I wrote this message to a few players who reached out with encouragements to me. I share this with you all. Thanks for the message. I am in good health physically, more than two years into my remission from a stage IV lymphoma after four years of intensive treatment. But I had a bad year, last 2024....

Siouxsie

A coracle sounds fun. What's the worst that could happen? Floating an underground stream in a faerie cup sounds the stuff of druidic fables.

'Fez' PheasantPlucker "Cousins! Don't mind my comrades here. They are a bit obtuse maybe but kindly folk that would see no one enslaved." It seems an awful lot of trouble to get workers kidnapping folk several days and scores of miles away. There are the following items found among their ...

In AD&D firing into melee is not possible, right? yes, everything is possible at a risk though a read through House Rules gives what we have in play here: Firing into melee : At short range, characters may fire into melee without any penalty or danger to allied combatants. A miss will be counte...

she notices that she has almost a light pink film on her hands. It is slight lighter than the color of glowing water and but does not glow. She will wash that off in case it is some strange contaminant and using her scythe, harvest some portions of nearby fungi, careful of any slimy ones or those t...

I am ore than happy to continue with solo expedition arcs, especially as we post a little slower. So the choice is yours though going back for a few days to trade, report on the civilising attempts and wuden your knowledge, player contacts can only be a good thing. The Orphidians can accompany you a...

Characters may pay the town crier 1gp to pin any note to the board and get him to vocalize the issue in his daily bell ringing broadcasts. Durgo -1gp , enrolls the Town Crier to voice recruitment for labourers. He tolls his bell daily at noon and throughout market days, promising to send interested...

The Tower of Mazzah Genaromes and Durgo if he wishes knock upon the rickety looking weird dwelling that serves as the dwelling of the erratic mage and his stone tower laboratory which bizarrely rests crookedly upon the branches of a tree, looking for all the world that it had just blown there from ...

The Axe and Anvil Forge The dwarves revisit their kinsfolk's commune, seeking improved gear, respite and blessings. Fydmar He will pay his respects to Karl Barrelgut & donate 10gp as a thank you for the blessing & to help spread the word of Moridin. take +10xp, a minor reciprocating reward ...

The Mercenary Guild: Helix. https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/viewtopic.php?p=671787#p671787 Durgo returns back from a partially successful delivery into the labyrinth and crypts beyond the Harpy Shaft. Rickford & Duvall proving able veterans despite being hired on Torch-bearer terms. Like the...

I've enjoyed reading this thread! Hope to see more here. Kris, you have a good sense of humor--the only way to get through the ups and downs. Thank you mike808 for the comments and private message. I hope your read through of the Barrowmaze pdf you own does not give up too many spoilers. Actually t...

'Fez' PheasantPlucker Unsticks the javelin from the dead prisoner, "Best not mention that fumble eh?" he says, passing the weapon back. He stuffs his Cheese-wire Garrotte back up his sleeve and untangles his hammock/net before searching the dead guard, stripping him of usable trove like w...

Ironguard Citadel: chasing shadows ... With Bluetongue absent until he can sort out his login password trouble and Hvakreki not responding to my messages, this expedition will stall. So to keep you guys still involved and rather than drag out this investigation, as I reboot Barrowmaze, I am trying ...

Raust will lead them back to Black Willow Island to spy upon the conditions there. ...if that's fruitless she will plan to strike due north to look for barrows. Raust , you can trek to the island, once more crafting some rafts to ferry everyone across the swifter currents around the island. As desc...

Isvand wants to search what we can where we are safely looking

I will certainly give a brief on the three rooms in this area and any trove you find.

Saving Throws: Smokie [1d20]=9 Sven [1d20]=8 Orgoth [1d20]=6 Saving Throws: Grymaldi [1d20]=7 Yardie [1d20]=2 Berric [1d20]=5 Crippens [1d20]=20 Saving Throws: Gargax [1d20]=8 BarkingToadLegs [1d20]=10 Saving Throws: Barba [1d20]=17 Only Cadeweed, Barba & Crippens pass through the eerie night n...

Blackened Forest Owlwolf pack. Hedrak considers the beauty and the beast nature of these magnificent hybrids. From the way they behave, would Hedrak be able to understand if the owlwolves are following them simply, or stalking/hunting them? Their tracks go parallel or ahead of you in a deliberate w...

Rat-men Crypts Rum Lightbender is in a bad way, unconscious and lying in a pool of blood. Rum Lightbender: negative hp Constitution check vs 15 [4d6]=14 The dwarf is a tough nut to crack though and from 'hard as granite' stock. His internal constitution and fortitude giving him a reservoir of life ...

Siouxsie

Will check on the water, investigating how pure and drinkable it is and take some inspection of the fungi. Masking herself up so as not to breathe in spores or contaminants.

Do any of the fungi look like typical 'Shriekers' or Violet Fungi plant types?