Scale & Shadow: Part 9, Against the Golden Grain
The golden age is long over.
Whether by cruel kings, savage beasts, or unwise wizards wielding forgotten magics too great to be contained–dark times are upon us. The only hope for a comfortable life is to delve into what ruins remain to plunder the treasures of your ancestors to sell to the greedy and the foolish.
Be warned, as if flies to a candle, the worst monsters are drawn to the brightest lights and no one is left to save you in the darkness.
The heroes of legend have died long ago. All that remains is:
Scale & Shadow
Previously:
Our treasure-seekers are free of their bonds, but what terrible secrets have the Handsome Men been keeping under the the Golden Grain Inn?
(Stay tuned to the end for end of session moves.)
The village of Orlane is dying.
Once a small and thriving community, Orlane has become a maze of locked doors and frightened faces. Strangers are shunned, trade has withered. Rumors flourish, growing wilder with each retelling. Terrified peasants flee their homes, abandoning their farms with no explanation. Others simply disappear. . .
No one seems to know the cause of the decay -- why are there no clues? Who skulks through the twisted shadows of the night? Who or what is behind the doom that has overtaken the village of Orlane?
Art by Tim Truman
Used under Fair Use
The cast of Scale & Shadow is:
Austin as Kastr the fighter
Brandon as Silmigar the wizard
Jacob as Kuvair the swashbuckler (a playbook from Awful Good Games)
David as the Game Master
The music you heard was:
Mass Extinction, by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio, Hopeless by Jimena Contreras, Horror Ambience by ESN Productions, and
Eleven and Trenches by Kaupe
Additional voices for the show include:
Scott as the narrator
Our cover art was created with MidJourney
Scale & Shadow is an actual play of Dungeon World, a game by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel with some of the suppliamental material from Perilous Wilds by Lampblack & Brimstone
We drew inspiration from Against the Cult of the Reptile God (1982) by Douglas Niles and The Village of Hommlet (1979) by Gary Gygax
