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    "Previously..." and Campaign/Arc Summary The Bleak + The Pearl, Part 25. Hungry Trolls and Sea Nymphs What We Talk About When We Talk About Bernark Setting Out (with a new "friend") Moving East through the Caves Many Piles of Trash and a Parasomniac Troll Tricking the Hungry, Sleepy Ruggamort There and Back Again, Again Doug's Commentary Credits Open Threads, Notes, Situations, and Complications Previously, on The Bleak + The Pearl Gryffin Grunkheart has lead the Lighthouse 6 back into the sea caves. After setting up a temporary camp, the party split up. The main party found a room full of illusory food that condemned the eater to desperate eat more and more until death by starvation and dehydration. The team left behind fell into trouble when Boris Loo — young and impetuous — tried a childish attempt to get a dangling necklace and not only collapsed an a...

    "Previously..." and Campaign/Arc Summary The Bleak and The Pearl, Part 24. Feasting on Darkness Making Camp Regaining Footing Feasting on Starvation Playing in the Darkness with Dead Things On the Nature of the Months in Barthus Doug's Commentary Credits Open "Threads," Notes, Situations, and Complications Previously, on The Bleak + The Pearl Gryffin Grunkheart has lead the "Lighthouse 6" to the Andrik Islands north of The Bleak. The goal is to find the Harcuram Mantle, one of the activators for the fuelstones deep beneath Grunce. His group of new adventurers are composed of himself, four members of the once great houses of Grunce, and a strange Chelonian who has been Bleak touched from birth. In the icy caves they fought undead, wildlife, and saved bandits. Now, they are preparing to go back inside. About The Bleak + The Pearl The once great em...

    Going Back Over the Posts The First Five Episodes, The Story That Was Magnus Odinson and the Story That Would Become The Death of Eustace Delmont and the Third Pivot And the Rest of It Going Back Over the Posts As I sort through the brain space to sum up this quite long campaign — the longest by word count and episode count, though Bleak + Pearl will quite soon over take both titles since it is maybe half finished at best — I figured I'd go back some episodes and discuss some notes and ideas that occur to me. And while doing that, I'll fix a few minor errors while leaving the larger ones in place. It's a living, fairly organic game. Stuff shifts. Let's blame the Witches Three. Also, this won't be a complete list of every episode and interlude. More just a few highlights as things come to mind. Then, after this I'll do a general debrief. With the more philosophical and technical stuff. The First Fi...