Village Backdrop: Gulls' Roost (Patreon)

This week, we've got Jacob W. Michael's new village for you--and this is one your players are not likely to forget! Jacob often comes up with slightly "out there" designs and I think this village definitely qualifies as atypical. (In fact, I think Jacob and Jeff Gomez are in some kind of warped competition!) 

In any event, behold, Gulls' Roost:

Gulls' Roost

Memory walks the streets of Gulls’ Roost, a constant presence in a village that was all but forgotten before it was born. Envisioned as a summer retreat from crowded city life for the kingdom’s elites, Gulls’ Roost looks the part, a glittering jewel nestled in unspeakable beauty. But dismayed by tales of dangers during the village’s costly construction, the nobles never came, and Gulls’ Roost instead became a permanent home to the labourers who built it.

They were in time joined by elven adventurer Dovrenir Leafsong and his beloved human companion, who knew they would only have so much time together. What Dovrenir didn’t know is how much he would miss her, or their children when they left home. He set his magical crafts to keeping his memories alive, creating a replica of his lost love and imbuing it with a piece of her soul. It was the first of the village’s living dolls, a companion that would in time be joined by many more. And while their ceaseless ability to help first seemed a boon, soon there was little need for the living inhabitants to ply their crafts. These living memories took on a hard edge, their attempts to help simply causing more and more villagers to succumb to melancholia and forget the things they needed to live. Even as Dovrenir keeps preserving his friends in the only way he knows how, these living dolls may soon be the death of Gulls’ Roost.

Upcoming Monstrous Lairs

Thank you for voting in the recent poll. 

134 of you voted and Medusa Lair and Dark Creeper Village came joint first with 33 votes each. After perusing the schedule, I've tentatively penciled in Monstrous Lair #10: Dark Creeper Village for June 25 and Monstrous Lair #11: Medusa's Lair for July 16. 

In another month or so I'll hurl up another poll to decide the next couple of instalments in the line. 

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Thank You!

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I'd also like to welcome our new members--Stef, Karl Joyce, Jason Leslie Rogers, Alex Milligan, Jonny Finch, John Mills, Jeremy Shelley and Abstracts--who had joined us this week. 

Thank you all again. Have an excellent weekend!