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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 6520635" data-attributes="member: 6788652">"Converging" indicates that the village is the epicentre, so perhaps therein dwells a necromancer who is summoning an Army of Darkness to him/herself. An ancient lich who was once the lead wizard of the better-protected town (which was then, in ages past, a grand city), but his Raistlin-like fascination with Evil Magic caused him to take a darker path and corrupted his soul. He warred with the other wizards in the city, who, after much destruction, finally subdued him and buried him alive in an underground prison some miles from the city walls, at a crossroads where they hoped he would never be free again. Over many years, the once-fine city dwindled (due in no small part to its having been blasted to a shadow of its former glory in the wizard war), and is now a bustling town with suspiciously thick walls, and the necromancer merely a fairy tale used to scare children into cleaning their teeth at bedtime.However, as the years passed, a settlement grew up around the crossroads and as fate would have it, the blood of an innocent child was shed in anger at the centre of the crossroad underneath which Necro boy was imprisoned. This is the long forgotten only thing that could release him from the slowly ebbing magic of his enemies. The years have turned him into a dreadful lich and he now has called an army of the dead to dig him free of the prison and be his warriors in a renewed assault on the city he has never stopped dreaming of conquering...Thus the pcs won't be annihilated as the horde has a job to do, and if they can escape and warn the city, the seers there can provide the background. Much can be made of finding the ancient spell of imprisonment again...but the secret ingredient is that to seal him in, once more an innocent child's blood must be spilled. Cue moral quandary and the sudden realisation of how important to the plot the original baby-carrying woman in the tavern might yet be...Or something like that.</blockquote>

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