 GMT -5
416) As you walk down the path, a large white dog, wearing chain mail and a helmet, comes over the next hill.
417) You wake, but find that several small someones are holding your eyes closed.
418) Your formerly shabby shield has begun to look gilded.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 9:23:29 GMT -5
416) As you walk down the path, a large white dog, wearing chain mail and a helmet, comes over the next hill. I'm a dog person so I dig this!  Maybe the dog is an animal companion looking for help for his injured owner? Maybe the dog got out of his pen and is lost? Maybe the dog is a mount for a small species of folk? There's a ton of possibilities... |
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Post by hengest on Sept 4, 2022 17:59:52 GMT -5
416) As you walk down the path, a large white dog, wearing chain mail and a helmet, comes over the next hill. I'm a dog person so I dig this! Maybe the dog is an animal companion looking for help for his injured owner? Maybe the dog got out of his pen and is lost? Maybe the dog is a mount for a small species of folk? There's a ton of possibilities... I also wondered about that dog! It could even be a transformed knight! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 18:28:20 GMT -5
I'm a dog person so I dig this! Maybe the dog is an animal companion looking for help for his injured owner? Maybe the dog got out of his pen and is lost? Maybe the dog is a mount for a small species of folk? There's a ton of possibilities... I also wondered about that dog! It could even be a transformed knight! Good suggestion, hengest! These mini hooks are still rocking. Have an Exalt! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 18:32:11 GMT -5
333) Goats running towards the city. Is it a bandit raid? Have the hostile Orcs that were once driven away returned to try to conquer the land? Have the goats simply gotten loose? |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 18:38:54 GMT -5
150) The dragon that terrorizes the populace is known to live directly under the keep. What is NOT known is that the dragon is actually the prince who suffers from a curse. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 18:43:01 GMT -5
322) Sanity check at the city gate. 323) Former king is a luthier. 324) The city has guards active and no one else. The "guards" are actually a garrison left behind by an opposing kingdom to occupy the newly conquered city. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 18:44:27 GMT -5
219) Slow-moving lava beginning to burn through the town as you arrive to see people in panic. 220) What looks like a shared hallucination, hundreds of flowers being born from each other in mid-air, in the town square. 221) Thunderstick. An ancient Dragon has been awakened and is burning the countryside. The "lava" is actually the nearby melted boulders from the nearby hills outside of town. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:00:30 GMT -5
79) Main settlement underground, although surface seems habitable. Years ago, the people in town moved below the earth because they were getting raided on a consistent basis. It was easier to defend themselves and prevent raids. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:02:19 GMT -5
139) Flames and screams coming from the wizard's hut. The wizard had recently acquired an ancient tome of magical power. Not fully understanding the eldritch knowledge within, the wizard inadvertently summoned a demon that left his hut in flames. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:03:36 GMT -5
219) Slow-moving lava beginning to burn through the town as you arrive to see people in panic. 220) What looks like a shared hallucination, hundreds of flowers being born from each other in mid-air, in the town square. 221) Thunderstick. An ancient Dragon has been awakened and is burning the countryside. The "lava" is actually the nearby melted boulders from the nearby hills outside of town. That is a really big Dragon, must be one of mine. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:04:33 GMT -5
35) A dragon crashed to earth midflight a thousand years ago. Even now, the plants that grow where its body was... ...are the color red when they fully bloom and often grant minor magical benefits when the fruit they produce is eaten. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:07:13 GMT -5
71) A cave descends deep into the earth and then opens onto another world lit by another sun. This other world is primitive and unaware of the world above. The human populace is more like cave men than the "modern people" up above and there are dinosaurs present. (Thank you, ERB and Verne!) |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:14:40 GMT -5
An ancient Dragon has been awakened and is burning the countryside. The "lava" is actually the nearby melted boulders from the nearby hills outside of town. That is a really big Dragon, must be one of mine. That's right! I recall you did mention your Dragons were much bigger and more powerful. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:28:43 GMT -5
That is a really big Dragon, must be one of mine. That's right! I recall you did mention your Dragons were much bigger and more powerful. Yeah, the really ancient ones are huge. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 19:32:53 GMT -5
That's right! I recall you did mention your Dragons were much bigger and more powerful. Yeah, the really ancient ones are huge. As they SHOULD be! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 20:10:33 GMT -5
I'm really thinking about starting my own mini hooks thread. I just don't know whether to put it in the general discussion area or in my Toldara section of the forum.
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Post by hengest on Sept 4, 2022 20:41:12 GMT -5
I'm really thinking about starting my own mini hooks thread. I just don't know whether to put it in the general discussion area or in my Toldara section of the forum. You can always move it. Go for it! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 20:45:59 GMT -5
I'm really thinking about starting my own mini hooks thread. I just don't know whether to put it in the general discussion area or in my Toldara section of the forum. You can always move it. Go for it! True, hengest! Plus, I could always put it in my forum as a way to drive a little bit of extra traffic there maybe...  . |
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Post by hengest on Sept 4, 2022 21:15:44 GMT -5
Great riffs and comments, The Semi-Retired Gamer and The Perilous Dreamer. 419) When your splitting headache passes, you find you have become two people. 420) Looking down the well when the sun is directly overhead, you see a gigantic eye at the bottom of the shaft. 421) The King and Queen aim to split the kingdom. |
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Post by hengest on Sept 4, 2022 21:21:22 GMT -5
422) The townsfolk have no idea what these ice floes are doing on their river.
423) The local warlord shows you a magical image of the man you are to track, and it looks remarkably like him.
424) Invisible armor.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 21:21:49 GMT -5
Thanks, hengest! These mini hooks really get my creativity flowing. Are you split into a "good side" and an "evil side"? Are the two just identical copies? |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 4, 2022 21:25:18 GMT -5
Great riffs and comments, The Semi-Retired Gamer and The Perilous Dreamer . 419) When your splitting headache passes, you find you have become two people. 420) Looking down the well when the sun is directly overhead, you see a gigantic eye at the bottom of the shaft.421) The King and Queen aim to split the kingdom. I love the gigantic eye at the bottom of the shaft. Good stuff. |
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Post by hengest on Sept 4, 2022 21:28:00 GMT -5
Are you split into a "good side" and an "evil side"? Yes, left is good and right is evil. They have to cooperate for walking and chewing. Oh, you meant in the game... |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 21:30:01 GMT -5
Are you split into a "good side" and an "evil side"? Yes, left is good and right is evil. They have to cooperate for walking and chewing. Oh, you meant in the game... I should have been clearer! |
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Post by hengest on Sept 23, 2022 9:31:52 GMT -5
425) The earth you know is just a landing on the stairway between the sky and...
426) When you try to learn the language of the locals, you find it weakens you.
427) Things seem to be getting less edible.
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Post by hengest on Sept 29, 2022 13:23:07 GMT -5
428) Legless dragons.
429) A whiff of sulphur from the sea.
430) Subtle changes in weaponry.
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Post by El Borak on Sept 29, 2022 13:44:33 GMT -5
Are you split into a "good side" and an "evil side"? Yes, left is good and right is evil. They have to cooperate for walking and chewing. Oh, you meant in the game... have an exalt. |
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