B12.
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.
B12.
This room is a kitchen. The majority of the equipment is in the northern half of the room, however the stove is on the Ashfoot side of the room.
Riglum guards patrolling the interior of Kik’ina Kir use this kitchen to prepare rats and fish and other vile and slimy dishes.
There is a hole in the southern wall where ol’ Gunt Eye watches to make sure no one uses the stoves on Ashfoot side.
Gunt Eye
Is willing to trade favors and supplies for use of the stove.
Passes the time knitting rat tails together for fleeces.
Has dreams of a bottomless abyss filled with food (caused by Griblug’s growing influence and power in room B11).
One eye lost its eyelids and is constantly open and covered in a milky white discharge. He’s very sensitive about it, and has a ledger of everyone who calls him Gunt Eye. Might be willing to trade favors if you bring him their heads.
2/12/23
Feeling so much better today. We went out for breakfast with the kids. It’s very surreal feeling being in this town in Kentucky, and not the dense population of Chicago.
I’m still not use to the idea of living here. Everything I look at I think “I’m going to see that every day now.” That’s my street. That’s my backyard. That’s where I’ll see my sunsets from now on.
As we were leaving the restaurant, I saw my nieces a few tables away from where we’d been eating. My brother had just got there by coincidence.
I cannot tell you the joy it brings me that I can run into my brother just going around town. It’s a new experience for me. I haven’t lived in the same town as my family for 20 years.
After that we went to a store to get a broom and some other stuff, and as we were leaving we ran into them in the parking lot again. This may not seem important to other folks who live in small towns, but this felt like a strange miracle to me and my kids. This is our life now - seeing our family daily.
I often felt very lonely in Chicago. I loved that city, but it felt like if you moved a few miles away from someone in any direction it was like they were in another country. And if you moved to the suburbs it was a different planet.
One of the reasons I loved working so much in theatre was that it meant we’d all get together at a neutral territory.
Anyway. I’ll never take this for granted. The ability to see people that I love and care about.
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I’m slowly setting up my studio/office. After all the packing and running around, I just couldn’t face unpacking. Now that I feel like my brain is returning to me, and my body isn’t all knotted up, I can start to think a little more creatively. I’m hoping to return to work on editing the show next week. We have one more trip back to Chicago to clean and list our condo - and after that it’s on like Donkey Kong.
Gail and I are so excited being here. Life changing. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings as I take my kids to their new schools.
See you tomorrow.
-jae
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