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Message: <blockquote data-quote="awayfarer" data-source="post: 2976568" data-attributes="member: 42702">Blood of the Kings The PC's find out a horrible truth. The seal partitioning hell away from the material plane is due to fail soon. The solution is complicated.Long, long ago (The exact date lost) six kings sacrificed their lives in a ritual that created six runes to seal away hell. They willingly participated in the ritual, which drained every last drop of blood from their body to write the runes. Six special swords were created which drew every last drop of blood from their bodies. Without these, the ritual would not have been possible.Time stole the event from human memory but the gate to hell will soon open. The PC's are among a very, very small few who know the truth. Sealing away hell requires them to do the following.1: Gather the swords. Each one must be filled with the blood of a king2: As this story is ages ago, it will likely be difficult if not impossible to convince anyone that it is true. Trying to convince a king to kill themselves for the ritual would be nearly impossible. If they're not willing to give their blood freely, it must be taken. This opens up a lot of possibilities. --If the PC's are good, can they find six evil kings to "donate" the blood? If not can they bring themselves to kill a good king? For that matter, assuming the ancient kings were all good, will the ritual have a different effect if evil blood is used?--Killing a large number of national leaders will likely destabilize a large area. The civil/international wars that could result would be catastrophic.--Is there even enough time? How close is the day when the seal fails? Can they go around picking targets or do they just have to get the nearest monarch they can?--Assuming the PC's succeed, they will likely be outlaws nearly everywhere.3: Finding the ritual site and getting there in time. For that matter, finding someone who knows exactly how the long-forgotten ritual must be done.((I listened to the band Manowar for the first time tonight. The idea was inspired by the song "Blood of the Kings" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  ))</blockquote>

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