A30.
This is part of the #Dungeon23 challenge in which you make one room to a dungeon every day for a year. In an effort to link my memories to the creation, I am also writing a personal journal entry with each room that may or may not be related.
You don’t have to read that part.
A30.
This room is decorated in large canvas paintings.
Each painting is of the insides of various animals, some are hardly recognizable. Hearts, livers, femurs, and spines.
There are multiple lounging chairs scattered around the room, crimson with gold embroidery.
In the southwest corner is a liquor cart with several bottles of wine and spirits.
Nearby is a wooden percussion instrument with mallets. It resembles something akin to an xylophone.
An easel sits in the southeast corner, with a half finished oil painting of the internal organs of a deer. The subject of the painting is splayed open, pinned to the wall.
There' is a 1-6 chance you’ll come upon the Necromancer relaxing here.
Sick.
1/30/23
Tomorrow we finish our first level of our mega dungeon. We’ll be going to the first floor of Kik’ina Kir, which we’ve hinted at as being controlled by some goblins. Where we go after that? No idea.
I did have an idea of where I wanted this megadungeon to go by December. It came to me during a shower, where all good ideas live. Somewhere in those thin threads of hotwater is the secret to genius or delusions.
We’ll see if I remember it by next winter. If I write it down now, commit it to paper too early, I’ll grow to hate it. I can’t explain this mentality only that I know it exists.
…
Watched the third episode of The Last of Us. Cried a bunch. Nick Offerman was so sweet in a very special story about having a second chance at not taking our humanity for granted. Appreciating all those gifts, even a simple strawberry.
There’s a moment early on in the episode where Elle sees an airplane that crashed into a hill years ago. She looks at it with wonder and talks about how amazing it would be to fly. Joel, who lived during a time when this kind of miracle had become ubiquitous to our daily lives, treats it with indifference.
Ellie says “But you got to fly.”
“So did they,” Joel says - in a cruel joke that sounds like it could have been dialogue from Rick & Morty.
But the story of Frank and Bill that follows this scene, beautifully illustrates that Ellie is right. So what if we crashed - we got to fly.
It was a great episode, and after a somewhat uneven first two episodes, I feel like we found the heart of it all. I’m really enjoying the adaptation and excited to see what else they do with it.
My only weird hope is that Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker play a couple of surgeons, if you know what I mean - and I think you do.
See you tomorrow.
-jae
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