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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7909288" data-attributes="member: 40176">So, we're in Eberron, and the party of four 10th-level characters are venturing ever-deeper into the Mournland. They've been in there for days now, over a few sessions, and they know that its chaotic effects are having an increasing effect on them as they go deeper. Spells they cast occasionally come to life, they've seen magic items that have become animated, one of them has even begun to mutate, gaining bestial traits, they know they're on a timer to get out of there before the effects become permanent.But they have a mystery to solve, so they push on, coming to the edge of the Glowing Chasm, which seems to be a source of these corrupting energies. They peer over the edge and see a seemingly bottomless canyon lined with glowing purple khyber dragonshards like the inside of a geode, its walls teeming with various mutated insectoid creatures, themselves infested with crystalline growths, many grown to huge sizes. It's meant to be a wake-up call, that they've gone as far as they can now, and to proceed any further would be to get overwhelmed, both by the creatures and the corrupting energies suffusing this place.And they get it, and prepare to leave, but not before one of them decides to rappel down the side of the cliff just far enough to grab some of the corrupting crystals as samples.So, that's when the purple worm attacked.They finally finished the fight with two characters in the worm's belly, one making death saves, and nobody on more than a dozen hit points. After which the character who'd gathered the dragonshards tucked them into their bag of holding, after emptying out its other contents.Later, they found out what happens when you place chaotic, magic-corrupting dragonshards in a bag of holding and leave them there for two weeks. But that's another story.</blockquote>

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