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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 1851335" data-attributes="member: 960">There is a (now retired) Living Greyhawk module (written by Chris Tulach) that had a pool of nixies.  They kept asking the people to "play and swim" with them (we were a group of six adventurers).The first person who agreed, got kissed by a nixie who asked, "Do you accept my gift?"  The PC said yes, and he could handle the water just fine (I think it was a water breathing spell).Of course, they were really half-fiend/half-nixies.Then my PC said he would join in, so he accepted the gift.  But this time, the "gifr" was something very different--basically a charm person, so he didn't care that he was drowning in the pool.  Eventually, the charm was broken somehow (they attacked me or a party member dispelled it), because I remember fighting the nixies underwater.They also had manacles attached to the bottom of the pool, so they could drown victims they charmed.  In the module text, this was reserved for a PC who had a special item, but it's creepy enough to use on anyone.Finally, there was a portal on the bottom to another realm.I'm not sure how this would work with a single PC, but you could tone it down a bit (one weakened nixie/fiend) with some of the same elements.  Or the "mayor" could return with some guards.  Or maybe the nixies are dead/gone....and the "mayor" sees someone chained to the bottom in the manacles....</blockquote>