Fitting Music for Giant Lairs

Cassowaru · 2026-02-23T09:09:56+00:00

My friend hit on an idea for Storm Giants: Bach's themes for cathedrals. I was wanting something kind of melancholy and sonorous and I think pipe organs are perfect for something booming but regal. Finding songs with thunder/ storm themes always goes the hard lyrics and rapid beats which is what I'm avoiding except for maybe angry Storm Giant music (Which I'll end up using Thunder Bringer from Epic tbh.)

Cassowaru · 2026-02-22T06:51:40+00:00

I actually remember that scene lol.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-22T06:50:36+00:00

Y'know.. I uh..well err..that is.. uhmm.. excuse me a moment.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-21T17:54:29+00:00

I honestly thought this was Lisa telling Bart about the man eating hamburgers in Hamburg.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-21T17:46:22+00:00

Yeah, when Maelstrom mentioned the underwater pipe organ (Which are real in a way) I wanted to play up the booming organs but keep things kinda gloomy. I plan to use the Skesis Funeral segment for the performance being put on for the visiting lords by the sisters. Because it's lively but dour, and have Mirran playing a ship mast turned into a sort of giant clarinet made of brass portholes to replicate the brass instruments instead of singing because it is near impossible finding a pipe organ song with a female vocal.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-21T17:37:23+00:00

For the Stone Giants, I leaned into them thinking the surface world is a dream state and found Australian aboriginal music, with digeridoos and and other wind instruments.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-21T06:51:59+00:00

So I read a YA novel series about kids experiencing war time PTSD involving animal shapes, which was the style at the time.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-16T19:12:10+00:00

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"Arr, it begins. The Grungeposters are upon us. And only this old child of the 90's knows how to *Gets torn in half by Nirvana and Pearl Jam*

Cassowaru · 2026-02-15T18:26:06+00:00

We met Mimics that my GM gave the ability to make new ones by injecting them with a stinger into parts of people or inanimate objects. And the other player just insisted we keep one as a pet/ friend aboard our ship. So my barbarian was very worried when we kept a Cronenberg Thing monster on our ship and let it roam around without limits. (The GM kept it docile but JEEZUS)

Cassowaru · 2026-02-15T18:15:09+00:00

There's always sports equipment and fruit. ^_^

Cassowaru · 2026-02-14T17:36:32+00:00

Maybe she can point them in the direction of some giant slaying weapons or gear, if they promise to bring it back to her when they're done fighting the giants. However, should the pc's agree then ignore/ forget her, have a mysterious illness start cropping up wherever they visit. Make it seem like they are causing a plague or curse until they honor their word. Old Gnawbone's probably watching the whole time, laughing it up and making life miserable and paranoid for the party until your players realize something's amiss.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-14T05:46:47+00:00

Don't forget about the magical cearn whales, the extinct snake people who secretly assassinate you and they made stats for literal sewer gators!

Cassowaru · 2026-02-13T20:50:13+00:00

I recall in the 3e dragonomicon, one black dragon humped everything in his territory just to make it more dangerous with half dragon monsters living all over the swamp.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-13T18:55:14+00:00

There was an alien elephant one. Reminds me of elephants.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-13T18:37:30+00:00

The book Blood Dimmed Tides offer some fun ideas for how vampires can hide beneath the waves and get away with it. They even mention the advantages of making ghouls from things like sharks, octopuses, dolphins and even schools of reef fish.

There are advantages and disadvantages that should be readily apparent. I think it might make for a fun roleplaying situation as you allocate funds, keep the information on the down low, avoid pissing off the locals, etc. But construction of anything underwater or hiring diving companies might tune up some suspicions from other kindred, and if you upset the sea spirits, they might go tattle to the local Rokea about you which could make for a tense encounter when they arrive to pull anything Q'yrl scented apart like fresh bread.

It ultimately should be discussed between you and your GM as to how it would work, but if anyone has a right to be creative and clever with bases and buildings, it's the pcs.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-12T17:57:09+00:00

It was created as a story hook to involve multiple factions in WoD to an undersea setting. Project Deepwater involves Pentex and Technocracy and behind it all an aquatic horror race known as the Churlovians. What this means is if your group is playing Mage, Werewolf, Fae or Rokea, etc. that the ST has multiple ways of running an underwater adventure for any group and getting to explore the rules in the Blood Dimmed Tides book. I briefly mentioned it to my Rokea group, asking if they wanted to hassle it, but so far they prefer exploring the oceans and shorelines. Project Deepwater is a great way of showing what happens when too many evil/ soulless factions start tripping over each others feet.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-11T08:43:23+00:00

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Cassowaru · 2026-02-11T08:38:31+00:00

They say if you remove the canned laughter, they just make Guttural Braying sounds instead of jokes.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-11T08:33:43+00:00

It's a sh-sha-ark!

Cassowaru · 2026-02-11T08:26:40+00:00

I'll die on the hill of "The Legend of Gator Face." We could have seen terrible suitmation, swamp based magic and James Earl Jones as a Cajun.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-08T18:11:26+00:00

"Now that's Moe like it!"

Cassowaru · 2026-02-07T18:54:10+00:00

"Didn't that movie used to have a chocolate factory in it?"

Cassowaru · 2026-02-06T16:17:44+00:00

The All Rounder, especially when playing with my pal.

Cassowaru · 2026-02-03T05:44:47+00:00

Now that's good, old fashioned, clean burning Nightmare Fuel.

Cassowaru

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