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Post by gonfalon on Oct 6, 2008 13:17:43 GMT -5
DT's are fun. Asking people to post their favorites has probably been done... so how about posting an open challenge to write a description for a new one? Have any creative ideas? Express them in writing!
Here's my latest attempt:
Wed to the Swamp A rough pit has been hacked into the rotting sphagnum. It is shoulder deep and several feet across, about the right size to be a shallow grave. A couple of inches of black, acidic water cover the bottom, nearly obscuring some tiny white stones scattered carelessly on the floor of the pit. The cultists’ chanting reaches a fevered pitch, drums pounding a savage tempo, bagpipes keening obscenely. A muted splash, nearly impossible to hear over the din from the frenzied cultists is the only warning. Stout leather cords loop around your arms, pinioning them helplessly to your sides. Another loop settles delicately around your neck, but then jerks taut with a sudden savage bite into flesh. Knots tied in the braided leather cord dig deeply into muscle, constricting blood vessels and clouding your eyes with a black haze, robbing your franticly twitching limbs of their desperate strength. The deed is done before meaningful resistance can be mounted. A crude obsidian knife slashes, causing a storm of tiny crimson raindrops to cascade into the bottom of the pit. Your life’s blood leaks from the hideous wound in an instant and the zealots lower the exsanguinated corpse into the bitter, stagnant water of the swamp.
Enjoy!
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Post by osmium on Oct 6, 2008 15:01:19 GMT -5
I knew it... ... you ARE insane.
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Post by gonfalon on Oct 6, 2008 15:42:55 GMT -5
Well they're fun to write. I've never wandered into one and lost my gear (at least, not without meaning to.... people used to run DT quests for people), or maybe my viewpoint would be different.
But then again, probably not.
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