jeffers
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Here's the thing... Sleepy little Indianapolis is at the junction of several ley lines (just look at all the highways that pass through us). In the far-off realm of Shadow, there is a city just like it. Not the biggest or best at anything, but simply...there. the two cities are linked across shadow, and more Shadowkind show up in Indy than anywhere else. The walls of the world are thinnest here, and things slip through easily.
The villian of our piece is aware of this connection, somehow retaining this knowledge in his passage through Shadow. He intends to wait until the tides of magic rise to sufficient levels and take over, and then, bring the Other City here, to Earth and merge it with Indy. He would be the ruler of a large part of Indiana, and maybe launch a magical attack on Chicago to fuse it with it's "Sistercity" off in shadow... Before long, he'll have all of America magicked and assume control of the world.
Big plans... but WHERE DO I START?
The villain is a monster, probably a Mind Flayer, Beholder or some equally horrid creature. He can't go out into the open once the tide rises very high, so he must act through agents.... no doubt Drow and other "evil" shadowkind...
It can't be a scavenger hunt-style game, PCs are too clever...
Artifact-driven? Is the MacGuffin here already, or do his calculations show that it can be created here, just as his counterparts in Other City complete theirs? The two are activated at once, say when Formalhaut crosses the Giza Meridian at midnight, and the transformation takes place? A well-placed bullet ends that ritual.
Is anyone playing a Halfling? The artifact has washed up in Indy, the PCs have it and BEBG wants it to use it to fuse the cities? Enter some old biker-wizard friend who explains it all and you have to take it to the top of the Banc One Tower and throw it so it shatters against the unforgiving concrete of Meridian Street? (That is the largest Pyramid in Indy, methinks... unless you count those other pyramids)
I don't know where to start and I've only a few dozen hours to prep...
The villian of our piece is aware of this connection, somehow retaining this knowledge in his passage through Shadow. He intends to wait until the tides of magic rise to sufficient levels and take over, and then, bring the Other City here, to Earth and merge it with Indy. He would be the ruler of a large part of Indiana, and maybe launch a magical attack on Chicago to fuse it with it's "Sistercity" off in shadow... Before long, he'll have all of America magicked and assume control of the world.
Big plans... but WHERE DO I START?
The villain is a monster, probably a Mind Flayer, Beholder or some equally horrid creature. He can't go out into the open once the tide rises very high, so he must act through agents.... no doubt Drow and other "evil" shadowkind...
It can't be a scavenger hunt-style game, PCs are too clever...
Artifact-driven? Is the MacGuffin here already, or do his calculations show that it can be created here, just as his counterparts in Other City complete theirs? The two are activated at once, say when Formalhaut crosses the Giza Meridian at midnight, and the transformation takes place? A well-placed bullet ends that ritual.
Is anyone playing a Halfling? The artifact has washed up in Indy, the PCs have it and BEBG wants it to use it to fuse the cities? Enter some old biker-wizard friend who explains it all and you have to take it to the top of the Banc One Tower and throw it so it shatters against the unforgiving concrete of Meridian Street? (That is the largest Pyramid in Indy, methinks... unless you count those other pyramids)
I don't know where to start and I've only a few dozen hours to prep...
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