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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fractal Rabbit" data-source="post: 6887749" data-attributes="member: 6805326">The last campaign I started at 1st level was called:"Night of the Necrotongue" (inspired by Night of the Living Dead and The Blob)I wanted to subvert the old, You-Meet-In-An-Inn trope. I decided to have the adventure actually take place in the inn itself.As the story went, a low-level (good-aligned) Necromancer offed himself by experimenting with the creation of an undead /ochre jelly hybrid (the "Necrotongue", a jelly that could be released in zombie infested ruins that feed only on necrotic/undead flesh). When the experiment went horribly wrong, the Necromancer ended up being the first victim/food source of the undead jelly. The Necromancer had been renting out a suite of rooms in the inn's basement and was often not seen for days.As the PCs stay there and get to know each other, they discover that the cats who kept the inn rat and mouse free have been disappearing. But strangely, so have the rodents. And the orphan boy who cleans the fireplace and the basement. And some guests...I made a timeline that corresponded to A) how long the Necrotongue had been feeding and B) how many hit die it had, due to size and number of victims eaten.The Necrotongue could, a la the 80's remake of The Blob, travel through drains and pipes.Also, the inn had some cool features and set pieces:-a large bath/pool (think a Turkish bath) fed by hot springs in the lowest level-a common room constructed around an old set of Standing Stones (inspired by a Ducktales episode) and frequented, secretly, by Druids-an all-purpose Temple/Shrine-a sauna/steam bath house (inspired by Peter S. Beagle's The Innkeepers Song) where I had an ambush take place. A cutthroat tried to rob the PCs with concealment from the steam while the PCs were nearly nude.It all went really well. The players had a good time and had a reason, because of the shared survival story, to stay a party. The Necrotongue was quite large when they finally killed it (and accidentally burned the entire inn down).</blockquote>

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