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by John Harness GUMSHOE One-2-One protagonist character NOWHERESVILLE, USA featuring DANNY BOONE Danny Boone Eleven year old Danny Boone is your average awkward pre-teen, assuming that the average awkward pre-teen is a precocious small town sleuth with a knack for high-risk hijinks. (Choose one: black eye, cast over a broken arm, nasty scabs on knee.) […]
By Kevin Kulp This is the 13th in our series on non-human heroes in Swords of the Serpentine. Like the Forest Elves entry, High Elves cannot easily fit into Eversink without fundamentally changing the nature of the city. This entry on High Elves is only recommended for use if you want to use Swords of […]
A Swords of the Serpentine Midwinter Plot Hook By Kevin Kulp Some holidays you look forward to, and some holidays you want to avoid. Iceknock is a whole lot of both. Iceknock doesn’t happen every year. It has to be cold in Eversink. REALLY cold. Cold enough to freeze the saltwater harbor, cold enough to […]
ROSEMARY JUSTICE by Adam Gauntlett In which the Bookhounds attend an auction at a pub on Rosemary Lane and discover a peculiar phantom. 0 Point Clues Rosemary Lane, renamed Royal Mint Lane in 1850, was until recently a notorious spot for thieves and street-sellers. It was one of the largest street markets in London, but […]
By Kevin Kulp This is the 12th in our series on non-human heroes which has so far covered the spider-like Arakene, the toad-like Chuggut,the Considerata (humans whose souls are contractually linked to gods), Constructs, the fungal Drowned, fey Hidden Folk, Intelligent Animals, Merfolk, Unsleeping Advisors (secret undead), and the actual Serpentine. This month’s Ancestry is […]
By Kevin Kulp This is the 11th in our series on non-human heroes which has so far covered the spider-like Arakene, the Considerata (humans whose souls are contractually linked to gods), Constructs, the fungal Drowned, fey Hidden Folk, Intelligent Animals, Merfolk, Unsleeping Advisors (secret undead), and the actual Serpentine. This month’s Ancestry is inspired by […]
by Adam Gauntlett But once he’s entered that city, Babylon, built of brick and clay, He must be content with it as his coffin. For death alone reveals How small the remnants of a human being. Juvenal, Satires X 147-187 The Paths of Glory When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves […]