The following text I retrieved from the dead Gorgonmilk blog. I wonder what happened to old Gorgy; IIRC, he was half of Dolmenwood and fell from grace after saying something that disturbed some people on a dead platform. Enjoy! --Claytonian
The kernel for these ideas is found in the description of the weird brew sent by Jim [of Hereticwerks] for our Table of Weird Drafts.
Jim alludes to a mysterious group of liqueur-crafting undead monks. It
was suggestive enough to make me wonder just who these fellows may be,
what they might be about. Here are some bullet points that attempt to
answer these questions:
FORSAKEN OOTH
- A pulp “lost city” setting inhabited by a forgotten order of undead monks
- Full of meticulously clean but largely empty buildings where an extinct race of humanoids once dwelled.
- Surrounded by a dense Purple Jungle inhabited by carnivorous trees, psychogenic mushrooms and sinewy displacer beasts.
- Domesticated, floating lamia roam the streets. Their jewel-like eyes have the power to paralyze humanoids with fear. These lamia feed slowly and must wait for their acidic spew to partially dissolve their prey before they can masticate on its flesh with their soft teeth.
- Few records of Ooth’s existence have survived through the aeons.
THE UNDEAD MONKS WHO WATCH THE DOORWAY
- Seventeen monastics who have maintained the city of Ooth since time out of mind.
- Their withered mouths are stitched shut with cat-gut. The string is replaced according to ritual every eleven years.
- A monk’s “eyes” are actually glyph-engraved obsidian balls. One allows him to see the astral plane while the other gazes on the material world with hawk-like acuity.
- The monks follow the Mandate of the Dark Mother which obligates them to guard the Lesser Doorway to Ywaru, where the hideously bloated Mother of Monsters sleeps and occasionally gives birth to new abominations.
- The monks are obsessed with the craft of obscure drafts and philters. Rarely an ancient example of their liqueurs might be found stashed away in the wine cellars of remote and eldritch kingdoms.
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