Return to the Gloaming – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 40 Lazy GM Prep
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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish, here with another episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy GM Prep. In this weekly show, I go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday role-playing game. In this case, I am running the game Shadow Dark by Kelsey Dion, the four-time gold Annie Award-winning RPG Shadow Dark. I am running a campaign set in the Gloaming. which is the setting from cursed scroll one all of those books are available from arcane library and you can find links to those in the show notes below if you like the work that i do you can check out the city of arches kickstarter the city of arches kickstarter is going on right now it's in its last few days for the kickstarter you can find a link to it in the show notes below you can check out a
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Let people know that they can get the free sample. Let them go and take a look at it. Take a look at the art. Take a look at the design. Take a look at the incredible cartography we have going on in here. It is a really awesome book. I'm super proud of it. I'm super excited to bring it to you. Please check it out. I missed two games over these past two weeks. It was summer. People were busy. People had things going on. Kids going to school. All kinds of things happening. So it meant that we did not have enough players. I think we were down. So I was willing to run with three. And we have six. I don't have any on-call players for my Sunday game. We have six regular players. But I'm willing to run with as few as three, which meant it takes four cancellations before we don't have a game.
And for two weeks in a row, I had four cancellations. So that was kind of a bummer. But I'm excited to get back into the game now. I just have to remember what happened. But I kind of do remember what happened. So in our last session of Shadow Dark, the characters had made their way on the Great Lift from the hidden shrine of the Lost, one of the gods of the Lost, whose name I already forgot. Because the name was forgotten. So it's probably important that I forget it too. So they were in this lower temple. They actually met the god who they had willed into existence by using her name. Talked to her. She mentioned the fact that her sister had killed her. And it was actually two twin temples that were connected by a great big lift. So they took the big lift.
They went up to the upper temple. They wandered around the upper temple. I don't know if they I can't remember if they met anybody important or anything else kind of happened there. But then they made their way outside of the temple, which they knew was the lair of a great big dragon. That was a named a named dragon. And this is over in area 1403 in our in our hex map, which is the mud pit. And it was the swamp dragon Ixodane slithers in the dark morass. And I thought, you know, in one of those shows of like, hey, the world has changed while you've been off doing your stuff down in the in the caverns below. I said that Ixodain was actually killed. Ixodain fought with Varosbane, the Mugdalblub ooze dragon.
This is a dragon that the characters had actually cursed with Mugdalblub's curse because one of the player, one of the characters, Vayne, had been cursed by Mugdalblub and was slowly turning into Mugdalblub stuff. His bones were getting bendy. His skin was getting kind of translucent. He was in a bad state. And the characters were all, this is a long time ago, very early in the campaign.
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