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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3696790" data-attributes="member: 18280">IMC, there was a wizard (Amoreth the Arcane) who was believed to be responsible for sinking about a quarter of a town (Selby-by-the-Water), making spellcasters suspect in that district.  In reality, Amoreth and his friends were opposing a triad of aboleth that were using their Skum to eat away at the town's foundations, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the city entirely.  One of the aboleth was killed by the wizard, who died on that same expedition.Move forward in time, and the PCs enter the area.  One of the PCs wrote in his background that his parents were henchmen of the wizard, to his shame.  During campaign play, another quarter of the town collapsed.  This caused a plague that the PCs recovered a cure for.  As a result, they were asked to enter the wizard's tower and find out what was happening (until now, the penalty for doing so was death, as the townsfolk were concerned that another collapse might be triggered).The PCs meet the ghost of Amoreth the Arcane, who explains what happened.  The PC feels that his family is redeemed.  Then they go and kill one of the aboleth, leaving the last one alive and in hiding.  Fun times.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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