ULTRAVIOLET GRASSLANDS| Psychadelic Metal Play-by-Post Adventure

About the adventure

The Hero put the cat coffee in the samovar and rubbed the sleep sand out of their eyes. On the other side of the hotrock the Dwarf rubbed magi-technical ointment into the joints of his golem armor. That meant it was half an hour to sunrise. Same thing, every day like clockwork. Perhaps he was clockwork. Everyone said those Salters weren’t human anymore. The Demon-Talker sat down beside the Hero, noiseless as always yet somehow comforting. The Hero passed her a cup. “Ah,” she gurgled, “you make the best brew. It almost warms my bones.” “We’ll all be warm soon,” rumbled Eater-of-the-Dead from its sleeping sack, “we’re nearly at the Violet City.” A world begins when it emerges from the mists of time. So it is with the civilizations of the Rainbowlands—which mark their count from when the Long Ago ended and the Now began. The Rainbowlanders are the humans of a later era, undisputed masters of the fertile lands around the Circle Sea, dwellers in the Eye of Creation. They come in many shapes, colors, creeds, and faiths. They pile unkempt technology and misremembered lore together into a teetering whole. They rule the settled lands under their polychrome deities of ill-repute. This story is not theirs. This story begins at the edge of their world, at the Left End of the Right Road. At the westernmost outpost of humanity, the Violet City: bastion against the hordes, entrepôt to the exotic sunset lands, and last port of civilization before the trackless steppe studded with the detritus of the Long Ago. The last glimmer of the Rainbow before the skin-blistering glow of the Ultraviolet Grasslands. This, Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City, is a fantascience roleplaying adventure setting designed to take the PCs on a long strange trip across a mythic steppe filled with remnants of space and time and distorted riffs. It is inspired by psychedelic heavy metal, the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.

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