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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1422478" data-attributes="member: 99">First up, thanks to everyone that has responded so far.  I'm going to read through the list carefully.  Some of the suggestions so far look very nice and creative.The players have not yet seen the hoard.It is located inside a cave, high on a mountain, atop a sheer cliff.  The dragon in question is rather unusual:It used to be a powerful Black Dragon.  Then, a few hundred years ago, it was killed by an upstart Paladin wielding a powerful but fragile sword that turned the blood of its victims into stone.  The dragon was slain but its spirit was powerful and evil enough to retain a life of its own and it became a shadow-like undead though it was still trapped within the decaying corpse of the dragon.  This drove the shadow-spirit of the dragon nearly mad with rage at its impotence.It eventually broke free of the corpse when a small band of adventurers came a few years later to see if the rumors of a dragon living on the mountain were true.  They found the hoard of the dragon unguarded (the corpse of the dragon was deeper in the cave than the treasure).  Driven with insane hatred at the prospect of its hoard being violated, the shadow-dragon broke free from its corpse-shell and slew the adventurers.  Ever since, the shadow-dragon has haunted the area, guarding its treasure and the corpse of its body, now mostly just a collection of bones held together by the stone of its veins and vessels.So...When the party shows up in search of the Bloodstone Blade, they'll first find the hoard.  If they touch it, the Shadow Dragon will come raging out of the walls of the cavern at them and try to kill them.  Supposing that they defeat the Shadow Dragon and then take the Bloodstone Blade out of the corpse, it will animate and essentially be a very large, mindless skeletal dragon.  Basically two dragons for the price of one.If they leave the horde alone, and take the Bloodstone Blade, the corpse will become habitable again by the Shadow Dragon and it will become a more powerful undead.  But, it may be so pleased at having been freed from its half-existence as Corpse and Shadow that it will be willing to let them leave and may even gift them a piece of the treasure as well.Either way, I need to figure out what sort of booty is to be had.</blockquote>

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