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The Kickstarter is coming up soon.  The artwork got me thinking about the seas around Hyperborea & my own Castles & Crusades on going campaign. But it also got me thinking about t<a href="http://goodman-games.com/store/product/original-adventures-reincarnated-2-the-isle-of-dread/">he <span style="background-color: white;">Original Adventures Reincarnated #2: The Isle of Dread By Goodman Games </span></a>. </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="927" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9b0gQu2F7ZBzaRzrSu0RLmWOwdpmaZbtTjVgVQeosFqdp-0ZIiZqInvnOmE296LNe0hYlCtPVKIcvupu8HzVL60t3qmdSHTXwJ9GEqeIF1WjJHXIJFG1bXAREjGyXvrEasaz7KXDqydk/s640/D5VZrXRXsAEuJl0.jpg" width="494" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've postulated that 'the sea of worlds' that surrounds the Isle of Dread makes the island drift into other worlds & its possible that the island itself is only one of a handful of other such locations. Its an alien 'lost world' unto itself. But there's been implications that this lost world is one of many with Goodman Games's <a href="http://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/original-adventures-reincarnated/" rel="tag" style="background: rgb(237, 230, 193); border: 0px; color: #ea4848; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Original Adventures Reincarnated</a> titles offering some tantalizing hints. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A ship wreck, an expedition to the isle, any excuse really to maroon the adventurers on the isle & some dark hints within the Goodman Games adventure all hint at the possibility of there being far more to the sinister island then even the adventurers can guess?! </span><br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1165" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQPv6X5ZlCaIcys41lDxSKXTKZKDhpP8lqZP2cC_xtZmLL8cgfyGqQZnwKGjMzcZLmW9JCJrHl3A30GkMo3mh8w1OSNOuJfqh0ds8Bvxeot2FgAnuq1v3bH2WQpK54pJS8tFBcunhBk8/s640/OAR2-IsleOfDread-FINAL.jpg" width="494" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We know that the island of Dread  itself has often slipped between worlds & that its planar seas border many different locations. This got me thinking about another fictional island location with a its own alien ecology. I'm speaking of course about <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Caprona</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (also known as </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Caspak</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">) a fictional </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Island">island</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in the literary universe of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Edgar Rice Burroughs">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">'s </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspak" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Caspak">Caspak</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> trilogy. Edgar Rice Burroughs Caspak books might have well been part of the inspiration for X1: The Isle of Dread. And of course if you haven't read them I highly recommend them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> going with </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_That_Time_Forgot_(novel)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Land That Time Forgot (novel)">The Land That Time Forgot</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_That_Time_Forgot_(novel)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The People That Time Forgot (novel)">The People That Time Forgot</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Time%27s_Abyss" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Out of Time's Abyss">Out of Time's Abyss</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprona_(island)#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is an island with mysterious secrets & deadly  alien species looking over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprona_(island)">the artificial ecology of the island</a>; "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In the first novel, Caprona is described as a land mass near</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and was first reported by the (fictitious) Italian explorer Caproni in 1721, the location of which was subsequently lost. The island is ringed by high cliffs, making it inaccessible to all but the most intrepid explorers (the people who first explore the island accessed it by taking a submarine through an underground tunnel).</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprona_(island)#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It has a tropical river teeming with primitive creatures extinct elsewhere and a thermal inland sea, essentially a huge crater lake, whose heat sustains Caprona’s tropical climate.</span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Burroughs postulates a unique biological system for his lost world in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in <i>The Land That Time Forgot</i>; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories. Dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and primitive humans coexist on the island.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprona_(island)#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The island is also called <b>Caspak</b> by its native humanoid inhabitants – thus the name of the trilogy"<br /><br />In Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea there are any number of lost islands at the edge of the bowel of the world. These are places that different in & out of the planes, time, etc. It is not a stretch to conclude that these islands might have dire impacts on the lives of adventurers. The fact is that I've run X1 isle of Dread with AS&SH any number of times as a introductory adventure & it worked stellar. In fact there is a long line of mysterious & deadly phantom islands within both Pulp literature & mythology.<br />I've used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)">Brasil or  </a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)">Hy-Brasil </a></b>myself several times in AS&SH game campaigns with some very dangerous connotations; "<b>Brasil</b>, also known as <b>Hy-Brasil</b> or several other variants,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Phantom island">phantom island</a> said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> west of Ireland. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Irish mythology">Irish myths</a> described it as cloaked in mist except for one day <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(number)#Religion_and_mythology" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="7 (number)">every seven years</a>, when it becomes visible but still cannot be reached." </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a> used a wide variety of lost lands,islands, & other occult laden lands for many of his stories the implication is that X1 is one such land unhinged on the planes whose a ;weirdness magnet'. It continues to draw in travelers from across the planes Prime. </span><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="800" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUkja96GL9PpFC-yzkF5AFW5Lxm0sxcw6qasd5d9v_NADmBsSecmzXxushs4WJHNvB6hnPGdNVMY0EOCY2xB3_3jQp-kIeE4u0J47bMH9OuyOAsfMeggANfqkI2S5kFso7a8mvh92PEM/s400/800px-Abraham_Ortelius_Map_of_Europe.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ortelius" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080;" title="Abraham Ortelius">Abraham Ortelius</a>' map of Europe from 1595</span><br />For my own alternative World War I campaign I can see using these phantom islands in such a way to draw in the adventurers perhaps to their doom. Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerer's of Hyperborea & X1 Isle of Dread are definitely going to have a place at the table. </div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/mysterious-islands-astonishing.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/mysterious-islands-astonishing.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-04-30T11:05:00-07:00'>11:05 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/mysterious-islands-astonishing.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=6652199221898114149&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=6652199221898114149&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=6652199221898114149&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A wind comes in from the sea,<br />And rolls through the hollow dark<br />Like loud, tempestuous waters.<br />As the swift recurrent tide,<br />It pours adown the sky,<br />And rears at the cliffs of night<br />Uppiled against the vast.<br /><br />Like the soul of the sea—<br />Hungry, unsatisfied<br />With ravin of shores and of ships—<br />Come forth on the land to seek<br />New prey of tideless coasts,<br />It raves, made hoarse with desire,<br />And the sounds of the night are dumb<br />With the sound of its passing.<br /><br /><br /><b style="text-align: center;"><span id="header_title_text">The Soul of the Sea</span></b><span style="text-align: center;">  (1912) </span><br style="text-align: center;" /><i style="text-align: center;">by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Clark_Ashton_Smith" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Author:Clark Ashton Smith"><span class="vcard" id="header_author_text"><span class="fn">Clark Ashton Smith</span></span></a></i><br /><br />For most treasure ships seem like something that would be found in a garden variety Dungeons & Dragons game instead these ships are found deep in the deserts & post apocalyptic wastelands of California luring adventurers, cowboys, capes, pulp adventurers, & many others to their deaths.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1478" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihakZBP038GAZOlPNTfrBHYZ4hjR6o6ptD5-0KIN-56-bJE0jZ0cRFW0i1XrS7go353r10cd4Di7uBZEmMHjTCyLhCqAS8268c6v25SrgbTSalh_Iu_mYNR7uTJOvKYI7mWccueZoIq0M/s400/A_child%2527s_book_of_warriors_%25281907%2529_%252814566486099%2529.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The small communities around  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla"><b>Lake Cahuilla</b> (also known as <b>Lake LeConte</b> and <b>Blake Sea</b></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla">)</a> in the Great California Wastes experience time mirages that cross space & time itself after the use of the Entropy weapons used during the End War. These communities have been receiving help from<a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2014/06/blue-light-special-mutant-future.html"> Project Over Reach </a>to help reestablish satellite communications & they've reported strange wreckage of ships & other alien craft out in the Great California Waste basins.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAVJMPDGsBtBYHbWy8ctSLowoKtMeKQzd-K9EB17EGzlEf6P25nVoPLE7zNVHobnyXxvAtXFPGPtJxxURUTgYmbHwxfNCeyfFKuEwwrAisptl-xbTKLw1lMdN8KVtJFz35jntuYhQPRc/s400/800px-ISS-36_Salton_Trough.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The Salton Trough and Colorado River Delta from space<br /><br /><br />The fishing village of Last Blake has seen an uptick in Morlock raider activity but there have been a number of time lost adventurers who have come looking for the lost vessel of Spanish explorer <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juan_de_Iturbe&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Juan de Iturbe (page does not exist)">Juan de Iturbe</a>. Many of these adventurers have strange radiation burns & injuries reportedly having been attacked by giant scorpions, mutant rattle snakes, & worse. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="466" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXFstZ2yu31kjW1D4qDqMeanAVNILRBPJh7upo_ry1jNhtj6oFpUjulF3H_MMHo0MAvQachP4oQM4XEdsPWvDroIB_JHxZoOeB9LKgMG70EnHIhoUntrZHtG6JQ_bEjsLo7jdzKjN-avQ/s320/Caravela_de_armada_of_Joao_Serrao.jpg" width="320" /><br /><br />The legends of the Spanish explorer always seem to go like this; </span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"This legend may refer to the same ship as the Lost Galleon, but its own story has always placed it in a distinct location, closer to the sand hills west of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Centro,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="El Centro, California">El Centro, California</a>. Descriptions suggest it is closer to the size of one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a>' small <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Caravel">caravels</a>. The pearl ship is rumored to have been seen as recently as the 1970s<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.</span></span></div> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The story goes that in 1615, Spanish explorer <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juan_de_Iturbe&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Juan de Iturbe (page does not exist)">Juan de Iturbe</a> embarked on a pearl-harvesting expedition, during which his crew sailed a shallow-drafted caravel up the Gulf of California. A high <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tidal bore">tidal bore</a> carried him across a strait into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lake Cahuilla">Lake Cahuilla</a>, a postulated contemporaneous saltwater basin periodically connected to the gulf which was already in the process of drying up permanently. After exploring the lake for several days, Iturbe found himself unable to sail out again, whereupon he beached his craft and made his way back to the nearest Spanish settlement on foot, leaving behind a fortune in black pearls. Sixteenth-century records from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> indicate that the De La Cadena family had a pearl-diving monopoly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>.</span></span></div> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Iturbe's alleged ship has been seen and lost several times, and there are several stories about it having been looted. A mule driver traveling with the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Anza_Expedition" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="De Anza Expedition">de Anza expeditions</a> through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alta California">Alta California</a> was said to have removed the pearls in 1774. Around 1917, an El Centro farmer named Jacobsen was said to have found a very small chest of jewels, which he quietly sold in Los Angeles, and to have used timber from the pearl ship to build his pig pens." </span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Travelers from an alternative 1900 expedition  timeline deep into the in the wasteland badlands west of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicali,_Mexico" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mexicali, Mexico">Mexicali, Mexico</a>. have reportedly been searching for the Serpent Necked Canoe. They came to the small community of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Julian, California">Julian, California</a>, after nearly dying from an encounter with a giant mutant tarantula species. They were following the following legends; "The Viking stories originated around 1900 from the Mexicans and Indians who live in the Colorado River delta region near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Salada" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Laguna Salada">Laguna Salada</a> basin. The ship is consistently described as an open boat with round metal shields on its sides in the badlands west of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicali,_Mexico" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mexicali, Mexico">Mexicali, Mexico</a>.</span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Around 1933, Myrtle Botts, a librarian from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Julian, California">Julian, California</a>, had an encounter with an old prospector who showed her photos of what she called a Viking ship. He gave her and her husband directions to the location but an earthquake prevented the Botts from following the prospector's trail to the ship. Julian's Pioneer Museum, which inherited Myrtle Botts' papers, also inherited those directions.</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Julian Pioneer Museum is not in possession of any records regarding the Viking ship mentioned in this story."<br /><br />The Restorers post apocalyptic faction has been able to telepathically reconstruct most of the data from the scrambled remains of some of the expeditions members after being telepathically attacked by a giant floating mutant head. They reportedly came in contact with <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/156178/Ghost-Ship-of-the-Desert-Dunes">a cache of green radioactive diamonds </a>they found scattered on the ground.<br /><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZW_PdaACmXNtNIHvvKFfF3UXoPb57Vlhtsf8hbZgRT56-Yk1Rh12um_UqYh_Zk_gqiCpV_jpsrF4vVv5FZozpJh85fXxqsHzAg6DYDVSZgn2frpGFn8g9JMh6p9_9KUVATwpJLBrDaxg/s400/%2528Baumg1889%2529_Wickingerschiff.jpg" width="400" /><br />Finally there is the tale of two separate expeditions that were found wandering in the desert after brief encounter with the wastes around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Salton Sink">Salton Sink</a> has been dried out around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Salton Sea">Salton Sea</a>. They have reported a dangerous encounter with monsters, the wreckage of a paddle wheel ship beached in stinking fen & a fevered encounter with a wizard. They had several small caches of gold & jewels but some of the members were insane.<br /><br /><b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">1d20 Random Encounters Out In The Wastelands of California </b></span></span></div> <ol style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d6 gunfighters & adventurers on horse back lost & looking for a way back from their nightmare. They are haggard in bad need of water & are completely lost. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mutant adventurers armed with bows & arrows on the backs of giant spider like mutants. They are bounty hunters after an alien outlaw. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d10 American first nationer warriors out on a hunting party. They are friendly & armed with guns that do 1d8 points of damage at a range of 50 yards. These are 4th level fighters and not to be trifled with. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d6 desert Gnoll warriors on horse back looking for a raid to cause problems.  They are armed with short bows & long swords. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d6 goblin raiders on giant coyotes they are a hunting party looking to slay humans & eat man flesh for the evening. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A very pissed off war golem armed with shoulder mounted  heavy crossbows, he's hell bent on revenge for being lost in the wastelands for weeks </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d6 human prospectors leading mule train completely unaware that their out of their own time lost element </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cowboy nearly dead on a mutant horse mount with his pockets stuffed with bones & map to the lost mines Hollywood </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Group of traveling Hollywood silent era  cowboys & production company  on route to a movie location but getting very worried by the moment! </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d20 1300 Spanish missionaries from South America on their way to the missions of California but now armed with 1d6 energy weapons they took from a band of mutant marauders that attacked them. Their trigger happy & highly dangerous! </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d8 Green Martian warriors on Throats on a raid! </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Green skinned mutant tribesmen on their way to a meeting with another tribe who have food & water to trade. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d8 D&D adventurers of 2nd level who on their way to the ruins of a former wizard but a bit shocked at their surroundings. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A posse of 1d20 cowboys, lawmen, etc. on the hunt for an escaped fugitive on horse back </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Demon in human disguise looking for an escaped  soul of a damned man </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A female first nationer princess whose escaped a group of orcs from the San Bernadino tribes. She's armed with two crossbows & some ammo but is running out of food & supplies. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Undead prospector looking for gold & souls! </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Restorers expedition on their own in the middle of the wastes but armed with energy & gun powder weapons. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d20 bandits & marauders on the hunt for victims to murder, rob, & eat. </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1d10 giant blood sucking mutant hornets in a swarm looking murder their latest meal! </span></span></li> </ol> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />This is an experiment to see about combining <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/64332/Labyrinth-Lord-Revised-Edition">Labyrinth Lord</a>,<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/86683/Mutant-Future-Revised-Edition"> Mutant Future, </a><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106153/Amazing-Adventures">Amazing Adventures!</a>, & <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/.../Astonishing-Swordsmen--Sorcerers-of-Hyperborea-...">Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea</a> into a OSR setting. I'm also throwing in a bit of the free adventure <a href="https://archive.org/details/the_wreck_of_the_anubis">The Wreck of the Anubis </a><span class="key" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 0px;">by</span><span class="value" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0.55rem; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Gus+LaRu%22" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Gus LaRu</a>.<br />I was also thinking of throwing in a wreck or two from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Calidar&oq=Calidar&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#">Bruce Heard's Calidar </a></span></span></span></span></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/ships-of-lost-wastes-of-california-osr.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/ships-of-lost-wastes-of-california-osr.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-04-29T00:30:00-07:00'>12:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/ships-of-lost-wastes-of-california-osr.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=47401265961450397&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/search/label/Adventures' rel='tag'>Adventures</a>, <a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazing%20Adventures%20%21%20rpg' rel='tag'>Amazing Adventures ! 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Game elements include the gods of Greyhawk, the clash of political factions, and encounters in this wild land."<br /></span></i><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1316" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwLV9IcO5I2AsYLp8kE1J133ZJo5SA6kM8LymF6nXjsF7JNcK9g1ERXMZCjhEQK4U0w-NvNIgMUC0OFOIzRnfZxtzKNE0r0tChqkzN1UmjC3VUgtB4NpkjOI7Bz90a7bErkDH5EZ5k8M/s640/Greyhawk.jpg" width="526" /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you've been following events on the Danube<a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-amazing-affair-on-danube-in-search.html"> parts I</a> &<a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-amazing-affair-on-danube-part-ii-in.html"> II </a> then you know that t<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">he Astro Hungarian Empire  had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> a joint operation between  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the German  </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Intelligence Bureau </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">& the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">German Foreign Office</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, have uncovered ancient documents relating to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;">two wealthy adventurers, Roghan the Fearless and Zelligar the Unknown while working with officers & soldiers of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Astro Hungarian Empire. But  operations down in the lower levels of the dungeon went very wrong.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">  Yesterday I mentioned that there was a gateway that opened to an AD&D style fantasy world. But what I didn't mention is that fact that I think that </span><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17392/World-of-Greyhawk-Fantasy-Game-Setting-1e" style="color: #333333;">Gary Gygax's Greyhawk  setting</a><span style="color: #333333;"> could seamlessly slide into this Pulp & Supers  alternative WW1. How?!<br />Lets talk about two facts about Arthur Machen & the Greyhawk setting. Greyhawk is both a fantasy world & a post apocalyptic world with its twin events <a href="https://greyhawkagainstthegiants.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/the-rain-of-colorless-fire"> 'rain of colourless fire'  & 'the invoked devastation</a>'. Both events dramatically changed the face of the Greyhawk  setting & brought <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suloise">the </a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suloise">Suloise peoples</a> across the world of  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanaess" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Flanaess">Flanaess</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Greyhawk" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="World of Greyhawk">World of Greyhawk</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_setting" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Campaign setting">campaign setting</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roleplaying_game" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roleplaying game">roleplaying game</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><b style="color: #222222;">Suloise</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, also known as the "Suel," are one of the major races of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Humans">humans</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">inhabiting the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanaess" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Flanaess">Flanaess</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Suel began migrating to the Flanaess in large numbers c. -447 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Year_(Greyhawk)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Common Year (Greyhawk)">CY</a>, from the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suel_Imperium&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suel Imperium (page does not exist)">Suel Imperium</a>. The numbers of the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suloise_Migration&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suloise Migration (page does not exist)">Suloise Migration</a> increased dramatically after the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Invoked_Devastation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Invoked Devastation (page does not exist)">Invoked Devastation</a> and the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rain_of_Colorless_Fire&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rain of Colorless Fire (page does not exist)">Rain of Colorless Fire</a> in -422 CY. The Suel settled in many regions of the Flanaess, often competing with the native <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan_(Greyhawk)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Flan (Greyhawk)">Flan</a> and migrant <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeridians" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oeridians">Oeridians</a>, as well as non-human inhabitants such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)">elves</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)">dwarves</a>.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Though people of Suel descent can be found nearly anywhere in the Flanaess, notable lands that contain a significant number of Suel include the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thillonrian_Peninsula" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Thillonrian Peninsula">Thillonrian Peninsula</a><span style="color: #222222;">, the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Brotherhood" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Scarlet Brotherhood">Scarlet Brotherhood</a><span style="color: #222222;">, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_the_Isles_(Greyhawk)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lordship of the Isles (Greyhawk)">Lordship of the Isles</a><span style="color: #222222;">, the </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sea_Barons&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sea Barons (page does not exist)">Sea Barons</a><span style="color: #222222;">, the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldomar_Valley" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sheldomar Valley">Sheldomar Valley</a><span style="color: #222222;">, and the </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urnst_States&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Urnst States (page does not exist)">Urnst States</a><span style="color: #222222;">. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lendore_Isles" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lendore Isles">Lendore Isles</a><span style="color: #222222;"> was once home to a large contingent of Suel, but most humans have been expelled from that land since the cult of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehanine_Moonbow" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sehanine Moonbow">Sehanine Moonbow</a><span style="color: #222222;"> gained control after the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhawk_Wars" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greyhawk Wars">Greyhawk Wars</a><span style="color: #222222;">." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">What if these humans & near human peoples had migrated to Greyhawk in the ancient mythological days & this was only one more migration for a world's peoples that was a part of a greater cycle?! What if these movements & migration were a part & parcel of the mythology of the Earth as well?!  I'm I speaking of the Elemental Evil religion here?! No & this isn't normal Greyhawk at all. This Greyhawk is tightly woven to a secret occult society which at its highest levels has infiltrated pre WWI society across Europe & the world as a whole! What does this have to do with Arthur Machen? Well back in 1895 Machen wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Impostors">'The Three Impostors'</a><br />The book's plot goes something like this; "</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London—relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process—as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Orgy">orgy</a><span style="color: #222222;"> by the Emperor </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and close in on their prey: "the young man with spectacles" " This occult conspiracy & society rears its head across Europe as deadly as any terrorist bombing or other military action. Heroes are needed!<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35517"> Arthur Machen's Three Impostors is available here for free. </a></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="320" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKlw3UrkW3LtTto_3nF7RR-pF_03XaNC9H-UEmARsjqkEQWKmcn0W_wXGUcOi4_hDJr_135MfYymd9OdWLAMGyXaFDDHUr3usRolHxm8UR8EErN_9b7QXf_5jRacQn4faSbBGDX6Tn8g/s640/Three_imposters.jpg" width="376" /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />What happens if part of the inner circle of occult secret societies 'the true Biblical & mythological'  history of the Earth is revealed & part of these reveals is the fact that 'lost fairy worlds or lands' like Greyhawk exist? Would this spark off occult & supernatural wars? Possibly sparking off events that happened within Machen's own life time & because of publication of the 'The Three Impostors' </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">; "</span><span style="color: #222222;">Partly in response to criticism of the</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Stevensonian</a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">style of the book, Machen altered his approach in writing his next book,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_of_Dreams" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Hill of Dreams">The Hill of Dreams</a></i><span style="color: #222222;">. Following the death of his first wife in 1899, Machen developed a greater interest in the occult, joining the</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn">Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn</a><span style="color: #222222;">. He noted that a number of events in his life seemed to mirror events in</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222;">The Three Impostors</i><span style="color: #222222;">, most notably a conflict in the order between</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">(a "young man with spectacles") and</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a><span style="color: #222222;">, which reached its height around this time. (These experiences are reflected on in</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a><span style="color: #222222;">'s</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disease_of_Language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="A Disease of Language">Snakes and Ladders</a></i><span style="color: #222222;">.)</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In <i>Things Near and Far</i> (1923) Machen wrote:</span></div> <blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was in the early spring of 1894 that I set about the writing of the said "Three Impostors," a book which testifies to the vast respect I entertained for the fantastic, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Arabian_Nights" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New Arabian Nights">New Arabian Nights</a>" manner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">R. L. Stevenson</a>, to those curious researches in the byways of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="London">London</a> which I have described already, and also, I hope, to a certain originality of experiment in the tale of terror."</span></div> </blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">If I was to run Greyhawk in this style I'd use an unholy mix of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Castles+%26+Crusades&oq=Castles+%26+Crusades&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#">Castles & Crusades </a>with Rpg <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Pundit%27s+Lion+%26+Dragon+rpg&oq=Pundit%27s+Lion+%26+Dragon+rpg&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#">Pundit's Lion & Dragon rpg </a> Make no mistake that the occult forces we're talking about here are evil & chaotically deadly. The stratification of Greyhawk social norms & the human dominated areas of the setting make this perfect. Yeah,yeah, Lion & Dragon is a historic  medieval  rpg & shouldn't have anything to do with Pulp or Supers. No it should all the more because it reflects history in a better way. </span></span><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="614" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ-WdaWDAYzeHZBVIL6R_Zq5mPJSfKtjgdqgMnccA69-FQ2fIPKmyumKLiIe1uhUfjJ4cDQsiv1mis_EtSk-IdSDMLvO02o2CcwIWlESJPupjTz3An8rjsOmhUT-Om-sz_Qyd-huszsm8/s640/226021.jpg" width="490" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /><br />But what the Hell does this have to do with World War I & Pulp heroes? Well just about everything really. 'Post Gilded Age' society is an upheaval at all levels & change is in the air. The death of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222;">monarchy</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> is at hand & crown heads of  society as they knew it were going to change completely. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222;">The Gilded Age to  World War I marked an incredibly progressive death kneel for Europe. This is a time when heroes are needed! <br />But who is this occult conspiracy & society?! Well if I was too guess? I'd say it would be one of the new witch queens of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay">the Le Fey </a>& </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgause" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Morgause">Morgause</a>'s <span style="color: #222222;"> great grand daughters lines </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">respectively. Machen gives us a really clear view of the occult forces behind the curtain & their very alien & very dangerous. The Arthurian legends connect up very nicely with Greyhawk because Arthur has his swords deep within Greyhawk's history. </span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXoxrokq_Q4NlsJnxcUQo_8kwVm7MiicxFY1Lkh_cqKSdxbN-YctbA4uFPeStGZEqepciKtvDZFoqyxT84FtHaWLXP09OinF7WBUc4P8SN83ZJsOkFLO8BRKxZNXPziFVNjzkhLNz-r4/s640/88525.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="494" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/88525/Castles--Crusades-Castle-Keepers-Guide?src=hottest_filtered&filters=10126_0_0_0_0">The Castle & Crusades's Castle Keeper's Guide</a> is going come in real handy here to help keep track of several key points of monsters, magical events, & managing some of the campaign elements not to mention possibly the pre or post WWI technologies. All together though this is going to be an uneasy mix & the dungeon master is going to have to make their own decisions. Tomorrow we get into the deeper campaign aspects of Amazing Adventures! rpg & how Victorious affects all of this. </span></div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-three-impostors-of-greyhawk-amazing.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-three-impostors-of-greyhawk-amazing.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-04-26T08:37:00-07:00'>8:37 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-three-impostors-of-greyhawk-amazing.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=5934042579323372283&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=5934042579323372283&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=5934042579323372283&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">"B1: "In Search of the Unknown," by Mike Carr, was originally released in November 1978 with a monochrome yellow cover. At the time, it was probably TSR's eighth adventure. It was also the first TSR adventure by someone other than Gary Gygax." Well this is the official history but let's delve deeper into the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Caverns of Quasqueton.<br /></span><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMDquzrX90KXGkmYCZhPpylTuULzr3oXv0acTt2Y6oPkSPgaiQX6OIXnX6acc_RrHLlKdsmEyJLPvrkSFaNegmIZ00C9NNbPL6_Bdn0LGTINt5_idDDWxqySlVyP4A_6wkaiJPbRUcaM/s640/17081.png" width="496" /></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you start to delve in deep into the history of WWI then you begin to understand the causes & effects of not only history but the patterns leading up to WWII. The Astro Hungarian Empire  was very ordered & <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> a joint operation between  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the German  </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Intelligence Bureau </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">& the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">German Foreign Office</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, have uncovered ancient documents relating to the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">two wealthy adventurers, Roghan the Fearless and Zelligar the Unknown would be right on the menu . Those ancient adventurers who built a hidden complex known as the Caverns of Quasqueton along the Danube were up to something very questionable indeed. The caverns were still in use by a conspiratorial occult conspiracy which had ties throughout pre WWI & post WWII ( this is a blog entry for another time). The two 'heroic adventurers' beat back a horde of invading barbarians with their mercenary army but stumbled upon the ruins of a temple of Nodens that contained occult ruins & horrors that they made note of.<br />" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">While of questionable ethical standing, the two drove back a barbarian invasion and gained the support of locals."</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The proto </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Caverns of Quasqueton were born & </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Roghan the Fearless and Zelligar the Unknown were trying to contain the evil that festered below in the caverns. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">By the time that the adventurers are sent in things have gone very wrong for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the German  </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Intelligence Bureau </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">& the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">German Foreign Office</a> as well as the Astro Hungarian soldiers. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A variety of monsters wander through the finished upper level of the dungeon including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)">orcs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons)">troglodytes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, and giant rats. " Those are actually Chaos infected mutations & other worldly monsters.<br />When </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Roghan the Fearless and Zelligar the Unknown</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"> were killed. Well local apprentices & acolytes of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Zelligar the Unknown</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> were already a part of a local branch of a secret mystery cult dedicated to an Outer God who had been using the guise of Pan for eons.  The cult opened a door to an Earth like world of traditional fantasy races with some of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">English author </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Algernon Blackwood">Algernon Blackwood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> 's </span><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search/The_Willows_(story)" style="background-color: white; color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;">The Willows</a> & <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> "Pan" influence. But's its Arthur Machen's Great God Pan that shows what the cult was really trying to accomplish. </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4ifNBJZAoFObWzYdFxGlK4oeoLErLK0d8CDL5U8zSyIiZi8ThV-93btCEHuCp93HfY8VhTKnwBRfbR80iJi7qqrfeqY5U8A_fiTqMHh4ftwMgBfMUrUNTB8xNeOw97xN0bt5GwR6xPs/s400/Hans_von_Aachen_-_Pan_and_Selene+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan">Arthur Machen's Great God Pan</a> plot goes something like this according to Wiki; "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Clarke agrees, somewhat unwillingly, to bear witness to a strange experiment performed by his friend, Dr. Raymond. The ultimate goal of the doctor is to open the mind of someone so that he may experience the spiritual world, an experience he notes the ancients called "seeing the great god</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pan (god)">Pan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">". He performs the experiment, which involves minor brain surgery, on a young woman named Mary. She awakens from the operation awed and terrified but quickly becomes "a hopeless idiot".</span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Years later, Clarke learns of a beautiful but sinister girl named Helen Vaughan, who is reported to have caused a series of mysterious happenings in her town. She spends much of her time in the woods near her house, and takes other children on prolonged twilight rambles in the countryside that disturb the parents of the town. One day, a young boy stumbles across her "playing on the grass with a 'strange naked man,<span style="padding-right: 0.15em;">'</span>"; the boy becomes hysterical and later, after seeing a Roman statue of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Satyr">satyr</a>'s head, becomes permanently feeble-minded. Helen also forms an unusually close friendship with a neighbour girl, Rachel, whom she leads several times into the woods. On one occasion Rachel returns home distraught, half-naked and rambling. Shortly after explaining to her mother what happened to her (never revealed in the story), Rachel returns to the woods and disappears forever. Clarke relates these events in a book he is writing entitled <i>Memoirs to Prove the Existence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Devil">Devil</a></i>.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Years later, Villiers happens across his old friend Herbert, who has become a vagrant since they last met. When asked how he has fallen so low, Herbert replies that he has been "corrupted body and soul" by his wife. After some investigation with Clarke and another character, Austin, it is revealed that Helen was Herbert's wife, and that a well-to-do man killed himself after seeing something that terrified him in Herbert and Helen's home. Herbert is later found dead.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Helen disappears for some time; according to rumor, she spent the time taking part in disturbing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Orgy">orgies</a> somewhere in the Americas. She eventually returns to London under the pseudonym Mrs. Beaumont. Soon after, a group of stable, happy men in London commit suicide; the last person known to have been in the presence of each of them was Mrs. Beaumont, whom they are implied to have slept with. Villiers and Clarke, each learning of Mrs. Beaumont's true identity, band together and confront Helen in her house with a noose. They tell her that she must kill herself, or they will expose her. Helen has a very abnormal death, transforming between human and beast, male and female, and dividing and reuniting, before turning into a jelly-like substance and finally dying."<br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What happened between  </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the German  </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Intelligence Bureau </a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">& the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">German Foreign Office</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> officials as well as the Astro Hungarian soldiers in the lower depths?! Something from a scene from a horror movie or worse! <br />A door to the real of chaos & madness exists  within the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Caverns of Quasqueton & its influence has been spreading across Europe. Because its not the only otherworldly gateway.  </span><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9btqYnc_aEiFdMYjlXNWbAxG4b_CVjRw_52iMGdSxO-GtudUMV7D_F4IzXX3IdKl4d7sqM0bNkvnNjItGIEDdDJaJzFT1WmyiYcQw8x1XZAYFX48yo2udJEBexofSpktFRIu45jQ95U/s640/Anibale_Carracci%252C_Farnese_Ceiling%252C_Pan_and_Syrinx.jpg" width="414" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> Farnese Ceiling, Pan and Syrinx By </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Anibale Carracci</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><br />Once events within  </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Caverns of Quasqueton come to the attention of the Astro Hungarian officials they'll send in <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/164629/Amazing-Adventures-Demon-Hunter">a demon hunter</a> to deal with the situation. The attention of the cult across Europe & its cabals of  occultists, witches, & the like will go on high alert. This is only the beginning though. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Helen Vaughan appears as a Succubus Siren from the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144875/Amazing-Adventures-Manual-of-Monsters">Amazing Adventures Manual of Monsters</a>. She checks almost every last box but that's not all. </span><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL47huJ1ghVHzULvQhS1UB6Zof7jUrpIjLyHJ9-yne2jzSue0sMP23kN_NlqmK8wPn0KQCGpUm-unC7HvIW51t7rMbUVyEl8X0e3WiUBDoJn6TK4LYqPq6WQv55IjP1gWQ5sAvQ1BqbEk/s320/557px-Coat_of_arms_of_Austro-Hungarian_Empire_1846.png" width="297" /><br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Austria%E2%80%93Hungary" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-align: center;" title="">Coat of arms</a> Astro Hungarian Empire<br /><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The fact is that many of the themes & ideas here could use<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--Dragon"> the Lion & Dragon rpg</a> for the chaos cults, the occult background, & much more but that's another blog entry for another day. </span><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="614" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaVipGE8kxic0h0U5DTEhp6wEk1MXJsl0vBcsbT76zuH2yoasj8vgO_wFCJLGHAp31lBpu1ro9M0Nm7Otn8EoS9We8EZmglpPnoiHwbwx0-0DpT25s2t8mmCjGlq9nb1CMaeeSp40-Sg/s640/226021.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="490" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; 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text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9TSwLV8nJXC5fWQGjQ5_-SIYVqlbAiNVYYaRF6xMyXNHaK0uUYfsUMWYHMUYYw3y0IS6nwktvhUbfQwjy9PpRqLdN4zFCkKulbUlyZy_MbPt43OTTz3mV4cZZ_FNMweD_xhUwQUHWgdI/s400/s-l300.jpg" width="300" /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />Sitting lazily on a mostly unknown stretch of the Danube lays a very unsettling set of castle ruins. A joint operation between the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the German  </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Intelligence Bureau </a>& the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">German Foreign Office</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, have uncovered ancient documents relating to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">two wealthy adventurers, Roghan the Fearless and Zelligar the Unknown, who built a hidden complex known as the Caverns of Quasqueton. Now the Astro Hungarian empire is sending in top men & capes of their own to the hidden valley along the Danube.<br /><br /></span></span><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1162" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhhZwaOIyB_UMsMWw9FH04vKLhtrVb9D8Mdj6KgeTfyvO7Cz6Q_tbeh3yF3zN0TIRxrxwjQQm2D2QlMnEsnoBNOxgzvNoPzHgfgdD3iwBLATo3Mc4urO4fdUxUYtVy5WD9zHwjxf4lCg/s400/Stadt_und_Festung_Hirsova.JPG" width="400" /><br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The locals have been terrorized by unknown pig like warriors & there have been several deaths. The military maybe in way over their head. The head office is sending in your team to investigate <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Caverns of Quasqueton. So this not your standard take on '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Search of the Unknown (Dungeons & Dragons Module B1)' (Dungeon module) by Mike Carr (1981-11-08). </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="210" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfusgMyTmmkCtJXnoAEGhymGHw7Hdxg-5G45jbrby_LETu7hu3HWvXX-IT8nVt_srYpArH0goKQux9lKvjI4Ga5OuAD1WsHVMg-LqRZfu27CkjhX6QlNJS4pisHmo8UNZczfX734ooyw/s400/D%2526DOrc.JPG" width="316" /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> '</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">In Search of the Unknown (Dungeons & Dragons Module B1)' (Dungeon module) by Mike Carr in my alternative WWI Amazing Adventures! rpg/Victorious hybrid I'd be using many of</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/home/modules-and-scenarios/b1-in-search-of-the-unknown" style="color: #333333;"> the additions from the Zenopus Archives.</a><span style="color: #333333;"> But what the Hell has been happening on the lower levels of the </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Caverns of Quasqueton? For that I'd turn back to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">English author </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Algernon Blackwood">Algernon Blackwood</a> 's <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search/The_Willows_(story)">The Willows</a> once again. A cult of centuries old witches &  Chaos worshipers have been using the crumbling site for rituals for ages. There is a door to another occult  world within the caverns! The cult has been opening doors that should have remained closed.</span></div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdypO-AlDJ5Ypuw9N95jJAKoZeqty5U8Zo4v3vnLSsPoB0xz13ejsNfStriwe6wCfnid1JT5fHriGW8qaiyXN3h2sO03JPs0U5ZEqtoroAXnzMhlMuD1fOC2dy3BXJMmLJTskimBjGZQ/s640/Codex-Celtarum.jpg" width="508" /></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Many of the monsters from Brian Young's </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/113959/Castles--Crusades-Codex-Celtarum" style="color: red; cursor: pointer;">Castles & Crusades Codex Celtarum</a><span style="color: #333333;"> fit the D&D </span><span style="color: #333333;">paradigm</span><span style="color: #333333;"> with a Celtic twist & turn or two. But additionally I'd actually turn to the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/187934/Castles--Crusades-Codex-Slavorum" style="color: red; cursor: pointer;">Castles & Crusades Codex Slavorum</a> to really punch up the menace & feel of the module into the realm of dangerous occult madness. Such a gateway might belong to<a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/11/osr-commentary-alko-option-arthur.html"> the Arthur Machen's chaotic & dangerous </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/11/osr-commentary-alko-option-arthur.html"> White People the gate leading  to the dangerous world of these evil fairies. </a></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Are  the Caverns of Quasqueton far more dangerous then they might at first appear?! That's going to be up to the dungeon master. But such a set of ruins can't fall into the hands of the Germans or their allies. This might be a prime opportunity to use the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">occult & alien Fairy survivors from ancient Pre second Ice Age days. The deadliness of their relics & artifacts is detailed in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/214">"The Red Hand" (1895).</a></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></div> <div> <img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqVvk5EPhS4wPoUAtcj0FDsdrOrROuQ_0uBvsv27uP6WBBOrir3xCrdX54rVPZYo0LtvOoSpY1cwX8gRzF89FBDLbswywXcBoSW9lOXMhkgAx0KB7QB9nGAxp_kKchwo7le66Fy0uA9A/s400/ImgID14891187.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="270" /></div> <div> <br /> But there's a lot more going on within the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Caverns of Quasqueton then at first meets the eye. Tomorrow we get into the lower levels, monster placement, & the deadilness of the whole affair on the Danube. </span></div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Needles</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-amazing-affair-on-danube-in-search.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-amazing-affair-on-danube-in-search.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-04-24T11:32:00-07:00'>11:32 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-amazing-affair-on-danube-in-search.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1389871235'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7672684189982389944&postID=2729308648560436176&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazing%20Adventures%20%21%20rpg' rel='tag'>Amazing Adventures ! 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Rpg</a> & <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/169398/Victorious-the-Role-Playing-Game">the Victorious Rpg</a>. But that went out the window because some of my players read <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/181309192657995/421772911944954/?comment_id=423129938475918&notif_id=1556016555009266&notif_t=group_comment">Troll Lord's Amazing Adventures! rpg official Facebook group. </a></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So on phone call later from one of my newer players who isn't crazy about the Gary Gygax  D20  book blah,blah, etc. & I've had to rethink a major portion of this campaign. Well, when your a dungeon master & you need to think outside of the box then you go back to the well spring. In this case I went back to the original concept for part of this WWI campaign the HP Lovecraft story ghost written with Harry Houdini called<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_with_the_Pharaohs"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Imprisoned with the Pharaohs</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_with_the_Pharaohs">".<br /></a></span><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="170" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNC0FwkHfNBLjRFq8R1BNXuA6tzqs8bEeh-dgFHlgpUbtULj5HWSgftXMhoKa_oV361XVfICr2FcRHoGM7F2ebkhPTbLpteGzefwQcze2K9EobmBla63VsxQax5kEBeivLDJ-zJcMNXw/s400/Harry_Houdini_head.jpg" width="322" /><br /></span><br /> <span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harry Houdini was pleased with the result of Lovecraft's work </span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222;">and collaborated on several other projects with him prior to Houdini's death in 1926.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">""</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Imprisoned with the Pharaohs</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">" (called "</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Under the Pyramids</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">" in draft form, also published as "</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Entombed with the Pharaohs</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Necronomicon_1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_with_the_Pharaohs#cite_note-Necronomicon-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">) is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Short story">short story</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> written by American </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fantasy fiction">fantasy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> author </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in collaboration with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in February 1924. Commissioned by </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> founder and owner </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Henneberger" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="J. C. Henneberger">J. C. Henneberger</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, the narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Great Sphinx of Giza">Great Sphinx of Giza</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx."</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1600" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0jJbAgx7SMtHQoADQBQs_F3K_lQ8A43HcSVDBDm14E4me8ex8mxCdCIeahItYm1gMMHVZEN3rCG0CeDn7-f-x8uKSLOhZPFqREO7Oy1L7UgMt7V1aqls57qGg5PH1_kmN7RNK84DRwQ/s320/Sandstorm_approaching_the_sphinx_at_G%25C3%25AEza_at_sunset%252C_Egypt._C_Wellcome_V0049386.jpg" width="320" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">We're never really told who or what the Lovecraftian monstrosities were within the Sphinx but I've gotta more then a theory from my Uncle's old notes from </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">""</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Imprisoned with the Pharaohs</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">" ;</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"At length I succeeded in reaching the steps and began to climb; keeping close to the wall, on which I observed decorations of the most hideous sort, and relying for safety on the absorbed, ecstatic interest with which the monstrosities watched the foul-breezed aperture and the impious objects of nourishment they had flung on the pavement before it. Though the staircase was huge and steep, fashioned of vast porphyry blocks as if for the feet of a giant, the ascent seemed virtually interminable. Dread of discovery and the pain which renewed exercise had brought to my wounds combined to make that upward crawl a thing of agonizing memory. I had intended, on reaching the landing, to climb immediately onward along whatever upper staircase might mount from there; stopping for no last look at the carrion abominations that pawed and genuflected some seventy or eighty feet below—yet a sudden repetition of that thunderous corpse-gurgle and death-rattle chorus, coming as I had nearly gained the top of the flight and showing by its ceremonial rhythm that it was not an alarm of my discovery, caused me to pause and peer cautiously over the parapet.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The monstrosities were hailing something which had poked itself out of the nauseous aperture to seize the hellish fare proffered it. It was something quite ponderous, even as seen from my height; something yellowish and hairy, and endowed with a sort of nervous motion. It was as large, perhaps, as a good-sized hippopotamus, but very curiously shaped. It seemed to have no neck, but five separate shaggy heads springing in a row from a roughly cylindrical trunk; the first very small, the second good-sized, the third and fourth equal and largest of all, and the fifth rather small, though not so small as the first.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Out of these heads darted curious rigid tentacles which seized ravenously on the excessively great quantities of unmentionable food placed before the aperture. Once in a while the thing would leap up, and occasionally it would retreat into its den in a very odd manner. Its locomotion was so inexplicable that I stared in fascination, wishing it would emerge farther from the cavernous lair beneath me.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then it did emerge. . .  it did emerge, and at the sight I turned and fled into the darkness up the higher staircase that rose behind me; fled unknowingly up incredible steps and ladders and inclined planes to which no human sight or logic guided me, and which I must ever relegate to the world of dreams for want of any confirmation. It must have been a dream, or the dawn would never have found me breathing on the sands of Gizeh before the sardonic dawn-flushed face of the Great Sphinx."<br /><br />What if the operations in & around Egypt in 1908 were actually a cover for the extermination of something very dangerous? Say the last surviving cults of<a href="https://hyboria.xoth.net/gazetteer/stygia.htm"> Stygia of the Robert Howard Conan stories. </a><br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivch_aIbwxX5WS7ONCiMxryWa_gidD_opjaU8bsA4z_PJ-OCbZfHqPxpWRDXNv35jFuNSYLfaxiABXvFdDXP4HMXKBzqixYaLFGc4GgsFjFBjfHDRiyFKd0zpZQ_wxWL-D6rqw_a3d5dM/s400/536px-Franz_von_Stuck_-_The_Kiss_of_the_Sphinx_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" width="356" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br /><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Franz_Stuck" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;" title="w:en:Franz Stuck">Franz Stuck</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">: </span><a class="extiw" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19968924" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;" title="d:Q19968924">The Kiss of the Sphinx</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"> </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">Human foes he did not fear, nor any death by steel or fire. But this was a black land of sorcery and nameless horror. Set the Old Serpent, men said, banished long ago from the Hyborian races, yet lurked in the shadows of the cryptic temples, and awful and mysterious were the deeds done in the nighted shrines."</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"> -- Robert E. Howard: "The Hour of the Dragon"</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">What if the ancient priests of  Atlantis & </span><a href="https://hyboria.xoth.net/gazetteer/stygia.htm"> Stygia</a> awakened in Egypt around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_theatre_of_World_War_I">1900 to 1914  </a>& began to reestablish their hold on the country in secret & earnest. Did the German  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_for_the_East" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080;" title="">Intelligence Bureau for the East</a> know some of the horrifying secrets that various rebels were conspiring with?<br />What if there were much more ancient tombs under the sands of Memphis & Gaza? The Spring rains may have uncovered exactly the sort of occult help that some of the forces were looking for?  </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="502" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbPxgDqj84NV_9xnBE8NHq9rgGC59cPNeRs2gk9W-ELmBFd67nqZmQJQgyJPVEFU8R4rGlA9xHIGzBeclDapNKBL4mgJQYfiGIW4uP4_37iopRXYvExUEdNLI2h7MBHC4hoyojVIucqY/s400/Botchcraft.jpg" width="400" /></span><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa;">The German mission in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a><br /><br />How you may ask? Well after the events of  </span><span style="color: #28a8e1;"><a href="https://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-amazing-shifting-sands-of-beginning.html">I3-5 Desert of Desolation</a> </span> the local time space continuum has cracked because of the occult forces of the tower of <span style="color: #333333;">Martek. Now these events have drawn several members of </span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_the_Worm">the immoral  脝sir</a></span><span style="color: #222222;"> to the areas around Egypt because of the cults activities & summoning especially within </span><span style="color: #222222;">the Persian and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> <span style="color: #222222;">satellite states. So whose behind all of this? </span></span></div> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hooded priest is in  fact another survivor of Atlantis  similar to</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull-Face" style="color: #005582; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Howard's Skull Face. </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull-Face" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHpCZ_F8O6ZFt17lvNuJlH8wipqn0AlOnR4cFXpfbZTun93uyAAxPeIgStNQERcem-SdKgkjWFW8UIi36PJYDTmiRTt_La3yC2tBrZ-aDOt5plWten92ViwMFwiLDmp-PuNSGjfz4-34/s640/Famous_fantastic_mysteries_195212.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="470" /></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An Atlantian survivor of the worst kind that interweaves with Robert  Howard's Steve Costigan character. <br />"The story stars a character called Steve Costigan but this is not Howard's recurring character, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Steve_Costigan" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sailor Steve Costigan">Sailor Steve Costigan</a>. The story is clearly influenced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sax Rohmer">Sax Rohmer</a>'s opus <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fu Manchu">Fu Manchu</a> but substitutes the main Asian villain with a resuscitated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Atlantis">Atlantean</a> necromancer (very similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull_of_Atlantis" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kull of Atlantis">Kull</a>'s arch-foe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulsa_Doom" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Thulsa Doom">Thulsa Doom</a>) sitting at the center of a web of crime and intrigue meant to end White/Western world domination."<br />There is evidence to suggest that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull-Face" style="color: #005582; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Skull-Face">Kathulos</a> might have actually been a part of a secret order of necromancers from Atlantis similar to <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/61/the-empire-of-the-necromancers">Clark Ashton Smith's </a><span class="st"><a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/61/the-empire-of-the-necromancers">The Empire of the <em>Necromancers</em></a>. Possibly echoing lost survivors of ancient Atlantis showing up in later future epochs of Earth such as Zothique.<br />What the implications of the appearance of such a cult within World War I is pretty horrid. The main Amazing Adventures ! Rpg rule book  & <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144875/Amazing-Adventures-Manual-of-Monsters">the Manual of Monsters</a> actually has several Egpytian themed horrors build right in. The mummy lesser & greater are a must, the lich is a perfect stand in for a Kathulos stand in, plus there are several boss level Egyptian horrors build right into the book.</span></span></span><br /> <div> <img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjST5KqBjhk3nycEQWNkEeB-g5xTppxtXKNQvLto5RKab3MZHWX7soxf_96izf0qECYbp7Ss6zxCcmeMMucnb-qEj4g8OQe_maaB4D_DR291-PzdX9FWrhdNF_Aba1-zRKUGXWdDn9KGFs/s640/144875.jpg" width="496" /><br /> <br /> Even bringing capes & beings of extraordinary powers to such a fight isn't going to make one ioata of difference. 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href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2024/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/'> 2023 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(503)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(32)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(42)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 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</a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2023/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/'> 2022 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(583)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(65)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(60)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(48)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(59)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(54)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(42)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/'> 2021 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(588)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(45)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(63)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(49)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(58)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(593)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(52)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(80)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(70)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(55)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(60)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/'> 2019 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(509)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(89)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(91)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(47)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(330)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(27)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(31)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a 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href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2018/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/'> 2017 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(446)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(28)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 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</a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(35)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(39)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/'> 2016 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(510)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(51)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(37)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(41)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(45)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2016/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(56)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/'> 2015 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(814)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(53)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(71)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(57)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(59)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(64)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(69)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(58)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(67)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(70)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/03/'> March </a> 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