#Adventurers

[gilgalahad]

Alexey Gorboot

[crtgirl]

my wife’s game, stewpot, is finally crowdfunding today!!

it’s an incredible game about adventurers settling down and starting a tavern. if you have been enjoying dungeon meshi this is a game for you!

[illustratus]

Smugglers' Bay by Montague Dawson

[elderscrollsconceptart]

"Skyrim 10th Anniversary"

Art created by ESO artist Joseph Watmough for the 10th Anniversary of Skyrim

[domjordanillustration]

mordheim expedition (ill-fated)

[tsunami-of-tears]

Adventurers ☀️

A little bit late on this one, as I only saw them this morning!! I love all of the pages, but cute moments like this really speak to me 💛

Line art by @velidewrites can be found here - @lucienweekofficial

[concoctionboy]

Okay, so I happened to look at the quest board the adventurers set up in the roundabout (against the HOA's objections—I mean the quest board is against the HOA's objections, not me looking at it, although I'm just against the HOA's objections in general, I guess), and I noticed one of the quests listed is "defeat the green slime".

Which... I assume refers to me? I don't know of any other green slimes in the area. Which maybe helps explain why so many adventurers have been attacking me.

So I guess I'm a quest now. I'm not sure how to feel about that. I mean, I guess it's actually sort of flattering in a way, but... I'd still kind of prefer people not be encouraged to "defeat" me.

[sophiecintailed]

The crew is sharing musical limericks in prep for our next adventure!

Love to our party! @wynniebear @ozker @makelovenotlemonade

[littlepawz]

Aleksander Doba, a Polish adventurer, was the first person to "row" the Atlantic from Europe to New York, completely alone and without assistance. In 2017, at age 70, he kayaked 5,000 miles from the port of Le Conquet, France, to the shores of New York, braving storms, strong currents and the loneliness of the ocean for 110 days. His feat demonstrated an astonishing level of physical and mental endurance, inspiring generations of adventurers. Prior to this last kayaking expedition Doba won the gold medal at the Open Academic Polish Championships in Whitewater Kayaking when he was 57 years old and defended the title the following year.

Doba died while climbing Kilimanjaro on February 22, 2021. According to eyewitness reports he felt well the entire journey but after reaching the top asked for a two-minute break before posing for a photo. He then sat down on a rock and "just fell asleep". He was 74 years old.

[metalwright]

[waitingforthet]

Classy Lads: healing magic has nothing on a good bassline.

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[gilgalahad]

Qsy

[longreads]

There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers

The women you’ll find on top of the world.

I started looking beyond Edinburgh for writing-editing-anything jobs — and eventually moved to Berlin for a content editor internship. There, I was charged with sending out weekly newsletters to subscribers. One week, I was asked if I could theme an email around history’s adventurers. I didn’t really know which women to include, apart from that pilot Amelia Earhart. So I started Googling and soon came across stories of solitude-seeking, mountain-climbing, jungle-running women adventurers I’d never heard of.

There was no room for Lawrence of Arabia in that week’s email. There isn’t in this reading list, either.

Read Ailsa Ross’ inspiring reading list about women who have meditated in mountain caves, climbed mountains, skinned hares, or couch-surfed with sheiks. 

[okaywolf]

Adventurer who has been clashing with the Dark Lord for so long that they know his minions by their first names.

Written to the prompt 'Adventurer who has been clashing with the Dark Lord for so long that they know his minions by their first names.' by Making Up Adventurers.

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“And you just let her waltz in here!?”

The minion standing before the Dark Lord’s throne, thickly muscled such they could easily lift overhead the largest of sheep one in each hand, sheepishly rubbed the back of their neck. “Well, yeah.”

Sienna whistled a jaunty tune as she literally waltzed through the cave, box stepping around stalagmites. “Hey Greg.”

Greg, the minion who was thickly muscled such they could easily lift overhead the largest of sheep one in each hand, gave a chin lift of recognition to the adventurer and her occasional dancing partner of a spear. “What is it this time?”

“What do you mean vacation!?”

Greg shrugged thick shoulders, wincing away because it wasn’t their fault Sienna had a week off.

”Ugh, my manager told me to take a ‘mental health week’ after she found me crying on the change room floor. Like, yes, I’d kinda kept my workload after we stopped being shortstaffed, but a whole week? She knows I don’t have hobbies.”

Greg stood from the cave wall they’d been leaning against, as though to physically comfort Sienna with a shoulder pat or hug. The Dark Lord was exemplary at task tracking and management, they could maybe imagine how much it might take to start crying from overwork but they hadn’t actually experienced anything like it. “Oh, buddy.”

“So what, am I her hobby!? The insult!”

With a sigh, Greg proffered their palms in another shrug. “I don’t know what to tell you.”

“And what about you?” The Dark Lord turned to next in the long line of minions standing before the throne.

“I just figure if you’re going to beat her every time, why do we have to get scraped up,” Teleost—or “Theo” as Sienna and fellow minions called him—defended. “And then you have to deal while a bunch of us are on medical leave.”

Much of the line nodded and murmured agreement.

“My management skills are not in question!” As established, they were exemplary. “And you have worker’s comp for a reason!”

Greg nudged a ridge on the rock floor with the toe of their boot, keeping their eyes on the ground as they asked, “Are you upset that we let her in, or are you upset that she interrupted you during the live finale of Drama Drama Love Story?”

The Dark Lord’s mangled scream of frustration was not a sufficiently clear response.

[forgingmeanings]

prolonged exposure to adventures can change a mage, sometimes for the worst

paid for by concerned citizens against adventurers