{"id":912,"date":"2024-06-19T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"masonry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Masonic Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After almost a year and a half on this blog, I finally have a D&amp;D post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After tonight&#8217;s Kaserne on the Borderlands session, someone mentioned Roman cement, and I was reminded of the time another friend broke a Living Greyhawk module in the first ten minutes of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To set the scene: the PCs have all been hired by a particular church to escort the mortal remains of some great and powerful figure.  The journey is to be by sea, and the decedent is in a large stone sarcophagus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the players is AH, running Methrys, a cleric.  Methrys is, among other things, a master mason &#8211; literally.  AH has been buying up Craft (Masonry) to max every time Methrys levels up.  Don&#8217;t know why; it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Methrys looks at this sarcophagus and thinks, <em>insurance policy<\/em>.  And he drills two holes in the lid and completely fills the thing with concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every night of the voyage, the party heard, distantly, as if through a great thickness of stone, &#8220;Rrr rrr urrr arrrrgh&#8221; and the sound of frustrated straining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost a year and a half on this blog, I finally have a D&amp;D post. After tonight&#8217;s Kaserne on the Borderlands session, someone mentioned Roman cement, and I was reminded of the time another friend broke a Living Greyhawk module in the first ten minutes of play. To set the scene: the PCs have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-stories","tag-dnd","tag-lgm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}