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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...

Original image by IdaT (Pixabay). Alterations by Doug Bolden.   "Previously on..." and Campaign Summary Part 23 Recap A Few Quick Notes The Mantle is Lost The Isles of Andrek and the Town of Valthis Entering the Sea Caves and the Hall of Murals The Hall of Pillars, the Sons' Tomb, Spiders, and Stingbats Holy Water, the Sea Wolf Skeleton, and the Tomb of the Seer Meeting some Sad Bandits, More Stingbats, and Death The Makeshift Ferry, The Haunting, the Longboat, and the Undead Sea Nymph Gathering the Treasure, Returning to the Crossbow, Tidal Surges, and Saving Bandits Doug's Commentary Actual Play Downloads Credits Previously, on The Bleak + The Pearl... The Blue Delve Boys have returned from the Everburning Forest, exhausted and recovering from injuries. Meanwhile, Gryffin Grunkheart has decided to throw his lot in fully behind Cal and has gath...