Last Time

Desmonda awoke and found her siblings each killed. They all bore the marks on their shoulder that she bore. Anseth died shortly after calling her “Lucky.” She swore an oath to see her family avenged.

Now we have two plots:

Where is Lumina?

What happened to them?

Now, Lucky’s at a bit of a crossroads – she could either go find Lumina, or she could try to piece together what happened. As a result, I am going to roll a d100.

Option Result Find Lumina 1-50 Investigate 51-100

Result: 15

Lucky is understandably scared and nervous. She hurries out the door without even looking behind her. She does not know where Lumina is. However, she might know where his general direction is.



This is where the oracle comes in. She MIGHT know where, but she also might not. This makes the DC: 10 + 0 for the Oracle.



Question: Does she know which direction Lumina is? (possible)

Result: Natural 1

Question: Did he go left? (Possible) DC: 10

Result: 12

DM Note: As something I enjoy with the MUNE system, I will be keeping track of Natural 1s and 20s in order to add a little more interesting things to the story.

On three Natural 1s, I will roll up a Negative Incident on a chart.

On three Natural 20s, I will roll on the Positive Incident charts.

Nat 1 Count: 1





In order to play this out, I will be using the Solo Adventurers’ Toolkit to generate a cave dungeon for the choices to be followed. Lucky is faced with two directions. Right or left.



To the right, there is a room, but to the left there is a door. Lucky will try to search for some tracks to see if she can’t find her siblings.



Question: Did he leave any tracks? (Likely)

Oracle: 16

Question: Did anyone else leave any tracks? (Highly likely)

Oracle: 23

Lumina can’t really fly inside the caverns, so his only option is to walk. Not only that, but there are several sets of footprints leading in from the right.

Lucky’s survival check: 7

Lucky kneels down and can’t see any tracks. Then it clicked. “I forgot to light a torch,” Lucky groaned. “I’ll just light it.” Now holding a torch, she could see Lumina’s tracks, but also the set of footprints leading from the room beside it. The giant dragon-sized door is closed, but Lucky quickly opens it by pulling the lever beside it.



Now Lucky is out on the open road. More dungeon generation – Quiet. In order to keep track of all this, I am making a map on Inkarnate.



She walks about 30 feet before she comes to another passageway option. “Did Lumina go through here?”



Question: Did Lumina go through here?

Oracle: 6

The passageway does not lead to his location.



Lucky’s Survival Check: 19



“I see where his tracks lead!” she excitedly declares as she continues to press onward down the passage.



Question: Did Lumina go up?

Oracle: Yes



As she continued down the halls, she found herself standing at a T-intersection. There was one passage going north, and one going south.

Survival: 7



“I can’t find his tracks!” she declared, “And if I don’t go the right way, I could get lost. Lumina, where are you?” She’s going to sit down to think for a moment. I’m going to roll a d100 to decide her next move.

Roll Result 1-50 Give up 51-75 Go down 76-100 Go up

Result: 66

“I must find Lumina! I’ll try looking down this passage,” she decides. As she turns the corner, she hears the sound of something heavy being dragged.



Oracle Time!

Question: Is it a body? (we’ll get this out of the way first)

Oracle: 9 – Maybe

Then it’s an undead.



Question: Is it hostile? (well, this is the Underdark) (Likely)

Oracle: 4 – nope.

Unhostile Undead – huh



Question: Is it dragging a club?

Oracle: 13 – yes

Alrighty then. We have ourselves an undead, nonhostile, and dragging a club. Lucky asked, “Lumina, are you there?”



No response. She turns the corner to see a skeleton with club walking past her. Lucky’s first inclination was to hide, but then she realized that the skeleton ignored her, so it either doesn’t have much free will or it is merely passive.



She’s going to look for more tracks.

Survival: 17



“Well, I don’t think there are any here. I’m going to go back to where I lost them,” she says. She backtracks to the north and south passage. This time, she’ll roll with advantage because she knows the tracks don’t lead south.

Survival: 17



“Found ’em,” she sighs.



Question: Is Lumina there? (Likely)

Oracle: Maybe

I’m going to take that as meaning that she can see his distant glow. Light dragons shed light for thirty feet.



Lucky hurries down the passage, shouting, “Lumina! Lumina!” The light began to come closer as the footsteps of the Dragon echoed through the cave.



“What is it, child?” he asks, looking upon her. “Who is watching the others?”



Lucky buried her face into the dragon’s leg as the tears began to flow. She again winced as her shoulder made contact with his scales. “Child, your shoulder seems injured,” Lumina noted. “Let me have a look.” His claw carefully peeled back her shirt to see her shoulder.



Question: Does he recognize it? (Possibly)

Oracle: 17 (Yes)



Question: Does it originate from a Dragon cult?

Oracle: 13 – yes



Question: Are they Light Dragon marks? (Likely)

Oracle: 1 – No.



Question: Did Lumina brand them? (Not likely)

Oracle: 14 – yes.

Question: Is Lumina part of this cult? (Possibly)

Oracle: Natural 20 – yes



Question: Does he lie to her? (Most Likely)

Oracle: 11 – Maybe



Question: Does he know why she survived? (Likely)

Oracle: 20 – yes.



Question: Does he try to keep her there? (While he does care about her, he also serves his cult, so I will say possibly)

Oracle: 14 – yes.

Nat 1 Count: 2

Nat 20 Count: 1

So it appears that Lumina knows something of what is going on, and appears as if he was the perpetrator.



Lumina closes his eyes on seeing the mark. “I had been afraid this would happen. I tried to hide you and protect you, but they found you anyway.”



“Who?” asked Lucky. “Who would do that to you?”



Lumina looked down at the ground, sadly. “The Cult of the Death Dragon,” he whispered slowly. “They attempt to summon the Death Dragon by branding people as sacrifices. When I was a wyrmling, I escaped their prisons.”



“So I was branded?” asked Lucky. “as a sacrifice?”



Lumina shook his head. “No, child. You were a sacrifice. You died. Sometimes, the sacrifices are rejected because the Dragon has been satisfied. I would say that you are a lucky girl.”



“Lucky?” she murmured, “That’s what Anseth told me.”



“Anseth knew about them,” Lumina explained, “they are very wily and tricky. Beware that once you have been marked by it, the Death Cultists will use you as a grand sacrifice to summon the Dragon.”

“They know where we live. Should we move?” asked Lucky.



“No. I will keep you safe,” he replied. “And all will be well again. Soon.”

So that ends our adventure for this week! Lucky finally found Lumina. Will she ever discover his connection to the cult? Will she track down the one who killed her siblings?



However, there is one more thing we need to cover. Anseth’s eyes fly open. His eyes, once a beautiful sapphire blue are now a sickly red, and black scales appear at random places on his body. “She was. . . Lucky,” he hissed, “my death satisfied His appetite. Her luck will not sustain her. I will see her sacrificed.”

