Anathema! Anathema!

Part I here   A short session, and missing Wit. The party wakes up in the bunkhouse and splits up to conduct their own business. Mold breaks bread with a prospector, a lean mage from the mainland with a civet for her familiar, wilting in the heat. They speak of the crocodile cult - the prospector tells Mold that the locals would consider such a thing to be blasphemous, if it exists. Eve goes into town and meets Bavu wa Bavu, a weaver fresh from the ecstatic throes of creation. The two have tea and Bavu probes Eve about her experience as an adventurer and killer. Then Bavu offers a proposition: she wants to kill Sati wa Sati, who murdered her father with the evil eye. If Eve will accomplish Bavu’s revenge, Bavu will reward her with the just-finished magic tapestry. Eve doesn’t believe the evil eye story and says she’ll think about the deal. Strawberry strikes up a conversation with a woodworm infesting the sodden timber of the bunkhouse. He is a simp...

This is a report from my first session running Zedeck Siew's excellent adventure Lorn Song of the Bachelor .  I will not recount the premise here; you can find that at the link.  Spoilers below, obviously. Setup We are using Black Hack 2e.  I offered the players the chance to port over their characters from our Deep Carbon Observatory 2e playtest.  They all took me up on it.  The characters are on a quest to reach one of the things they saw through the telescope at the bottom of the observatory: an afterlife that takes the form of a city of the dead ceaselessly climbing a vast cliff face deep beneath the earth. Dramatis personae Mold Metcash, cleric of Lodite, god of obscurity.  As part of Mold’s priestly initiation, he became ritually lost.  But he became far more lost than the typical initiate, and is no longer sure that he is even on the same plane as his home.  This may mean that Mold has been chosen for great things by Lodite. ...