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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 726651" data-attributes="member: 4910">Song: King Nothing by MetallicaAfter traveling thru lands thick with ancient, forgotten, overgrown ruins of some past civilization the PCs come across a huge meteor crater near what was once a major city.  When next they sleep, their dreams are filled with scenes of the civilization they just walked thru the ruins of.  One scene plays out and fades into the next, telling a tale of how a falling star fell to earth near the kingdom's capitol, and people investigating the crater found great wealth.. platinum, rare minerals, and a strange blue-gold ore that had fantastic properties.  Thinking this a gift from the gods, the king of the land ordered the crater mined.. forcing more and more of his people into labor as his obsession with the celestial object grew.  In time, a great wasting plague swept thru the lands .. a strange sickness that no magics or medicine could cure.  It struck young and old, poor and rich alike, killing in great numbers in a resonably short time.  Still the king mined on, blinded by greed and ambition.  Shortly, the kingdom died.  When the PCs awake, then find themselves not where they had set down to sleep, but instead in buildings and locations they recognise from their dreams.  They've taken the places of people from that time and place.. a traveler from another city visiting relatives.. a merchant selling cloth.. a city guard that patrolls the walls.  They can still recognise eachother for who they all are, however.  Shortly after they get their bearings, great news of a falling star that crashed to earth in the east two nights past begins to circulate thru the city...Unbeknownst to the PCs they've been trapped in once-king's memories.. after he and his people died, he became a ghost.. the guilt of his folly driving him to madness.  The PCs need to somehow save the dead civilization in the mind of the ghostly-king to be released.(whew, heh... bit lengthy)Next Song: Temple of Love, by Sisters of Mercy</blockquote>

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