Friday, March 1, 2019

D6x6 Empty Shrines

Come on down to this shrine of mine.




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D6This shrine was once
1the resting place of a minor saint’s distal pinky bone
2the center of a hero-cult (the hero of which has since been proven by historians to not really have done much of what they’re claimed to)
3dedicated to the veneration of an emperor as a living god
4the dwelling of a local spirit
5a marker of the site where a seer received a crucial vision
6where a miraculous spring burbled up from the earth
D6, but now it’s
1spattered with bird shit.
2charred and soot-stained.
3the den of feral pigs.
4half-buried in a trash heap.
5the subject of drunkards’ ghost stories.
6a scandalous relic of a different time.
D6This shrine lies
1at the mouth of a sketchy alley.
2in the crook of a dry creek-bed.
3at the foot of a mountain that passing eons have worn down to a molehill.
4amid a grove of dying trees.
5in an apartment complex’s courtyard. It was here long before the complex was.
6beside a bathhouse built to accommodate pilgrims visiting it, which fell on hard times after the shrine fell out of favour.
D6This shrine is still sometimes visited by
1the ghost of a monk who once tended it.
2a gang of orphans who use it for fanciful rites that bear little resemblance to its original purpose.
3an elderly knight who refuses to abandon traditions older than they are.
4an age-stooped wizard studying its esoteric properties.
5an insincere wayfarer who hopes their displays of continued devotion will buy them better intercessions.
6a disinterested functionary required by some mandate too obscure to be revoked to perform the most basic maintenance of it.
D6If you make an offering of
1fresh flowers
2blood
3a gold coin
4honey cakes
5a poem
6cleaning it up a bit
D6here, you will receive
1a blessing that allows you to survive the next time you face certain death, if only by the skin of your teeth.
2a benevolent aura that will cause others to react more favourably to you until the sun next sets. The shrine can’t grant anything between dusk and dawn though.
3succour equivalent to a good night’s sleep and a hearty meal, but only once.
4protection from any enemies that find you at the shrine.
5an oracular dream that guides you a bit closer to your driving goal.
6the ability to see and touch the immaterial (and be seen and touched by the same) for a day and a night.

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