Monday, February 18, 2019

Map Key of the Plague Year Part 1




This is where I put the deck of Many Things in My Dungeon:



1. THE RECENT BATTLE
Corpses, maybe 12-15 of them the party can them if they like. Give them a number if they ask. About half appear to be corpse worshippers and the other half are likely members of the apothecary brigade.
            The corpse worshippers have scimitars or short swords. One are two of them are swordless. Some have been bludgeoned to death. Others the cause of death is less clear; their eyes bulge and their tongues are swollen and hang out of their mouths
            Some of the apothecary brigade wear casks on their back attached to hoses still clutched in their lifeless hands. Others hold heavy dented censers on chains. One or two of them have swords stuck in them. The rest have merely exsanguinated. The Apothecary brigade are all still wearing their plague doctor masks.
            The bodies are more concentrated towards the door in the west wall. Directly in front of the door a few bodies form a pile of Apothecary and corpse worshipper corpses.


            2. BEYOND THE DOOR
            A table and around the table three seated figures. There is an empty chair closest to the door. The table is has soft leather stretched over it. It looks ideal for playing cards. There is a deck of cards on the table. Guess what. It’s the deck of many things. Don’t tell the players that.
            The figures:
The figure to the right of the empty chair is a highly detailed stone statue of a man. His face is twisted in horror as he looks at something he is holding up between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. There is nothing sculpted in between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.
The figure to the left of the empty chair is a wooden mannequin made to look like a corpse that has died an ambiguous but ignoble death.
The figure directly across from the empty chair appears to be the god of luck. I have no idea what the god of luck looks like in my campaign or who he is or anything. Luckily the party ignored this statue and immediately started playing with the cards. They couldn’t help it I handed them actual cards. Who could resist?

PLAGUE DOCTOR MASKS
             The standard issue ones don’t allow you to control stirge. They just protect the wearer from the next 2d4 poison gas exposures.

2 comments:

  1. Oh how fun! And morbid. I love the art.

    This room is going into the next dungeon I draw. Thank you.

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    1. Very happy to hear. I am going to put the Deck of Many things in every dungeon from now on. So that Players will have one chance to use it per dungeon.

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