Summary: This is why Liam is not allowed to make the plans.

Lacking the proper skull and bones of the True God of Cibola, and no good way to track the original skull and bones of the True God of Cibola, the team is faced with having to make their own skull and bones of a True God of Cibola. And the only place to get the skull and bones of a True ( Read more... )

Summary: What is more dangerous? The unholy and evil tomb of the True God of Cibola surrounded by undead zombie worshippers and hideous vampire bats? Or a Begman with a cannon?

( Charles says, 'The weight of public opinion is clearly on the pro-cannon side. I'll start setting up, you folk poke around.' )

Who is the most fabulous? Petrus Pitello? Sir Taran Solaris? Or Prince Caine's own son, Hrafnkel? To find out who is the most fabulous -- measured scientifically -- read on!

( Hrafnkel does indeed strut. And /how/ he struts. Sometimes, even /almost/ a prance. But not too much. Juuuust right. Never does that hand leave that hip. Never does he loose his aloof demeanor. Around the clearing he walks, shooting disdainful looks, hair tosses, and spins that send his cloak whirling here and there. When he is finished, and only when he is finished, does he strut back to where he stood and regard the chieftain expectantly. )

Summary: Valentine falls down a pit. Petrus rescues a beautiful woman with a luxurious cloak to rival his own. A path to the next node is found. Valentine falls off a cliff. While Valentine dangles, the party is attacked by Adorable Pink Fuzzy Flesh-Eating Cannibals. Hrafnkel destroys them with his RAGE while Charles Glanworth destroys them ( Read more... )

Summary: The crew heads out to the city of Ixl-Ixl in the heart of Cibola to play a rousing game of sport with a ball full of Cibolan hallucinogens against an opposing team of mindless golems and cheered on by zombie cheerleaders, an undead audience, and a liver-eating God.

Things, unsurprisingly, get weird.

( Valentine catches the ball, and flings it towards Hraf. 'Go long! Mind the murder machines!' )

Summary: Liam Chantris, Valentine de'Mandrake and Charles Glanworth explore the Lost City of Ixl-Ixl, the city beyond the gate. Once it was a vibrant capital city and now it is mere ruins. A node is hiding in here somewhere. Is it atop one of the many temples and demanding a blood (or origami) sacrifice? Is it somewhere around the fallen Palace ( Read more... )

Summary: In which a Begman pneumatic ram is deployed against an unopenable door, a man wears a Ferrous Mannikin, a fight is had against blue women on raptor-like dinosaurs, secret motives are revealed, Valentine is very nearly married against his will, Celeste stands her ground, and monkeys laugh.

( Valentine yells back towards the people at the gate, 'Help! Help! I'm being married below my station!' )

Summary: Liam drags Celeste and Gromph out to Cibola to look for a lost wall and gate to an even more lost City. On the way there, they run into Valentine de'Mandrake and Charles Glanworth, riding a raptor-like dinosaur, being chased by giant blue women, also on raptor-like dinosaurs. Mayhem ensues. Someone endures a nasty cut on their upper ( Read more... )

Summary: In which our Heroes return to a land where a War has stagnated into all Management and no Workers (sort of like Amber!) and start a brand new Eternal Holy War among the Lemur People with the Omnigraphic Powered-pointer Slide Shower (Mark II!) complete with Attached Mouse, trinkets, hallucinogenic drugs, hippo-based insults about someone ( Read more... )

Summary: Out by Cibola stands a Wide Sargasso Sea and along this sea are fought daily wars of the local lemur people. But the wars, lasting thousands of years, have ended. The war only has all officers and no soldiers and the officers no longer know who is in charge or who is on what side. They're so confused they have held Valentine de'Mandrake ( Read more... )