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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3656434" data-attributes="member: 19675">Consider yoinking a little from one of the Star Wars movies- one of the good ones before Lucas lost his freakin' mind.The mine in question is fantastically rich.&nbsp; All kinds of rare minerals and metals abound within it.&nbsp; However, after only a decade of lucrative production, it was abandoned, and the owner sold it off.&nbsp; The new owner moved in with his crew, and the story repeated- abandoned and sold off after a decade or two, despite its incredible productivity.The pattern repeated itself for hundreds of years until nobody was willing to enter the mine to work.&nbsp; The land was sold off to be used as a dump.The mine was abandoned because it was unsafe...all kinds of bad- supernaturally bad- things were happening to those who worked on it.&nbsp; Eventually, despite its richness, nobody would work on it.Now, after centuries of dormancy have caused its legend to fade, the new owner of the land wanted to reopen the mine.&nbsp; However, he wanted to make sure its safe to work and sent investigators in.&nbsp; The mine was cleared and resumed production, and has been profitable for the past 14 years.And then the miners started dissapearing...&nbsp; The new owner has now sent the party in to get to the bottom of the mysterious mine.In actuality, what the miners were doing was mining the arcanely-altered bones of a titanic undead dracolich- one who was similar in size to the dragons of deep legend...like the Midgard Serpent.At first, the miners' actions were merely a nuisance, but over time, they caused just enough damage for the slumbering dracolitch to stir just enough to defend its body by sending things- both creatures and spells- after the clueless mineworkers.&nbsp; Every time the mine ceased production, the dracolitch returned to deep slumber.&nbsp; But after a decade or so of production, it would reawaken and resume defending itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3656434, member: 19675"] Consider yoinking a little from one of the Star Wars movies- one of the [I]good[/I] ones before Lucas lost his freakin' mind. The mine in question is fantastically rich. All kinds of rare minerals and metals abound within it. However, after only a decade of lucrative production, it was abandoned, and the owner sold it off. The new owner moved in with his crew, and the story repeated- abandoned and sold off after a decade or two, despite its incredible productivity. The pattern repeated itself for hundreds of years until nobody was willing to enter the mine to work. The land was sold off to be used as a dump. The mine was abandoned because it was unsafe...all kinds of bad- supernaturally bad- things were happening to those who worked on it. Eventually, despite its richness, nobody would work on it. Now, after centuries of dormancy have caused its legend to fade, the new owner of the land wanted to reopen the mine. However, he wanted to make sure its safe to work and sent investigators in. The mine was cleared and resumed production, and has been profitable for the past 14 years. And then the miners started dissapearing... The new owner has now sent the party in to get to the bottom of the mysterious mine. In actuality, what the miners were doing was mining the arcanely-altered bones of a titanic undead dracolich- one who was similar in size to the dragons of deep legend...like the Midgard Serpent. At first, the miners' actions were merely a nuisance, but over time, they caused just enough damage for the slumbering dracolitch to stir just enough to defend its body by sending things- both creatures and spells- after the clueless mineworkers. Every time the mine ceased production, the dracolitch returned to deep slumber. But after a decade or so of production, it would reawaken and resume defending itself. [/QUOTE]

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