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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5058186" data-attributes="member: 40177">The Road of Good Intentions: A magical road that leads to a church of healing and life-giving.  In reality, this "church" are actually a couple of vulture-like demons who wear large robes to disguise their identity... they grant wishes and healing balms, but only to those of good heart - those who petition the healers to help loved ones.  The healers gladly do so... for a price.Those who pay the price must guard the road, to insure that only good souls can approach the church.  They are prevented from telling the truth, even though they fully know they do evil by letting further good souls approach the church.  But at the light of a full moon, the PCs can see a horrible truth - each stone of the paved road is the face of one of the petitioners, screaming in perpetual agony.The Wind-Tunnel Seer:  A half-mad woman spent her life in the company of birds, always just a little crazy.  She eventually married (a simple-minded man), and was very much in love, until her husband angered the birds that followed this woman around, and was killed by the flock.  The woman had to flee the wrath of the town, and now hides in windy hills.  These hills are filled with birds, who have a limited gift of speech.  Each bird can only say one or two words, but assemble a flock and they can have limited communications - with the flock co-operating to make basic sentences.  They try to warn the PCs away, because they want to keep the seer to themselves.You see, the woman can hear the voices of the wind (Which is how she speaks to birds), and has found a wind tunnel.  As the screaming wind whistles from the tunnel, she cocks her head and can hear just the faintest of words.  And then she sings the translation to those who would know prophecy.The twist?  Her long association has made her more and more birdlike (a harpy).  And while she's essentially benign, the birds that fanatically protect her, and her three triplet daughters who have been mostly raised by animals (also harpies) are a little bit more vengeful.  And if one wants answers, he'll have to go through the birds... without hurting them.</blockquote>

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