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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystery Man" data-source="post: 2740938" data-attributes="member: 13273">I'm looking for ideas but in a different direction. It's a high level game in the Forgotten Realms I'm running that has sort of evolved from another plot I was running (like that never happens). A genius loci or an undead genius loci actualy has been manifested by a fallen solar to get revenge on my players for something they thwarted some time ago. They have managed to deal with the fallen solar but now have this genius loci to contend with, and actually they're starting to realize it is what it is but can't do anything about it since it's powers are currently growing beyond their ability to control and they cannot communicate with it. They only know that they cannot destroy by the means that they have available to them now. The genius loci has not reached it's full power yet, it is still growing as sort of a necrotic cyst, a blight on the land that has wiped out an entire village, people, buildings and all. Where people have died as it grows they sort of wander around on its surface as crimson death (MMII) a whole crapload of them. And it is still growing...Realizing they're in way over their head they wisely flee the area. And a divination reveals to them that "the answer they seek (to destroy it) is in the Anourach desert, a lich holds the key. First find the Temple of Marru in the Plain of Standing Stones." At the temple they fought and destroyed a blackstone gigant (that was quite an encounter let me tell you) and received their first clue. As the gigant was destroyed the walls of the temple melted like wax and revealed to them various illustrations, of them (the PC's) yet not them (there were subtle differences) battling hordes of demons, meeting with kings, holding counsel with a giant spynx, leading a large host into battle...none of which has happened IC so they surmised that this was a portent of things to come. They're right of course. Also, after defeating the gigant they pulled various colored crystals from its body and realized that if they use the crystals in various combinations in compartments found on a large altar a massive map of the desert appears all around them and they can manipulate it (almost "scroll" through the desert) and see whatever it is they need to see. We left off there for the evening.The one thing that I did not reveal to them was the location of the lich.Given the facts (I hope I've given them all if not I'll elaborate as needed) how would you go about finding said lich? When I say "lich" what do you automatically assume?</blockquote>

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