Café de Nuit

After a long hiatus from all gaming, I've agreed to run a RL game for a few coworkers. I'd appreciate any feedback and help developing ideas.

(Gotta keep this short--writing at work.) Can anyone guess the plot of my game from the following poem?

Four moons herald a night of blood
Dark moons in a silver sky
The hand, the arm, the heart and neck
Bring them together, the end is nigh

Huzzah! Welcome back, DS!

Hmmm.... Something to do with The Awakening?

Ah, it's an awakening of sorts, but nothing to do with that module....

(I'm curious as to whether the clues in the riddle are obvious enough...should I give a hint?)

DeepShadow of FoS wrote:Ah, it's an awakening of sorts, but nothing to do with that module....

(I'm curious as to whether the clues in the riddle are obvious enough...should I give a hint?)

I like to think I know Ravenloft fairly well, but I have no idea. So yes, a hint would be welcome .

Well, Nova Vaasa was said to have 5 moons in The Awakening. Dragonlance has 3, of which one is a "dark moon", and can be seen in Sithicus. But your numbers are throwing me. I can't recall any reference to 4 moons, or multiple dark moons, unless you're not meaning moons literally. The body parts remind me of Vecna, but of course, only his hand is really famous. His "heart" was actually his high priestess, and I don't think his arm and neck ever made it into the books.

yeah... I got nothin.... hint, please?

Anything to do with Vecna?

Nope, nothing to do with Vecna.

The most critical lines are the second and fourth. The "moons" of the second line match the body parts of the fourth, but both the moons and body parts are figurative.

I'm thinking the body parts are actually people? (much like the "heart" of Vecna). Four servants, each with a body part analogy to their function, "orbiting" someone powerful? coming together to overthrow him or her?

Don't know, my guess would be the Four Horsemen. The poem doesn't seem to go for the usual flavor of the four horsemen however, so all that matches is the 4 coming together for the end. xD

Okay, so this is certainly not too easy.

Here's another hint. Think about in what sense you could have a dark moon in a silver sky.

DeepShadow of FoS wrote:Okay, so this is certainly not too easy.

Here's another hint. Think about in what sense you could have a dark moon in a silver sky.

Okay . . . I still have nothing . Anyone else?

Okay, the PC's are going to have more information than just the poem, but I've decided to add more verses. This will give the PC's more info, and it ups the creep factor. Here goes:

Four moons herald a night of blood
Dark moons in a silver sky
The hand, the arm, the heart and neck
Bring them together, the end is nigh

Clever hand made wicked signs,
Traced words of power in arcane lines.
Hide spells within the moon-at-hand
Or place its own at your command.

The moon-at-heart unbeating lies
With passion fuels the wearer's breast.
Beware lest dead man's sly disguise
Corrupt the heart on which it rests



I'm working on two more verses for the "arm" and "neck."

Is it something to do with Lamordia and Adam's Wrath?

With the body parts mentioned, I'm going for flesh golems.

Oh... Shadow of the Knife?

The verse about the moon-at-heart mentions what it does to the wearer. This means the moon-at-heart is something that can be worn.

OK, the moons are crystal balls or gems or pearls of some kind? Moon-at-hand set in a ring (ring of spell storing?) moon-at-heart on a necklace. (dead man's sly disguise makes me think a lich's phylactery) Arm would be a bracelet, neck... a choker? (seems redundant with the the heart. Maybe the heart one is set in a breastplate?).