Monday, April 15, 2013

The Astronomers

They worship in ziggurats of yellow brick.  Inside of these are thousands of tiny, brass plaques.  Each of these is a binding ascertained through the study of extinct constellations.  On each is written a required offering and its reward.  The reward is not described, but a destination given in time and space for its retrieval.  An offering might be anything from a copper coin to a life.  A reward might be anything from wealth raining from the sky to a quiet voice that answers three questions.  The times of granting run from long past to far in the future.  It is possible that a visitor exploring the ruins of the Astronomers can still find some of these that are yet to come to pass.  But some scholars warn that doubling an offering will break a binding, resulting in chaos, and it's hard to know what those in the past have offered.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, I was trying to think of reasons players might want to revisit dungeon locations and this was one idea. Essentially a library they can browse for things they want. Would need two random charts to work and maybe a percentage chance of weirdness because of duplication.

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