It’s a bit hard to believe but this is the ELEVENTH week in a row that we’ve released encounters, items, and NPCs almost daily! We’re excited to keep going, and are working on a few things in the background, more to come on that in the future.
Before we get to the ideas that didn’t make it, as always, we’ll review those that did.
- Cosine and Tangent – Speak softly and launch a big boulder
- Your Life Away – Make sure a misunderstanding doesn’t end in murder
- Of Extraterrestrial Life – Save Neville Armstrong from a town’s mass hysteria
- Silence of the Lamb’s-ear – Help a petitioner save a rare flower from fading away
- Greater Sign of Ceiling – Can an unlikely duo rebuild a crumbled cathedral ceiling in time?
- Zoey D. Aack [NPC] – A mischievous fortune-teller doles out readings and buffs!
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Under The Neon Signs
- Too much signage around a town…lit up at night, arcana of some sort
- Animals unhappy, “Oh, I can’t sleep at night”, SouthPark critter with big eyes, lots of pathos, feel bad for me please sort of vibe
- Revolution by the animals to power down all the signs at night
- THEN…once the city is dark, a casino in the forest lights up
- The animals just wanted more business for their own casino
- Animals want the party to assist with the channeling, but it is a lie due to casino
- Turns out the animals were a ring of local Druids that were wild shaped
I Saw The Sign
- Looking at sign, opens eyes to an astonished level…MASSIVE
- Can’t close eyes…constantly dousing themselves in water so their eyes don’t dry out
- Wear buckets full of water with a snorkel sticking out the top
- Advantage on all perception checks?
- The sign says: You’ve forgotten how to blink (or something along those lines)
- Townsfolk have no magic of their own to remove the sign
- Sign cannot be destroyed outright, must defeat a wizard
- Wizard’s motive: trying to sell specialty eyedrops to the community
- Intended to be viral marketing
- As you are exploring the wizard’s lair, have there be chests and mysterious-looking doors, when opened, there’s another sign in there…party gets affected and must make checks to not be
- Need to walk around using a mirror a la Medusa
Signing
- We whiffed with this one quite a bit
- Spell is that you can read another language but can’t speak it
- Can only communicate through writing on signs
- 2 people…giant chasm…they each have telescopes but only can communicate through written signs, Semaphore flags
- Miscommunication…reading the flags, but actually trying to…uhhhh
- “Throw it” person throws it into the chasm, didn’t wait for message to finish
- Warn them…whatever you do, do NOT come to this island
- Go the island and figure that out
Signing up for a pyramid scheme
- Sign up for a service that delivers something useless…bottles of shampoo
- Rick…bounty hunter Dick, Brick, Grick, Slick, Prick, Nick,
- Every month, crates arrive
- They can’t find the salesman to cancel the service
- The town is drowning in bottles of shampoo, stacked to look like pyramids..please just make it stop
- If payments cease, bounty hunters show up, but they are paid by someone who is paid by someone who works for the business owner
- Literal pyramid needs built
- Get you in on the ground floor, must build the floor
Signs of the apocalypse
- Salesman is leveraging the unpredictability of the apocalypse to fear monger and get people to buy signs
- Says the signs will allow the apocalypse to ignore them, leaving them unharmed
- Gravid Dentwhiler wasn’t in town and is being held hostage (to not spoil the salesman’s plans)
- Town has a funeral for Gravid…create a statue in Gravid’s honor
Sign of the Thymes [NPCs, Store]
- Overgrowth of herbs
- Simon and Uncle Garf need your help to trim back all the herbs
Grab Bag
- Give me a sign
- Signet Ring…but made as a Signit (Sign it)…ring automatically covers objects/people with your signature…celebrity needs to speed up the process of signing his memorabilia
- Dollar-sign eyes, some sort of curse
- Stealing signs, either some D&D sport in the town where folks are stealing signals, or Teenagers want to steal a street sign with their last name on it…evil witch lives at the end of the street
- Get the High Sign
- Crossing Guard who takes his job really seriously…wanted to be an actual castle guard
- Sign twirling mini game to go along with any general town or What The Flock
- Sign one’s own death warrant
- Need to play dead for…reasons
- Need to temporarily die to speak to a ghost about something not significant, think Flatliners
- Psychosomatic – Sorcerer who needs somatics but due to a misstep his fingers are hotdogs (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
- Personally this one cracked us up, primarily because of what midjourney did with “dnd sorcerer with hot dog fingers”
- Sorcerer enters into a battle, needs the party to dress like giant fingers and block the hand signals for him: some need to criss-cross each other, some lie down, some stand up, all acrobatics checks
What else you got for us for this week? Let us know below!
