The Great Dungeon Crawl: Jeff's Twenty Questions

     By the recommendation of Charles Saeger over at Nature Kills, I checked out this post by Jeff Rients, which made me then set out to answer all of the questions. Some of the language doesn't make sense from the perspective of one of my players using my rules, and is edited to make more sense in that regard. Edited passages are marked with brackets.

The Great Dungeon Crawl: County of Dirk Gazeteer

     This is an overview for the region of the County of Dirk. The Ruler of the Dirk County, Count Zach III, has three vassals: Baron Saquedall of Stonebark, Baron Johann of Hochmoor, and Baron "Black" Karl of Thornwick. The County of Dirk is allies with the nearby Dwarven peoples of Thaim and its colonies and mines. Here is some basic information about each settlement in the area, any landmarks near it, and who rules it. Players, if I missed anything, let me know and I will amend it. As the party explores stuff, I might add it here if the players request it to be added.

The Great Dungeon Crawl, Session 9.5: Skipping Town!

August 23rd, 1084 Korlai Reckoning.

     Late at night, Bea bursts into the Inn near Nickstown that the party was staying in. There was a lot of shouting and a lot of packing, but apparently, a company of 40 mercenaries from the Silver Broach company were after the party. Uh oh.

    They quickly got their stuff ready to go, but couldn't find Lyons. He had left the party to become the apprentice of a Knight Errant in the Fighter's Guild and they hadn't seen him in days at this point. Bea recalled that there was an abandoned Keep she had been looking at near a small town in the East of the Kingdom. They rushed into the Mages' Guild near midnight to get as far away from here as possible.

    Apparently, the man who runs the small Mages' Guild had a good friend in town, who is a licensed teleporter, meaning they were able to get to that small town near the Keep tonight, in a very sneaky manner. They had no time to break change and fish out treasure, however. They were told that they should speak to Frank, the local Wizard in said town, when they get a chance to pay back the Mages' Guild.

    The four of them (Fleck, Ofydd, John, and Bea) darted away in an instant, and then appeared in a Mages' Guild tower, where they were escorted to an inn, named The Lonely Crest, where they bought some rooms and prepared themselves for the coming days. They then got rather shitfaced, carousing with the locals, hearing rumors, and even possibly finding new companions to take with them.

    Who knows what this new chapter of their life will bring: fame? fortune? death? That is still up to the Gods and fate itself. They do know one thing, however. They need more cash to support their frankly bum-like lifestyle of sleeping where ever they can, getting drunk when possible, and killing whatever monsters stand between them and their treasure.