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<blockquote data-quote="urLordy" data-source="post: 6138485" data-attributes="member: 6747028"><p>OK, and here's my followup backstory idea (note that this requires a change; that it's not the rainwater per se that could contaminate the villagers, but rather the groundwater to the village wells):</p><p></p><p>Two things are true but forgotten:</p><p></p><p>Ages ago, amidst murky swamp and wet marshland, there was a cultish utopian-like society where initiates lived in ultimate bliss. Those amphibious creatures are long gone, and the land eventually became dry meadows and forest.</p><p></p><p>Deep in the earth and mud below this afflicted region, lies a gargantuan amphibious seeping ooze, before a dry and inert husk, now wet from the constant rain, throbbing and darkening. To date, only two have ever known of its existence: the one who became it ages ago and the one who located it a decade ago.</p><p></p><p>Nobody has solved the mystery of the rains because nobody has flown up high enough into the clouds to find the source of the dire rain (or a few may have, but never returned, or didn't see anything, or they did see something but came back 'different').</p><p></p><p>In fact, atop the clouds is a tower disguised as a strand of cloud, apparent only to those have the right key. Inside is a cloud giant mage. Every day for 10 years, his weather-magic ritual keeps the rain clouds gathered together. The cloud giant would claim to not know why; that he's a mercenary and warden.</p><p></p><p>And somewhere else, perhaps somewhere far away, a powerful being, superficially resembling a Laughing Buddha, always smiling or laughing, lives in a utopian opium-like bliss.</p><p></p><p>And down below, like the picture of Dorian Gray, the wet weeping ooze absorbs the Laughing One's sorrows, and grows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urLordy, post: 6138485, member: 6747028"] OK, and here's my followup backstory idea (note that this requires a change; that it's not the rainwater per se that could contaminate the villagers, but rather the groundwater to the village wells): Two things are true but forgotten: Ages ago, amidst murky swamp and wet marshland, there was a cultish utopian-like society where initiates lived in ultimate bliss. Those amphibious creatures are long gone, and the land eventually became dry meadows and forest. Deep in the earth and mud below this afflicted region, lies a gargantuan amphibious seeping ooze, before a dry and inert husk, now wet from the constant rain, throbbing and darkening. To date, only two have ever known of its existence: the one who became it ages ago and the one who located it a decade ago. Nobody has solved the mystery of the rains because nobody has flown up high enough into the clouds to find the source of the dire rain (or a few may have, but never returned, or didn't see anything, or they did see something but came back 'different'). In fact, atop the clouds is a tower disguised as a strand of cloud, apparent only to those have the right key. Inside is a cloud giant mage. Every day for 10 years, his weather-magic ritual keeps the rain clouds gathered together. The cloud giant would claim to not know why; that he's a mercenary and warden. And somewhere else, perhaps somewhere far away, a powerful being, superficially resembling a Laughing Buddha, always smiling or laughing, lives in a utopian opium-like bliss. And down below, like the picture of Dorian Gray, the wet weeping ooze absorbs the Laughing One's sorrows, and grows. [/QUOTE]
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