The Rainbowlands

When I first moved to Geneva Michael and Carly introduced me to a group of gaming friends in Lausanne. I joined them for the seventh session of their 5th edition based game, a fondue featured Christmas special, and met a great group of gamers: Luka the DM and our host, Steve who introduced me to the session, and fellow players Ula, Konrad, Vincent, Oscar, and Alban. In the previous session the group had set up the world for the game, The Rainbowlands. As I joined the group found itself in the arid landscape of the yellow lands. Yes the world has a land for each color arranged around a central sea. Each such land worships a deity of that color, who are all aspects of the unicorn riding Jesus Thor who rules the skies from the great mountains rumored to be in the middle of the central sea. I took gleeful amusement from the open ironic take of religion: much like the pythonesque Gawds of Erf Chris threw together in his game, but also taking a piece out of the bigotry towards the LGBT community. Keep in mind this cultural and religious backdrop as our characters lean about the eldritch machine gods of order and chaos.

Since Luka, our kind and merciless dungeon master, runs an old school campaign where death is a likely consequence of an adventurers life-style I was encouraged to create two characters. Dugal is an aged fisherman who attended an arcane university late in life. Dugal did not enjoy the cloistered life at the university and his teachers frowned upon his dismissal of authority and dangerous ideas about the arcane. So Dugal went off to learn the interesting corners of the arcane arts he was forbidden to study at university. For my second character I imported Yolo "#Swag" Tumblefoot character from the  games at the Penny Arcade Expo and Caitlin's practice sessions back in Victoria. Yolo is not exactly greedy, but certainly in the adventuring business for the money. Think like a half size Conan with extra attitude to make up for the size difference.

As we begin our story paladins of the rainbow gods had tasked us with rooting a camp of bandits, who were camped outside an old dwarven mine ...