The entire world is on an island, and you see an eldritch monstrosity watching you from the sea.Everyone had marionette strings extending upwards from them, anything near you is a wooden prop, and anything in the distance is a painted backdrop. You are standing in the middle of a green field of grass dotted with flowers.The sun is growing brighter and hotter as you speak.A deep purple fire is consuming the world from the horizon in.
You can’t feel it, but the skin on your torso ripples as it burrows beneath. There is a worm in your chest trying to eat its way out.A monster with terrifying scythe-like fingers sneaks up on your party members and harvests their arms to eat.Strange geometric shapes dance before your eyes.Everything is submerged in water, but nobody else seems to recognize it.You see the least scary thing you can imagine and are utterly terrified.
The last person or monster you killed is back and its coming for you.You can't see or hear properly because of the storm of bees clouding your senses. :)Ĭheers! I look forward to coming along for your next 10 years of archaeology. Perhaps it is the name the villagers gave the mysterious outsider who walked into town one day from parts unknown and erected his tower.Īnother possibility is the word "pous," meaning "foot, with "-pus" being a variation, e.g., "octopus," which means "eight footed." (Why it's not "octopodia" is a mystery to me, but that's language for you.) "Pus" has no literal Greek meaning, but "pos" does: It means "how." Thus, we could translate a slightly-altered name ("Xenopos") as "How strange." A fitting title for such an enduring mystery. The principal translation of "xenos" appears to be "foreign" (or, perhaps, "alien"?), which lends some flavor to the wizard's presence in town. I think your theory of the name's etymology is likely correct (it makes complete sense), but when I started poking around on Google translate, I noticed a couple of other possibilities (and please keep in mind, I am a non-Greek speaker fiddling with an internet gizmo). One such morsel is your post entitled, "The Shadow Over Portown," specifically, your breakdown of the name, "Zenopus" (xenos + pous, or "strange foot"). Discovering and digging into your site has been one of my great pleasures over the pandemic months, and I continue to find interesting morsels to digest. Congratulations! Like countless others, Holmes' sample dungeon was the ur-adventure for me and I remain fascinated by it 40 years later.
0 kommentar(er)
