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A smile spreads across Lars' face.  His lord is please with the sacrifice and it occurs to him that the group pitched in so they are partly responsible as well.  Truly his god works in mysterious ways ...

For the first time since the escape began, Lars seems relaxed.  To everyone, but no one in particular he says, "My prayers were answered.  I thank you all for your help in offering sacrifice to Lord Asmodeus."

He then looks over a should or two at Janus' medical ministrations.  Thinking out loud he adds, "Unorthodox, but if it works ..."

I have no objection to that type of thing.  PbP  can get weird at times and every little bit helps.  However, in this particular case, I appreciate that Lars got to do what he felt like he needed to do.

Roll request in the IC thread:

Impress @ +4 +2(GM discretionary bonus) = 22

Comparing with the Month column on Table.2.3, we all gain 1 Reputation.

Formerly submerged town that was under water for 25 years.

Tether: First Snow
Tether

Tether is a pilot/concept piece for a web series; a post-apocalyptic setting where mankind is slowly rebuilding from a virus that decimated the world a century ago. Now, mysterious cables are dropping from the sky, revealing an isolated world long forgotten.

Very nice.

[The Blacklist]

U.S. upfronts are this week. Here's the first preview I've seen...

The Blacklist

Looks interesting. Hard to believe that Spader was once Daniel Jackson.

I'll second that whole sentiment.

OR, in honor of Grimm, humans are the special ingredient in a wide variety of non-human medicines.

Now for a different campaign use the same setting but all the players are drakes (or similar things). It becomes a game of survival and protection. Possibly the PCs are the elders and/or warriors of their clan and are trying to find a place to live where they aren't mercilessly hunted.

Tie different species feats to different valuable body parts that the local humanoids want to harvest, with different demands in the various places they travel though.

That is ... brilliant!

Lars doesn't utter a prayer - silent or otherwise.  If he is to defeat the frog, it must be through strength of arms.  His god demands strength and whining and asking for divine favor when he has already asked for a sacrifice could be seen as blasphemous.  He steels himself and tries again to destroy the frog.

The first blow flies wide as the frog moves to avoid his comrades.  He then yells out, "I sacrifice you to my master!"  The second blow connects, but not as solidly as he would like.

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Swing and a miss.

1d20 + 1 -> 21
Why, yes, I'll spend an Action Die.

Damage: 1d8+1 (Crunch!) -> 2

Truth be told, I was thinking more in the vein of a magic-less world (setting design idea that's rolling around in the brain-pan) where folk (mostly human) use the "monsters" as natural resources.  NOT everyone's cup of tea but interesting none-the-less.  

That said, there are some truly wonderful ideas in here.

EDIT: I can't spell today.

[Gravity]

Gravity

It's Alfonso Cuaron. It's guaranteed to be as awesome as it looks. Probably better.

I'll keep my eyes on it but I'm not holding my breath.  With the cast and director, it's got legs but the story could go all sorts of ways.

But this is the story of Judge William Minty.

Very nice!

Little Witch Academia

It's anime Harry Potter with an all-witch cast, with dungeon crawling.

One of the better pieces of animation that I've seen in a long while.

Lars sees the great frog from the corner of his eye and silently thanks his god for a challenge worthy of sacrifice.  Aloud he says, "Serve my Master well in his garden, great hunter!" while dashing forward.  At the last second his footing slips off the good ground and his attack flies wide.

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1d20+1 → [8,1] = (9)
Looks like a swing and a miss to me.

A city founded on excavating and using the constantly regenerating bound body of the tarrasque

 

That's a whole pile of hubris if I ever saw one.

Age of Dragons is a bad, but watchable take on Moby Dick where, in lieu of whales, the crews of land boats (don't know what else to call them) hunt dragons for their "vitriol" - a flammable substance that lights their world.

The movie is only worth viewing on TV if you have nothing better to do; however, the idea caught hold of me.  Humans (and other folk) hunting "monsters," not to rid the world of the dangerous things that go bump in the night, but to harvest the resources they represent.

It's only the kernel of an idea but I'm hoping to expand on it.  Thoughts are welcome.