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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2452984" data-attributes="member: 99">If you're starting at low level and want to build up to this, this might be a useful stepping stone:I had the party's patron send them into the Depths of Undersharn where an earlier batch of hirelings had vanished only to be found stripped and strangled later.  What the part uncovered was a pocket of aberations who were part of the Cult of the Dragon Below.The group consisted of a couple Gricks (more or less used as guard dogs), a few Chokers and a hive of Dolgrims and Dolgaunts.  The Dolgaunt leader had this thing that I came to call "The Aberation Stone".  It was a greenish Khyber Shard that gave off an eerie glow.  When the proper rituals were performed and a pair of goblins were pushed into its aura, it would squish them together into a Dolgrim...maybe.At least as often as it worked, the creature that came out was nothing more than a twisted horror, insane and useless.  These "unsuccessful" Dolgrims were cast into a pit beneath the dais where the stone sat.  When the party busted in to smite the abominations (after freeing a very terrified group of Goblin prisoners - "We DON'T WANT to go into the LIGHT!!"), the Dolgaunt leader performed his most foul ritual and the writhing pile of Dolgrim-Failures merged into a single creature and began to...Gibber!The Gibbering Mouther very nearly ate the party Halfling and the whole business underscored that this was some crazy stuff going on.  The Aberation Stone was later stolen by another sect of the Cult, led by a Mind Flayer but the party didn't have time to follow up on that lead before they left town for Xen'Drik.</blockquote>

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