I jest, a reader asked for some maps related to my ongoing HMS APOLLYON
project - but I don't feel like publishing those, so here's a map of a twelve sided
folded unnatural space.
I am keying it up as a combination of the ruins of the folded city of an ancient
Carcosa imposed upon by the last bastion and hidden bunkers of the Iron King,
Hawberk I, who was deposed by its current Ragged King.
It's a bad place where refugees from Carcosa find themselves scavenging.
The project contains rooms like this:
Abb6. War Room - Dark - Folded City Encounters - Monster
A swarm of gangling skeletons scurry about the plastered bunker shuffling
piled papers atop sagging desks. A sandtable stands at the center of the room
surrounded by more skeletons in a finer cut of ragged blue uniform.
surrounded by more skeletons in a finer cut of ragged blue uniform.
- gangling skeletons - fourteen skeletons wearing the rags of blue uniforms
with yellow piping dash about carrying papers, furiously scribbling with long
dry pens and clattering their jawbones in a parody of speech. The Skeleton
Bureaucrats are trapped in the dream of their final days of frenzied efforts to
stem the tide of angry revolutionary violence. They fully expect the doors of
the bunker to fly open at any moment, guards overrun by a howling mob and
will likely view (-4 penalty to reaction roll) any intruders as the harbingers of
the revolution and fight a last desperate defense.
Dreaming Skeleton x14- HD 1 (HP 3 each), AC 13, Atk x1 +2 (claws)
MV 4 (avg), SV F1, INT -1, ML 10
The ruined remnants of the Iron King's staff these undead are unarmed but
perfectly capable of inflicting injury with their ragged claws.
- piled papers - rickety wooden desks, secretarial cubbies and the floor are
covered with mounds and drifts of paper. The brittle sheets themselves,
where they have not been written over a hundred times, show maps of an
unfamiliar Carcosa, strong points, barricades, overrun by the lashing arrows of
advances and retreats. Orders, crossed out, rewritten and endlessly modified
indicate that the Iron King’s military has fallen back and been overwhelmed
by the forces of revolution - the followers of the Ragged King.
- sandtable - five Skeleton Bureaucrats in rotten macaroni cluster about a
meticulously created sandtable showing the map of lands that no longer exist.
Only Loch Hali is vaguely identifiable. The dead push and prod painted wooden
markers about, and wave bony sagacious fingers at each
other.
Dreaming Skeleton x5 - HD 1 (HP 3 each), AC 13, Atk x1 +2 (bludgeon)
MV 4 (avg), SV F1, INT -1, ML 10
These Dreaming dead are so lost in their phantasm of control and mastery of
war that they will ignore any intruders who don’t actively touch them or disrupt
their sand table. If disturbed or interrupted they will attack with moldering
riding quirts and brass knobbed swagger sticks.
Wow, that's neat
ReplyDeletedoes it fit together to actually make it a d12?
ReplyDeleteIt should - I haven't tried it yet.
DeleteGus, it does fit together to make a d12, but faces F and H do not line up correctly. Still, nice little dungeon map. I plan on using it soon for my ASE campaign.
DeleteOh, how you toy with us!
ReplyDeleteLove it anyway.
That is fantastic
ReplyDelete