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Message: <blockquote data-quote="weem" data-source="post: 5074289" data-attributes="member: 9470">Thanks for the feedback and ideas, everyone I really appreciate it!I've been really stuck on this primarily because I don't have time to work on it (only just now getting back here to respond to this) but I also want to make it memorable... not sure I can do the latter thanks for the former, etc.Anyway, I was thinking about this tonight and decided I might have an idea...There will be 4 players level 18.Here's the rough idea...A man lies dying at the edge of a cliff... he has just defeated a terrible creature (dragon maybe?) but the act may just cost him his life. As he lies there, bleeding to death, he is flooded with the memories of 4 previous lives he has lived (this current one being his 5th life).The 4 players represent the people he lived as during those past 4 lives - only now, as he is near death, they are forced to come together (within his soul or in a dream world or another plane, I'm not sure yet) to face their past demons in an epic struggle, the outcome of which will determine whether he lives or dies (presumably moving onto another life).Basically, as his body struggles to live, his mind is lost in these memories of the past. So, the players would face encounters that reflect events that these past lives lived through (or died from) etc. The thing is... the memories are twisted with inaccuracies and have, over time, been confused and meshed together with other memories.For example - they may be faced with an epic fight at the top of a tower vs undead of some kind, as he once did in his 2nd life as a Fighter, but that event collides with an event from his 1st life as a Rogue when he was drowned... so as they fight undead atop a tower, oceans pour in and surround the tower, rising quickly... so this tower is now an island in a raging sea where they find themselves not only fighting the undead, but suddenly a Kraken (or some sea creature) as well etc.These encounters could be very surreal and, just... out there... as he is losing it mentally and all these events from the past begin to mix. They may defeat the "tower" encounter only to watch the sea part and from it emerge a stage coach... they get in it and move on to something else etc. There could be social encounters on the way, etc etc, leading to more combat.Also, I was imagining there being this reaccuring creature who during each encounter is focused on a different player (aka past life). It could latch on to that person flooding them with images of their life and effectively stunning them until the other 3 players move adjacent to him and chase it away or kill it - basically snapping that player back to 'reality'... but that's just a quick idea... not sure I can/will use it.Anyway, I just thought I would drop this in here really quick and see what you all think. If you have anything to add that would be great... if you think this is lame then I will blame it on the fact that I am half asleep right now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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