You need a job, you need to find someone or something, or you need to lay low or need to sell something, you need a good fixer.

Tales grow in the telling and heroes grow in stature, even the tiniest can stand tall among their own.

A Hell House is a creepy, spooky, or otherwise sketch domicile where large numbers of people can easily vanish 

Rotten piles of choss, that's all that was left of the wizard's tower, that's it.

Jhobham, Adventurer-Upon-Return

To many, the clerics of the Gods of Death are reviled as evil monsters, conspirators of demons, and raisers of undead armies. How often is the common perception wrong?

They were formidable even before they learned how to use weapons.

Nahactl, the Wanderer

...and a star to steer her by.

In the vein of the other Random Encounter threads, now comes the thread for Oceanic encounters

An inn is a good place to rest for the night, unless it is one of these inns. Huge props to Cheka for inspiring this follow up to his 2017 post of similar name, link in the article

'Come in, come in. I knew you were coming.

How did I know? Your brother told me.

Yes, yes I know your brother died in the war several years ago, he has told me all about it.'

"There is something about the outside of a horse...that is good for the inside of a man."

Winston Churchill

Careful where you put your cloak in Pembroke's place, you never know what you might get back...

Also known as the Ankarran Thistle, Magewort, and a general nuisance.

Places to go in the Cosmic Era solar system

Thie pearly material is also known by the sinister name of Demon’s Tooth.

AKA 7 steps to creating a MacGuffin

The air is chilled and causes goosebumps, while not a sound stirs across the glass smooth surface of the water. The Inn rises three stories above the bank of the river, a single lantern lit on the quay.

30 Druids of the Teufel-Grün Forest

As it says on the tin

The street is wide, and smoothly paved, with trees planted along the sides. The houses are mansions and palaces, each surrounded by stone and ironwork walls that are as much decorative as they are protective. These are the summer homes of the Princesses, and ladies of privelage.

Lacking in ornamentation, the Black Spear is a relic more than 8000 years old