No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

You Bloody Snake

(by @irisbleufic & @procrastinatingbookworm)

When Hastur finally woke up, he realized the sky was blue.

That wasn’t right. The sky should have been blood-red, maybe darker, rippling with the wings of Heavenly and Hellish armies. Not this tranquil, cloudless, limitless blue.

He was lying in an alleyway, between a nondescript brick wall and a building with evenly-spaced windows. The windows showed a room full of people holding bits of paper in their hands, faces washed-out and empty, speaking into telephones.

Half of Hastur’s body was writhing maggots, spread out across the pavement. He could almost hear Ligur saying I bet that’s what humans who’ve had a whatzit, a stroke feel like.

Except Ligur wasn’t there.

dndeed

Further proof that PCs will loot anything that’s not nailed down.

onlyawfulrpgideas

My crew invested in carpenters tools, then went back to a dungeon they had previously cleared, just to remove the “fancy wooden door” and sell it to a local junk shop…

oldschoolfrp

1979. First time playing. I’m the DM. B1: In Search of the Unknown. Party gets to Room IV, the guards’ lounge. I read the text:

Session turns into a detailed narration of a “major engineering effort” – chisels, levers, fulcrums, sturdy overhead crane assembled from inexpensive portable parts. Did they not know they were writing a game for nerds? 1st level party goes home with a 5000+ gp statue.

gbaji-the-deceiver

Our DM wouldn’t let us find anybody who could afford to buy it. So we buried it until we were high enough level to build a stronghold, then dug it up and put it in the foyer.

oldschoolfrp

That’s a good solution that contributes to a larger story instead of simply saying yes or no. I think today I would let this salvage project play out over an extended period of time, possibly driving a level or two of character advancement in the low-level campaign. 5e has more mechanics for this sort of thing:

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You Bloody Snake