Barrowmaze Advent Quiz
Q23: What precious commodity do the Moorwash River clam-fishers trawl for?
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Q24. Who is Ananxyrus Greenback?
Q24. Who is Ananxyrus Greenback?
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Q25: Who is being kept prisoner by the Gnolls in the cistern of their temple ruin?
And that folks brings me to wish you all a Happy Christmas! I will tot up awards for answering questions and adjust the experience tally totals.
And, to add to the season of joy and merriment, a bonus question for all you game sleuths:
Which character player actually died and is currently being played in disguise as a Doppleganger?
Q25: Who is being kept prisoner by the Gnolls in the cistern of their temple ruin?
And that folks brings me to wish you all a Happy Christmas! I will tot up awards for answering questions and adjust the experience tally totals.
And, to add to the season of joy and merriment, a bonus question for all you game sleuths:
Which character player actually died and is currently being played in disguise as a Doppleganger?
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Barrowmaze Advent Quiz
Here are the answers and some background to lesser known answers:
Dec 1st: What is the name of the innkeeper at the Brazen Strumpet Tavern? Bollo
2nd: Who is the beggar who sits upon the tavern verandah? Alastar
3rd: What rare commodity does Valeron commission people to get from the forest?
Spider Silk from giant Golden Orb Weaver arachnids.
4th: Who is Helix village's Mud Wrestling champion? Sun Tsieng Roy, monk npc.
5th: What blood sport takes place in the courtyard of the Foul Pheasant? Cockfighting overseen by 'Rooster' Rogan. Lord Krothos is a regular participant as well as the dwarves from the Forge.
6th: What is the name of the apothecary in Bogtown? Verne, a herbalist and pharmacist.
7th: What type of wooden creatures were found looking after the deceased treant in the Barrow Moor glade? Gnolems or Wood Golems, named as Ash, Birch (Silver Birch) and 'Conker' (Chesney, carved from a Horse Chestnut tree).
8th: What instrument did the bardic troll, Saltheart-Walks-Far play? Bagpipes, the troll follows a vocation to appease the gods and end the regenerative curse which prohibits trolls dying and entering celestial heavens
9th: Where was the flayed body of Old Basil the poacher found hanging? The Old Dwarf Bridge along with his apprentice rangers. Bharazd'had, Sauron soothsayer was captured and charged with their murder.
10th: What type of hybrid creature was slain by characters at the abandoned Logging Camp? Owlwolves, the first of a number of strange hybrid creatures thought to be the result of the Thornswild Elves' genetic experiments.
11th: What was the name of the Bugbear tribe that followed the Set Cult? The Red Fangs Katka, a priest was first encountered by the Crooked Yew expedition team and later slain by Dalin and druid Clive.
12th: What is the name of the ancient black dragon that reigned over the Moor at the time of the desolation? Ossithrax The dragon held sway over the wilderness, rumoured to have been slain in a great fight by Mercian barbarians and buried in a great mound. The first mention of his name caused a minor quake in the Barrowmaze. A refurbished tapestry with his 3-D image hangs in the Banquets Suite of Duke Kell's citadel Keep.
13th: What sort of radioactive rock does the Svirfneblin chief Trakratos carry about with him?
A meteorite, the Moonstone. A radioactive rock that potentially is the root cause of the illnesses, barrenness, feeble-mindedness and strange behaviours within the gnome-kin community at the Sinkhole.
14th: Who is Mephistoffol? Mazzah's cat and contrary to popular opinion. He is not s Familiar but a former associate polymorphed into feline form.
15th: What pirate dice game can you play in the Foul Pheasant? Liar's Dice, played firstly by Dalin who gained favour and won an increase in his Constitution attribute.
16th: The font at the St Ygg's Chapel was upgraded to silver standard in memoriam of which deceased cleric? Truro Cornwallis, acolyte and evangel of St Ygg and mercenary at the Guild. He was first bitten by giant toads then torn apart and feasted upon by the blood-frenzied Deucalion whilst he was still in his Ravenous Zombie state.
17th: What is the name of the healing mud that can be plastered into casts to restore player's health? Hurtloam Nature's blessing, a cave of Hurtloam has been located along the banks of the Merisc River, cleric Marcel des Rosier dying within the cavern, feasted upon by cave rays.
18th: Who swam with mermaids in the Barrowmere? Sven, Orgoth & Isvand
Only the latter pair were subsequently afflicted by the blown 'Sands of Forgetfulness', and so lost all memory of that experience.
19th: The Chapel of St Ygg's has a stained glass window in honour of which ancient knight whose shield Durgo now carries? Sir Guy O'Veargne . The knight was slain on an expedition that aimed to close the Pit of Chaos using the relic known as the Fount of Law
20th: What happened to the Helix Hospice?
It burned down in a blaze. The rumour is the blaze started as Duchy guards fought patients who were turning into Orphidians or Fungicide Mushroom-men.
21st: Who is the unseen friend of the Ogre who lives in the Quarry tunnels? The ghost of Spoonie the dwarf miner. An Easter-egg character as Spoonie the npc occurs in many of my campaigns.
22nd: What do the Sauron lizardmen accuse Karl Barrelgut of stealing from them? A dragon egg. The Saurons were gifted an inert dragon egg as a peace offering, exchanging their own unhatched offspring to bind a treaty with the Thornswild Elves.
23rd: What precious item do the Moorwash River clam-fishers trawl for? Pearls, specifically those able to be used in arcane Identity spells.
24th: Who is Ananxyrus Greenback? Bullywug chief, presently charmed by druid Raust and in her vassal-ship. Her Orphidian tribe and the Bullywugs have engaged in a joint Tadhemoth hunting expedition.
25th: Who is being kept prisoner in the Gnolls cistern? The two lost orphans of Rayo Paterson The Gnolls speak of them as being 'God-touched' and the conclusion is they are being kept prisoner so as to be used in some Gnoll Cthulhu-type ritual later. The orphans are thought to have become Orphidian too but also have manifested innate magic ability.
Bonus question: Which character died and is actually being played as a doppelganger? that would be telling ....
Here are the answers and some background to lesser known answers:
Dec 1st: What is the name of the innkeeper at the Brazen Strumpet Tavern? Bollo
2nd: Who is the beggar who sits upon the tavern verandah? Alastar
3rd: What rare commodity does Valeron commission people to get from the forest?
Spider Silk from giant Golden Orb Weaver arachnids.
4th: Who is Helix village's Mud Wrestling champion? Sun Tsieng Roy, monk npc.
5th: What blood sport takes place in the courtyard of the Foul Pheasant? Cockfighting overseen by 'Rooster' Rogan. Lord Krothos is a regular participant as well as the dwarves from the Forge.
6th: What is the name of the apothecary in Bogtown? Verne, a herbalist and pharmacist.
7th: What type of wooden creatures were found looking after the deceased treant in the Barrow Moor glade? Gnolems or Wood Golems, named as Ash, Birch (Silver Birch) and 'Conker' (Chesney, carved from a Horse Chestnut tree).
8th: What instrument did the bardic troll, Saltheart-Walks-Far play? Bagpipes, the troll follows a vocation to appease the gods and end the regenerative curse which prohibits trolls dying and entering celestial heavens
9th: Where was the flayed body of Old Basil the poacher found hanging? The Old Dwarf Bridge along with his apprentice rangers. Bharazd'had, Sauron soothsayer was captured and charged with their murder.
10th: What type of hybrid creature was slain by characters at the abandoned Logging Camp? Owlwolves, the first of a number of strange hybrid creatures thought to be the result of the Thornswild Elves' genetic experiments.
11th: What was the name of the Bugbear tribe that followed the Set Cult? The Red Fangs Katka, a priest was first encountered by the Crooked Yew expedition team and later slain by Dalin and druid Clive.
12th: What is the name of the ancient black dragon that reigned over the Moor at the time of the desolation? Ossithrax The dragon held sway over the wilderness, rumoured to have been slain in a great fight by Mercian barbarians and buried in a great mound. The first mention of his name caused a minor quake in the Barrowmaze. A refurbished tapestry with his 3-D image hangs in the Banquets Suite of Duke Kell's citadel Keep.
13th: What sort of radioactive rock does the Svirfneblin chief Trakratos carry about with him?
A meteorite, the Moonstone. A radioactive rock that potentially is the root cause of the illnesses, barrenness, feeble-mindedness and strange behaviours within the gnome-kin community at the Sinkhole.
14th: Who is Mephistoffol? Mazzah's cat and contrary to popular opinion. He is not s Familiar but a former associate polymorphed into feline form.
15th: What pirate dice game can you play in the Foul Pheasant? Liar's Dice, played firstly by Dalin who gained favour and won an increase in his Constitution attribute.
16th: The font at the St Ygg's Chapel was upgraded to silver standard in memoriam of which deceased cleric? Truro Cornwallis, acolyte and evangel of St Ygg and mercenary at the Guild. He was first bitten by giant toads then torn apart and feasted upon by the blood-frenzied Deucalion whilst he was still in his Ravenous Zombie state.
17th: What is the name of the healing mud that can be plastered into casts to restore player's health? Hurtloam Nature's blessing, a cave of Hurtloam has been located along the banks of the Merisc River, cleric Marcel des Rosier dying within the cavern, feasted upon by cave rays.
18th: Who swam with mermaids in the Barrowmere? Sven, Orgoth & Isvand
Only the latter pair were subsequently afflicted by the blown 'Sands of Forgetfulness', and so lost all memory of that experience.
19th: The Chapel of St Ygg's has a stained glass window in honour of which ancient knight whose shield Durgo now carries? Sir Guy O'Veargne . The knight was slain on an expedition that aimed to close the Pit of Chaos using the relic known as the Fount of Law
20th: What happened to the Helix Hospice?
It burned down in a blaze. The rumour is the blaze started as Duchy guards fought patients who were turning into Orphidians or Fungicide Mushroom-men.
21st: Who is the unseen friend of the Ogre who lives in the Quarry tunnels? The ghost of Spoonie the dwarf miner. An Easter-egg character as Spoonie the npc occurs in many of my campaigns.
22nd: What do the Sauron lizardmen accuse Karl Barrelgut of stealing from them? A dragon egg. The Saurons were gifted an inert dragon egg as a peace offering, exchanging their own unhatched offspring to bind a treaty with the Thornswild Elves.
23rd: What precious item do the Moorwash River clam-fishers trawl for? Pearls, specifically those able to be used in arcane Identity spells.
24th: Who is Ananxyrus Greenback? Bullywug chief, presently charmed by druid Raust and in her vassal-ship. Her Orphidian tribe and the Bullywugs have engaged in a joint Tadhemoth hunting expedition.
25th: Who is being kept prisoner in the Gnolls cistern? The two lost orphans of Rayo Paterson The Gnolls speak of them as being 'God-touched' and the conclusion is they are being kept prisoner so as to be used in some Gnoll Cthulhu-type ritual later. The orphans are thought to have become Orphidian too but also have manifested innate magic ability.
Bonus question: Which character died and is actually being played as a doppelganger? that would be telling ....
Re: Festivals and Celebration Days.
Barrowmaze Advent Quiz
Thank you to all participants in the Quiz. I hoped it filled a few gaps in knowledge and shared a few snippets of Interesting information.
I have adjusted the Experience Points awarded to players and added it to your characters.
Balto +500xp
Bluetongue +500xp
GreywolfIV +70xp
Mr Rose +400xp
Quo +500xp
Raven5455 +500xp
Rex +10xp
Stirling +500xp
Straither +500xp
Tanker +340xp
Tristenc +340xp
Thank you to all participants in the Quiz. I hoped it filled a few gaps in knowledge and shared a few snippets of Interesting information.
I have adjusted the Experience Points awarded to players and added it to your characters.
Balto +500xp
Bluetongue +500xp
GreywolfIV +70xp
Mr Rose +400xp
Quo +500xp
Raven5455 +500xp
Rex +10xp
Stirling +500xp
Straither +500xp
Tanker +340xp
Tristenc +340xp