In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.