B7.
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.
B7.
The door to this room is old and ancient. Swollen with moisture. It has moons and stars carved into it around waist high.
Inside is a large wooden tub filled with water.
There are stone bowls on the floor along the the east and western walls. Each bowl is filled with dead leaves and smoked rat carcasses, covered in pungent spices.
The water is freezing cold.
There is a crack in the wall small enough to stick your hand through.
There is a 1-6 chance that there is a blind goblin attendant here.
His name is Grg. He has a nest in the northwest corner that he sleeps in.
Grg
Has an incredible sense of taste. Licks stuff to figure out what they are.
Prepares the bath using the ingredients from the bowls.
Has been slipping food to the Ashfoot spies trapped in hallway south of B7 and B8.
If you can talk Grg into giving you a bath, goblins will find you’re scent appealing. That might be useful. Or not.
I wouldn’t let this guy bathe me.
2/7/23
All I know if throw junk away and put kids toys in boxes. My brain is just on autopilot.
As you can see though I updated the map so it includes the line dividing the Riglum North Side from the Ashfoot South Side.
Putting the line where I did, which is right in the middle, creates some interesting situations spatially.
Tomorrow I get to describe a weird situation happening with room B8, where there’s a hall behind the room that is Ashfoot territory but only accessible through Riglum territory. Anyway, that’s tomorrow’s post.
This is definitely turning into a different kind of level, and feels like it’ll be less dungeon delving and more navigating social stuff with goblins. I didn’t expect that when I started but I really like the idea of it. I mean there’s 10 more levels, there will be plenty more dungeon crawling opportunities.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about goblins and how they come into my world. I think they’re creatures born of Chaos, but I’ve been working out what that means. For my setting’s world view there’s Law and Chaos, like the old D&D alignments. But I don’t partner these “alignments” with good or evil. But I think there is a kind of implication of good and evil, though that may be more societal than literal. I’m still figuring it out.
But I think I like the idea of goblins being seeds of Chaos, planted by the Lords of Chaos(whatever that means). And the Riglum and Ashfoot are seeds of Chaos that never grew out of the earth. They got stuck and entangled with each other, which is how we got into this mess.
Just wanted to write that down before I forgot it. Still a work in progress. Card subject to change, as they say.
See you tomorrow.
-jae
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