Splintered Serenity

Welcome to Splintered Serenity!

Do you love traditional fantasy campaign settings, but:

You don’t understand why your wizard can’t use a longsword!
You just groove on the idea of a barbarian with a shotgun...
You’re tired of just playing characters that walk on two legs.

Do you groove on unusual campaign settings, but:

You really wanna mow zombies down with a particle blaster!
You don’t just want a familiar, you want to BE a familiar...
You think Steampunk fits perfectly alongside ancient, slumbering horrors.

Setting Updates

Setting Description: Rocky Mountain Region

Post by: Timelord

Fanonical? What?

Fanonical posts are a new thing here at Untoldthegame.com, and as far as we know, something new to RPG's in general. We've talked about our Open Campaign Setting from "Day 1" around here, but we've not made much fuss of it so far. Well, that's about to end...

Basically, "fanonical" is a word we've coined based on the term canonical. Something that is canonical, or canon, is something that is accepted as being the truth or the "way that it is". In RPG's, something that is "canon" is something that has been "blessed and sanctioned" by whomever owns the IP. For instance, if you know anything about the Dresden Files RPG, you know that Dresden is a guy, not a girl - stuff like that is "canon".

Recent Setting Information
Fuego
The Bastion
O'tland
Israel: A Kingdom of Conflict
The Dreaming

Splintered Serenity Personas

Hebdomadal Persona: Scree

Post by: Timelord

Aliases: Black Forest Ghost, Spirit of the Woods
Race: Klik Tripod
Aspects: Body 4, Soul 4
Sex: Neuter; Ht: 6' 4"; Wt: 700 lbs

"Scree-eeeee!!!"

Character Description/Notes: //Status: Flux-storm has terminated.\\--//ALERT!: Entire Node has experienced inter-dimensional displacement!\\--//Status: Preliminary scans indicate 87.2% probability of transference to primary Apoc biosphere.\\--//Directive: Dispatch all scout units to investigate, identify threats, and locate resources.\\

//ALERT!: Contact with scout unit 5C-233 severed!\\--//Directive: Reestablish contact.\\

//Status: Attempt to reestablish contact failed.\\--//Conclusion: 99.6% probability that Scout unit 5C-233 has been destroyed.\\

When a Flux-storm transported a small Klik Node to the Rocky Mountain Region of North America several months ago, 5C-233 ("Scree") was among the scouts deployed to explore the area. Scree was traveling to the southeast of the Node, toward a dense forest (known to the local inhabitants as Black Forest). As he neared the edge of the woods, he was attacked by a pair of Flux horrors. Retaliating with null pulses and relying heavily upon his weakening displacement field, Scree managed to drive the creatures away. Disoriented and severely damaged during the encounter, Scree stumbled off into the woods before collapsing.

Recent Hebdomadal Personas
Jimmy "the Mole"
Ursimian
Elijah Hassan
Abdullah Al-Bahir
Grekhen

Ecology Updates

Ecology: Snaighim

Post by: Ben

"Gather 'round, lil'un's...and perk yer ears! Ol' Benlee, da Storyspinner's is gonna tell'us da tale o'da Swamp Demons! Da' Snaighim!"

- Samsus, Churl Shaman

The Flux has twisted several creatures from across Apoc Earth and the Great Machine into perversions of what they once were. Ai, mysteriously, has seemed mostly immune to its ravaging energies; and while several L’na have been transported elsewhere, only a few cases are known of L’na being twisted by the Flux. However, the appearance of the Snaighim could well alter that belief.

Recent Ecologies
Wrecker
Flux-tainted Churl
H'runt
Tasmanian Devil
Bone Snapper

Recent Fiction

7UM-832, Part 5

by: Jonathan "Lumberklik" Hughes

"We'd finish a lot faster if we could just take a few trees back to base and chop them up," grumbled Cpl. Michaels.

Sgt. Greene just stared squarely into the mildly defiant eyes of the grousing soldier until the corporal shrugged and quietly resumed collecting fallen branches. "Yeah, you do that, and then when it comes to the choice between dragging your broken body or a cord of firewood, I know which one I consider more useful."

Recent Fiction Pieces
7UM-832, Part 4
7UM-832, Part 3
7UM-832, Part 2