In a bit of a departure for this blog, I wanted to start showing some of the other things outside of tabletop gaming that I get up to. I think all of my interests play into one another, reading, hiking, cooking and gaming can all influence each other in interesting ways and I think that part of being a mature person is experiencing as much as you can.
I'm blessed to have many friends and a close family, as well as be able to play with "toy soldiers" as much as I do, and get to share my little stories with people. I think I try to incorporate the themes from stories I read, and the places that I go into tabletop narratives like Jornath. It makes things 'feel' right to me from a story telling perspective.
Anyway, Sophie and I went up to Carver's Gap as a part of a wider bit of galavanting through western North Carolina. I had never been to this trail, which was relatively short to the top of the ridge, only about 20 minutes. But we arrived right at golden hour and it was a truely lovely experience.
The top of the ridgeline, which is apart of the Appalachian Trial, allows for views from Tennessee, to Virginia and other spans of the mountains through North Carolina.
I always get inspired to write stories or scenarios when I go on hikes, especially to new and interesting places like this.
At the top of the ridge we had a Charcuterie board that we purchased from Little Switzerland, a small community in the North Carolina Mountains with a little resort, that we carried up in our pack. It was a special sort of dinner, and was really very good.
As we continued along the ridge, we made the decision to start heading back to the trailhead around 20 minutes or so before nightfall. Right around that time a stormfront starting rolling in along with wind. Which made for a really exciting walk, back across the exposed highland and down into the switchbacks through the pine forests at the ridge's base. A really spooky and fantastical sort of feeling, which certainly got me in the mindset to paint some undead.
I hope you enjoyed this break from the normal tabletop games and walls of lore, I think posts like this are easier to get out and keep me in the habit of making updates to the blog without getting bogged down in writing fiction for the battle reports.
Thank you for reading!
-Your Favorite Madman-
