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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 5118285" data-attributes="member: 822">Okay this might not be the most appropriate thread for this, but I'll try to twist this into an Emperor's Fancy idea.--- So a slow festering slaad plague infects a number of people throughout the campaign region. Birthed slaad don't appear as fast as normal 4e or 3.5e dictates. One can't abide puncturing a slaad lesion, because that'll damage the host, BUT the host dies or is the first target for the birthed slaad. Anyway, the PCs are infected initially with this plague and they have slowly gestating slaadi brood in nasty pussy bubbles/lesion somewhere on their person. Over the course of the adventure(s), the party investigates what first caused this outbreak. They then realize its either its a bio-terror weapon either sent from the Emperor on to his own subjects (for whatever reason -- probably simple weapons testing) or its an after product of a big project the Emperor commissioned. Perhaps this big project was the Emperor trying to harness a plane of Ultimate Law (Mechanus ??) and learn to channel the holy law into himself to reorder reality. The slaad plague was actually some god or outsider's earnest attempt to undo or fight against the infusion of extraplanar Law into the material plane. More interesting -- make this god or outsider non-evil ... so moral arguments become more complex. Unfortunately for everyone, Law vs. Chaos usually gets nasty -- especially for the Unaligned bystanders. So the PCs are caught up in something cosmic but also local. Their early adventure(s) is about curing themselves from the plague (and the responsibilities of birthing a hungry slaad brood). Questing for a Cure Disease ritual would be challenging enough for early heroic tier PCs. They then have a number of problems on their plate to deal with after that. And of course all this came about because the Emperor is an incompetent and amoral windbag with too many ideas and time on his hands. C.I.D.</blockquote>

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