Gynsala
First Post
This is something I'm going to throw at players in my campaign, I'd like to hear what you think of it.
The villain (which is actually a fairly nice psionic warrior guy, currently inhabited by a demon the PC's don't know about yet.... long story) has disguised himself as a PC and kidnapped a cleric from a completely benevolent and helpful Order of clerics. The PC's have to rescue him to clear his name. They track the villain and eventually find the hostage attached to a pile of chains in the center of a room. He cries out to them that he's been attached to a chain golem given the command to stay inert until someone moves its chains. At this point there are two and a half options...
1) The villain simply lied, it's just a normal pile of chains, but is laughing at the PCs as they try to "carefully" extract him from the "dangerous monster"
2) It really is a chain golem, and they have to figure out a way to destroy it/sever the couple chains holding the cleric in the first round before it goes blade barrier and frapee's him.
2.5) If I'm feeling especially nasty, I'll add a time element, like a pendulum slowly dropping over the chain golem...
If they succeed, they clear the PC's name and all is good. If they fail, he becomes a hated public enemy and it changes minor things about the plot.
Thoughts?
The villain (which is actually a fairly nice psionic warrior guy, currently inhabited by a demon the PC's don't know about yet.... long story) has disguised himself as a PC and kidnapped a cleric from a completely benevolent and helpful Order of clerics. The PC's have to rescue him to clear his name. They track the villain and eventually find the hostage attached to a pile of chains in the center of a room. He cries out to them that he's been attached to a chain golem given the command to stay inert until someone moves its chains. At this point there are two and a half options...
1) The villain simply lied, it's just a normal pile of chains, but is laughing at the PCs as they try to "carefully" extract him from the "dangerous monster"
2) It really is a chain golem, and they have to figure out a way to destroy it/sever the couple chains holding the cleric in the first round before it goes blade barrier and frapee's him.
2.5) If I'm feeling especially nasty, I'll add a time element, like a pendulum slowly dropping over the chain golem...
If they succeed, they clear the PC's name and all is good. If they fail, he becomes a hated public enemy and it changes minor things about the plot.
Thoughts?
