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<blockquote data-quote="2020" data-source="post: 5117260" data-attributes="member: 88048">An Aboleth, transplanted beneath the city of Loudwater during the phase transition of Abeir and Toril, has awoken. With the strange energies of the phasing combined with the Aboleth's immense psychic power, magical crystals have grown throughout the depths of the caverns where the Aboleth is trapped and are starting to break the surface.&nbsp;These crystals have amplified the Aboleth's psychic powers enabling it to manipulate creatures on the surface. Recruiting an eager bard to it's cause, it tricks him into believing it is a beautiful maiden trapped beneath the surface by an evil wizard, aeons ago.&nbsp;The bard assumes a new personality and becomes obsessed with freeing the 'maiden'. He recruits local humanoid tribes to raid merchant caravans for supplies so that he can manipulate the crystals in order to create a massive teleportation ritual, using the power of leylines that criss-cross Loudwater.&nbsp;The kink in the Aboleth's plans, however, comes when the citizens try and recruit the Flaming Fist to rid themselves of the growing humanoid threats that are plaguing merchant caravans to the area. To get rid of the Flaming Fists, the bard poses as a hero, using the psychic power of the Aboleth to disguise the humanoid cheiftains as his 'Merry Band'. They pretend to rid the area of the threats and collect a tidy reward for their trouble. Through the Aboleth's influence, the entire town become enchanted with &quot;Magnar the Magnificent and his Merry Band of Heroes&quot;.&nbsp;The PC's arrive in town after having been attacked by kobolds to find the townspeople to be completely smitten with their new hero. Statues are being erected, women are bearing his children, competing bands of mercenaries are vying for the favour of the bard, and all are under the delusion that there is no humanoid threat. Of course, the PC's know better, but can they defeat all the humanoid bands before the Aboleth exerts its control?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2020, post: 5117260, member: 88048"] An Aboleth, transplanted beneath the city of Loudwater during the phase transition of Abeir and Toril, has awoken. With the strange energies of the phasing combined with the Aboleth's immense psychic power, magical crystals have grown throughout the depths of the caverns where the Aboleth is trapped and are starting to break the surface. These crystals have amplified the Aboleth's psychic powers enabling it to manipulate creatures on the surface. Recruiting an eager bard to it's cause, it tricks him into believing it is a beautiful maiden trapped beneath the surface by an evil wizard, aeons ago. The bard assumes a new personality and becomes obsessed with freeing the 'maiden'. He recruits local humanoid tribes to raid merchant caravans for supplies so that he can manipulate the crystals in order to create a massive teleportation ritual, using the power of leylines that criss-cross Loudwater. The kink in the Aboleth's plans, however, comes when the citizens try and recruit the Flaming Fist to rid themselves of the growing humanoid threats that are plaguing merchant caravans to the area. To get rid of the Flaming Fists, the bard poses as a hero, using the psychic power of the Aboleth to disguise the humanoid cheiftains as his 'Merry Band'. They pretend to rid the area of the threats and collect a tidy reward for their trouble. Through the Aboleth's influence, the entire town become enchanted with "Magnar the Magnificent and his Merry Band of Heroes". The PC's arrive in town after having been attacked by kobolds to find the townspeople to be completely smitten with their new hero. Statues are being erected, women are bearing his children, competing bands of mercenaries are vying for the favour of the bard, and all are under the delusion that there is no humanoid threat. Of course, the PC's know better, but can they defeat all the humanoid bands before the Aboleth exerts its control? [/QUOTE]

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