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<blockquote data-quote="Baileyborough" data-source="post: 5731385" data-attributes="member: 98360">Hey guys,I'm getting into my heroic tier campaign now, the party is at level 4, and are really coming together with their own personal quests and backstories coming into effect.I have an idea for a (somewhat) over-arcing quest, in which they are tasked by a dubious tiefling to find a stone shard - this is just the initial encounter with said guy, who let's call Shivers for now. He says it's a piece of Bael Turath or some such and wants to collect any artifacts from his history, etc.The shard is part of a greater stone - the killing stone. I'm basically pulling this as a form of the Cain and Abel story - two brothers eons ago, one killed the other. This one (first?) act of violence was stored in the stone, and has fermented over the eons to turn the stone into something evil (?).I need some help polishing this off. I don't want it to be (too) hammy and contrived. I thought the initial thought of the first murder-weapon was a good place to start. The image I have in my head is of a rock, slightly bigger than the size of a fist, with a black hand-print that almost looks charred on.What I'd like is if anyone has any suggestions or ideas of where to take this. Should I go the route of the chars going to try and find pieces all over the world before big bad does? What does big bad want with it? Why's the stone so important? What could it do? Any ideas or inspiration would be great.Thanks,C.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Baileyborough, post: 5731385, member: 98360"] Hey guys, I'm getting into my heroic tier campaign now, the party is at level 4, and are really coming together with their own personal quests and backstories coming into effect. I have an idea for a (somewhat) over-arcing quest, in which they are tasked by a dubious tiefling to find a stone shard - this is just the initial encounter with said guy, who let's call Shivers for now. He says it's a piece of Bael Turath or some such and wants to collect any artifacts from his history, etc. The shard is part of a greater stone - the killing stone. I'm basically pulling this as a form of the Cain and Abel story - two brothers eons ago, one killed the other. This one (first?) act of violence was stored in the stone, and has fermented over the eons to turn the stone into something evil (?). I need some help polishing this off. I don't want it to be (too) hammy and contrived. I thought the initial thought of the first murder-weapon was a good place to start. The image I have in my head is of a rock, slightly bigger than the size of a fist, with a black hand-print that almost looks charred on. What I'd like is if anyone has any suggestions or ideas of where to take this. Should I go the route of the chars going to try and find pieces all over the world before big bad does? What does big bad want with it? Why's the stone so important? What could it do? Any ideas or inspiration would be great. Thanks, C. [/QUOTE]

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