Ask Me Tomorrow? @mk-robinsteve - Tumblr Blog

WHAT THIS BLOG IS:

Hi! I'm mk-robinsteve. I'm a game designer and gamemaster/writer and this Tumblr blog records the adventures of a game I referee: the Fearless Four. This game uses a TTRPG I designed using Descent as the engine. It takes place in Pathfinder's world of Golarion, and includes characters familiar to those who watch Stranger Things, because my players (and I) like them ! The Fearless Four are: Steve, Robin, Nancy and Argyle.

Also: I'm a HUGE Maya Hawke fan (her acting, her music, her look/attitude). And, we were lucky enough to MEET her, as I'm sure everyone we know is tired of hearing (😆 click on the link if you want to hear the story). So there'll be Maya posts, too. A whole lot of Maya posts...

W😍w! More Maya pictures from the Chelsea Hotel, 3 June 2026.

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Maya in NY (Prada Mode, Chelsea Hotel), 3 June 2026 ❤️

L😍ve the blue shoes!!

Source: mayahawke_arg Instagram

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The Fearless Four (and Wendell) step through Gendowyn's throne - and find themselves before Arlantia's tree. They are immediately attacked by its guardian, a First World creature called a jubjub bird (the first of two Lewis Carroll-created monsters they will face in this session). Defeating it, they find the staff/wand "part" of Dryad's Song, the artifact Gendowyn gave to the Kraggodan giants six centuries ago. Can this item, currently corrupted by the Darkblight, help the young heroes find and rescue the lost fey queen?

The fragment acts as a key, and the four enter Arlantia's underground palace - a crude attempt that apes Gendowyn's own seat of power. Broken blightspawn, imprisoned fey (including Wendell's sister, whom the group free and from whom they gain another ring that is part of Dryad's Song) and a bandersnatch (the other Carrollean monster) stalk these halls. The Fearless Four manage to subdue this upper level, using much of their resources and getting quite injured in the bargain, but find neither Arlantia or the Sardonyx Shard they seek. Robin's Dreaming powers indicate it is farther below ...

After a well-deserved rest, the Fearless Four continue, descending to a network of huge, caverns forested with giant fungi. The Sardonyx Shard lies deeper still...is General Azaersi of the Ironfang Legion here, negotiating an alliance with Arlantia? How does this tie back to Krune, and his "kingdom to win"? Now without their quickling companion (who left the palace with his sister), the young heroes delve deeper...

Maya's preferred sitting position... 🤩

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Maya talks about "Lioness" with Teen Vogue.

Learning that accepting help doesn't have to mean surrendering control. Talking about her unplanned, unscripted "falling forward/tumbling down the hill" in the last decade of her career: "only good has come of it...but does that mean I want to keep doing it that way?"

Talking about processing the end of Stranger Things and appreciating the time ("that precious commodity") spent and shared.

A song about learning... ❤️

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The Fearless Four are in the depths of the Darkblight in the Fangwood Forest. Even though none of them are druids, they find it a horrific place. The trees and plants are covered in slimy fungus, spores drift through the air, and odd eye-like growths seem to watch them from tree trunks. Using a stone giant artifact known as the Living Heart and lent them by Karburtin, Robin uses her Dreaming powers to seek the Sardonyx Shard.

Strange fungal creatures and corrupted fey accost the young heroes at every turn. At an abandoned quickling village they pick up an undetected shadow: a young fey named Wendell. Their path leads them to the ruins of the palace of Gendowyn, the overthrown princess of the fey. After being attacked by a sentient tree and shambling mound here, the group meet Wendell and search the remains of the palace, finding nothing.

The young heroes continue north following Robin's senses. As they were warned, the paths twist and turn, sometimes changing behind them. Finally they get to a thorny hedge; the Shard is somewhere beyond. Argyle is unable to find a way through or around it - Nancy uses fly and then levitate to get a bird's-eye view. The hedge is miles wide and seems to be circular as if it is protecting something in its center. Steve and Argyle take machete and ax and begin the long process of chopping a path. But each blow sends thorns and other shrapnel flying, spores that cause coughing, and strange creatures emerging from the hollow branches. It is obvious another way must be found.

Wendell speaks of a dragon, the Evil One's "lapdog." Hoping to find a secret passage that will lead into the center of the hedge, the young heroes seek out this dragon. Along the way they find an uncorrupted naiad, a water fey, who tells them the dragon uses the throne in the fallen Palace as a gate to Arlantia's tree (as a fallen dryad, she still has a tree she is bound to). The naiad theorizes the dragon possesses something that allows her to bring others into Arlantia's presence without infecting them with the Darkblight.

Finding the dragon at last, the group first try to convince her to bring them to Arlantia. Each make up a story to sound as if they have followers who wish to join the fallen dryad, wish to help spread the Darkblight, etc. The dragon sees through Nancy's story (she accidentally contradicts herself), however, and attacks the group. After deadly battle, the Fearless Four are triumphant. They find a gold ring on a chain - the item that will allow them to pass through Gendowyn's throne without infecting them.

Hurrying back to the palace, the young heroes prepare to confront whatever lies before Arlantia's tree. What will they find there?

Maya for Teen Vogue talking about "Devil You Know."

About "being open and available for love" and how vulnerability is NOT weakness. 🥹❤️

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More Maya from the PEN America Gala! ❤️

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Maya introducing director (and her godfather) Jason Blum; and pictured with him and BJ Novak, PEN America Gala, 14 May 2026.

Also: FINALLY a high-res picture from the event! (via Mayahawkesources Instagram)

Love 😍 the sequins, Maya!

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Maya on CTMV Pods, 13 May 2026 ❤️❤️ Check it out on YouTube!

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Maya attends PEN America Literary Gala, 14 May 2026.

ADDED: a couple more pics below. Apparently, Maya was a presenter!

I'll post higher-res photos as they become available.

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New/Newish picture of Maya, Christian and Christian's mother, from the mom's Instagram (thechristyfcollection) account.

#maya hawke #beautiful #maya looks so happy

After driving off the gugs in the Reliquary of Ascension, the Fearless Four find the ghost of the second King of Kraggodan, a ruler who extended his life by foul means and eventually struck himself from giantish history in shame. From him, they learned (Nancy translating, Robin psychically communicating) the ancient Stone giants used a Titan artifact called the Onyx Key to escape the Thassilonians and later return to the surface after the Earthfall. They learn also that Azaersi, the leader of the Ironfang Legion, slipped into the vault two years ago with the naga Zanathura and stole the Onyx Key. They have used this artifact to conquer great swaths of Nirmathas.

The young heroes bring what writings they can to the upper city, where they are studied by giant sages and Nancy and Robin, while Steve and Argyle help the giants repair the damage left by the gugs. At last, they learn about the Onyx Towers...

The Onyx Key has eight legs, like a spider. Each of these may be broken off and buried into the ground. From them will grow a giant Onyx Tower, a tower that can be connected to any other existing Onyx Tower through a magical passage - 100 feet long even if the towers are thousands of miles apart. The holder of the Key is master of all the towers, and may open, close, and redirect them. Plus there is one more "leg," this one made of sardonyx. This special shard opens a gateway to the Onyx Citadel, a realm in the elemental plane of Earth that powers the Onyx Key and its Towers.

Using the flotation tank tactic the Fearless Four learned in Liralarue's dungeon to assist in remote viewing, Robin is unable to find the Onyx Key - but finds the Sardonyx Shard in the Fangwood Forest, in the heart of a bleak realm stricken by the Darkblight, a corruption of nature. Once ruled by a powerful fey named Gendowyn, it is now under the thumb of the corrupted dryad Arlantia.

Hoping to win the Sardonyx Shard and gain control over the Onyx Key/Towers, the young heroes journey to this diseased wasteland. What is the Sardonyx Shard doing there? Is there a connection between the Darkblight and the Ironfang Legion, and therefore the Runelords? Leaving Steve's beloved fey drake Skipper behind for her own safety, the Fearless Four bravely venture into this heart of darkness...

Maya's lucky number is FOUR this year. Why?