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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4363261" data-attributes="member: 1879">Well, real tragedy tends to come from misunderstanding. So perhaps in your scenario the Daughters had summoned some meta-magical demon whose influence was spread by any magical contact so normal magical countermeasures only spread the beasts influence faster. The son of Ben Valash saw what was happening and realized that a non-magical way to fight the demon was the only way to defeat it. He contacted his father (Ironically by magic mirror) and together they came up with a plan to trap the demon. The meta-demon couldn't move or long survive without a host, so if the son killed the girls the creature would have no choice but to possess the son or perish. However Valash laid a powerful post-hypnotic suggestion on his son, and as soon as he had killed the girls he immediately traveled to his fathers castle and into a chamber prepared to kill him too far away from any other living thing from the demon to escape. But Valash couldn't tell Zebulon this for fear that his powerful magic might have revived the demon if he attempted to divine the truth of the matter. As for the cyclical nature of the bad thing I'd suggest some apocolyptic spell engine that only operates during the right stellar alignment. And that time is drawing near and soon the tower of tears will again vomit horror forth into the world. So when the heros eventually reach the tower the will find the ghost of Zebulon as a powerless spectre bound by his hatred. The tower is too powerful to be destroyed but if they can find the truth and convince Zebulons spirit to forgive his ancient nemesis it can tell them how to break the spell. And of course the truth is buried in the ruins of Ben Valash's lab, now the lair of an ancient red dragon with a taste for experimentation and vivisection. And when the do break the tower they release the Tarrasque who was powering the engine.And of course they might eventually find out Orcus was behind the whole thing and go kick his furry ass. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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