“Ah, the blood pools in a small pond of crimson. “Look, here, as the blood splashes against that stone and droplets of red seep into the dirt. Just as the spider betrays the fly, someone aims to betray the chief.” “The blood trickles around these sacred stones like the weaving strands of a spider’s web. Here are some sample omens based on how the blood spills that I have come up with (written from the perspective of the shaman): I thought it would be cool if they had shamans who see glimpses of the future by spilling blood on ancestral stone and looking at how it spills over the stone. She doesn’t even finish her sentence before Glint grabs his musket and runs out the started coming up with some ideas to make Goliath lore more interesting. Euphemia says, “Actually, we came to recruit you on a mission to save the world –” So we go back, and we meet Glint in his little hidey-hole next to the castle – did I mention he lived right next to the castle? That’s how he helped us sneak in – and once we’ve finished catching up, Glint asks us (through writing, of course) what brings us back here. But towards the end of the campaign, we go around recruiting important NPCs on a mission to save the world from the Elder Gods (i.e., Cthulhu and co.), and of course Glint is on the list of NPCs to recruit. For most of us that was true, admittedly, since people left and joined the campaign, and by the time that he comes up again my character Euphemia the halfling wizard is the only one in the party who actually knows him. So we save the day, and we all kind of assume that we’ll never see Glint again. We couldn’t lift the curse since we were Level 3 at the time, and anyway that probably would have been basically genocide, but at the very least we could set all the undead free from their oppressors. (When he wanted to use words, he would write them down on a piece of paper and then hold the paper up.) He helped the party sneak into the castle where the evil mages lived so that we could kill them all off. Thus he somehow managed to seem genuinely happy about helping us despite no ability to make facial expressions or talk. In life, he had been an adventurer just like the player characters, and he still wanted to be a hero like in his glory days. He had a gold tooth and carried a musket.

The newly minted undead had free will and weren’t necessarily evil, but they were treated as little better than slaves.Įnter Glint, a skeleton freedom fighter.

The curse turned all the living into zombies and all the dead into skeletons. Okay, a little background is in order here: a certain region of the campaign world was ruled by a group of evil mages who put a curse on their land. There was actually an NPC kinda like this in a campaign I played!

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