Our Land of Azurth 5e game continued last Sunday with the party exploring further into the Level 4 of the brain of Gob. They find the passage into one of Gob's eyes where they find a bunch of Phantfasm-serving goblins sleeping. In the other, a theriocephalic Phantfasm is instructing bored goblins on evil.
In Gob's equivalent the pineal region, they find a throne with an armored boot upon it. Another piece of the armored suit they were seeking! The quest was nearing completion.
Soon after they came upon a labyrinth stalked by a minotaur, or as it turned out, minotaurs. They killed one and looted his ring of Hill Giant Strength. Then they made their slow way through the labyrinth by following a wall constantly with their left hands. When they got to the exit, the other minotaur they had covered it with a large stone. They killed this one too and stole his magic items as well. It required the additional strength of a blessing to help them roll aside the rock.
Then they came to a dungeon or torture chamber with skeletal former victims in cages dangling from chains.
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"In Gob's equivalent the pineal region, they find a throne with an armored boot upon it. Another piece of the armored suit they were seeking!"
For a moment there I thought the boot was occupied and they'd found a villain who just a tyrannical foot or something. Reminded me of that issue of Flaming Carrot where he and the rest of the Mystery Men had to fight a legion of jackboots with cloned copies of Hitler's feet in them. They all wound up drowning when it rained and the boots filled up with water.
That comic was kind of surreal at times. The movie adaption tried hard, but it really didn't come close.
Also, I haven't seen "theriocephalic" used since reading a Lankhor Mhy scholar's treatise on broos in Runequest. Must have been almost forty years ago now. That GM had the best handouts, made it worth actually having a good literacy skill. He'd black out words based on how well your character could read, which led to a lot of collaborative efforts by the group to suss out what we were missing. Neat approach I've never encountered elsewhere.
Antiquated words are a feature here at the Sorcerer's Skull.
I've reached an age where I prefer to think of such words as erudite or exotic rather than antiquated. Just because some others may choose to restrict their vocabulary to woefully inadequate modernisms is no reason the rest of can't display a greater breadth of knowledge. :)
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