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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undead Pete" data-source="post: 418378" data-attributes="member: 5215">Ok, here are some ideas off the top of my head (warning: they may suck.  I still haven't had my caffeine drip turned on)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use Doppelgangers.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">False leads are always wonderful</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frame the PC's (so what if it's not original...they be running from the "good guys" and that's always fun)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bring in moral issues.  Suppose the victims aren't exactly the best-aligned folk.  Do the players still pursue the killer?  Better yet, make the killer a crazed fanatic paladin.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Involve competing Theives Guilds.  Make it a plot from an outside source to undermine them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The victims aren't dead.  They've had their souls removed by some big evil nasty who is storing them to fulfill her nefarious purposes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The victims ARE dead, but are having a bad habit of returning as undead.  Set the type based on the level of your PC's</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The victims aren't just being killed.  They're exploding rather messily in public places due to some "Arcane Bomber".  The victims could be random, or political in nature.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make sure to emphasize the effect the murders are having on the city's population...from the aristocrats down to the dregs.  Have a timeline set up for the intensity of public reaction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Large pieces of the victims are being removed....later the PC's find out that those pieces have now been melded together into a flesh golem which is terrorizing the streets.</li> </ul>Hope I sparked some ideas.</blockquote>

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