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How are you still alive?

1 – Duct tape and epoxy putty. You just stuck yourself together. Further examination of your body shows multiple patch-jobs concealed under your clothing – fishing-line stitches, sawdust and staples instead of organs, and so on. You are entirely unsure why you havenโ€™t died yet, but it seems to be working. 2 – An angel […]

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Whatโ€™s weird about these elves?

1. Theyโ€™re feral, like all elves are until the age of 100 or so. Up until that point they dwell in the forests in caves, or improvised lean-tos; they hunt with their nails and teeth, leaping out of trees and tearing the throats out of deer. At the end of their first century, they undergo […]

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What are these dwarves doing?

1 – Theyโ€™re all getting married to each other, simultaneously. (Dwarf marriage is strange.) They need to find wedding dresses, traditional beard cosies (itโ€™s winter) and wedding gifts for one another. Oh, and the roasted corpse of some giant subterranean beast for the reception, like their mothers and fathers had. 2 – Theyโ€™re creating a […]

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What’s at the bottom of this well?

1 – The top of the other well. We donโ€™t talk to the folk down there – theyโ€™re strange. Sometimes music leaks up, so plug your ears with wax when you go to collect water during a solstice, else youโ€™ll be drawn down beneath. 2 – A very stuck dragon. We couldnโ€™t get him out. […]

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What’s weird about these goblins?

credit: Hammermancer image by Iguanamouth 1 They worship seagulls, after being caught at sea on a particularly treacherous voyage, and view them as pecky angels. The worship is not at all mutual and many of the dropping-caked goblins are blind in one or more eyes. 2 They love explosions. They were raised in a mine, […]