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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5385552" data-attributes="member: 18507">There are all sorts of reason as to why this happened to the PC's:1. They are fated in some way. The PC's discover that they are part of some kind of prophecy and that the cave was to hide / protect them from the evil that has befallen the town. This was done because they will be sorely needed at a future time and the rings are the calling cards of the beings / person who did this and the town's fate was a sign of the things to come.2. The PC's represent a threat in which they are pieces in a spiritual game of chess being played by the gods. The gods cannot directly kill the pieces on the board, but there is nothing in the rules about kidnapping them and putting them "out of the action" for a while. Of course, the PC's could represent an "ace up the sleeve". A diety that will need the PC's put them out of action himself.3. The PC's are suffering from memory loss and as they explore, they will be able to reconstruct the events from the past year. You can have them actually responsible for the town's disappearance / destruction for good or ill intent. The rings are the clue that gets them to start the campaign. As they inquire and learn about the rings, then it leads to X, then to Y, and then to Z. You can do this Momento style where the PC's recover their memories backwards or you can work forward.4. The PC's memory of the tavern scene is false. The town has been ruined / abandoned for ages but they are cursed when they played around with an artifact they found when exploring (which is now gone). They got that initial memory from the artifact, in which the PC's will come across other memories too of events that happened ages ago, but the price they paid was that the artifact took something from them, the least of all a year. They also find out that they are cursed in some way and unless they find that artifact, they will eventually meet an unpleasant demise and cause a lot of headaches to those near them.</blockquote>

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