Cancer Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 He's worried about terrorists hijacking the train and destroying platform 9 3/4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 35 minutes ago, Old Man said: Why not? The lack of a view? Actually, I think the view would be awesome. I hear the Mid-Atlantic Spreading Ridge is particularly lovely in the early fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted October 2, 2019 Report Share Posted October 2, 2019 16 hours ago, Pariah said: I like traveling by train, but I probably wouldn't go to England that way. My wife and I took a train from Paris to Madrid one time. What a comical affair. We're American so we booked a *large* cabin since we knew they'd be smaller than we expected. The train staff we're all consummate professionals and the bar bar-car was great. However, the *beds* we're these fold out from the wall affairs (one above the other no less) that were sized for 12 year olds. Even before I got old and fat - My shoulder was hanging off the side of the almost-bed. There was a water-facet / urinal in the car with "no solids" written in four languages. At one point my wife went searching for a toilet and came back after finding nothing but a "wash closet". I had to explain that was European for toilet and sent her back. Everything at this point is within tolerances and then the sleepy-time through-the-mountains phase of the trip began. As the train's weight shifted from one side to the other the damage to our particular car became apparent. Each and every turn for the next 6+ hours would result in a metallic creaking noise for a solid 20+ seconds that would end with a nerve-wracking PONG. Six. Hours. SQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRK - PONG! Over and over and over. F*ck trains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 About sixteen hours to go, and we have a Plan. A sick, perverted, disgusting plan. Despite severe temptations, it doesn't even involve any actual provably real ... people. Watch me get sniped on Day Two and have to rework it all from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 And we are off ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 And with the first pick in the October 2019 Dungeon Draft, I choose.... ...to defer until tomorrow to make a multiple pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 I'll go first then: Location: There is a great canyon of sheared and shattered reddish stone called the Ertuk.. In the center of the canyon is a single, massive pillar of stone that rises nearly 400 feet above the canyon floor. The great cartographers of the Grey City have named this pillar the Eye of Ertuk as that is the shape of it on their sprawling maps. Who Built It: Ancient oral traditions claim that massive sheets of ice larger than Grey Mountain gouged the mighty canyon from the earth as they slid south and melted. The learned scholars of the day, of course, scoff at such ludicrous mythology while their archaeologists scour the canyon and pillar for clues to which historical nation could have built such a massive affair. death tribble and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 12 minutes ago, ScottishFox said: I'll go first then: Location: There is a great canyon of sheared and shattered reddish stone called the Ertuk.. In the center of the canyon is a single, massive pillar of stone that rises nearly 400 feet above the canyon floor. The great cartographers of the Grey City have named this pillar the Eye of Ertuk as that is the shape of it on their sprawling maps. Location is the only pick for the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Many days of travel away, somewhere north of Langlach and south of the joining of the Pita and the Aula rivers, in the dreary, pine-covered highlands, lies a ruin. Once a great city and citadel, the actual name of the place has been forgotten long ago. Or forgotten and forgotten -- "suppressed" is more like it. It was the seat of the immortal Troll King, scourge of the Elves, hammer of the Dwarves, and enslaver of Men. He probably et babies alive, too. So, when the day finally came when all his enemies finally rose up together against him, no-one was really surprised. After a bloody war, the Troll King was driven back to his stronghold with just the remnants of his hird to hold off the rest of the western world. Under the gates of his own great keep, king Dag slew him in single combat and almost perished from the poisonous fumes of the great troll's blood. After the battle and the great sack, the kings of Dwarves, Elves, and Men together called down the curse of the high gods on the fastness that it should forever be abandoned, for none had the art to pull down the walls that the Troll King had raised by black arts. Now, many many man-ages later, the dust and quiet of the Troll King's City is disturbed by the coming of heroes. Heroes in great need indeed. Old Man, ScottishFox and death tribble 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 In the mountains known as The Dragon's Fangs lies Iron Crag. The great pass leads away from it toward civilisation, It is obvious to anyone who studies the local geography that Iron Crag has been altered or sculpted as it is lower than the other mountains either side and the top has been flattened. The remains of a fortress can still be seen from the pass below although you have to get to the top to see that the buildings in the interior have been reduced to rubble. Old Man and ScottishFox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 I'm picking New York CES Pariah, Old Man and death tribble 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 43 minutes ago, csyphrett said: I'm picking New York CES This is the most terrifying pick so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Location: In and underneath a mountain about 2 km long, located at about 40.75° N, 9.46° W, in Cydonia, Mars. It's a famous, no, infamous place: here. Pariah and death tribble 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 5 minutes ago, Cancer said: Location: In and underneath a mountain about 2 km long, located at about 40.75° N, 9.46° W, in Cydonia, Mars. It's a famous, no, infamous place: here. That's truly out of this world, man! Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Location: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station making this up as I go along. death tribble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 ...and Sniped. Shucks and other such commentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 I will allow real world locations this time but not in future. This will be added to rules from this time onward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Why? I thought about putting mine in several real places: under the Great Pyramid, in the remnant of Tambora, in a site now drowned under Lake Roosevelt after Grand Coulee Dam was built, and under an island destroyed by one of the nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s. The dungeon obviously can't be real, but if someone wants a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles genre entry then putting their fictional catacombs under a real place -- specifically New York, or even a specific site in New York -- is spot on. The Hellmouth goes somewhere. EDIT: Why not an X-Files sort of thing, located either at Area 51 (which does exist) or outside Roswell (which is a dump, but a real dump; I've been there)? Just so you could cast Scully? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Pariah said: ...and Sniped. Shucks and other such commentary. Its yours. I’ll think of something else, The the fictional Denver International Airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Location: Nomanisan Island (The Incredibles) death tribble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 55 minutes ago, Bazza said: It's yours. I’ll think of something else, The the fictional Denver International Airport. Thank you, but no. I will come up with something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 41 minutes ago, Pariah said: Thank you, but no. I will come up with something else. Really? I kinda prefer the Denver InternationL Airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Go for Stapleton International Airport, which no longer exists but was in Denver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 11 hours ago, death tribble said: I will allow real world locations this time but not in future. This will be added to rules from this time onward. I'm sorry to have caused a problem. I didn't realize we were supposed to use fictional areas. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 I will see what happens this time around. However I never thought that anyone would use the real world or Mars and then plan dungeons around it. My fault I assumed dungeon naturally meant fiction. Besides i thought it was covered in the rules that they all had to be in the same reality. Which we have veered off from drastically. Live and learn. I'll amend the rules so that next time we work in the same reality. Meantime people can continue as is. We'll see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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