It’s only just crossed my mind that I’m unemployed and need
a job and have a blog that people sometimes read.
If anyone needs any writing or RPG work doing, drop me a
line. If you want to know what I can do look over on the right, or just read
the blog. I do this stuff for free so if you pay me I can probably do better.
As a reward for reading through that corporate whoredom,
here are the final requests from when I was doing requests. I DID NOT FORGET
YOU MATT H, OK I DID A BIT.
“Thousands
of years ago the archipelago was a thriving maritime civilization which
dominated its neighbors through superior sorcerous firepower. It is now long
defunct and, though it is a very long way from anywhere, a whole economy has
sprung up around salvaging useful relics from the ruins. Think the 17th-century
Javan spice trade. The locals, who are largely lizard people, consider all this
wizard trash a nuisance at best, and they have an uneasy relationship with the
weird militant strangers from the far seas who are going to force you into
trading pacts whether you like it or not. What kind of treasure are they
digging up on these islands and why is it worth the months of starvation and
scurvy you have to go through to get there?
Alternatively, I don't know, a list of motivations for ghosts.”
You could roll 2d6 if you like.
FEAR
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LOVE
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HATRED
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DUTY
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GUILT
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FAITH
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COIN
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Specie from the empire of MANPAC.
Anyone eating a coin can consume one ghost
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Worthless coppers, covered eyes of true
loves corpse
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Sold soul for this cash, will kill
whomever has it.
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Final payment for unfinished contract,
mercenary ghost needs to get it done.
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Forged coins bought an Empire. Ghosts
will serve coin holders and detect fraud and lies
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Whip of coins for greedy and faithless,
following ghost eager to get back into it.
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ART
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Portrait only link to earth,
destruction sends directly to hell.
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Last image of only child, dies young.
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Concerto stolen from hell, when played
activates all nearby angry ghosts, makes more angry
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Awful saccharine hyper-patriotic statue
of Generals pathetic death, fills army ghosts with sadness/rage.
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Automated playmate misfired and mashed
a kid. Ghost of builder will inhabit toy and protect you as child.
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Ikon of future prophet ghost is waiting
for to be born. Ghost follows portrait doing compare & contrast.
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WEAPONS
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Psychopomp axe can cut ghost necks
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Duelling blade broken defending lovers
honour
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“That killed me! It must be destroyed!”
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“I will hold your oath fulfilled!”
Aragorn-style bitches.
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Badly forged blade broke at wrong
moment. Possess it and blacksmith ghost will help you spot flaws in
swords/tools.
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Warhammer of healing. Blow to head
dispels all negative statuses and does critical damage. Ghost wants to hit
everyone.
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GEMS
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Gem throbs in hand, shows way to ghost
bones (re potential defilement)
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Wedding ring
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Blood Diamonds. Your blood!
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Swore to strangle daemon with own
necklace of coal. Stole necklace, missed daemon. Up for some intermediate
strangling between here & main target.
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Pearl was poets price for abandoning
someone they loved. If they help you woo someone you love they get to rest.
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Irritating metaphorical jewel. Glass till
you understand mystery, then giant diamond, but then you don’t want it.
Confused ghost died trying to solve. Still trying.
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CLOTHES
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Wearing robes allows mortal to possess
ghost & force action
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Wedding dress/suit
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Last remnant of evil fashion trend,
must never be allowed to return. Activates all aesthetic ghosts.
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Crown of dead kingdom. Ghost gotta
serve yo.
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Judges wig from dead corrupt judge.
Wear it and judge will help you discern d100 lies then betray you.
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Fake turin shroud inhabited by angry
atheist ghost, will happly assist in fooling any and all faithful, any
religion, out of bitterness re ghost form.
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ARMOUR
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Plate Suit, when opened, will chase
nearest ghost & wrap around, imprisoning forever
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Book of handwritten poems with an arrow
shot into it.
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Mirror shield shows dead their old
living features. Undead always attack shield (or wielder)
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Badly fitting plate. Each piece from
Knight that failed to save king. Wear it and they save you and get to rest.
One at a time though.
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Loyal ghost of armoured dog. PUGWRAITH.
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Symbolic shroud you wear instead of
real armour Does nothing. When you die your ghost has to hang around till
someone else dies wearing it.
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when ive settled in new house - sorted struggle with social security then do my tax i has some money for rpg design so ill remember you - i should have several manuscripts ready by then too - 6 weeks - my heart goes out to you hope you get wok of your choosing
ReplyDeletethanks Chris. Don't feel too bad for me. I hated my old job so much that poverty and free time are like strange heavens to me now. I've done more meaningful work in the last two months than ever before. I just havent got paid for any of it.
DeleteStrange heavens indeed! I've been a bit too sick to work for a few weeks now and I'm secretly enjoying the poverty and the convalescence and the perspective. I'd recommend it to anyone who lives where there is a good healthcare and social security network. Unfortunately I'm getting better now.
DeleteNow I just have to remember how to write.
Patrick, if you printed your blog out in easy to grab of the shelf for reference, cool ideas stuff, or published it in a PDF I can print of that page because it is useful right now format, I would give you money for that. Forget having a constant theme like you were trying to go for with the monster book. The theme of Patrick's weird cool ideas is enough to justify a jolly good printering.
ReplyDeletePlease!
I'd also pay money for this.
DeleteGosh (and apologies if it's a bit weird being bombarded with my comments on blog posts from a different era), your situation in 2013 sounds rather like my situation post 2019-meltdown and subsequently burning more bridges in my former industry than NATO did in Yugoslavia. Except that I don't seem to have your work ethic, or knack for a well turned sentence.
ReplyDeleteThis sentence resonated so much: "I hated my old job so much that poverty and free time are like strange heavens to me now."
Anyway, if you know of any jobs going...