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More bugle playing at the table is what I'm hoping for

This is so cute and fun!! I love all the little creatures so much, and getting to read the dreamers dialogue is such a great reward for solving their puzzles!! The riddles feel satisfying to solve, with a mix of word games, interacting with the world, and a bit of logic to get to the right answer.

This is really great, I love the ASCII art as well!

This is ace, I really love the miens, and the special is great fun.

This is such a great use of miens, really cool concept!

I love how sort of harmless these are, but in numbers not something that can be easily dealt with by violence! Could definitely see these being a nice little puzzle for players to solve.

I love the miens on this, they fit the creature perfectly.

I love the idea of a wizard's tower being riddled with little tunnels players could make use (provided they manage to become rat-sized) taking them between different parts of the tower and different times. This is great!

This is ace, I love the size descriptions!

I'm glad you liked it! I was really hoping to get something that felt like it could fit into an adventure, so happy that came across!!

Thanks!!

Thank you so much! Glad you like it!

Ok, should be all fixed now! Thanks again for letting me know!

Glad to hear it! Thanks for flagging that, it's working fine on my desktop but I did just check it on my phone as well and I'm also getting a load of garbled nonsense. I'll have a quick look and see if I can work out why it's doing that, but it should (hopefully) work on a computer.

Tell me about it, I was flabbergasted as well, the poor sweet onion was too pure and good for this world. Yeah, seemed a fitting end for the 4 miscreants!

Oh anytime, happy to help, thanks so much for writing it!

The party arrived in the spice swamps, sank into them a bit, and were immediately attacked by angry exploding spice crabs. Farkas the Journeyman of Sharp Corners performed an elaborate crab dance, to perplexed stares from the rest of the party. The crabs seemed unimpressed.

After picking crab meat off themselves, and a short rest, a tiny onion tottered over to them. Keith, the Fellow of the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks decided he would be a tasty morsel, and sprinted after him maul at the ready. A brutal murder scene (redacted in 17 countries) ensued just outside the flower wedding. Plato the Thinking Engine pronounces all biological life a mistake.

The Exographer Ferdinand XII, recalling their short anthropology elective from university, took charge at the wedding, artfully leading the ceremony as ringbearer to the applause and merriment of all involved. Keith looked suitably sheepish.

Picking up some clues at the wedding party, the last sighted location of Sir Reemulus was allegedly the Compost Caverns, so off they trot, into the reeking dark and the waiting trolls who had previously dispatched the errant knight. (I rolled "something is quickly rushing towards you, assemble the initiative stack" event here, and brought in trolls, although with hindsight I think the intent was to use the moulder mound, I'm putting this one down to heat of the moment brain crosswiring.)

Trolls put up a pretty good fight, but a beautifully thrown flask of oil and subsequent masterful trick shot from Ferdinand's pistolet sends one fleeing in terror from a mighty fireball while the other meets the heavy end of Keith's massive tenderising hammer.

Finding the heavily gnawed body of Sir Reemulus, and his journal of bad poetry, they discern he thought that the staff would be found in the Sorcerorwood Grove (which I now realise is incorrect, but that's on me). Once again, back to the flower gazebo where the reception is really getting going, a beetroot has set up a DJ booth.

Through the wasteland, the choking smog, and out to the grove. Spying the tree, the party keeps it talking, while Farkas the assassin gets up in the branches to douse it with oil (I was probably a little generous with that sneaking test, but it was a good plan so I let it ride). After everyone dramatically reveals their intentions for arboreal murder, the match is struck and the tree is engulfed in flames. Camera zooms in on Keith's face as he says, "so, how do we get out of here then?". fin

Oh gotcha, yeah, I can't believe I missed that on the staff! I picked "looking for Sir Reemulus (and possibly the staff)" as the reason to be going there. I added in a bit around that, like a clue to the staff's location on his corpse. For context as well, this was a drop-in game with 4 brand new to Troika! players, and honestly I thought this was a great adventure to introduce the game.

This was really fun, I had an absolute blast running this weird little adventure, full of strange little odds and ends and slightly threatening whimsy. Great vibes, everyone at the table had a great time.

I think one thing I was a bit lost on, in the Sorcerwood Grove it says the tree is looking for the staff of Olzzagrasst, but also there's a magic staff lodged in it? Was that just... a  different staff? Or did the tree not realise it had grown over the staff it was seeking?

This seems super cool, planning to run this tomorrow evening, will let you know how we get on!

This rules, love the weird 90s dark fantasy anime vibes!

I started a normal sized fire and did a good job at plants, 10/10

This scenario is so cool, and I'm excited to run it. I know it's been a while since it was released so I guess the answer is probably 'no', but is there any chance of a print-friendly version of this?

I hope it treats you well, I'd love to hear how it goes if you do play it, but obviously no pressure!

Thanks for the playtest assistance!!