Underworld Adventurer

 Most of the Red Riders continued fill their lives with tasks other than adventuring. Copra Kaan continued his path of offering his services to the 111th Company of Orm in hopes of making amends. Crambo was still absent from the Crow as he toiled away to create his first original spell. Bludoon's focus remained locked in on his food stall, the Last Meal . Armeen was guiding Chauncy through his studies of the practices of the clergy of Danu.  Petra P was drowning her troubles at the Drinking Crow . In her time between adventures, she had started to make a name for herself doing street performances with her dungeon terriers and magic elephant. Her budding popularity has seen a bunch of copy cat acts start up, all hoping to make some quick coin off the craze she started. She needed to done something soon to distinguish her act or she would become lost in the shuffle. The only other Red Rider to join Petra was Fr. Bert, eager to discover what he had missed in his time focusing on ...

A second full moon hangs over Orm this month. With it comes the latest news around Orm: The Black Pyramid Arrives!-- Orm's wastrels, mystics, and visionares report visions of an ethereal black pyramid when the late summer moon turned full. The profound feels of cosmic dread they all share marks one thing- the Black Pyramid now visits this realm. What exactly is the Black Pyramid, most cannot say. Beggar prophets share word of the Black Pyramid bringing increased chances of rare encounters into ones life. The Archwizard of the Transcendental Congress of Aureate Precepts has sent warning to seater holders in Orm to be cautious--signs point to profound risks being linked to this extraplanar structure. Castora Cup Announced -- The knightly Order of the Dragon is to host the first annual Castora Cup Challenge this Hunter's Moon. The contest will be held in an open air challenge dungeon constructed in the ruins of Orm-of-Old. Teams of five adventurers, each representing a virtue of ...

A perigean full moon rose as the harvest moon above Ur-Dan. With it came the fall of an eye tyrant and magical new culinary delights along with the rest of the news around Orm.  The Eye of Terror defeated!- Four joint strikes executed by adventurers has seen the reign of the Eye of Terror come to an end. The first group in freed the Children of Peroma from the Eye collaborating leadership of Attuk and his right-hand ogre Zonk. A second saw a group press all the way down to the Pool of Life and slayed the Eye of Terror themself in battle. A third saw the crushing defeat of a pair of demons known as the Mariliths--allies of the Eye that ruled over the former cells of the Imperial Mother on Level 1. Midnight Maruaders Grizzly Battle for Life- Key to this plan was the hiring of the Midnight Marauders to deliver a barrel of Sweet Dreams to put the Eye's forces on Level 1 to sleep. The Marauders returned from their mission with Ferris the Living Harness badly damaged. Shelby the S...

 It all started with a desire to help the Children of Peroma. The elfin retainer Lirazil had enough of the suffering under the Eye of Terror she witness on a recent delve into 'The Complex'. She convinced her employer, the magician Phasmo, to rally an effort to strike out at the Eye of Terror and those allied with the tyrannical being. The mission would be to venture into the cavern territory of the mutants and attempt to offer them aid or relief in some capacity. These plans those adventuring out of the Drinking Crow to lend a hand. Armeen and Bludoon offered to help rally forces of the Imperial Mother to the cause or perhaps hired the adventuring company the Midnight Marauders to cause a diversion. Fr. Bert wanted to help in a more tangible way have been overheard saying, "It won't take me much convincing to beat up on the Eye." It was Copra Kaan that suggested the two circles of adventurers join forces in a series of coordinated  attacks. Rather than just movin...

 Recently, a party of adventurers brought freed some tribal mutants from bondage to the Eye of Terror. The group brought a pair of the mutants with them out of 'The Complex' and to Orm. One of the mutants, Sir Mo, is impatiently marking the days until he can return to his people with some poison smuggled in a storage stomach he possesses. The other mutant, Macara, refused to return to her tribe's cavern home and possesses a fierce appetite for some action. Macara circumstance seems like the perfect time for me to introduce some rules for retainers I have been sitting on for some time. Under the Recruit a Retainer rules, the retainers of the Twilight Age are steadfast companions, not colorless hired hands. As a result, it takes more than tavern gossip or job postings to secure the services of a retainer. There are three methods of obtaining their services: An Acquantice From the Adventurer's Past Life - A player character may bring into service  one  person from their pr...

The adventurer known as Abraxas once lived in the the upper levels of the dungeon underworld known as 'The Complex' as a part of a community known to outsiders as 'The Tribe' (and to themselves as the Children of Peroma). These tribefolk manage to eek out a sustainable existence in these ruins of a grand failed endeavour fishing in cavern pools, collecting assorted yeasts and fungus, and gathering fruits that grow in impossible cavern groves. Tribal lore speaks of how the Children of Peroma were once trapped in the Great Darkness but the tribe ascended to their current place in Peroma. Central to their current way of life is the pillar-like white altar dubbed 'Transmorgifah'. Each member of the Tribe discovers their true self through a coming-of-age ritual centered around surviving a night at the foot of the altar unlocking the insight carried in the waves of Transmorgifah. After that night, tribe members believe their body is changed (i.e. mutated) to reflect i...