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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darthkilmor" data-source="post: 3228896" data-attributes="member: 23365">A city with a powerful evil artifact that can create food and water for every inhabitant but requires a sentient humanoid sacrifice (or 5 or 10 or whatever works best) every day to work.  The city has become so dependant on it that they have no other means to feed themselves, and with the empire collapsed, they don't have any more foreign slaves to feed to it.  Most crimes(even petty ones) have a penalty of death by sacrifice, but they're running out of criminals and the populous is becoming restless.  Plot point one: Its requiring more sacrifices every day to work, and the city institutes a lottery to select random citizens to feed to it. Riots are a common occurance.Plot point two: its starting to malfunction and some food created is rotten or foul water. Plot point three: Its actually an very evil lich's path to godhood, with every sacrifice he gets closer and closer to achiving it. The PC's discover an ancient drawing detailing parts of its construction and recoginize it for what it is. The cityfolk don't care and will do anything to keep the PC's from destroying it. Plot point four: It actually carries every sacrifice victim into a pocket diminsion controlled by powerful being X, which turns each victim into a ghoul/ghast/zombie/vampire/whatever, until he has enough forces to spill out and conquer the world. The PC's have to "sacrifice" themselves to get to the bad guy and stop him.Bonus: The city is called Soylent Green <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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