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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kugar" data-source="post: 1491101" data-attributes="member: 442">How 'bout this?  Q: Why would the party go into the underdark?A: The bad guys want them there because they are asking too many questions. So one day a note shows up from the drow claiming that they still have Azoun's soul and are willing to trade it for something totally ridiculous. Say a handful of relics in the Cormyrian coffers. No one believes the drow, but communing with Kelemvore (sp) tells them the soul did not enter his realm. The lich know this because he tried it and came up with the same results. He wants the PCs to either die in the underdark or figure out what the drow did with the soul. It's hard being the criminal mastermind. Q: What would be the most random drow thing to run into in the underdark?A: Truly independent drow. Chew on this: A drow Priestess/Mystic Theuge who was high up in her house during the time of troubles. Lloth in one of her jealous fits let the house be taken because of the MT's diversion from the true faith. The house that slaughtered her family missed the fact she had a clone prepared. Now they rule a small city while the ex-priestess roams the underdark with a couple of non-house servants that escaped the slaughter. When the priestess awoke from as the clone Lloth had abandoned her, and she took to Kiaransalee. We all know how well that turned out. So now after losing one god and going though whatever big O is doing to her current god, she has become a little eccentric. Q: What role-playing possibilities does this hold?A: A boatload  1) Straight-up fight.2) The MT has heard about Lloth's silence and would want the party to get a drow cleric so she can find out more.3) The MT sees Lloth's silence as an opportunity to get vengeance on the society that cast her out.4) The MT sees Lloth's silence as an opportunity to take over the city.5) The MT wants to test the PCs before using them so she sets them against some nasty underdark critters - Mind Flayers, Orcus Cultists, lawyers, etc.In return she promises to do anything to recover the human's soul. What she got to lose really and this type of political weapon only comes along once in a while.Hopefully the infiltration of a drow city will take up enough time to stir up the pot topside.The lich will scry on the party constantly and starts to become obsessed with them, maybe he has had a vision about them?</blockquote>

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