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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8183842" data-attributes="member: 52734">This was the opening sequence I wrote up for a campaign called "The Wreck of the Venerable Drake".  It was more Lost based, and the wreck was in a tropical area, but perhaps it will give you some ideas...[spoiler]With a mighty crash, the door and front face of the cabin is torn away as a fist made of solid stone tears the wood to flinders. Sunlight pours in, momentarily blinding you. Once you can see, you see a sight that is as terrifying as it is bewildering.The cabin sits on the sandy ground of some beach; you can now hear the faint lap of waves from somewhere nearby. Remains of the Venerable Drake lay all about you – scattered crates, piles of wood scattered across the sand and wooden planks driven like fence posts into the ground fill the area.A towering earth elemental stands in front of you, one of its upraised, spiked stone fists smeared with fresh blood. You can first hear the shouts, then see a fence of armed and armored warriors forming a half-circle around the earth elemental. One is an elf, and raises his bow to shoot the elemental. The arrow bounces off the earth elemental’s hide with a “tink”, but the massive beast utters a low growl and turns from the cabin, and begins to lumber after the retreating warriors.As the elemental moves out of the way, you can see a little ways off another individual, smeared in blood and dirt, vainly attempting to push a former interior wall of the Venerable Drake off of himself. Not much farther away, a large half-bear, half-owl like creature sniffs at the fallen debris, as if hunting for food. Seeing you, the trapped man holds out an arm, pleading for help.But before you can even react, further in the distance, you espie a herd of horses running across the shore, just a short distance from the edge of a thick jungle. Within a moment, the horses have passed out of your sight. To your amazement, the horses are followed by a pack of tiny, leaping and bounding lizards that scatter across the field of debris, screeching loudly as they pass. They too, like the horses, are gone within an instant, giving you an unobstructed view of the jungle beyond.At the edge to the jungle, your eyes fall upon the sight of a large, emanciated-looking panther whose form seems to blur and shift before your eyes, like the haze drawn up in the heat of day. A pair of long tentacles writhe from the creature’s side, swishing at a pair of golden-furred dogs that bark and snap at the creature. A moment later, the huge cat turns and bounds into the jungle, the howling dogs in pursuit.A moment later, and into view, running the opposite direction the horses disappeared a pair of halflings, hauling a stretcher on which lies a bleeding hobgoblin, scurries across your view. A moment later and a green-silk dressed man coaxes a half-eagle, half horse creature in the same direction. One of the creature’s great wings is smeared with blood, and is being dragged along, as if broken.After that strange view has passed, you notice a dwarf climbing atop one of the crates in the distance, holding a crowbar. With an eerie calm, the dwarf starts to pry open the crate, looking up only once as the half-bear, half-owl creature snuffles past the crate he is working on.Your attention is snapped back to the edge of your cabin as the shouts of the nearby warriors is followed by a sickening thud. The cabin shakes monstrously, but holds. A moment later, and a human body slides into view, collapsing in the doorway. Its chest has been caved in by a mighty blow, and bits of chipped stone jut from oozing wound.Welcome to Xen’Drik![/spoiler]</blockquote>

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