This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivourous. We talk about Hex Omnivourous, (Undying Sands, Bottled Sea and The Hexcrawl Toolbox), Mausritter by Isaac Williams, Manifestus Omnivorous, Frontier Scum, Death Robot Jungle LP, Putrescence Regnant (MÖRK BORG LP) and playing music in general.
This sandy beach has a deep pool of water in the center with The Locktopus partially submerged. Pleasant waves lap against the shore as a calming, gentle breeze blows across the blue and white Portuguese tiled walls.
The Locktopus is the benevolent animated skeletal remains of a dire octopus. It has eight bone tentacles that each end in a key numbered one through eight. This is an avatar of the octopus god Godtopus.
The Locktopus tells you about The Octobox, a beautifully ornate box with matching Portuguese tilework and a single keyhole, that’s submerged 20 feet below the water. The Locktopus tells you to choose a key and dive below to open the Octobox. When the box is unlocked, it rises out of the water and opens like a flower to reveal a dining area with a bell jar on a counter. Inside of the bell jar is an octopus salad with chopped onion, garlic, parsley, salt & pepper, coriander, lemon, olive oil, and served with a side of sweet potatoes.
The Locktopus says, “It’s the time of judgment. Eat me or be eaten.”
If you allow The Locktopus to eat you, present yourself on the counter and allow the Locktopus to devour you. You are reborn: go up one level and now you glow, have a halo and are a cleric of Godtopus. For you, it was ten lifetimes in the octo-realm. For those watching, you’re gone for one minute.
If you eat the octopus salad, you are judged. Each key used to open The Octobox has a different effect:
- You die in d6 days.
- You’re transported to the octopus dimension where you are fed to the octopus lords.
- Your bones turn to cartilage. You’re a pile of flesh that can’t walk and need to be carried around in a bucket, but can swim like an octopus.
- You’re omnivorous and have a 50% chance of being compelled to eat any item you come in contact with.
- D4 uncontrollable tentacles grow on your back.
- Siphon and gills, you can only breathe water now.
- You turn into an anthropomorphic octopus.
- Your body becomes covered in annoying suckers, but you’re better at climbing.
Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andre Novoa
Appendix N: Inception, Old Boy, The Boys, Aquaman, The Menu, The Giving Tree (book), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (sarlacc pit), Lord of the Rings (Gandolf’s rebirth), Spiderman, Arrival, Hellraiser.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral, with art from our guest Brian Colon of Vast Grimm. This is the true story – of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god – trapped in a time loop – working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide – to find out what happens when people stop being polite – and start getting healed: The Heal World. BUY IT HERE.
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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!
We chatted about doing this on our Old-School Essentials episode, and so, we’re really doing it! The contest will be open for submissions through August 17th 2023. You may submit a Dwarf you’ve already drawn, or draw a new one. You must be the author and owner of the Dwarf Drawing, and be okay with us sharing it along with your name on our social media. You can submit any kind of Dwarf you like. Warhammer mohawk Dwarves, Gimli’s, Silly named Snow White Dwarves, Heck! Even Dark Sun Mul (Dwarf Human Hybrid) will be acceptable!
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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.
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