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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 5708325" data-attributes="member: 509">Help me fire my Chekhov's gun—The Double Axe Wielding Zombie DwarfIn the campaign's first adventure two things happened of importance to this thread:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The PCs came upon a portal to the Shadowfell in a Goblin Chief's hangout. The Goblin Chief had aligned with forces stationed in the Shadowfell and the goblin band's Shadowfell contact used the portal to move between the planes. The PCs couldn't activate it, but as they investigated it, they all experienced a sudden feeling of dread and a cold shiver going down their spine.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> One of the PCs, a dwarven fighter, went a bit bonkers and was slain by the rest of the party at the end of the adventure. This was all in good fun as the player had already decided to switch characters.</li> </ul>I had originally meant for the unholy shiver to indicate that some incorporeal shadow-horror of some type had come through the portal and intended it to come into play later, but never got around to it (the game was going very slowly, so I abandoned a lot of ideas to keep things moving). But the other day one of the players mentioned the feeling of dread and that she had expected that to pay off later, but we hadn't followed up on that whole "Gothic Shadow World Thing". I, of course, grinned and told her not to be so impatient. "We'll see", I said. I didn't think anyone remembered that little shiver, but they apparently all did.So I got this idea: the shadowy horror possessed the dwarven fighter. It may not have triggered his insanity (that's up to his player), but somewhere out there there's a Shadowfell horror wearing his body, doing bad things.But that's the extent of what I've thought up: A Double Axe Wielding Wraith Possessed Zombie Dwarf with a personal vendetta against the PCs is up to hijinks.So I ask the EN World think-tank: And what?</blockquote>

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