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Real life!  No! Regular life has gotten slightly busier this week, so I've had to miss a few days and catch up. As I've said a few times, I'm not going to beat myself up over this. The goal is to keep moving forward and perfect daily progress isn't required. Fortunately, I'm caught up again as of now! So, to catch up here are the rooms I've done since my last post: 1-18 Dress Shop This is the remains of what was once a luxurious dress shop. It served the high end clientele of this part of the city with garments of silk and satin. Now it belongs to the goblins. This is one of two rooms controlled by the Bloodfeather Goblins, who are based in the house from week 1. They have a bit of an outpost here and are busily making plans to push further into Kobold territory. In this room, they've found several partially preserved dresses and the goblins here have taken to wearing them. This actually raises their profile in the band considerably. The leader of this outpo...

The Apothecary A fairly simple room today, actually. This was once an apothecary's shop. Over the centuries the shelves and cabinets have all fallen apart. The various potions, poultices and cures have run together on the floor and mixed up into three Living Potions. There's a bit of treasure in this place, but explorers will have to get past the potions somehow! Living Potion AC 8[11], HD  1, Att 1 x touch (splash effect), THAC0  18 (+1), MV (30') (10'), SV D12 W13 P14 B15 S16, ML 12, AL N, XP  50, NA 1d4 Splash Effects (d4) 1: as Potion of Diminuation 2: as Potion of Gaseous Form 3: Adhesion: covered in sticky slime for 2 hours 4: Trip Out: Hallucinations. No actions for 1 hour So, that's it!  Like I said, super simple today. See you tomorrow!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood! I thought it was high time that we had some real dungeon passages and rooms. By that, I mean that for the first two weeks I've been focusing on one big building for the whole week. That was by design. I wanted a big house and a big church. These are two prominent buildings in an upper-class part of the city and I wanted to give them the level of detail that they deserved. But this is supposed to be a city, so we need a lot of roads and buildings and such. However, that poses a problem for how I'm working right now. I really wanted to fit a fairly sizable neighborhood into a single week's worth of development. I also need to bring the Kobolds on stage. I've been talking about them as another faction since week 1 and haven't placed even one of them so far. I think a warren of twisting alleys, and small buildings make for a very good home for a band of Kobolds. Seven rooms, just doesn't seem like enough though. I wanted...

 Week 2 is complete! I'm so happy with how it turned out. I have to admit that on Sunday, I was not feeling particularly confident.  I knew I wanted to make a church, but I really had no ideas beyond that. When I was growing up, we'd go to visit my grandparents in central Wisconsin.  While there, we'd go to their church on Sunday. This was St. Francis Xavier Church in Mosinee. My memory of that church became the template for the church in my dungeon. I say it was my memory of that church because I couldn't find a lot of reference photos of the actual church. Though while searching, I found out that there is a St. Francis Xavier Church in Superior, WI. That church as a gorgeous fan-vault ceiling which is what inspired me to put such a ceiling in the dungeon. Anyway, I'm not religious anymore, but I remembered a lot of terminology from my younger days and it was a ton of fun creating this church by amalgamating my memories with stuff I learned online. The whole thing...

The Church forgives. I missed my first day of the project yesterday. It was a long day at work followed by a frustratingly time-consuming problem in our house. By that time that was all fixed, I just didn't have the energy to work on Greystone. But, the point of this project is not to be perfect. It's to try. As I've mentioned before , perfect is the enemy of done.  And the point of this project is to produce something.  So, I'm forgiving myself. And the dungeon will forgive me as well. I caught up today and am proud to say that week two is complete!  14 rooms done, 351 to go. :) I'll do a little week in review later (possibly tomorrow), but for now here's what I did today. Today, we finally learned what's going on with that skylight above the altar. As it turns out, it's part of the solution to accessing a hidden treasure. The skylight can be opened. Doing so will drop a quantity of dirt and debris down on the tribuna.  This reveals a vertical shaft cli...

The Rectory In addition to running the church,  His Excellency  also lived here. The rectory (a word for the place where a priest lives) is his private chamber. It's attached to the Sacristia as well. At any given time, there's a 50% chance that the bishop is here, rather than in the Sacristia. In life, this room was his private residence and he won't take kindly to interlopers. Though I'm using a lot of Catholic terminology for the building, this bishop certainly didn't live by a vow of poverty. In addition to a large and (once) comfortable bed, there's a large trunk.  This is filled with the decayed remains of fine silk garments. Under all of that, there are rings, gold and silver chains and other pieces of jewelry. There's also a stash of coins. The crowning glory of the room, however, is the portrait a large and perfectly preserved portrait still hangs on the wall here. It's a beautiful rendering of a magnificent Dwarven priest (the Bishop himself, i...