Rotgoons - Narrative Declaration

Learning to Gamble with Their Lives

The only way into Crocs' den is through his tables, and the Rotgoons don't know the rules. Holic deals blackjack in a back room, Talim learns to palm a card, Beetle learn

Meeting the Conservance

Curtinand, head of the Conservance, doesn't charge for blessings. He trades. He smiles through a game where the audience votes who gets executed on stage, hands Beetle a

The Grand Parade

Queens opens. Music, floats, skeletal guards holding back the crowd. The cart is set. Food is on the grill. A crystal-headed census construct floats past every stall with

Its All About Family

Brug's daughter Thalia is missing. His house is torn up, her bed cold, her hair in the brush. The cat-fur smell leads one way, the blood leads another, and a ruined tent

Prepping for the Big Day

The parade is in two days. The cart is a wreck held together by Holic's late nights and Lorne's charity. No horses. A wanted terrorist's recipe in Beetle's fanny pack. Ta

Hunted Down

Back inside the walls, the streets empty around them. Tyrant's Guild bashers in every alley and on every rooftop. A crane-crate avalanche, a pane of glass, a wall of mark

Escort Quest

Into the Solitude. Through bone-tree swamps and ambush rot. They find Baldrick exactly where he said he'd be — cylinder helmet, arsonist's grin, and a frog sandwich in hi

Family Gathering

They crawl out a week late. Lorne is waiting in the alley with bad news about the crystals — there is a soul in every one, and Talim's may be one of them. The Elmas lost

Loss of Mind

A door opens on a dinner party. Holic, the Elmas, and Gippuk smile across a red-slick table, piled meat in the middle, an empty plate for each Rotgoon. Eat and you belong

Visions of Failure

An orc corpse pincushioned with bolts. A trapped statue triggered in a blink. And for Gray, something worse: the dead man grabs her leg, his skin stripped away, and shows

Delving Deep

Diamond Hands McBlark firebombs his competitor's shop, smiles wider than a man should, and invites the Rotgoons in to spend their coin. Kitted out and freshly armed, they

When Money Gets Involved

Holic sees the broken bottles, the lost horses, the state of his cart. Someone has to face him. While that plays out, Talim meets a wizard named Lorne Barnes who might id

Catching Up

Cart wrecked. Horses gone. Heart plays draft animal while Beetle scrubs the evidence and a beautiful, possibly carnivorous sunflower rides shotgun. Baron Stackwall catche

The Chase

Holic's delivery is overdue. His friend Baron Stackwall and his dog Nugget are somewhere in the Ponds Pilaster, and so is a rival pickup crew. Gray drops a hostile with a

How to Not Run a Tavern

Elma's is packed. Tyrant's Guild bashers are watching one table, a Crocs crocodile-kingpin is watching another, and a tiny platypus in a business hat is selling Holic a s

Friend Acquired

The ambush was a Crocs raid on a blacksmith, and the Rotgoons wandered through the end of it. A goblin ally, a dying elf named Fevin pulled from a fountain, and one ugly

A Father in Need

A goblin laborer named Brug is breaking his back for coppers to save a sick daughter. The crew leaves Crocs with the hunt sold and a gift for him. Then the trinket from C

Can Love Bloom in a Sewer

Something is sobbing through the sewer pipes. Not a monster — a heartbroken one. Charles, a tentacle-eyed horror in a spiky crown, just wants to know if he looks ugly, an

The Hunting Grounds

Deep in the sewer under the sinkhole, a hooked fowler drops from the ceiling and starts reeling Talim in by the chest. The job was ingredients. The crew leaves with man-s

Adventurers Will Do Anything for Gold

A strange airship docks over Outset and every schemer in the Ponds Pilaster smells opportunity. For the Rotgoons, opportunity is a food cart, a parade that hasn't happene