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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randrak" data-source="post: 6840328" data-attributes="member: 6806492">A little more information: The assassination victim is one of the party member's grandfather who has been thought to be evil based on the way that party member was raised. In truth he sheltered her far too much out of fear for her becoming like her parents. The party will be invited into the grandfather's castle where he will inform her that he had been keeping a seal active for decades that imprisons her parents in the elemental plane of air, because they were at the time trying to unleash a big evil from that plane into the material plane. The grandfather is on his deathbed (from old age) and wishes to pass on the key that keeps her parents locked up to her since he won't be able to continue. Once he is killed (his heart only needs to stop for the seal to be broken) the seal is broken and antagonists begin opening a portal to the material plane. Some of the people in the castle were loyal to the son and not the grandfather. They had been waiting for the perfect chance to kill the old man and capture their master's daughter (party member). Once the assassination takes place, the loyalists will start slaughtering the rest of the personnel in the castle. The party will see signs to this massacre as they chase after the assassin and will be see loyalists actively killing other castle staff. The ritual that the party needs to stop had been started and interrupted decades ago with all the preparations having been finished already. The moment the antagonists break free, a number of evil creatures (followers of the big bad) will be released as well and rush toward their locations. The one staying back will be instructed by the antagonists to capture their daughter if possible, before they leave. The rest of the beings attacking the villages aren't doing it randomly because they need a large amount of sacrifices for the ritual to work. As such, stopping the creatures from killing people will stop the ritual. The antagonists will be hidden in a secret location where all the souls of the dead will be gathered.The antagonists wish to rush the ritual and free their master because they had been preparing for it for decades while stuck in the Air Elemental Plane. The need to release their master is even greater since this master is very impatient and wishes to be free as well.</blockquote>

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