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This

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is a HeadGum Podcast.

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And now a preview of our latest Patreon

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game, Morkbarre.

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GMed by Chris Hastings, with

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Tim Platt and Joe Lepore. To

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hear the rest of this adventure, join

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us on patreon.com slash rude tales

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of magic.

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Today, we are playing Morkbarre by Pelle Nielsen and

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Johan Norr.

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The world of the game is an awful, cruel

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place. Cruel people,

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cruel nature, cruel magic.

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Everything that was once good has turned rotten. Reality

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rewrites itself as even the laws of time

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betray you when

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you turn your back. People

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can't remember the recent past, let alone any

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older history. The lands you

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can travel are walled off from three sides

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by the endless sea, and on the fourth,

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the massive, ice-caked peaks of

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the Bergen

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Crypt. It is a life-locked

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land, dying with no help from any

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sort of outside world.

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We start in the sad but gaudy

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city of Schleswig, on the edge

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of the Westland, formerly known as the Western

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Kingdom. To the south is

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the endless sea, to the east is

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the black furred Onder Lake.

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To the north is the hollow city

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of Galgenbeck, home of the cathedral

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of the two-headed basilisks. To

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the west is the valley of the unfortunate undead,

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and beyond it, the Bergen Crypt.

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Steepy riverbanks

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cradle a pencil-thin trickle of water

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that runs under a stone bridge. There

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we find Terras.

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clawing up heaps of clay

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that drain the moisture off his fingers,

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searching for a once abundant fungal

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growth that now hides further and further

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underground. Tim,

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could you

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tell us about Theros? Theros

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is an occult

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herb master. He

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is tall, gaunt, with

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grimy white hair and

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a bare belly that seems to

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poke out of his otherwise skinny

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frame. One of his

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hands is a hook!

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Because

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of how he lost his hand and

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needed to replace it with something

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and he chose a hook. He

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has a rat on his shoulder

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running around scaring doing his

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little deeds as he looks for ingredients

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for his many potions.

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You

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hear a voice from the bridge above you.

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Is that an herb master rooting in the

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dirt? Yes.

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I can no longer find the mushroom

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that lets me create the elixir of a palace. I'm

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afraid I have one of the last

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remaining vials of these potions

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remaining on this awful land.

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I don't know what any of that cultist

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crap means but I'll tell you what, we haven't seen

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one of your kind since

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the turning of the third psalm.

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But, I

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might have an opportunity for you if you're

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looking for something you

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can't find. Yes.

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You have opportunity for me

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to find what we need to heal? Yes, yes.

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Please, I will do something so I can spread

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the power of vitality

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and perhaps retain enough

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coin to get my own.

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little drink of my own potion

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for my own pleasure. Like

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I am motivated by, by, by, I

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am, I am motivated by substances

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according to the traits I randomly

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wrote earlier.

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Okay man, um, she

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will be thrilled to meet

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you. She? Yes,

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the one-eyed woman

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who rules the thieves. The

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thief, queen, you want to enter the line? I

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say no, I say no. I do not want

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nothing from them thieves, for I know

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what they, they take, they take, they take

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whatever I can return, be cursed, as cursed

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as this land is myself. I say no

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to the thief. I say no.

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You

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don't have a choice.

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And then he, um, he holds up a

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bottle of wine. Oh,

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you haven't seen wine in three

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weeks. Uh,

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oh, um, uh, do you, I

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notice you cannot, oh, that's such a

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big bottle for one man. So

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maybe you drop, oh, did you drop it?

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Oh no, did you drop it?

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Maybe you dropped it. We,

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we, we leave there. Maybe

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you drop it. Did you drop it? You can

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drop it

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if you want to drop it. Drop it if you want to drop

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it. This

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has been Mark. You

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can hear the rest of this episode by visiting patreon.com

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slash root tales of magic. If

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you dare.