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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4606238" data-attributes="member: 49613">Here's mine:In a special room/encounter area, they find 6 flesh golems encased in magical apparatus and a strange gem. In a flash of light they are overwhelmed but soon return to consciousness... in the bodies of the flesh golems! They do not see their old bodies (those have left the room). Naturally they will tear themselves free of the apparatus. When they do, the apparatus is irreparably damaged. They will start to feel themselves dying as their flesh slowing decays.Clues will reveal that the golems housed the souls of 6 ancient and notorious criminals, long ago imprisioned by the wizard who built this area. The gem was originally made to imprison their consicousnesses but ultimately malfunctioned. Evidently, the criminals now inhabit their bodies and just as the PCs inhabit the flesh golems. However, the golems cannot survive outside of the now destroyed magical apparatus, and they are slowly rotting away.The PCs will need to get their real bodies back. Their golem bodies are decaying and will eventually completely corrupt, releasing their souls (i.e. killing them). So there is a time limit to all of this. Also, they now have all the powers (i.e. combat moves) of flesh golems, but none of their old powers or spells! The bad guys (the 6 criminals) have those now. Once they do get their bodies back, they will also need to find somebody who can repair/re-enchant the gem so that it can switch them back. Of course, this conversation will have to happen while the PCs look like rotting flesh golems! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />To further educate your players, they will no doubt realize (or you can remind them) that if they crush the life out of their old bodies, they will not be able to use them for the reversal process! Sadly for the PCs (and happily for you), flesh golems are incapable of non-lethal strikes... they just don't know their own strength. So they'll have to resort to all sorts of deception, trickery and (*gasp*) talking.That'll separate the men from the boys. If they can handle that challenge, you've got yourself a group. They might have some... "limited perspective" right now, but you can hardly blame them since by your own admission they're quite new to the game.</blockquote>

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