The Ancient Ways of the Grain Goddess

The Ancient Ways of the Grain Goddess



As written by Celenoious the Sage from the university of Raven's Keep.

Let's face it the religion of the Grain Goddess Keres whose spiritual leader is Shel-Elene (the ugly Baroness of Raven's Keep) is not a very good deal for worshipers. First of all many a young maiden is expected to have relations with the male hierarchy of the church set up by her husband the Baron Strah-Kahar.

He being the Lord and Savior of the Temple of the Horseman God, know in other parts as Kerne the Hunter, Mal the Slayer of Invaders, and Tyre God of War. Only fellow nobles are allowed to be Horsemen and worship in his temple.

All who are filthy foreigners and not of the ever dying Hattir blood. They are the filthy stinking Mastdellian race whose symbol is a Mastodon when the feel not putting up the raven.

The religion is supported to keep the baron's wife busy with silly intrigues all set up by the Baron to keep his ugly fat ignorant wife occupied. Tis sinister as they practice many lotteries that end up in death by stoning, drowning, stabbing, and poly-morphing if not even more sinister things.

Wort of all is the Wicker Man! Woe to ye who are the victim and fool of this ritual!







The baroness conveniently tries to kill any of the baron's other mistresses, slaves, and whores to keep her place that she soon knows will be taken away if she be not ever vigilant, treacherous, and militant.

The baron usually cares not as there are many stirges in a cave as he always says. He also says there are many goblins, kobolds, hobgoblins, and orcs to stab in the dark! Oh what a sense of humor our leader has.

The the worship of the Grain Goddess Keres is a filthy foreigner religion that is slowly taking over raven's Keep as the Mastdellian filth keeps moving in.

They are trying to breed us out as the Baron and the Nobles have the right of First Night with our brides.

They shall one day push the people and we shall have enough!

October Surprise!

Many economist are saying get ready for the October Surprise!

Another wave or Mortgage Rate Resets! Just like the kind that started the bailouts we oh so love!

My question is if the holders of the mortgages are currently making money and IF the rate goes up causing a default wouldn't you just NOT raise the mortgage rate and allow the person to keep the house?

What exactly happens to a house that sits empty for any period of time? What are these idiots going to do with these thousands of empty houses that nobody will buy?

Are these idiots TRYING to crash the economy on purpose?

Worst of all look at the peak of ARM Rate Resets in 2011.

What will most likely result is a devaluation of the actual value of the greenback and then people we are in real trouble. Depending on how much the greenback devalues we may see our beloved USA become a third world country.

This Dungeon

I have found a few pictures of what ruins and dungeons look like. This is a test of what this blog can do.


Stairs down









We make it to a door


















We find an atrium





















Suddenly goblins are coming...






If you don't put lots of space the images will overlap.

You think you can take these Dungeons?

This is a little experiment to see how much I can post on a blog.




I am the guide for the adventurers. They are young and stupid full of piss and vinegar and gold.

Stupid all stupid they are they actually "want" to go deep into a dungeon. I bring them to the entrance. The foolishly make noise and sounds of glee. If I did not need the money and not have these men working for me oh how I would get a young wife and start a farm BUT all my gold goes they way of drinking.

There are the two young lovers. The Thief and the Druid. She could do so much better.








The Wizard











The Fighter










Not enough to enter this dungeon. Me and my men grumble at these idiots. The entrance looks like this...











Will we survive?

Hero's Mag Setting

I have this world that I have used for years in various incarnations. Here is what I have so far from the North American Continent.

Mega-Earth present day:

North America was slit up into five distinct nations after the civil war with many smaller city states in between. These nations are roughly called the United Megalopolis North America. These nations are nothing close to being United.

United Megalopolis North America 1-7
Republicia
The nation that is the remnants of the old USA. It is in the current midst of an economic crisis and is bogged down by wars in the middle east. This area is know as the East Coast or Neo England. It is primarily thought of as a Republic but it is at the begging stages of a Fascist State.

Steelton
A corporatist owned industrial giant that has been rotting from the inside due to free trade. Much of Steelton's factories are closed down. This area is know as the North East or the Great Lakes Nations. The nation is owned by warring corporations.

Tropica
The nation of sun and sand also know as the Southeast Coast or The Peninsula that goes out into the Gulf and Atlantic. It is ran by various families of great power.

Confederation
The southern gulf coast is home to the Confederation Megalopis. The Confederation is the very successful nation that won their freedom from the former United States which is now Republica. The Confederation has many petroleum refineries and very good farmlands. The Confederation has not been without it's problems as the slave rebellion in 1962 will attest. On that year slavery was finally abolished but it nearly tore the nation apart. Justice Johnson lead the rebellion and is still alive today. It is a very loose libertarian and/or anarchist state.

Desert
This is a nation know as the high desert. It is a highly religious area and is quite self sufficient. It is ran by a theocracy and various warring sects.

Rain
Know as the Nortwest this area is a mecca of industry. It is ran by various powers of all kinds.

Liberalia
Know as the East Coast this area is a huge Socialist Democracy. It is ran by the state but there are many factions all at war.

The Black StairsNPC party idea

Well up till 3:40 in the morning drinking fine vodka(because I ran out of bourbon) and working on my huge maps. About a hundred rooms per level. It's going to be a massive undertaking for anyone to take on this dungeon.

Once again I came up with a twist. One of the monsters I rolled up was an NPC party.

Now that can be interesting in itself as on a previous session the NPCs that were not hired went to the dungeon to explore on their own and best of all attack the weakened party to steal their stuff.

But why not give them more of a story?

When the players reenter the Black Stairs there will be a letter claiming the dungeon to the Raven's Keep Adventuring Society. The letter will also say that only sanctioned RKAS members may enter the dungeon if not legal action will be taken on the offenders. On the back will be a waiver of liabilities and a HUGE list of more that 15 NPCs in the party.

How will the players react to this? This is the dungeon that they bled in many times and now some upstart is claiming it?

This should be pretty good...

FALLOUT3 PC

Fallout 3 is just one of the best first person RPGs ever made.
The graphics and game play are fantastic if you got the machine with the ass to run it. If you don't have the machine to run it the enemies won't render at a distance but they still can shoot you.

The story is gritty and very deep as you explore the wastelands of a futuristic art deco Washington DC wasteland.

The game is huge with months of game play. Its so big that you wonder how did they have the time or budget to make a world on a massive scale.

If your looking for something to take up far too much time then F3 is the game to be.