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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7205819" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Yeah, the first adventure involved an attempt to kidnap a noblewoman, my own PC's mother.  PCs unexpectedly foiled it.  BBEG, not really understanding the way things worked, then kidnapped the one who had wanted her kidnapped.Original plan had bee to kidnap the noblewoman so a mortal minion (the "bad guy" of the scenario) could rescue her.  He wanted to marry her for name, title, and because she's hot.BBEG, not understanding the cause and effect here, kidnapped the minion so the noblewoman's agents (The PCs) could rescue him.  BBEG figured that would work out the same, in terms of love, marriage, title, and BBEG getting a minion in a position of power inside that kingdom.That minion was eventually caught and executed, rather gruesomely.  Beheaded, drawn and quartered, and his corpse dragged, in four pieces, throughout the kingdom as a warning to anyone else who might want to try an assault on the monarchy.That helped cement the idea that BBEG is alien in his thinking, and pretty much insane.Recently the minion's family was targeted by an assassin.  Only his sister survived.  (This was one of the scenes I set up for the PCs to solve, but they walked away.)  The family has been revived, but by tradition their titles and claims to any other titles are gone, passed on to the heir (the daughter).  She could hand them back, but her father, the former Baron, advised against it.  Instead he's teaching her how to be a wise ruler, a serious hands-on training.  She is, at this point, second in line for the crown.  (Her father, the Baron, was the King's brother.  King has no direct heir, so when he dies the crown passes to his wife the queen, then to his brother's line.)The King can also restore, or even re-order, his brother's family's claim to the throne, leaving the daughter at the top but allowing her brothers and/or parents to inherit from her. It's weird, in a world where the dead can come back.I actually have a plot line running through all of that mess, but it's kind of longer term.  Shorter/intermediate term, I need to get the PCs to do a serious adventure on the other side of a rift, and get used to the idea that this is okay and survivable.I think I can do that, but I'd like ideas on what dreamscape or nightmare scenes would serve well in that plane.  I'm thinking maybe a Mad-Hatter's tea party scene, with the royal family being represented in caricature.  Remember that the Plane of Shadows, as an example, is supposed to include twisted versions of reality.  This place is much the same, in its way, in that it can include or represent the scenes from people's nightmares.  Most are fleeting, but if many people share the same worries or concerns then there can be nightmare scenes that are longer and more substantial.  There can also be fairly common bad dream settings and scenes.To give some grist for that mill:  An entire region called Five Points (five cities, set in a cross pattern) was recently destroyed in an earthquake.  The land collapsed and flooded, leaving an inland sea where the cities and their surrounding lands once were.  There are survivors.  Some are fleeing as refugees, some are trying to rebuild along the shores of that sea.  Bad enough that Charon, the boatman of the Styx, has been seen on that see offering the living transport to see, and perhaps rescue, their fallen loved ones.  Kind of outside his normal job description, but the death toll literally flooded the afterlife, and he was told to make the job easier if heroes wanted to try and retrieve anyone.That sounds like good base material for a nightmare, doesn't it?  (We'll leave off the classics, like finding yourself naked just as you're about to appear before the High King's court, etc.  I'm looking for group nightmares.)</blockquote>

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