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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9528973" data-attributes="member: 11760">Tomb of the Serpent Kings has a surprise in the basement: A species of fungal goblin people created by a serpent person lich who's since mostly lost interest in his experiment.The fungus goblins, if greeted without violence, eventually will declare one an adventurer as their new king, which at first seems great -- free passage through the fungal goblin caves! -- but the goblins will want to sacrifice their new ruler at the next solstice or equinox or full moon, whatever.My Shadowdark players figured out what was up and the goblins told the PCs flat out that if their new queen didn't return on the appointed day, they would raze the nearby town to get her. No hard feelings, but this is what's necessary for the continuation of the fungal goblin people, you understand.Over the course of two more sessions, the PCs have explored the rest of the complex (which is full of interesting stuff) while figuring out what to do about their situation. (There are far, far too many fungal goblins for low level Shadowdark characters to just slaughter.)Finally, on the day of the summer solstice, they hit upon the solution: Instead of using the queen's sacrifice to ensure fertility for the fungal goblin spores (her corpse would be the incubation site for more shroom babies), the party negotiated for the town to trade surplus fertilizer from local farms to the goblins in return for artifacts from the depths, of which there are a relative lot and which the goblins don't really care about.And beyond that, the party has adopted the first fungal goblin they met (an optional NPC in Skerples' default version of the adventure) and will be taking Smee all over the world to arrange for transport of exotic fertilizer to be sent back to the home of the fungal goblins. Alpaca feces! Rhino feces! Moose feces! A smorgasbord of poop!In addition, after three sessions, the group figured out how to get the key to the treasure vault off of the neck of the dinosaur-sized elder basilisk chained up in the basement of the tomb, letting them walk away with a (serpent) king's ransom in treasure.</blockquote>

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