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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravilah" data-source="post: 1658239" data-attributes="member: 19724">Loving the replies so far. Here's a few more requested details; I rather grossly oversimplified in the first message.A green dragon is attempting to reassemble Ashzargot, The Cup of Tentacles (an evil artifact which will allow him to become the avatar of Krarch, lesser god of abburations).  In the process, lesser copies of this artifact are in use by the dragon's lackeys to spread a terrible disease that bleaches men, plants, and animals into desicated white husks.  The party thought that their part in this quest was over when they freed a lammasu and reunited him with his golden dragon ally. But then the party's druid was sent an urgent distress call from his druid circle. The party hasten's to the woods of the druid's home, only to find that all of the wood has been twisted and transformed into horrible aburrational forms (poison trees, gibbering mouthers with wolf mouths, four headed fish ogres, etc).  Eventually, the party finds a black obelisk far below ground, with writting on it detailing the making of (and method to destroy) Ashzargot. Apparently, the disease is now entering a second phase, and all the creatures that die from the blight, eventually rise again as aburrations.  The obelisk spreads the disease just as the Cup of Tentacles does (though the green dragon apparently has no knowledge of its existance.Anyway, it seems that the obelisk happens to lie in the midst of the lair of a Lich Queen (level 12 wizard). They were caught trying to translate the obelisk's writting, and then promised free access to all of its secrets (long since translated by her) if they will bring back the true copy of The Book of the Red Witch, a tome containing a mysterious ritual which the lich desires to add to her collection of rituals. The problem is that three copies exist the world and only one of them is genuine. Only she has the secret to divining which, so the party is going to have to acquire all three (or take a 1 in 3 gamble that they will return with the right one).  One is in a Crypted Vault of a Vecna Cult, Another in the wandering lair of Xenophinion, the Mad Dragon, and another in the personal collection of Nord. the PCs don't know this, but the Lich has already tried to get the book from Nord, using a band of teleporting vampires. So Nord knows of this lich, and will not be inclined to let her have it. The book is not particularly vital to Nord, but he is proud of his collection of unique books, and is loathe to hand it over to anyone.The party tends to act a bit towards the good (the sorcerer used to be NG), but all of them are rejects from their society in some way (except the cleric), and so they have begun to veer from an active interest in defending the good of selfish and prejudiced people. They will steal when they can, but typically do not like hurting people who don't attack them first. They seem to follow the principle of karma: whatever we dish out, we will eventually receive.So they are "nice" people, but not "good" people.Whew! Is that enough detail? I got more if you want it, but be forewarned that I'm a terrible windbag.</blockquote>

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