A6.
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.
A6.
The smell of rot intensifies and the light from A5 dims to darkness as you round the corner from the Shaman’s ritual room.
Without a torch, you will run the risk of slipping on the bloody entrails belonging to the bandits from the A1 camp.
A light source will reveal a grizzly scene of 3 bandits ritually dissected.
Astute adventurers may realize that there is one bandit unaccounted for. It’s Ulnick who is currently being transformed into a ghoul in room A3.
Those who have some knowledge of dark arts may recognize some of the work here to be consistent with necromantic practices. However, the practitioner seems sloppy and imprecise. Perhaps an amateur.
Searching the room will reveal some of the bandits’ weapons, like a crossbow, some daggers, and three short swords.
Leather satchels contain a few odds and ends of little consequence, but one has a map that leads to the cave entrance.
It is labeled: Kik’ina Kir
Those with any education in history, may have heard old tales about a fortress named Kik’ina Kir, It existed on this land centuries ago when it was a different kingdom. The wars fought during that time period razed the land, and the old ways were swallowed up by the earth. But if a place like that were to still exist, somewhere around this area…. it could contain untold fortunes!
There is a hole in the southwest corner of the room. One may slip on an intestine and fall in, so watch out.
It falls a long long way, to level C of this mega-dungeon.(Will edit exact location in a month from now, when I figure it out)
1/6/23
And now we have some lore happening. Something that may entice an adventurer looking for glory. Kik’ina Kir is probably going to get me through February to March, which I’m happy about.
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Watched Field of Dreams last night with the family. I don’t think I ever really watched that movie, just absorbed it through cultural osmosis.
It’s really kind silly for the first act, and then becomes amazing when James Earl Jones shows up. He honestly injects so much life into it. Great performance by him.
I almost died when the sleazy brother threw poor Gabby Hoffman, who was a really great 90’s child actor, off the bleachers. I don’t think he ever said sorry.
Did I get weepy towards the end of the movie, despite doing my damnedest to resist its cornpone sentimentalism?
Yes. I did.
My dad coached baseball when I was a kid. We coached together when I was in high school, and he taught a lot of kids in the small town where I grew up to shake off their failures and keep their head up. I think it may be the greatest achievement of my father’s life.
He’s been gone for years now, and sometimes I do wish he could watch my youngest play baseball. When the Cubs won the World Series I remember thinking of him while I marched around Wrigley with the rest of the city.
So yeah, when Kevin Costner asked if his dad wanted to “have a catch” - I may have been feeling some feelings.
Side note, when Costner introduced his daughter “Karin” to Ray Liotta’s Shoeless Joe, did any one else immediately have a coked out Goodfella’s flashback?
See you tomorrow.
-Jae
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