Our guests this week are Johan Nohr & Pelle Nilsson of Ockult Örtmästare Games & Stockholm Kartell. We talk about MÖRK BORG, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world.
We discuss Putrescence Regnant, their vinyl record in collaboration with Andre Novoa and Manuel Pinheiro of Games Omnivorous and Exalted Funeral. We touch on their KARTELLIAN CLAMOR podcast.
Nakenben’s Court: A cultist wearing a flayed skin cloak is posted at the door to warn you to not enter these sacred chambers. This desolate, muddy field is filled with webs of sinew and obscuring smoke. Slowly swaying discarded skin suits cover small smoking volcanoes, facing the altar as though at worship. Inhaling the smoke causes you to start throat singing.
Throat-legs stretch from the ground leading to an organic sculpture of Nakenben sitting on a raised altar. Offering a sacrifice will reveal the true Nakenben. You might be an unwitting sacrifice. The spider god Nakenben has eight heads with long, singing throats for legs. Each head eats bodies whole, stripping them down to their naked bones, and leaving holy relic bone-scrolls covered in glowing sigils.
They process the following bones to contain spell-like abilities: skull = confusion / rib = suffocation / femur = berserker rage / radius & ulna = haste / clavicle = enfeeble / hammer, anvil, and stirrup = deafening / horn = fire breath & fire immunity / spine = mind control puppeteer (area effect). Break the bone to cast the spell.
Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Johan Nohr, Pelle Nilsson
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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about What’s So Rotten About Zombies Defending An Ancient Temple? by Stuart Watkinson.
You are the undead horrors that protect an ancient temple. You’re rotting away and can hardly hold yourself up, but you are persistent, and your God is on your side. It is for telling stories about the monsters and exploring the motivations of evil creatures. It’s dark, grim, and probably goofy.
Content Warning: Death, mutilation, gore, dark themes, religion and worship of evil, and violence.
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