Chronicles of the Consortium

The World's Spine is the name given by the nomads of the Weeping Wastes to an enormous mountain chain that sits between them and the lands to the east. Last session, the characters cleared out a set of ruins containing a strange, glowing blue tower in a valley right on the World's Spine as it leads down to the sea. Now they are moving into the eastern lands proper. I've based most of this on a scenario included in Lawrence Whitaker's Elric !   supplement for the region. He must have come up with this to fill in some of the background for Avan Astran of Old Hrolmar, an adventurous nobleman who meets Elric at one point - there is a suggestion in the short story in which he appears that he journeyed into the East as well. Cue the characters... As the expedition emerges from the World's Spine, they traverse some low-lying woodlands before entering a rather harsh savannah environment. They continue in the same direction, partly guided by Alexia, who originally came fro...

I've been anticipating the characters' journey eastwards for a long time now, so I have a cunning plan. Basically, I want this part of the campaign to have a slightly surreal feel to it, just enough so that the players don't quite know what to expect. As adventurers from the Young Kingdoms, they should feel rather out of place, and events need to have a rather peculiar tinge - both odd and specific. I have been hanging around the net like a bad smell for a while now, soaking up various blogs with roleplaying ideas, session reports and so on, more as a way of getting myself back into things than anything else. When I stopped roleplaying due to major life moves, the internet was only just starting to take off, and I've missed a lot, some of which I'm quite pleased about, to be honest. However, there have been some developments that flashed by me completely. Just to give you some flavour, the D&D related scenarios I have from my previous roleplaying incarnation a...