Common Worlds

Here's the Ygg's Isles homeland keyword I mentioned in yesterday's game.

Blessed with fair weather, plentiful food, stunning cliffs that make excellent natural defenses from outsiders, good fishing and a coveted position in the Freshwater Sea, Dolaru seems like a wonderful place to live. But those who visit here inevitably leave soon after arrival, because the unrelenting pessimism and dour humorlessness of the population is too unpleasant to bear.

The natives worship no gods, except to propitiate Horotasa the Viscous Destroyer, the God of the Future.

Clearly influenced by its proximity to Vithela, the peaceful and happy natives of Haaaaaluuuuooh demonstrate the power of harmony in all their daily life. Each of them is in permanent telepathic communication with all their fellows for as long as they are on their island.

The island's god Huloil protects his followers with a powerful magic that causes any weapon on the island to grow too hot to hold.

Trolls, elves and dwarves live here, happy alongside humans, keets and a few children of rarer species. All of them spontaneously break out in song several times a day. All natives are fruitarians who spend most of their copious free time creating beautiful works of art in a bewildering variety of materials. They happily trade these precious artifacts for any sentient off-island child under two years of age.

The source of all knots, all natives worship the goddess Raksoa, the multi-armed Mistress of Nets who holds the world together. The best cordage, hammocks, rope and nets are made here, which the braided-haired natives trade for exotic raw materials to make unusual and magical nets. They seek high quality silk, vines from Fethlon's Glass Forest, water ash, rhino hide and the like to make spirit nets, fire ropes and other magical knots that can hold anything, solid or not.

They built and maintain the Silver Cloud Rope Bridge which extends over water to Weed Island where the Sipeweans get their mundane raw materials. Silver Cloud Bridge is tied to a cloud which holds it above the water!

Kirk has offered to take up the slack on the game days when the attendees are me, him, and Jon, I think. That way we'll be close to having a game for any combination of attendees.

He's thinking of running a game set on a ship! "Pirate hunters" is what he called it.

Yaaar!