Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Nothing of note, nothing overt. But bad luck, the one constant in the past few months. So, a little bowl of milk, left on the doorstep. An old horse shoe, nailed to the door frame, like a cup… nothing seems to help.
Adventure Prompt Query of Sevens The one day of the year where – no matter what you do – there is pie. Eat it until you pop; there is pie. Sell them, until no one wants more, there is pie. Thankfully, it only comes once a year…. Happy Pi day, y’all. Raise a slice in homage,
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens It was understood; no one went out on the night of the new moon. From dusk to dawn, no matter the season, everyone and everything was indoors, behind shutters bound with iron and bay.An easy thing, to leave a shutter ajar. To slip out into the star-gilded night… and
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens The cup was an unremarkable thing turned from steel, once polished to a blinding shine, now showing a pattern of bloody rust. Stolen. Sold. Given away…. it always came back.
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens It’s an ordinary candy box. It’s been passed down, sure; in the family for generations. Your mother put hard candies in it. Your grandma put fudge in it. Her grandma … well. You know. You said you’d never bother making candy to fill the dish. But now it’
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens At first, it looked like a toothpick. Then, the tiny fletching, the even tinier needle-point became obvious. And now, one has to wonder… is this why everyone has been acting so odd..?
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Winter breathes a last breath of cold. Signs of spring begin to show themselves … with unusual vigour. The briars haven’t been this invasive in decades.
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens The night sky is full of wonders; a sea of lights sparkling just for you. Shooting stars are nothing new; you have seen dozens. Never one that landed anywhere you could get to, though …
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Painting has always been a means of escape; creating a landscape, a world, a being on canvas. Accolades have never meant a thing. This painting, though. .. this painting has been special and strange since it started….
Fantasy Question of Sevens As a child, you spent endless hours catching fireflies and watching their graceful patterns in jars. A harmless pursuit. But, many years later, as an adult, you return to your old haunts, and find horror – the fireflies were never what anyone thought….This Query of Sevens is brought to you
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Of a sudden, the Ruling Council in your city has imposed a ban on certain forms of knowledge, prompting an armed purge on the city’s libraries and centers of learning … What could have prompted such blasphemy.. ?
donations Site news! Hello, fellow Portalites!The eagle eyes amongst you have likely noted that we’ve been busy; some things have been updated, some others have been changed and we’ve got some new buttons to my left here – the shiny gold buttons will take you to various ways you can fling
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens The new year approaches, the wheel of the seasons turns towards the Spring Rites. From the grip of winter, the land will soon awaken… and what will bloom with the first snowdrops ..?
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Happy Solstice, everyone! The morning of the Winter Solstice dawns bright and clear, sunlight mottling the pristine fields of snow. The night before is dim in the minds eye, and even the serenity of the chill air seems somehow charged….
5e Looking for Players: Swords of Justice (5e) Cruvis is currently looking for one player to join his 5e game, Swords of Justice. This game has been running for 15 years. He is in need of a player who is cool with the pace, reading, and writing involved. He is willing to accept new character concepts into the
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens The morning light shines bluish through your window, the first suggestion that the world outside has changed. Looking for yourself, you find a plain of unbroken white, with vaguely familiar shapes sticking out; during the night, it snowed. Pristine. Beautiful … and all too quiet ….
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Sorry folks; a little late today. I forgot. I’d offer you all some Naan, but I have no idea how to shove it through the internet. Anyway. Onward! To the day’s Query of Sevens! We survived Krampusnacht! Has Krampus darkened your door? Chased a relative through the streets,
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Every year, the traditional settings grace the table, and every piece has its own history, its own story. Candelabra, centerpiece; what are they? Where did they come from?
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Another month, another set of questions! The Query of Sevens is intended as a sort of prompt; for a GM, it can be used to create plot. For a player, back story – and perhaps, a bit of plot. The Query of Sevens is also just a fun little game for
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens The sword has always hung above the mantel, a family heirloom sheathed and displayed like just another trophy. But it’s always made you nervous to see it there … to the point where being in the same room with it is a trial.Why?
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Sorry it’s late, folks. But! we’re back up and running – yes, Rondak’s Portal is back online – and here is your very late Query of Sevens! That statue has always been there. It’s not particularly anything; not especially ugly or pretty, it’s just there. But of
Design GM's Tip of the Week A lot of Portal staff … roughly half of us, really, are gearing up to go rampaging off to a convention, so you’re getting a short one this week. And possibly no Kickstarter post; sorry ’bout that in advance.In the meantime! Your GM’s Tip of the Week:Don’
Adventure Prompt Question of Sevens Every time you plug into the ‘Net, you swear you see things. Things that aren’t quite right, at the very edge of your vision. Looking at them, trying to follow them, there is nothing there … Until there is.What’s going on?
Adventure Prompt Query of Sevens For most people, an inheritance comes with the burden of losing family. For you, it comes with a piece of the lost relative hanging about. How does that effect your life thereafter?
Adventure Prompt Query of Sevens Your mother’s library has ever been a place of wonder and strangeness, a place to get lost in other worlds, absorb knowledge and escape the hardships of the world for a time. As time passes, it becomes clear that there is more to this library than you first thought