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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6717780" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I'm slated to DM the next bit of our story, and it is October, so...I'm trying to come up with something good, seasonally speaking, without departing completely from our story line.Story line has me taking the group to Rome to propose peace talks between Alba/Pictland and Britania, which is still, in name at least, a Roman province.Most of the party is from Britania, Scotland or Ireland/Caledonia, soa nice little Samhain side trip can fit in.  Just need some ideas.Things on the table:  We have a dead Cleric the party is going to try to bring back.  Used to worship a jealous "I'm he only god there is" deity named Taiia, from central/southern Africa, then converted to the Egyptian pantheon, favoring Amon Ra.  (She used to swear that Taiia was real and all other deities were false.  Now she swears that the other deities are real and that Taiia is false.)I've been considering a trip to the afterlife for the group, with the discovery that ownership of Zula's soul is in dispute between her two patrons.  I've also considered that the road to the afterlife is done via Shadow Walk.  We've often described the Plane of Shadows as the land of nightmares, and the books do describe it as a twisted version of reality, so there's a lot to work with there as well.And since both of her patron deities are sun gods, the Plane of Shadows seems like the perfect neutral ground for such a dispute:  A place where the sun never shines.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And yes, unless Problem Child refuses, I'm going to give him back his precious character, the one whose death he complained about so much.Of course, with a nightmare realm to traverse, and two Greater gods arguing over her, she'll probably leave a piece of herself someplace along the way.  (i.e. she'll lose a level, as appropriate for Res and Raise.)But ideas for what to throw at the group are always appreciated.  When I've run previous Halloween dungeons I've gone over the top, piling on cliche after cliche, sometimes taking a classic monster movie and twisting into something backwards.  Like when the party had to save Bela the Gypsy (the character who bit Lawrence Talbot at the start of the classic Wolfman movie) from being used by the bad guys to start a Lycanthropy outbreak.  Others involved the mad doctor working on his flesh golem (he needed divine lightning to bring it to life, the arcane stuff wasn't doing the job.)  Turned out his "house servant" was a vampire, running the whole town.Anyway, I'm thinking a gauntlet of sorts.  Ra is the Egyptian "gatherer of souls", who escorts them down the Nile each night to the place of judgment.  That means that, from the time the body is prepared until Zula's soul is beyond reach is limited.  They have until sunset.Traversing the Plane of Shadows to reach another plane takes 1D4 hours, by the book, so I can play with a built-in deadline if I like.Anyway, I could use some ideas for this, not just monsters (though they would be an integral part), but the scenes themselves.  Halloween theme.</blockquote>

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