People | Paths | Cities | Quests | Encounters | |
1 | Llama-herd. Trades gossip, meat, cold-weather clothes | Foot-wide arch over hundred meter drop, far too fragile for anything heavier than a llama and two saddlebags | Temples, markets and farms all seem to float serenely on the surface of a mountain lake | Sacrifice these fifty llamas to the storm god (a mosasaur) by throwing them off that far-away cliff | Swarm of tiny vampire bats. Anaesthetic saliva means you might not notice them until the weight bears you down |
2 | Raptor-catcher. Trained hoatzin assists in catching colourful raptors for the sale of their feathers | Ancient rope bridge, knowledge of its construction lost, now maintained by weaver pterosaurs | Suspended in centre of ravine by living web of vines. Population accordingly obsessed with horticulture | Kidnap a willing husband from the swamp people. Comprehensive demands for new husband's manly attributes | Venomous pterosaurs. Their bite inflicts tremors; they'll eat you once you shake yourself off a cliff |
3 | Soldiers. 'border patrol' a transparent excuse to raid the neighbours | Ridiculously difficult free climb, last ten meters carried out inverted. Someone at the top could just throw down a rope though | Clinging to the side of a cliff, nestled beneath an overhang. Compete for space with a gigantic colony of burrowing pterasaurs | Steal egg from sufficiently large dinosaur, replace with this gold egg. It's a status thing | Pachycephalosaurs grazing grumpily, one eye on the skies |
4 | Stone mason. Pragmatic and full of good, if condescending, advice | Daring leap into a cenote, said to carry the faithful to safety and dash the wicked to pieces | Fills underground cavern. Huge, gold sun allegory on ceiling pours a stream of flaming oil, provides somewhat underwhelming amount of light | Slay epoch beast (quetzalcoatlus) to bring about new millennium | Chupacabra, clambering about on backwards monkey paws, stealing llamas and children in the night |
5 | Astronomer desperately trying to keep up with the ever-changing minor heavens | Zig-zag path up the face of a cliff. Takes hours and hours to ascend, about 10 minutes to get down on shitty wooden bike | Built on the second-highest peak in the range. Streets and buildings form a map of the major heavens; the position of your house affects your destiny | Undo recent prophecy to spite rival. You're going to have to figure out how to fake a rainstorm | Giant cricket, bounding about with flailing insect idiocy. Will try to eat you, may just bear you off a cliff by mistake |
6 | Silversmith, always looking for new designs, inspirations and muses. Very competitive | Trudge up scree slope. Canyon walls amplify and distort all sound - speech makes the rocks quiver, shouting would bring down the whole slope | Sharp tip of mountain carved into a gargantuan ziggurat, stepped farms on the slopes below | Rescue noble's eldest from an ill-advised hunting trip, long since overdue to return | Quetzalcoatlus. It is thought to be the god of this cycle. Its death is considered the apocalypse, ushering in a new world |
Sunday, 1 April 2018
dinosaur mountain
Gonna need to reiterate that I can do these fucking things until time runs backwards and a scaled tyrant crawls from the stone to tear me to pieces
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