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The inhabitants of a village at the bottom of the valley are desperate: sometimes the river starts to flow backwards, until it dries up. This creates many problems for the village economy, damaging fishing, crops, transports ... After a few days of desperation, prayers and propitiatory rites, the river starts to flow in the right direction. It is simply a spite by a 36th level wizard who lives on the top of the mountain, near the source, angry because the beautiful daughter of the mayor did not want to marry him.
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The forest of the hanged
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During a storm, you find hospitality in a monastery. The monks who live there are nice, but they are strange: they speak a disused dialect and the monastery looks rather scruffy. You go to bed but you can't sleep: the silence around is unnatural, you almost have the impression that the monks you greeted before going to bed have gone elsewhere! You decide to take a tour to chase away the negative feelings, but ... the door to your room has been closed from the outside. You start screaming, but no one answers you. It is already dawn when you can force the lock. The monastery, as you suspected, is deserted. With sunlight, the feeling that it has been abandoned for a long time is even more evident. When you leave the monastery, you startled: in the grove in front of each tree hangs a skeleton with tattered monastic robes.
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The mad ferryman
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Because you want to get to the city as soon as possible, you can take advantage of a ferryman to go across the river and take a shortcut. He is a sloppy man of an indefinable age. You notice that his raft is full of coffins. He says he trades in this kind of bussines. The truth is that he hypnotizes the passengers with a magic ring and locks them in coffins; having nailed the lid, he throws them into the river. Why? You will never know it.
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A wealthy eel merchant keeps his beautiful daughter segregated at home, in a luxurious room full of salt water basins. You fall in love with her and decide to save her from her father. Run away together. The girl says she loves you, but she doesn't want to give herself to you, until one night… during sex her arm remains in your hand. You observe it: it is an eel! She looks at you astonished...
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In the region, the news has long been spread that a cruel dragon enjoys setting plantations in the countryside on fire. Indeed, the fields are on fire and nature is obviously malicious. The dragon lives in a cave on a seemingly inaccessible rock face. Determined to resolve the situation, thanks to a magical artifact (a flying carpet) you can reach the dragon's cave. You discover that in reality the dragon is a half-sick old golden dragon who is harassed by a gang led by a landowner, whose minions set fire to the fields of other landowners during the night, blaming the dragon for the crime. The gang also steals the scales of the golden dragon to resell them. You decide to do justice.
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The house on the moor
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During a downpour in the middle of nowhere, you spot an isolated house on the moor. You decide to look for sheltered there. You knock and a child with a gaunt face opens to you. He says his parents have gone on a long journey and will be back in several days, but if you want to stay and shelter from the rain. He drives your compassion: how can take care of himself in this isolated place? He has probably been abandoned, you think. You notice a large trap door in the center of the room just below the table. You feel something breathing from below. The trapdoor is closed with heavy bolts and padlocks. The child is keeping a vampire segregated under the floor ... Why? You will never know it. The last thing you discover is that the child is not entirely a child, then the darkness.
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You come to an isolated, sloppy fishermens village. The inhabitants are poor and unkempt. They have a strange and hallucinatory behavior: they laugh all the time and say strange things. They all eat purple-colored dry bread all the time. From the delirium of a fisherman you learn that that bread is made with ground flour in a nearby mill. In this mill, a huge and grim man actually makes the village bread with some strange purple flour. You discover that a secret trap door gives to the lair of some giant purple worms which is located just below the mill. Man makes flour by grinding dried corpses of purple worms ... which evidently have narcotic properties.
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The eye on the nape
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You come across a gang of boorish shepherds who want to kill a hermit woman living in the mountains. She lives isolated and works in herbal medicine, but the shepherds believe her to be a witch and say that she poisons and makes people disappear. The woman seems like a defenseless and peaceful middle-aged lady, while those other narrow-minded superstitious gods are illiterate. So you decide to take the woman's defense. After chasing away the fools, you notice with surprise that the woman is much younger and more charming than she had seemed just before ... weird! She thanks you for having sent the shepherds away and invites you to his house for tea. Youy accept willingly. As she walks in front of you down the path, a gust of wind sweeps her hair over the back of her neck, revealing a bloodshot eye that gazes at you with hatred.
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The last treasure
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Everyone goes there and in the end you decided to go too. Where is it? In the presence of Zordan, the last Treant of the magic forest. From all over the region, adventurers, treasure seekers, wanderers and onlookers of all kinds visit it and camp in the beautiful grove to listen to the cryptic teachings of the wise old treant, who likes to accept alcoholic gifts of all kinds. In fact, almost everyone who visits Zordan is interested in only one thing: the so-called Last Treasure, the treasure trove of treasures, which a legendary good king hid somewhere in the region, in a spot he only revealed to the treants, because they were a a wise and kind people, the only one capable of respecting the oath and keeping the secret inviolate, until the king-messiah returned. Zordan is the last Treant of that lineage and therefore the only keeper of the secret! Many go to him boasting that he is the reincarnation of the king-messiah and trying to make the tree spit the coordinates of the Last Treasure, but Zordan is immovable: he has decided that he will never reveal the precise location of the treasure, but will limit himself to offering clues and suggestions scattered, at its sole discretion. Until now, no one has been able to find the treasure by interpreting Zondor's cryptic clues, which look like crazy oracles. Hundreds of adventurers have undertaken astounding but unsuccessful searches. Will destiny reserve you another outcome? No, because the Last Treasure doesn't exist: Zandor invented it all because he felt alone.
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Nothing was as it seemed
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Heimat Der Katastrophe Milan, Italy
DIY label focused on ambient punk, minimal-synth, dungeon-drone, wartime music and post-nuclear wave. Managed by a creative punx collective from Milano city.
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