From Ruthanq

There are ten great cities in Holy Selmat. Though no book records it and few guess at its name, there used to be an eleventh. It is a city pulled from memory and from history. All the ambiguous horrors, the ones horrific in their ambiguity, roost there. It is the grave of false hyra-kings and unwoven warlocks, the throne of pregnant pauses and the echo of urgent pawsteps. No rumors exist about it, and those few who purport the theory of its semi-existence do not dare to share their fears with most.

Astral servants still remember the vibrant and strange streets of Ruthanq but most fear to tread there now. To them, it is preferable to forget that knowing smile that lighted upon the faces of its long-gone citizens.

c. Magdelena Mudlaff

You cannot set an adventure in Ruthanq. Instead, if a party sets out to find it, PCs will awake some time later with no memory of that brimming void. Roll on the “Time Spent” table to determine how long this jaunt has cost any adventurers, then on the “Fates” table to see what they have washed back into living memory with. But! Do not announce the results until you check the damage inflicted on injury table. Go to town with descriptions of odd injuries. If the damage is sufficient to kill a PC, their surviving companions might come across them in the next couple of days.

(This was made with the Rat on a Stick notion of HP capped at 20. Note you roll a d6 for the injuries table, and higher numbers require increased damage from Fates rolls.)

d6 Time Spent

1. 1d4 days.
2. 1d8+4 days.
3. 1d4 weeks.
4. 4d6 weeks.
5. 1d12 months. Roll twice for the party on the “Fates” table.
6. 2d20+6 months. Roll twice for the party and each of its members on the “Fates” table.

d20 Fates (Roll once for the party then once for each of its members)

1. You wake up separated from the main party.
2. Random magic item. Increase damage 1 step.
3. Random tome. Test intelligence or increase damage 1 step.
4. Confused hireling or temporary ally. Test charisma to decrease damage 1 step.
5. Devoted friend or new spouse (1d4-1 class levels) Decrease damage 1 step
6. Valuable non-magical item. Increase damage 1 step
7. Significant item lost or broken. Test strength or increase damage 1 step
8. Addiction to strange drug. 1d4 doses in your inventory. Test constitution to decrease damage 1 step
9. Exciting new disease!
10. Unsettling diary with inscrutable entries. Test wisdom to decrease damage 1 step
11. Pursued by animals. Test dexterity or increase damage 1 step
12. Knowledge of unsavory spell
13. Bundle of sealed letters to cities in the country. Decrease damage 1 step
14. Tied to a dead body. Test charisma or increase damage 1 step
15. Apparently self-inflicted mutilation. Test strength or increase damage 1 step
16. Random double-edged mutation
17. Slave collar. Left hand burned. Test constitution or increase damage 1 step
18. Increase or decrease fluency in one language by one step
19. Lose 1d6 letters from your name. (See this link, at “the wounds are grammatic.”)
20. Roll twice. Save or increase damage 1 step

d6 injury table (death is disappearance)

1. Not a scratch
2. Scar or tattoo
3. 1d6 damage
4. 3d6 damage
5. 1d20 damage
6. 1d20+5 damage
7. 2d20+5 damage
8. 3d20+5 damage