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I follow the Veins of the Earth play report of peterwebb, and as at some point, peterwebb´s players where near a city in the veins, it inspired me to write a few encounters for that area. But as always, time works against me, the city is likely destroyed now (read yourself) and thereby peterwebb might not have use for these encounters anymore (or do you, Peter?). Anyway, I rushed to finished them and now, here they are. Enjoy!


Encounters near a City in the Veins (d10)

01# Mad Dwarf Miner

Sound: Shuffling, two feet steadily moving forward while barely leaving the ground
Smell: The Stink of a Rot Lantern (see p.195; Light of Decay), stone dust and a feint stench of shit.

He looks haggard, his beard and hair are iron gray, wiry and spreading out to all directions. In the light of a lamp, his skin glistens with sweat and grime, his stumpy teeth are yellow, green and black. All but for one, which is a roughly cut emerald. The leather apron, boots and heavy gloves are worn, the rags below them are falling apart. An undefinable piece of rotting meat, covered in a glowing sheet of -something-, provides him a little light. It dangles from a piece of chain wrapped around the top of worn and stained pick-ax, held in one hand. With the other, the dwarf secures a large back made of sewn skin, heavy with...something. His unsteady eyes watch everyone warily.

If given some time, Irzin will remember his name. He is a miner that works a large lode of gems “not far from here..”. He will never, NEVER!NEVEREVER!! tell you where it is. He only comes to town to barter some of the raw gems for rations and light. Sadly, the dwellers of the city don´t offer him much for the raw gems. He needs to trade whole pounds to gain anything. But he knows that those from “above, like me” value those things. “It will make me rich. Give me food and light, and I´ll make you rich, too!”.

Irzin has been down here for far to long. He came down here with his brother. His brother is long dead now, he killed him, HAD TO KILL HIM, for he had become mad. Irzin still works the lode. Right now, he has more raw gems stored up in nearby cave than he could ever carry, but wants more. There is A FORTUNE to be made.

The lode is the nightmare-work of the Aelf-Adal, a cruel but simple trap. As long as anybody comes back for mining, there will be more. But as soon as a miner decides not to return, a Saving Throw vs. Magic needs to be passed. On a failure, the poor wretch will come back and continue to work till hunger sets in. If three Saving Throws in a row are failed OR if a character returned three times (free will or not), he or she is cursed to come back to the lode till death.


02# Blackfoot Gigaferret (p.30)

The predator stalks the tunnels around the city. They have become its hunting ground. The ferret is often absent for weeks or even month, but always returns. There are tales in the city about it, killing it may very well give the characters a bonus in the interaction with other city dwellers. Then again, resting near the city instead of a forced march into its safety(?) may give the Gigaferret the one moment it needs to kill a PC.


03-04# Cambrimen (p. 34)

They are a nuisance for the guards of the city, for they ALWAYS come back within 2d6 days after they have been scared of last time (see “What They Want” table; result 11). The guards stopped killing them and just shoo them away, as killing one of them makes the whole tribe mad (result 4). It is not that they are overly dangerous, but they are numerous and combat with them results in a mess. When the characters meet the Cambrimen, they are the first after a long, long time to (perhaps!) gain a different response from the Cambrimen tribe.


05# Fungal Ambassodile (p.56)

The first time the characters encounter it, it will be on its way towards the city. In its jaws, a negotiator from a different citystate enjoys the diplomatic immunity and the security of being carried by a hulking monster of a cave-dwelling THING. The Ambassodile may be met in the city from there on, but will not be ready for further missions until it finished its current diplomatic errant. On the next encounter, it will be heading out of the city, finishing said mission by returning the envoy. If it is ever met again, it will want to meet the PC alone, outside of the city. There, it will regurgitate a partially digested envoy with an offer for the PC. The envoy wants them to... (roll d4)

1# ...sneak back into the city, kill an important person there and bring the head back to the Ambassodile (that will then regurgitate their payment). The target has a home in the city, bodyguards and perhaps even traps.

2# ...venture to a nearby cave system (a map on a stone tile is provided), open up a (provided) very large (oversized item) clay bottle there and and spill a bit of the contained fluid every turn on the way back near the city. Then, pour out the rest near the city. This will lure something NASTY to it. (There is a chance that the Ambassodile will NOT be waiting to give a reward: it was the promise of the envoy, not of the Ambassodile).

3# ...wait at a certain tunnel crossing/large cave and kill the first group of three or more humanoids that enter it. The PC need to bring back the heads to the envoy before the Ambassodile releases the payment, and it will take 1d4 days before the group shows up.

4# ...wait till a slave trader comes back to the city, and get a certain slave back (alive!), no matter how. Payment is provided when the slave is returned alive, and the Ambassodile will take the slave away. To make room for it, it will throw up the half-digested diplomat (who will die within a turn. How hungry are the PC?).

It is up to the GM what the payment is, but it should be something that cannot be digested.


06-07# Olm Trader (p.90)

The Olm has a small number of items (weapons, tools and/or armor parts) made from iron and steel. All things have been found or salvaged by its brethern, and stored by the tribe till it was enough to make it worth a trip to the city. It wants to trade it for food, wood or for light that it may use under the water. Roll 6d10 to determine the items it offers for trade. If a result comes up twice, it is available two times unless it is 7# (in that case, discard the dice). If a result comes up more than twice, discard the “access results” unless it is 1 to 4. In that case, the item is available multiple times

1# Iron dagger , slightly rusty
2# Metal arrow tips; 2d4
3# The head of an ax, rusty and in need of thorough sharpening
4# Head of a shovel, very rusty;
5# Blackened cooking pot
6# Old helmet, slightly rusty
7# Chain mail, ripped and rusty; (AC: 14)
8# Head of pick ax, slightly rusty
9# A golden tooth
0# A grappling hook


08# Trilobite-Knight (p.141)

It will meet the PC on their way, and show itself. It will act calm but challenge one of the characters (a fighter, if possible). Depending on how the fight goes, it will either surrender or accept surrender. If the PC are wise enough to accept, they will meet the Knight again when they are in dire need of an ally, and may count on him if they have put up a good fight before


09# Halfling Hunter

Tabbit is a 5the level specialist and out here to kill the the GigaFerret (see #02). He is a little sadistic and ready to use the characters as bait. In the meanwhile, he hunts for anything he can easily dispatch to sell the skin and some of the meat in the city. His weapons and armor are up to the GM, but soft leather armor, throwing knives, a large knife and a blow pipe are suggested, as well as perhaps a small number of jaw traps. Tabbit may follow the PC, and either finish monsters they attract, or themselves if they end up badly wounded. His willingness to fight over prey is very limited (he did not survive in the Veins by picking fights), but an “are you sure..?” will imply that he is willing to provide for trouble on their way back. If attacked, he flees quickly and throws either crow feet or glass marbles behind him.


10# The Dwarven Explorers (2d4)

Names: Grizwalt, Kirsten, Reygar, Thurwyn, Ambrose, Hammek, Tilda, Sargath,
Alignment: all Chaotic

The 1st level dwarfs came down here to explore and to find riches. They came with iron rations, lamps and oil, climbing gear, leather armor (some with chain), rope and all the usual trapping of spelunkers. They started out as a team of eight. The first time the characters meet them, the result of 2d4 decides how many are still alive. When they are met again (only once or twice per adventure, the GM should ignore further encounters) their number is rolled for again. If it is lower than before, a few more bit the dust. Otherwise, those that were alive last time will still be (there number does not grow). As soon as there are only three of them left, it will be the last time the characters meet them. They may find their corpses later on. The moral of the dwarfs is equal to their number +2

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Underground Bestiary: Deepcave Bats

Deepcave Bats are an offshot of cave bats. While there is a relation between the species, they have evolved differently (and perhaps the Deepcave Bats have been wrapped by dark influences or mutated by radiation or other contamination: what ever fits your game world).

They are larger, and the largest have a body equal to the fist of an adult man with matching wings to carry them. Their eyes have become blind, their fur is pale or even white, and pale is their skin as well. They do not leave the subterran realm of caves and chasms anymore, and as prey is not bountiful in this environment they are not found in large swarms neither. They still roost together, in groups between a handful and more than a dozen in size, to protect one another against other predators. Their sensory organs have changed as well. They are scavengers as much as hunters, and while their echolocation is still their primal sense they have developed a keen nose and are able to smell a decaying carcass or fresh blood from far away. When they encounter a carcass, or wounded prey that is much larger than themselves, they will call out in infrasonic to signal others of their roost to feast (or to gather for an attack on the weakend prey).

Intelligent subterranous species with infrasonic hearing capture Deepcave Bats and domesticate them: they kill all of the roost but the very young, keep those in cages and feed them. During a hunt they they release the Deepcave Bats and follow their signals to find wounded prey that got away.

Hit Dice: 0
Hit Points: 1 or 1d3
Damage: 1d4-2
Armor: as unarmored
Alignment: Neutral
Save: as level 0 Fighter
Moral: 6
Numbers Encountered: 1d3 / 2d6

Sharp Teeth/Claws: even if a successful attack does not cause hit point loss, it will cause a bleeding cut.

Filthy: any character that suffered any amount of hit points loss in a fight with a (non-domestic) Deepcave Bat must pass a Saving Throw vs. Poison. On a failure, the wound is infected and will fester (effects: up to the GM).

Strength in Numbers: when a small number is encountered, but not dealt with (one way or the other) the characters are likely to encounter 2d6 on them during the next turn (as those they met called in the rest of the roost).

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Thanks, just saw this! I think I will roll on your table next time I want to generate a group of travelers; the flavor and quests are good and provide the feel of an underground society that I've been looking for.

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Three more things that encountered Cambrimen may want

01# “...DA SZEYN! ...DA SZEYN! ...DA SZEYN!”

(Impossible if the characters have no light source with them) The Cambrimen are awed and enticed by the shine of the light the characters carry. They actually had forgot what light was like. They approach, chant and “dance” (more like: wobbling and tumbling) around the characters. Each turn, roll again for the number encountered. If it is larger than the the current number, other Cambrimen have been drawn in by the chanting (till the maximum number is reached). The noise they cause may draw unwanted attention to the characters.

If the PC try to chase them off, they will begin to rage and attack to “CAPSURE DA SZEYN!!!”. If the characters quench their light source, all Cambrimen will give a regretful “Oooooooh...” and whisper among themselves “..da szeyn gon...yes, gon, wer da szeny?... gon...? ooooh... szat...” After the first round, 1d6 will slip away to where they came from, and another 1d6 will follow every round. If the light is lit again when even just 1 Cambrimen is still around, the whole thing will start all over again. If the characters sneak away, they may be able to evade the Cambrimen in the dark.

02# “HUnn-TAh!! Biii-ek HUNn-TAH!”
Some of the Cambrimen remember that there is some monster (or other characters) around that they want to hunt... and think that the PC are here to hunt those, too! They will follow the characters, hushing each other (and the characters if they speak out loud!), acting like kids would act when they pretend to be hunters... and will follow the PC till they meet anything else or are chased away (they simply flee in panic then, suddenly believing that THEY are hunted by the PC).

Perhaps there is no other being around for miles and the Cambrimen just fooled themselves somehow. But the first being encountered while they follow the characters they will attack in rage.

03# “EET! FEYVOR! FUR U! EET!
The Cambrimen will hold one of their own by the “arms” (it will not try to escape) and want to sacrifice it to the characters. They want a PC to eat the Cambriman (perhaps they have witnessed some sacrifice somewhere) and believe to gain the PC´s favor this way. If the PC reject the offer, the Cambrimen will be baffled. They will try again, and then give up if they are rebuffed twice. They do not understand, let go of there fellow and ALL of them will have their head sink visibly before the turn round and wobble away (like children that were told to stop fooling around)

If the PC take the (digusting!) sacrifice and then do not do them a favor (“U EET! NOW FEYVOR! GIV FEYVOR!”) the Cambrimen will get enraged and attack. They really have no idea what favor they are supposed to get, so giving them (or doing for them) just something will do the trick.

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I still haven not learned to focus on ONE project at a time. When a muse of one kind or another kisses me, I allow her to capture my attention and follow her to bed for a quick, feverish bout of creativity. But who can blame me for that? Anyway, I am writing on a piece of fan work for Veins of the Earth at the moment. It seems to take forever, but I might as well share one of the NPC (of an encounter) with you. Thereby, say hello to Ceezru: an elf that lost her connection to her own kind and now hunts in the darkness below the surface:



Ceezru (3rd level Elf; 12 hit points; DEX 14) has long, absurdly-shiny gold-blond hair that she wears in a bun on top of her head, secured by three sticks made from sharpened bones (1d4-1 damage as a weapon, will break when they deal more than 1 damage). Her skin turned nearly translucent, all the blood vessels and veins are clearly visible. Her eyes are yellow-orange and see in thermal vision now, the teeth at the front of the upper jaw are broken, the remaing are yellow and some even brown.

Ceezru is clad in a ragged banner (of a barony above ground, a gift and sign of respect from past deeds) that she wrapped around her hips and loins. Once beautiful, her cheeks and eyes are now sunken in and her breasts look like empty sacks of skin. A blackened, silver-coated steel dagger (1d4) is her weapon, her armor is her agility (AC: 14). Her small backpack holds a ration, ragged furs (goat; as bedding); a sewing kit (bone needles, dried intestines for threat, scraps of thin leather) and a small water skin. The following spells she has prepared and ready:

Blood Into Rope (VotE p.308)
Heat Ghost (VotE p.310)
Web (LotFP PCB p.150)

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Nice thread.

I think Ceezru will guide my group into the Veins but not through ... lol

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This one took a lot more time to finish then I had expected, but now it is ready for release. The Pilgrimage of Hunger (<< click the link to get the PDF).


This is FANWORK. From a Fan for other Fans. It is not commercial, it is not meant as a claim to or infringement of copyright and/or trademarks. The author (me) is not affiliated with Lamentations of the Flame Princess nor with the people who created Veins of the Earth, but wants to thank both parties for what they have provided.

This PDF here (16 pages with front matter and all; more than 7000 words and even some artwork to make it look good) provides the Pilgrimage of Hunger. A schematical map, descriptions of the caves and the passages between them, special rules for the Chapel at its center as well as a few inhabitants, (random) encounters with predators and pilgrims (some of which are semi-detailed NPC in their own right), and even its own kind of darkness.

Insert this small cave system into your game of Veins of the Earth. I constructed it around the Chapel of Starvation, and later named it the Pilgrimage of the Hungry. The idea behind the chapel is that it came into being in response to the hunger of the living, sentient minds and souls of the Veins. If it is the creation of cruel and dark gods, of a devil or demon, something from the Outer Dark or of some strange underworld-godling of hunger that has devoured its own name is up to you as the GM. It is assumed that the existence and rites of the chapel are known to at least a few sentient beings in the wider area, and that those in the know make frequent “pilgrimages” to the chapel (for the sake of survival).

To integrate the Pilgrimage of the Hungry into your own game world, you have to add a few entries into to it. This step was deliberately omitted by me, the author, as you will know yourself what is best for your game. Still, I want to suggest to use the Gravel Cave and the Labyrinth of the White Flower as the entry point.

Enjoy!

"Zeig mir den Weg nach unten. Ich hasse den Tag. Ich hasse das Licht!" ["Weg nach unten" by Knorkator]

EDIT 15.09.18: Upgraded version now availabe under the link in this post: I removed some typos

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In August 2017 I posted an article on my blog about six different Gilgamash. Each started with a name that I created something out of.

Now, in September 2018, I add the missing two parts that will turn those six creations of mine into Gilgamash true to the pattern provided in Veins of the Earth on page 66: who or what they think has created them, and what they think that they must do. Unlike the first part of the creation process, I do not assign these two missing parts to the individual (yet unfinished) Gilgamash (Gilgamashes?), but provide a little table with 6 entries each. Some of them came into my mind after I read one of the six names again, other are simply random thoughts that crossed my mind after re-reading the original table in Veins of the Earth.

For ease of use, I assembled it all in this document, added electronic mortar and cast the result out into the web. Tell me if you stumbled about them at gaming table later on, I would -really- love to her from my hasted children.

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These are great!

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Page 282 of Veins of the Earth has a list with results for the unavoidable I search the body. As we are talking about the Veins here, it includes all manner of strange and bizarre items (mixed with a few mundane results). A nice touch of the list is the following quote:

ENTRIES WITH AN ASTERISK* CAN BE FOUND MULTIPLE TIMES. THOSE WITHOUT SHOULD ONLY BE FOUND ONCE. CROSS THEM OUT WHEN ROLLED AND WRITE IN YOUR OWN.

In September 2018 I started a small series of articles with possible further entries for use with that list. At the beginning, I planned for about 30 items. I ended up with 50 items of loot and this little PDF (the link leads to my dropbox).

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My players just got through the Pilgrimage of Hunger - they found it terrifying.  The only things they really fought were the same pack of Spotlight dogs 4 different times, but that was enough to almost kill them.  They left the Veins after several days with only a few hours of light remaining.

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dungeonman wrote:

My players just got through the Pilgrimage of Hunger - they found it terrifying.  The only things they really fought were the same pack of Spotlight dogs 4 different times, but that was enough to almost kill them.  They left the Veins after several days with only a few hours of light remaining.

Thanks for the feedback! I hope they still had a good time aside from the feeling of being a mouse in hell wink May I ask which level they were?

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They had fun.  I made them go in there to remove a curse - they had to bury their NPC buddy's dead friends, whom he claimed to have lost down there. 

When they got to the Chapel the NPC asked them to kill him, because he of course long ago had got stuck down there, ate his friends (and their bones), and thus killing him and burying him would bury "all of them" since they were all consumed by him.  They instead used all their black powder to blow the place up. 

They had a lot of fun - their levels were about 5-6 in LOTFP, playing as a Fighter, Cleric, Specialist, and Monk (modified Dwarf)

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I had my players "skim" over the uppermost edge of the Veins of the Earth. Now, they will try to establish a "trade route" with a knotsman on the other hand. Here is the session report in two parts. If you have read the adventures of the Dunnsmouth Three, you know the PC smile

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The Spinecarpet was made by a Knotsmen Bailiff as a gift to a son of his (a “Father” or “Weeping Knight"; see Veins of the Earth p.74 ff.) The carpet is made of vertebrae taken from those that “owned” the Bailiff one thing or another. They were blacked in a fire during an unholy ritual that imbued the item with magic. After that, the wiry black hair of the Bailiff´s wife has been cut and woven into strings so that the vertebrae could be lined up and knotted into a kind of carpet.

Anybody who spends six hours lying on this carpet (a most uncomfortable affair, as the carpet is not comfortable to lie on and actually a pain to any knotsman) will heal twice as much as her or she would usually do. But the Spinecarpet is also cursed: the Bailiff who made it will know where to find the person that rests on it (no matter who it is). If the location is known to the Bailiff in person, he knows exactly where the user is. If it is not, he will know the direction, relative distance and have a general idea and what the place is like. This way, the Bailiff wants to keep track of his son.

As the item is cursed, the owner will prefer to use it over using any other item, so he or she will always want to rest on it when wounded. Resting on it makes sleep next to impossible, thereby the character will suffer from a (-1) penalty to all rolls on the next day. While the curse may be dispelled, the Spinecarpet cannot be destroyed.

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Do you need an encounter that is more of a strange happening and not a combat? Try my Lightthieves

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This review here reminded me of the copy of Lusus Naturae that I have buried somewhere on my hard disk. I skipped through the virtual pages again and quickly found a monster that would fit into the Veins of the Earth very well. Here is a list of the abominations from the Lusus that I would use in the Veins, and why.



Lusus Naturae >> LN
Veins of the Earth >> VotE

Apparation of the Scorned (LN, p. 15)
The monster is by its nature chthonic and something that burrows deep into the ground. It is not hard to imagine it to carve so deep into the world (to construct its rune) that it reaches the Veins. The different manifestations of bend reality in the tunnels it carves fit very well into the theme of weirdness and the bizarre of the Veins, and the doings of the Apparition provide another set of tunnels and spaces for the PC to encounter and explore.

The Colluder (LN p.28)
The Colluder will be encountered as the “bound familar” of a duo of adventurers. The magic-user and the fighter are the only ones that are left of a party of five.  They came from the world above and are on a quest to kill a sleeping, chthonic monster that is about to awake. The Colluder warned them about it, as it is a former demonic herald (so it said), and now bound to lead them to its sleeping master. The two remaining adventurers sacrificed much to get down here, which included drawing straws about who will be eaten a while ago, when they still were three. Their final destination is not far anymore, the Colluder will persuade the Magic-User to barter his most precious possession to them to make them come along...

Dirge Sac (LN p.34)
By accident, a Dirge Sac could have entered a kind of symbiotic relationship with a Trogloraptor (p.143). When the Trogloraptor finishes of the children in the in front of their parents´ eyes, their grieve makes the Dirge Sac attack them. This makes feeding even more easy for the Trogloraptor.

Dolorous Emerald (LN p.40)
Aren´t the characters down here to search for riches? Don´t they long to trade things for valuable gems that will make them rich once they are above again? Even if the answer is “no”, finding emerald in the Veins could motivate the PC to gather it.

Escovedo (LN p.43)
The poor thing that is Escovedo could have dug its way all down into the Veins. Their, it now lairs and abducts Vein´s dwellers. Cholerids, Funginid Slaves, Olm, Gnomen... it is not picky. But abducting Knotsmen could lead to a complicate situation.

Forgotten Ardor (LN p.47)
Wouldn´t it be a cruel fate if the place that the Forgotten Ardor was cast into would be the Veins? Isn´t it just like the Substratals? Perhaps not, and the Substratals are bothered by it. Bothered enough to send the PC to deal with it. Perhaps it is just like the Substratals, and one of them sends the PC its way (under a pretense) to do the Forgotten Ardor a favor.

Ghost of the Ancients (LN p.49)
“(It) is found in desolate places where all hope of redemption is lost, and where the people have lost hope”. This describes the Veins well, doesn´t it? And the mentioned “Cave of the Deadened Lore” sounds like a place in the Veins as well. Imagine a colony of Cholerids (VotE p.38) or of runaway Knotmen (VotE p.73) that tried to escape the fate their fathers´have damned them to, now worshipping "the Ghost of the Ancients".

Predacious Fulgur (LN p.84)
This monster will fit “naturally” into the Veins.

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Four Strange Light Sources

Leech Coral (ST: 25):
"It was no oil lamp, but one with a frame of coral, in a shape very similar to the oil lamps Jasper knew. But instead of a glass body with a lit wick it held a large egg, whose outside was a membrane instead of a shell."

A Leech Coral slowly turns the life of things very close to it into orange light while it feeds of it, but may only do so with very small beings. Usually, eggs are placed in a lamp made of harvested and shaped Leech Coral. Its light will last for 6 to 24 hours, depending on the size and quality of the egg placed in it. 6 is the common duration, but the life force of an exotic or big egg may achieve better results. The nutrition value (in sp, as per the rules for Veins of the Earth) of the egg may be calculated by multiplying the remaining hours of light by 5.


Dvargir Crank-Lamps (ST: variable)
A metal box the size of paperback, with a hand crank at the side and a cylindrical light bulb at the top. The bulb is protected by a wire mesh guard, leather fasteners may be used to strap the lamp to left arm or to secure it to a belt.

A Dvargir Crank Lamp shines with a white light for 1 minute for every round that it has been "cranked up". The Strength of the light is equal to the Strength of the person that cranked it. It cannot be cranked up for more than 2 turns (no benefit from over-doing it,  cranking it for 40 rounds at a time will burn out the wires and break the device). The crank lamp is delicate and has a X in 12 chance of breaking when dropped, where X is the height of the drop in feet. After each fight, there is a 1 in 10 chance that wires inside of the lamp became lose. It may then be repaired by somebody with a Tinker skill of at least 4, on a successful skill check.

Dvargir only employ them in areas they consider “safe”, and are reluctant to trade them.


Soullight Tattoo [ST: Variable]
A magical tattoo that is inked into the left palm of a character. The secret of its creation is only known to a few within the Veins of the Earth: some of the Deep Janeen know it, but usually do not bother to reveal this knowledge, as they see it as a rather boring curiosity. A few Aelf-Adal do know it, but consider it to be to beneficially to offer it to those who are capable of dreaming. Some Gnomen do know, but they will have to pitty you a lot AND consider you an absolutely hopeless case to put such a thing into your hand. Actually, the Substratals are the most likely to grant a Soullight Tattoo.

The maker has to spend a week with you, both talking and meditating with you, so that he or she may learn enough about your soul to know what the tattoo must be like to ignite it. Once created, the bearer may ignite the inner self by blowing onto the open, up-turned palm that carries the tattoo. When it is lit, the characters heart will beat stronger, the own mind will become clearer (+1 to Intelligence) while a white light with a colorful hue licks out of the palm (the hue will be of the color the character enjoys the most. Black is no color, nor is white). The light of this astral flame will not burn nor hurt, and shines with a Strength equal to the character´s WIS. Upon activating and every turn thereafter, the character suffers one point of attribute damage to WIS. The damage will be recovered at a rate of one point per (30 minus current Wisdom) hours. If more than half of the Wisdom is burned up this way, a Save vs. Devices needs to be passed or 1d4 points of the loss are permanent instead. The flame will die and the light will cease when the palm is turned face down or when the palm touches anything (even briefly).


Pages from the Book of Light (ST: 5)
Nobody knows the real name of the so called "Book of Light". It was found in the crumbling and squashed ruins of a city that had been discovered deep within the Veins, and stumbling upon somebody who owns some of these pages means that the ruins may be nearby (or at least not all to far away). The paper is old, the writing on it is a language nobody seems to know anymore, even magic does not reveal it meanings. But the golden writing on the thin paper shines. Rumor has it that the book used to have about 300 pages, and at least half of them have been torn out and traded in the Veins, for their light is permanent. Magic-User may treat a page as spell scroll of Continual Light, but this will rob the page of its shine. Some say that the book itself, once opened, shines with a much brighter light than just the individual pages (ST: equal to the remaining pages), and that anybody reading the book would have the own eyes shine like daylight till the next time they go to sleep.

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Re: The Veins of the Earth & I

I mused a bit about Veins Food, especially as my players and I finally(!) meet again this Sunday to continue the adventures of the three.

As I am to lazy to format the whole thing in this forum, I will rather give you [THIS LINK] where you can read for yourself

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Re: The Veins of the Earth & I

Are you looking for magic items that fit into the Veins of the Earth? Well, I hope that I have what you are looking for then!

12 Magic Items for the Veins of the Earth

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Re: The Veins of the Earth & I

Somebody at reddit asked for more magic items for the Veins. So, I wrote up 12 Further Magic Items for the Veins.

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As my players are currently heading towards a Knotsmen Tradepost, I made some notes for 20 Vendors at a Knotsmen Market that I would like to share with you

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If you need a "special cave" for your Veins, try the Cave of Bones and Coins. It comes with six optional encounters for it.

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Here I am back again from the Veins, to tell you of 5 Veins´ Encounters with Dvargir.

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Hi folks! I have a freebee for you that you may find useful if you are playing in the Veins of the Earth: a summon-able creature called the Conqueror of the Painful Hunger.

Oh, while I am add it...

on my blog you will find 10 Spell-Sets for Aelf-Adal and 6 Phantasmal Nightmare Creatures for them to call upon.

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