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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Furn_Darkside" data-source="post: 76893" data-attributes="member: 210">Salutations,1) The light house- the keeper of the lighthouse is actually working for the hobgoblins. They have promised him a position of power in the town once it falls under their commands. He uses a light in the tower to flash messages to the hobgoblins. Check out the WOTC site for free adventurers- they have one (maybe two) on a lighthouse (with a map).Other ideas: The keeper is having and affair with the mayor's wife. She knows the mayor is up to something (see below), but is not sure what. She thinks the mayor may be contacting some pirates in hopes of hiring them to fight the town's enemies.2) Hmm- hundreds of bites? How about undead stirges?Or, you could go with one hole in the neck and have the portal lead to a dopple-plane. In this plane, vampires developed around the mosquito motif instead of the bat motif. They can walk around during the day, and have tongues that can sharpen into the probus-thingies mosquitos have.Unlike undead bat vampires, the mosquito vampires are alive and vulnerable to loud sounds.Or maybe a combination of both?Other ideas involving the gate:The mayor is the one who opened the gate recently. He has watched his town terrorized by the forces to the north and south, and has little money to entice adventurers. In a deserperate plan, he used his grandmothers old journal to track down a portal she found in the forest. The mayor had hoped to make a deal with whatever was on the otherside of the portal- trading cattle/whatever in exchange for protection.Of course, these evil creatures from the portal have had no intention of keeping their side of the deal- so they have attacked anyone stragglers they can find. (Maybe sound travels differently in their world- and very softly, so everything is much louder to them here. It is taking them some time to adjust.)The mayor has another plan though, when he went through the portal and met with one of the leaders of these creatures- he noticed how many centered around some crystal on a pedistal. He is not sure its purpose, but he figures it is very valueable to them. His plan was to sneak into their lands and steal the crystal- to use as blackmail to force the mosquito-people to uphold their part of the deal. Since the "heroes" just happened to show up when they did, he hopes to play upon their greed and sense of justice to get them to steal the crystal.3) I would make this a small outpost of a much bigger (and growing) army of hobgoblins. They have seized and attacked anyone on the road, but have not attacked the two due to their lack of numbers and lack of orders to do so.Since the hobgolins have no wish to become farmers, they no they need to enslave towns of other races to work fields for them. As the hob army grows, they set up these minor outposts to draw attention away from their homelands. The hobs may also attempt to instigate the orcs to the south to raid the town- something along these lines: They have captured a wagon of weapons with the town's markings. They use these weapons to slaughter a small camp of orcs and leave behind some of the weapons. 4) Sounds good. You may need to come up with a reason (outside of orcs) for why the ruins have not been picked clean as of yet.  Perhaps the main gate to the ruins have been sealed for so long and no key or magic has been found in this world to open them.. (perhaps leading back through the portal to visit the dopple-ruins to get the key to use in their world).Good luck!FD</blockquote>

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