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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 6133834" data-attributes="member: 55178">We had about 8 or 9 levels of non stop rain when I ran my version of the Banewarrens.  For those who don't know the story: [spoiler]an ancient party of heroes scoured every corner of the planes in an attempt to gather up and seal away every evil artifact in existence.  The end result was that that many evil artifacts all in one place ended up corrupting the head of the group and basically turned him into an evil god, armed with the worst and most powerful toys imaginable.  The friends turned against him, killed him (maybe?), sealed up what they now referred to as the "Bane Warrrens", and everything was fine for a hundred bazillion years till our intrepid adventurers came along and innocently started looting the place.[/spoiler]In my game, when the warrens first became unsealed, and as each new series of vaults were opened, the world (or more to the point the titaness of the earth) responded by trying to damn up and then clean away what was basically an open, festering, cancerous, wound in her side.  One of these responses was an ever more powerful storm that started as a steady rain, but for months raged as a near hurricane that battered the city.For your story, I'm having trouble imagining that the world wouldn't be rotting out from underneath people.  I'd imagine that an area that has been bombarded with non stop rain for a decade would be well on it's way to giving up.  I'm originally from an area of New Jersey that butts right up against a pine forest that stretches for  like 3 or 4 states.  There's (google says was) a man made lake right up against Great Adventure that had huge, swampy stretch that was usually just at or above water level.  I was there on and off every summer about 10 to 20 years after the lake had been filled, and that area was a huge morass of stinking, knee deep mud and almost entirely dead trees in various states of falling over, getting tangled up in each others branches, and rotting away to nothing.Is the sun still shining?  Do people even remember what it looks like?</blockquote>

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