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: 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... )

Summary: The group comes to fix Dendara, the Village sitting in the shadow of the City of Tanus. It needs to be fed: immediately in the sort term, and under its own power in the long. Dominic brings barges of grain and seed, Hrafnkel brings food and grain from deep in Shadow, Malachi brings heads of cattle for plowing the fields, Celeste and ( Read more... )

Summary: The team plus Hrafnkel heads out to the Village of Dendara which sits at the river delta in the shadow of the great City of Tanus. Once Oberon came and helped with the harvest and gave to the River Gods. Now something is very wrong in Dendara and it must be made whole again...

( Petrus hmphs. At Hrafnkel: 'Maybe we should have brought some pie,' he muses. Malachi says, 'Went over well last time.' )

( In which a god is wrestled and a river repaired. )

Any plan where the bard is the tank is a bad plan. That is a plan where someone is going to lose their hat.