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05/08/2026: Penmanship and Other Cruelties
The lecture hall smells of old parchment and the particular anxiety of students who have not slept enough. Morning light comes through the high windows at an angle that does nothing for anyone. The Hexmates are arranged, instead of their usual configuration, they are seated with their project partners.
Only Quentillius and Alister sit with distance between them. Quentillius leans across the aisle toward Alister, his voice low and pointed, “Hey, Alister, have you finished you
Dee Cardenas
May 89 min read


05/06/2026: The Fire
The contract room is on fire. The contracts themselves — thousands of them, the accumulated debt of the damned — are burning beautifully. This is not ideal, mostly because Murlack is in the contract room. He is also burning, but likely would not describe the flames that are engulfing his legs as “beautiful,” by any stretch. If anything, there is an urgency to put the flames out.
A familiar face appears on the hallway side of the wall of flames. Hope rises in Murlack. It is N
Dee Cardenas
May 77 min read


05/06/2026: The Old Druid and his Staff
Wintersplinter is already gone, its colossal form crashing through the treeline in the direction of Vallaki. Violet Robin has been sent back to the Martikov vineyard for horses. On the muddy slope of Yester Hill, the old druid and his staff silhouetted in the mist, fighting on.
Blinsky and his monkey, Piccolo, lie where they fell — victims of the old man’s lightning. They are alive, barely. Torgen, Feesh, and Krelldutt have closed around the druid, who has proven far stron
Dee Cardenas
May 73 min read


05/06/2026: The Druids Fall
Wintersplinter is already gone, its colossal form crashing through the treeline in the direction of Vallaki. Violet Robin has been sent back to the Martikov vineyard for horses. On the muddy slope of Yester Hill, the old druid still fights.
Blinsky and his monkey, Piccolo, lie where they fell — victims of the old man’s lightning. They are still, likely dying. Torgen, Feesh, and Krelldutt have closed around the druid, who has proven far stronger than his age suggests. He does
Dee Cardenas
May 63 min read


05/05/2026: Carriers
Soulfire, Nike, and Crystal face the newly hostile nothic together. It glares at them with its single enormous eye, the air between them gone suddenly sharp. Soulfire casts Dragon’s Breath on Nike, wreathing them in crackling potential — a lightning cone ready to be exhaled should the situation demand it. Crystal doesn’t wait. She unleashes Scorching Ray, bolt after bolt connecting with searing precision. The nothic crumbles, smoldering, and moves no more.
The group regard
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May 54 min read


05/04/2026: Fallout
“Fall out” would definitely describe what is happening. The truck is falling out of the sky of Malbolge.
That detail is important. There is no dramatic pause, no moment of collective realization — the truck simply is in freefall, forty feet above the tavern roof, because this is where Kiki’s spell has placed it. The mapach has the wheel. Vali rides shotgun. Whatever conversation they were having before this moment is now entirely irrelevant.
Below, where Kiki cannot see, th
Dee Cardenas
May 56 min read


05/01/2026: Secrets Shared
The party finds themselves, displaced and uncomfortable, in this alternate timeline — a version of Strixhaven where things are subtly, somet
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May 19 min read


04/30/2026: A Demon, a Rat and a Very Affectionate Goat
Viktor and Jayce cautiously explore the subterranean chapel. It is empty save for three things: one cage fitted with manacles sized for something with very large arms — or perhaps a neck — one altar, and one ominous door.
At the door behind the altar, Viktor leans in, ear to the wood. Behind it, the unmistakable sound of goats. He hisses at Jayce to get his attention.
The paladin strides over, slides Viktor aside, and smoothly opens the door. No darkvision. No light. Just t
Dee Cardenas
Apr 305 min read


04/29/2026: Where Everyone Is
wasana jaigunta, kariyat, DepositPhoto 571766420, 2022 Where everyone is At the moment in question, where everyone is in the Cave of Lost Things takes some explaining. The party is distributed across its tunnels in a way that suggests it might be either a tactical decision or a catastrophic loss of group cohesion. It is the second of these choices. ⚔ In the main tunnel, the cloaker is dead. Freda, a ranger, views this as an opportunity, and draws a dagger from her belt. She
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Apr 2910 min read


04/27/2026: Last Call at the Hag’s Arm
The fireball has already done its work.
Where the common room of the Hag’s Arms once hosted the ambient misery of Hell’s traveling public
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Apr 285 min read


04/24/2026: Nine Pink Wigs and a Shadow in the Smoke
The afternoon settles over Strixhaven with a particular heaviness. The day has already asked too much of everyone. Tomorrow’s assignments lo
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Apr 2511 min read


04/23/2026: Rat Diplomacy and Dungeon Crawling
Jayce, Wilrick, and Jeff stand amid the wreckage of bones. Other skeleton warriors in the garrison prepare to attack.
Then, something em
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Apr 237 min read


04/22/2026: Wintersplinter Rising
Torgen crouches in the brush beside the wolf he has killed. Two more circle nearby, noses working the air. They haven’t spotted him yet, but
Dee Cardenas
Apr 223 min read


04/22/2026: The Cloaker Concludes and the Cave of Lost Things Begins
Nesquo's fog still hangs in the tunnel, thick and impenetrable. The cloaker, on fire and annoyed, launches a thrashing attack — and misses everyone. It connects with nothing but air and its own smoldering indignity.
Inside the fog, Glumbo strikes Nesquo.
Dee Cardenas
Apr 226 min read


04/21/2026: Possession
In the blink of an eye, Fekre is gone.
One moment she stands before them — tattered gown, closed eyes, the wire crown pressed into pale
Dee Cardenas
Apr 217 min read


04/20/2026: What is Left of the Hag’s Arm
What is left of the taproom of the Hag’s Arm has seen better decades.
Kiki flings a Web spell into the churning mass of devils still stan
Dee Cardenas
Apr 214 min read


04/17/2026: Group Projects
The librarian — cheerful, oblivious, and armed with an enormous key — locks the doors to the restricted section of the Biblioplex without a
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Apr 189 min read


April 16, 2025: Cards and a Cave-In
Jeremiah finds himself still shackled to the basement wall, the cold stone at his back, the smell of brimstone faint but persistent in the a
Dee Cardenas
Apr 178 min read


04/15/2026: Nowhere to Run
The party meets the cloaker in a narrow corridor with nowhere to run. Nesquo throws up a Wall of Fog spell to buy them cover — thick, impenetrable, blinding everyone inside it equally. Frida takes to the air to get above it. The rest fight by sound and instinct.
Krasnyy hurls a dagger into the cloud and connects. The creature screams. That's the only confirmation anyone gets that they're even aiming in the right direction.
Tall Glumbo sends Dog Glumbo in. The hellhound does
Dee Cardenas
Apr 152 min read


04/15/2026: The Iron, the Witch and the Treasure
The great hag’s house moves with a rolling gait in wide circles as Duster waits. Its great chicken legs carry the structure back and forth
Dee Cardenas
Apr 155 min read
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