Solo Gaming in Flight (Part 4): Making More History

I'm having a little trouble adjusting to the time zone, but here's a (not as short as I thought) transcription of more notes from my solo Microscope game I played on my flight to Korea... 

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Making History (Max): I like the Time of Legends Period that Kate created and I'd like to create a Light Event featuring some heroic adventurers in the classic D&D mode. Old Hob wasn't around in the Time of Legends, so I need a similar kind of Period later in the history. I'll call it the Second Age of Darkness (was the Time of Legends the first?) and place it after Landfall. This ties into the focus because Old Hob can be assumed to have been an adventurer during portions of this age.

SECOND AGE OF DARKNESS

Dark Period

Making History (Ian): That scene with Harami was fascinating and I'm really interested in exploring the prophesy that she mentioned. Since it seems to concern Old Hob, I'm going to create an Event during the Age of Enlightened Emperors where a much younger Harami first learns of the prophecy. I'm thinking that Harami is not the first to witness that prophesy, but that it has been lost for ages. This can lead to a specific scene, but the Event is going to be broader - The Discovery of the Falarven Scrolls. That event may have even led to the formation of the Nagari Cult, making it a Dark Event. It takes place before The First Animates.

THE DISCOVERY OF THE FALARVEN SCROLLS

Dark Event

Making History (Kate): I'm going to create a D&D-like Event to go with Max's Second Age of Darkness. I imagine a specific adventure where Old Hob and his companions will survive the Ruins of Kulvuk and recover the lost Spear of Elector Polhansur.

OLD HOB & COMPANIONS RECOVER SPEAR OF POLHANSUR

Light Event

Making History (Me): As the lens, I get to create two more nested elements that relate to the focus. Right now, there has been a focus on Hob as a primary character. To wrap things up for him, I'd like to pull him into the background in the distant future. To that end, I'm going to create a Dark Event in the final Period called the Wreck of the Fell Hilloska. Nested within that Event, I'm going to dictate a short scene that answers the question "What becomes of the remains of Old Hob?".

Drawn off from his daily trek to the watering hole by a terrible commotion, the boy came across the still-smoking wreckage of the Fell Hilloska. The rust-red skyship might have blended in with crimson dunes of Temaria were in not for the throng of his fellow villagers picking through the debris. The vessel had obviously suffered terrible violence and very little in the way of useful equipment could be salvaged. But the boy's village was a poor one and a cart-full of damaged etherium plating could finance next year's crop. 

The boy fell in  with others and picked his way through shattered staterooms and twisted metal supports. The bodies of the crew and passengers were horrific, but the boy had seen many become food for the carrion lizards when the Emperor's mercenaries terrorized the village during last year's drought. Instead he averted his eyes and made his way into the twisted ruins of the engine room. Unlike his fellow villagers, he was small enough to squeeze through the collapsed catwalks and brass piping. 

The boy's persistence was rewarded when he stumbled over some kind of metal ball. Picking it up and turning it over in his hand, he exhaled in wonder at the stylized and almost lifelike sculpture of a metal head. Smiling at his luck, he carefully found his way out of the metal hulk and back to his village, the eyes of the old animate glowing ever so faintly in the coming dusk.