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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeXodus" data-source="post: 7280868" data-attributes="member: 6899267">You could tie in that Priestess wants this power so she can open a portal to Lolths Demonweb pits and as time goes on the portal gets bigger letting bigger creatures come forth. Might be nice way to introduce some interesting monsters.You could make so that some high ranking person (even maybe the one that got "doppelganged") was investigating and writing about the situation beforehand and while he got killed his notebook got partly destroyed and pages scattered. Some lost, some partly burned, some fine. You could then make heroes find them in various places or from various people who found them, slowly introducing the story. You could make it so it is not linear introduction but "spotty": pages found in non linear manner. This could be additional tool when PC get stuck somewhere. And you could make the pages your own as props, burning the sides of the pages and some words away. That would be nice way to increase the immersion.Another idea would be some kind of new objects that are placed around the city with weird symbols. These objects are basically security cameras just giving ability for drow to see what is happening in the city. In general you could go in direction of this drow takeover similarly to the film "they live" (if you haven't watched it, do it!). Basically drow try to hide their involvment as much as possible. There are some amount of people that were replaced with drow doppelgangers who always watching and eliminating anyone who recovers any truth about it. It could be actually quite cool if your party slowly recovers the truth without finding out that drow are at fault. You could make encounters with assassination attempts on the party. Make the doppelgangers true polymorphed to be folk living in the city. Then if assassins are slain there is no way to tell that they are drow. You can draw out the mistery longer.You could go even further finding out that drow wants to slowly replace all the people in the city making it the first drow city in the surface in very very long time. The Priestess could be trying to replace the dragon in its functions being this new beast that amplifies the magical power. They might want this amplification so they can cast very very powerful spells and rituals so they can black out the sun making the surface world nice for them and in long term take over all the world and most importantly destroying all elf as ultimate revenge!!!Damn... I might want to run this adventure myself too actually, if you don't mind me borrowing the initial idea of yours.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Would be interesting to later compare how both parties acted.</blockquote>

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