#319

Nov 10, 2024

Books

This week I read:

Roleplaying Games

The Halls of Arden Vul

More exploration of the Great Cavern this week. Not much to say really: places looked upon, corpses looted, mushrooms unmenaced!

The party also took a detour down to the Arena to spend a lot of gems to buy the mummified corpse of Rex, the First Canine, from Reith, the lift-overseer. That got them some major goodwill with the Beastfolk, and with Dog Company especially. Though, the players were surprised that Rex was an actual dog and not a dog-headed man, perhaps this reveals something about the origins of the Beastfolk..?

Describing natural caves is a huge pain though. The map is significantly off. I think before next time I’ll copy over the actual map to Miro and trace out what they’ve explored.

Akkadian

This week I returned to working through Huehnergard and got one more chapter done.

On Saturday I set up Anki flashcards for all the vocabulary and I’m going to work through a little every day. Today was my first go, and with a bit of thought I did manage all the words. Though they were all nouns, and I expect to do worse with the verbs.

Miscellaneous

I’ve picked up a few new games to try out: WEBFISHING, Path of Achra, and Fields of Mistria. I’ve sunk a few hours into WEBFISHING so far, it’s pretty soothing, feels kind of like a chatroom from back in the day—just with fish.