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The [https://levikornelsen.itch.io/goondeeps Goon Deeps of Sargolis] are a rule/setting combo focused on a procedurally generated catacomb haunted by undead and evil cultists.
 
The [https://levikornelsen.itch.io/goondeeps Goon Deeps of Sargolis] are a rule/setting combo focused on a procedurally generated catacomb haunted by undead and evil cultists.
  
We conquered that, killed/released the arch lich boss, found and spoke with his vampire ex-wife (the "God Queen" Ostienne), looted the throne room, and started exploring the ruined city above the catacomb.
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In [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/game-thread-into-the-goon-deeps-of-sargolis.872985/ our current game] the players are thenorm42 and tibbius. We conquered the Deeps, killed/released the arch lich boss, found and spoke with his vampire ex-wife (the "God Queen" Ostienne), looted the throne room, and started exploring the ruined city above the catacomb. Our base camp was partially looted, and Jhula summoned a construct to track down some of the stolen goods. We got into an altercation with a sorcerer who purchased one of our stolen spellbooks and whose front door the colossus broke, made peace, Jhula swapped spells with him, we tracked down the original thieves and punished them. <br />
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We headed out on the southward road to Saray's indebted demesne, but took a detour to the city Naltis/Nalastis to get more information about how her cousin took over the place and also to gather alchemic ingredients for a potion to free Jhula's boss of his addiction. We entered another labyrinth of twisty passages and ominous rooms, in search of an elder vampire whom we will cajole or threaten into helping us. We found the vampire, who was weirdly small. The vampire was fostering a person who turned out to be the century-lost princess of Nalastis. We got her out of town and she set off westward into the Louran highlands.<br />
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Returning to Antali, Jhula learned her boss (the "old man") had cured himself of his spice addiction (the original reason for her quest to Antali). As part of that effort, he had retired! Now his former second-in-command (Obseth) had taken over the criminal organization ... When Jhula went out into the hills to visit the old man, Yaavin, Obseth sent along his son Kaarmo - who tried to poison everyone.<br />
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After resolving the attempted poisoning, Jhula set out again on the road back to Sargolis, looking for a certain arcane volume to further her studies.<br />
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== In the Vault at Loom Street ==
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Jhula's Sack 2 (containing <br />
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a. Book #5. shimmering iridescent fish-scale binding. Serene Mysteries of the Unperceiving Psyche<br />
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d. Book #4. tattered green cloth cover, rebound. Enwiddle's Blossoming Cone<br />
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c. Book #12. weirdly trifolded parchment pamphlet. Send a Bolt of Tar Afar<br />)
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stakes
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a silver dagger
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a sharpened gravedigger's spade
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box of matches
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box of matches
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earthenware jars
  
 
== Current characters ==
 
== Current characters ==
 
=== Jhula: rogueish jack of all trades ===
 
=== Jhula: rogueish jack of all trades ===
'''Stats:''' Brute 1, Skulker 2, Erudite 2, Health 11, Breath 10<br />
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'''Stats:''' Brute 1, Skulker 2, Erudite 3, Health 11 of 11, Breath 11<br />
'''Gear:''' 1. Throwing knives; 2. Vicious, jagged shortsword; 3. Sinister dark purple cloak (useful for stealth or intimidation); 4. Sack 1 (containing 5. Rope; 6. Guidebook; 7. Rations. 8. more sacks), 9. Sack 2 (containing 10. Lockpicks, 11. Book of Bone and Flowers), 12. Lantern, 13. Leather armour.
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'''Gear:''' 1. Throwing knives; 2. Vicious, jagged shortsword; '''droppable''' 3. Sack 1 (containing a. Lantern; b. Lockpicks; c. Tome containing Silent Song of Choking Flowers, d. Tome containing Pursuing Colossus, e. Healing potion ), 4. Leather armour, 5. Pillowcase sack (Book from Naltis #6-#8) <br />
3 fresh Breath.<br />
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'''5 out of 5''' fresh Breath. <br />
 
'''Combat bonus:''' +3. '''Throwing bonus:''' +3.<br />
 
'''Combat bonus:''' +3. '''Throwing bonus:''' +3.<br />
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Jhula has briefly reviewed '''numerous books of power'''.<br />
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She's got in her mind<br />
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1. The Book of Bones and Flowers<br />
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2. cast-iron hinged cover with embossed man-figure. Pursuing Colossus<br />
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10. Silent Song of Choking Flowers.<br />
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Stored in her house:
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''Jhula grew up on the streets of Antali, a city on the coast over a hundred miles from Sargolis. Orphaned young by the last war, she fell in with the local Legitimate Businessperson's Mutually Agreeable Cooperative (a brutally run thieves' guild and crime syndicate also known as the Mackers). She graduated from petty larceny to head-cracking and enforcement, then finally organisation, strategy and problem-solving. She's one of the lieutenants of the First of the Mackers, who is gradually dying from the effects of the spices he's addicted to.''<br />
 
''Jhula grew up on the streets of Antali, a city on the coast over a hundred miles from Sargolis. Orphaned young by the last war, she fell in with the local Legitimate Businessperson's Mutually Agreeable Cooperative (a brutally run thieves' guild and crime syndicate also known as the Mackers). She graduated from petty larceny to head-cracking and enforcement, then finally organisation, strategy and problem-solving. She's one of the lieutenants of the First of the Mackers, who is gradually dying from the effects of the spices he's addicted to.''<br />
 
''She has been sent to Sargolis in search of anything that might hold back the reaper, whether ancient healing alchemy or blasphemous necromantic tome. Privately, she's happy to be on the road and away from the pressures of her work.''<br />
 
''She has been sent to Sargolis in search of anything that might hold back the reaper, whether ancient healing alchemy or blasphemous necromantic tome. Privately, she's happy to be on the road and away from the pressures of her work.''<br />
''Looking at Ricky's vacant bedroll, she feels guilt, something she hasn't felt in a long time. She resolves to see if she can put another team together in Sargolis and retrieve his body, perhaps even complete their mission?''<br />
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''Looking at Ricky's vacant bedroll, she felt guilt, something she hadn't felt in a long time. She resolved to see if she could put another team together in Sargolis and retrieve his body, perhaps even complete their mission?''<br />
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''After much danger, Jhula and her companions Saray and Munson found Ricky hanging up over a grim altar. They got him down, and he rejoined their group as a revenant seeking revenge on the archlich of the Deeps. Eventually that was achieved, and Ricky passed. Jhula, saray, and Munson then found Ostienne, the vampire God Queen of Sargolis, in a gravity-inverted boudoir atop a tower over the Deeps. They parlayed with her, and departed.''<br />
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''Jhula left the Deeps with some books of power, some of which she studied. Others were stolen from their camp. She summoned a Pursuing Colossus to retrieve her stolen property, and it led the group to a sorcerer's townhouse where they encountered the Song of Choking Flowers. Jhula entreated the sorcerer to return her books, and became acquainted. With the sorcerer's good will, the group tracked down the original thieves and punished them.''<br />
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''After settling matters in Sargolis, Saray became the motivator (if not the leader) of the group.''
  
 
=== Saray: indebted lady knight ===
 
=== Saray: indebted lady knight ===
'''Stats:''' 9 Health, 9 Breath, 3 Brute, 1 Skulker.<br />
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'''Stats:''' 10 of 10 Health, 9 Breath, 4 Brute, 1 Skulker.<br />
'''Gear:''' backpack(Torch, rations), mace, shield. 6 Fresh Breath.<br />
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'''Gear:''' 1. backpack(a. Torch, b. gold, c. 2x rope, d. gold, e. gold), 2. mace, 3. shield, 4. Sack (books from Naltis #9-#12) ), 5. Sack (week's rations)
'''Combat bonus:''' +4 with torch, +5 with shield.<br />
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''Saray is a knight of moderate age, skilled in battle and accustomed to comfort. But recently rents have been short and her comfortable life has brought debt. She's planning to plunder the Deeps to get funds to get the lenders off her. Munson looks like a potential patsy, someone she could use and drop ... but she wants a third to round out a crew. She's heard the Deeps are deadly.''<br />
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'''4 out of 4''' Fresh Breath.<br />
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'''Combat bonus:''' +5 with torch, +6 with shield.<br />
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''Saray is a knight of moderate age, skilled in battle and accustomed to comfort. She's the Lady of House Rannier, an estate south of Sargolis on the northern frontier of the southern city states. Recently rents have been short and her comfortable life (plus a gambling problem) has brought debt. She had planned to plunder the Deeps to get funds to get the lenders off her. Munson looked like a potential patsy, someone she could use and drop ... but she wanted a third to round out a crew. She had heard the Deeps were deadly.
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Now after plundering the Deeps under Jhula's leadership, Saray has returned to Naltis with her new crew to learn that her cousin has overtaken her indebted estates.
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Entering the city of Naltis in search of more information, and ingredients for Jhula's potion to cure her master's addiction, Saray get the troupe entangled with a coterie of vampires who want them to kill an elder vampire. After depositing some of the group's treasure into Saray's family vault, the group enters a catacomb through a floating blue portal, and wanders about for a while before eventually stumbling upon the Bloodless ("Master Sanger"), killing him, and discovering the unusually large young girl he has been guarding under Vivostasis for the past ninety years.
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It turns out the girl is the lost heiress of the royal line, and the Harsh Lady (who took over ruling in Naltis ninety years back) probably would like her to disappear.''<br />
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Stored in Jhula's house:
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1. Sack ( b. Book #1. pale grey leather binding with pink and purple flowers and skulls inlaid. The Book of Bones and Flowers, c. Book #3. silver-hinged cover of smoothly polished beech wood. The Ineluctable Movement of Volcanic Glasses, d. Packet of green spice)
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2. Pillowcase sack (Book from Naltis #6-#8)
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3. Sharpened gravedigger's spade
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4. Sack (silver dagger x3, pamphlet #12, book from Naltis #5)
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5. Pillowcase sack (gold, Book #8. faded red-pink cloth with oily stains. It's another copy of The Transcendent Beam of Loathsome Oil)'
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Book #7. brown leather with red-inked lettering. Potent Wine of Enervation
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Book #6. black burlap. The Soul and Other Deceptions
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Quantity of Master Sanger's remains in a silver tureen
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Quicksilver
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Smokeweed
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=== Munson: down-at-heels adventurer ===
 
=== Munson: down-at-heels adventurer ===
 
'''Stats:''' 11 Health, 7 Breath, 2 Brute, 1 Skulker, 1 Erudite.<br />
 
'''Stats:''' 11 Health, 7 Breath, 2 Brute, 1 Skulker, 1 Erudite.<br />
'''Gear:''' Breastplate, axe, shield, backpack(rations, torch). 3 Ready Breath.<br />
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'''Gear:''' 1. Breastplate, 2. axe, 3. backpack (a. torch, b. 2x matches), '''droppable''' . '''droppable''', '''5. Tired'''
'''Combat bonus:''' +2 Brute +3 (breastplate, axe, shield) = +5 total.<br />
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''Munson is a down-at-the-heels adventurer with a dented breastplate, a notched axe, and a small bag of rations. He's been in Sargolis a while, waiting for someone with whom he can enter the Deeps - he's wise enough to know it's suicide to go down there by himself.''
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6. Sack (containing <br />
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a. rope<br />
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b. stake<br />
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c. gold<br />
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d. gold<br />
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).  
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'''2''' Fresh Breath.<br />
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'''Combat bonus:''' +2 Brute +2 (breastplate, axe) = '''+4''' total.<br />
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''Munson is an adventurer with a dented breastplate, a notched axe, and a sound shield. He spent a while loitering in Sargolis, waiting for someone with whom he could enter the Deeps - he was wise enough to know it was suicide to go down there by himself. After encountering Jhula and Saray, he assisted the two ladies in plundering the catacombs, dispatching the lich king, and interviewing the vampire God Queen of ruined Sargolis. Then he guided the group to his old home village, where they visited with his ghostly parents. Now they're in Naltis, exploring an ancient vampire's Catacombs.''
  
 
== Rules ==
 
== Rules ==
 
In addition to the basic rules of Life and Breath and so forth, here's a few specific ones about combat and magic and loads.
 
In addition to the basic rules of Life and Breath and so forth, here's a few specific ones about combat and magic and loads.
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=== Combat ===
 
=== Combat ===
'''Multiple opponents:''' When fighting multiple opponents, only your highest roll can do damage. This may be revisited ...<br />
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'''Multiple opponents:''' When fighting multiple opponents, roll once against each opponent.<br>
'''Advantage / Disadvantage:''' When otherwise at an advantage, you suffer injury on a failure only if you rolled doubles. Conversely, if disadvantaged, you inflict injury on a success only if you rolled doubles.
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'''Advantage / Disadvantage:''' When otherwise at an advantage, you suffer injury on a failure only if you rolled doubles. Conversely, if disadvantaged, you inflict injury on a success only if you rolled doubles.<br>
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=== Magic ===
 
=== Magic ===
'''Learning a spell:''' Spells are learned from tomes. Each tome holds one spell, which is somewhat defined by the GM rolling randomly for a topic, and is somewhat defined by the player's interpretation of that topic when they study the tome. Once a spell is learned, it sticks in the character's head until forgotten. Forgetting a spell is a deliberate action. A character can hold Erudite + 1 spells in their head. If they hold more than that, they suffer -1 to all rolls for each additional spell. <br />
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Most spells are ''hard'' to learn (DS 10). But if you want to have a little less certainty, roll to learn the difficulty of a spell:
'''Casting a spell:''' Casting a spell costs 1 Breath, which is invested in the spell until it concludes. Casting a spell does not cause the spell to be forgotten. Each time a spell is cast, the player must roll against DS of the spell's target. Many spells do not have "targets" that oppose them. For these spells, the GM and player set the DS collaboratively based on how cool the spell is. ((The GM would prefer a rule where it costs 1 Breath to hold a spell in your head and no additional Breath to cast it, but this is a collaborative game so we will go with what we agreed to.))
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2-5: DS 8
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6-9: DS 10
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10-12: DS 12
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Once per day, you may roll ''+Erudite'' against a spell's difficulty to get it from its recording into your head. Learning takes hours equal to the total of the roll. Once it's there it usually stays ...
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You may record a spell that's in your head by rolling ''+Erudite'' against its difficulty. This takes a day and a night of work, with proper materials (a nice blank book and pen and ink, or a copper sheet and a needlepunch, or a stone pillar and a sharp chisel, or a big fine gem and ) and you get one chance. If you fail the roll, you forget the spell. If you succeed, you record the spell and it stays in your head as well.
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When you cast a spell, roll ''+Erudite'' against the DS of whatever you're casting at. Most physical stuff has DS 8, but tough opponents have more ''mana'' and use their DS instead. A spell must be cast at a target. If you're casting an Illusion, its target is the person or people whom you want to perceive it.
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If you fail the roll to cast a spell, there is a backlash that pops the spell right out of your head. If you succeed, the spell takes effect.
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=== Loads ===
 
=== Loads ===
 
Each container counts as one item and can hold any four items at no cost. So a backpack could hold a sack of gold, rations, a book, and a torch. ((The GM is ambivalent about this rule.)) Only items that are worn or held in hand can add to rolls. It takes an action to remove an item from a container.
 
Each container counts as one item and can hold any four items at no cost. So a backpack could hold a sack of gold, rations, a book, and a torch. ((The GM is ambivalent about this rule.)) Only items that are worn or held in hand can add to rolls. It takes an action to remove an item from a container.
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You can carry
  
 
== World ==
 
== World ==
'''Sargolis:''' The ancient ruined and partly-rebuilt city under which the Goon Deeps are delved.<br />
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=== Sargolis ===
'''Antali:''' The somewhat distance city whence Jhula came to Sargolis in search of a cure for her boss.<br />
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The ancient ruined and partly-rebuilt city under which the Goon Deeps are delved.<br />
'''Ostienne:''' The vampiric former ruler of Sargolis, once venerated as the God-Queen but now her temple is ruined (it gives access to the first level of the Deeps).<br />
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'''unliving:''' Creatures that don't breathe but move around. Often vampiric, but not obligate vampires.<br />
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=== Antali ===
'''The Book of Bones and Flowers:''' a manual for how to lay a lich down by forgiveness.<br />
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The somewhat distance city whence Jhula came to Sargolis in search of a cure for her boss.
'''Pursuing Colossus:''' a tome on summoning a mechanical construct that will tirelessly seek a person or object you name.<br />
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'''103 Mysteries of the Slime that Binds All Things:''' a treatise of yet-to-be-discovered potency.
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'''the Mackers''' are the criminal bosses of Antali, and Jhula's spice-addicted boss <del>is</del> <insert>was</insert> boss of bosses. He never woke up from a spice dream.
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Now the boss is Obseth, rotund and jovial, direct in dealing with those who offend them. His meaty hands have crushed an unknown number of windpipes. DS 12
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Also,there's Arbun, a scheming and scrawny thugmaster, usually carries a rapier and prides himself that his wit's sharp as his blade. DS 10
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And Vinzay, she of the lavender-dyed curls and the pale rose veil, is in hiding. It's said her face was disfigured by the spite of an alchemist she bedded - once. It's also said she's a poisoner, but there's no solid proof. DS 8. She and Jhula were the old boss's favorites. Rumor has it that Vinzay was the one who got the boss his spice.
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And several others, less important in the intrigues of Antali, much less dangerous in combat.
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=== Louras ===
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is one of the western principalities, in among the dozens of city states that vie for dominance over on that side of the mountains.
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=== The '''southern city states''' ===
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a few decades ago, fought a vicious war with the '''merchant cities of the northeast.''' The war ruined Sargolis.
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=== '''Nalastis''' or '''Naltis''' ===
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is the southern free city nearest to Saray's demesne.
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'''the Harsh Lady Gang''' run rackets in Naltis.
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'''Master Sanger''' guarded the princess Yuwia in a catacomb deep under Naltis.
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Saray's '''indebted demesne''' (House Rannier) is in the northern frontier of the southern city states.
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'''House Kendos''' is the demesne of Saray's cousin Hania, a gullible younger woman under the thumb of her husband and Saray's former seneschal Albert.
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'''[[Goon Deeps of Sargolis:Narm|Narm]]''' is the general region where all these places are found.
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[[File:Narm_globe2.png]]

Latest revision as of 08:47, 24 July 2022

Overview[edit]

The Goon Deeps of Sargolis are a rule/setting combo focused on a procedurally generated catacomb haunted by undead and evil cultists.

In our current game the players are thenorm42 and tibbius. We conquered the Deeps, killed/released the arch lich boss, found and spoke with his vampire ex-wife (the "God Queen" Ostienne), looted the throne room, and started exploring the ruined city above the catacomb. Our base camp was partially looted, and Jhula summoned a construct to track down some of the stolen goods. We got into an altercation with a sorcerer who purchased one of our stolen spellbooks and whose front door the colossus broke, made peace, Jhula swapped spells with him, we tracked down the original thieves and punished them.

We headed out on the southward road to Saray's indebted demesne, but took a detour to the city Naltis/Nalastis to get more information about how her cousin took over the place and also to gather alchemic ingredients for a potion to free Jhula's boss of his addiction. We entered another labyrinth of twisty passages and ominous rooms, in search of an elder vampire whom we will cajole or threaten into helping us. We found the vampire, who was weirdly small. The vampire was fostering a person who turned out to be the century-lost princess of Nalastis. We got her out of town and she set off westward into the Louran highlands.

Returning to Antali, Jhula learned her boss (the "old man") had cured himself of his spice addiction (the original reason for her quest to Antali). As part of that effort, he had retired! Now his former second-in-command (Obseth) had taken over the criminal organization ... When Jhula went out into the hills to visit the old man, Yaavin, Obseth sent along his son Kaarmo - who tried to poison everyone.

After resolving the attempted poisoning, Jhula set out again on the road back to Sargolis, looking for a certain arcane volume to further her studies.

In the Vault at Loom Street[edit]

Jhula's Sack 2 (containing
a. Book #5. shimmering iridescent fish-scale binding. Serene Mysteries of the Unperceiving Psyche
d. Book #4. tattered green cloth cover, rebound. Enwiddle's Blossoming Cone
c. Book #12. weirdly trifolded parchment pamphlet. Send a Bolt of Tar Afar
)


stakes a silver dagger a sharpened gravedigger's spade box of matches box of matches earthenware jars

Current characters[edit]

Jhula: rogueish jack of all trades[edit]

Stats: Brute 1, Skulker 2, Erudite 3, Health 11 of 11, Breath 11
Gear: 1. Throwing knives; 2. Vicious, jagged shortsword; droppable 3. Sack 1 (containing a. Lantern; b. Lockpicks; c. Tome containing Silent Song of Choking Flowers, d. Tome containing Pursuing Colossus, e. Healing potion ), 4. Leather armour, 5. Pillowcase sack (Book from Naltis #6-#8)
5 out of 5 fresh Breath.
Combat bonus: +3. Throwing bonus: +3.
Jhula has briefly reviewed numerous books of power.
She's got in her mind
1. The Book of Bones and Flowers
2. cast-iron hinged cover with embossed man-figure. Pursuing Colossus
10. Silent Song of Choking Flowers.

Stored in her house:


Jhula grew up on the streets of Antali, a city on the coast over a hundred miles from Sargolis. Orphaned young by the last war, she fell in with the local Legitimate Businessperson's Mutually Agreeable Cooperative (a brutally run thieves' guild and crime syndicate also known as the Mackers). She graduated from petty larceny to head-cracking and enforcement, then finally organisation, strategy and problem-solving. She's one of the lieutenants of the First of the Mackers, who is gradually dying from the effects of the spices he's addicted to.
She has been sent to Sargolis in search of anything that might hold back the reaper, whether ancient healing alchemy or blasphemous necromantic tome. Privately, she's happy to be on the road and away from the pressures of her work.
Looking at Ricky's vacant bedroll, she felt guilt, something she hadn't felt in a long time. She resolved to see if she could put another team together in Sargolis and retrieve his body, perhaps even complete their mission?
After much danger, Jhula and her companions Saray and Munson found Ricky hanging up over a grim altar. They got him down, and he rejoined their group as a revenant seeking revenge on the archlich of the Deeps. Eventually that was achieved, and Ricky passed. Jhula, saray, and Munson then found Ostienne, the vampire God Queen of Sargolis, in a gravity-inverted boudoir atop a tower over the Deeps. They parlayed with her, and departed.
Jhula left the Deeps with some books of power, some of which she studied. Others were stolen from their camp. She summoned a Pursuing Colossus to retrieve her stolen property, and it led the group to a sorcerer's townhouse where they encountered the Song of Choking Flowers. Jhula entreated the sorcerer to return her books, and became acquainted. With the sorcerer's good will, the group tracked down the original thieves and punished them.
After settling matters in Sargolis, Saray became the motivator (if not the leader) of the group.

Saray: indebted lady knight[edit]

Stats: 10 of 10 Health, 9 Breath, 4 Brute, 1 Skulker.
Gear: 1. backpack(a. Torch, b. gold, c. 2x rope, d. gold, e. gold), 2. mace, 3. shield, 4. Sack (books from Naltis #9-#12) ), 5. Sack (week's rations)

4 out of 4 Fresh Breath.
Combat bonus: +5 with torch, +6 with shield.
Saray is a knight of moderate age, skilled in battle and accustomed to comfort. She's the Lady of House Rannier, an estate south of Sargolis on the northern frontier of the southern city states. Recently rents have been short and her comfortable life (plus a gambling problem) has brought debt. She had planned to plunder the Deeps to get funds to get the lenders off her. Munson looked like a potential patsy, someone she could use and drop ... but she wanted a third to round out a crew. She had heard the Deeps were deadly.

Now after plundering the Deeps under Jhula's leadership, Saray has returned to Naltis with her new crew to learn that her cousin has overtaken her indebted estates.

Entering the city of Naltis in search of more information, and ingredients for Jhula's potion to cure her master's addiction, Saray get the troupe entangled with a coterie of vampires who want them to kill an elder vampire. After depositing some of the group's treasure into Saray's family vault, the group enters a catacomb through a floating blue portal, and wanders about for a while before eventually stumbling upon the Bloodless ("Master Sanger"), killing him, and discovering the unusually large young girl he has been guarding under Vivostasis for the past ninety years.

It turns out the girl is the lost heiress of the royal line, and the Harsh Lady (who took over ruling in Naltis ninety years back) probably would like her to disappear.

Stored in Jhula's house:

1. Sack ( b. Book #1. pale grey leather binding with pink and purple flowers and skulls inlaid. The Book of Bones and Flowers, c. Book #3. silver-hinged cover of smoothly polished beech wood. The Ineluctable Movement of Volcanic Glasses, d. Packet of green spice) 2. Pillowcase sack (Book from Naltis #6-#8) 3. Sharpened gravedigger's spade 4. Sack (silver dagger x3, pamphlet #12, book from Naltis #5) 5. Pillowcase sack (gold, Book #8. faded red-pink cloth with oily stains. It's another copy of The Transcendent Beam of Loathsome Oil)' Book #7. brown leather with red-inked lettering. Potent Wine of Enervation Book #6. black burlap. The Soul and Other Deceptions Quantity of Master Sanger's remains in a silver tureen Quicksilver Smokeweed



Munson: down-at-heels adventurer[edit]

Stats: 11 Health, 7 Breath, 2 Brute, 1 Skulker, 1 Erudite.
Gear: 1. Breastplate, 2. axe, 3. backpack (a. torch, b. 2x matches), droppable . droppable, 5. Tired

6. Sack (containing
a. rope
b. stake
c. gold
d. gold
).


2 Fresh Breath.
Combat bonus: +2 Brute +2 (breastplate, axe) = +4 total.
Munson is an adventurer with a dented breastplate, a notched axe, and a sound shield. He spent a while loitering in Sargolis, waiting for someone with whom he could enter the Deeps - he was wise enough to know it was suicide to go down there by himself. After encountering Jhula and Saray, he assisted the two ladies in plundering the catacombs, dispatching the lich king, and interviewing the vampire God Queen of ruined Sargolis. Then he guided the group to his old home village, where they visited with his ghostly parents. Now they're in Naltis, exploring an ancient vampire's Catacombs.

Rules[edit]

In addition to the basic rules of Life and Breath and so forth, here's a few specific ones about combat and magic and loads.

Combat[edit]

Multiple opponents: When fighting multiple opponents, roll once against each opponent.
Advantage / Disadvantage: When otherwise at an advantage, you suffer injury on a failure only if you rolled doubles. Conversely, if disadvantaged, you inflict injury on a success only if you rolled doubles.

Magic[edit]

Most spells are hard to learn (DS 10). But if you want to have a little less certainty, roll to learn the difficulty of a spell: 2-5: DS 8 6-9: DS 10 10-12: DS 12 Once per day, you may roll +Erudite against a spell's difficulty to get it from its recording into your head. Learning takes hours equal to the total of the roll. Once it's there it usually stays ... You may record a spell that's in your head by rolling +Erudite against its difficulty. This takes a day and a night of work, with proper materials (a nice blank book and pen and ink, or a copper sheet and a needlepunch, or a stone pillar and a sharp chisel, or a big fine gem and ) and you get one chance. If you fail the roll, you forget the spell. If you succeed, you record the spell and it stays in your head as well.

When you cast a spell, roll +Erudite against the DS of whatever you're casting at. Most physical stuff has DS 8, but tough opponents have more mana and use their DS instead. A spell must be cast at a target. If you're casting an Illusion, its target is the person or people whom you want to perceive it.

If you fail the roll to cast a spell, there is a backlash that pops the spell right out of your head. If you succeed, the spell takes effect.

Loads[edit]

Each container counts as one item and can hold any four items at no cost. So a backpack could hold a sack of gold, rations, a book, and a torch. ((The GM is ambivalent about this rule.)) Only items that are worn or held in hand can add to rolls. It takes an action to remove an item from a container.

You can carry

World[edit]

Sargolis[edit]

The ancient ruined and partly-rebuilt city under which the Goon Deeps are delved.

Antali[edit]

The somewhat distance city whence Jhula came to Sargolis in search of a cure for her boss.

the Mackers are the criminal bosses of Antali, and Jhula's spice-addicted boss is <insert>was</insert> boss of bosses. He never woke up from a spice dream.

Now the boss is Obseth, rotund and jovial, direct in dealing with those who offend them. His meaty hands have crushed an unknown number of windpipes. DS 12

Also,there's Arbun, a scheming and scrawny thugmaster, usually carries a rapier and prides himself that his wit's sharp as his blade. DS 10

And Vinzay, she of the lavender-dyed curls and the pale rose veil, is in hiding. It's said her face was disfigured by the spite of an alchemist she bedded - once. It's also said she's a poisoner, but there's no solid proof. DS 8. She and Jhula were the old boss's favorites. Rumor has it that Vinzay was the one who got the boss his spice.

And several others, less important in the intrigues of Antali, much less dangerous in combat.

Louras[edit]

is one of the western principalities, in among the dozens of city states that vie for dominance over on that side of the mountains.

The southern city states[edit]

a few decades ago, fought a vicious war with the merchant cities of the northeast. The war ruined Sargolis.

Nalastis or Naltis[edit]

is the southern free city nearest to Saray's demesne.

the Harsh Lady Gang run rackets in Naltis.

Master Sanger guarded the princess Yuwia in a catacomb deep under Naltis.

Saray's indebted demesne (House Rannier) is in the northern frontier of the southern city states.

House Kendos is the demesne of Saray's cousin Hania, a gullible younger woman under the thumb of her husband and Saray's former seneschal Albert.

Narm is the general region where all these places are found. Narm globe2.png