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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1843736" data-attributes="member: 63">It was a song.Fleeing through the Innenotdar Fire Forest, the group was contacted by the psychic incarnation of Indomitability that had been trapped by a group of fey.  Because of Indomitability, the trees could not die, and had been on fire for sixty years.  The group agreed to free Indomitability's body in exchange for safe passage through the fire forest.I had planned the fey to be desperate survivors.  Their story was that, because fey live off the life of the land, trapped in this fire forest they were weak and dying.  Every few years they sent out a wanderer to find a song of the world and bear it back home.  Then this songbearer would sing, filling the fey with the essence of the outer world, sustaining them.They were gathered in a crater around a lake, one of the few places not overwhelmed by the flames of the forest.  In the center of the lake was a wooden sword, its hilt protruding from the surface of the water.  Sixty years earlier, when a great flaming stag was rampaging through the forest and killing wildly, an Elvish hero had driven his blade through the creature's body, pinning it to the bottom of the lake.  That creature was Indomitability.  I thought this would make for some cool flavor, and provide a conundrum for the players of which side to help.The group arrives at the crater, hears dozens of fey voices singing this mournful song, and they go to talk to the leader of the fey, learning the story.  Then one of the players asked, "How can you trap Indomitability?"I didn't answer, not really knowing.  I meant the creature to be more along the lines of 'unkillable,' but they thought it was 'unstoppable.'The group was having trouble deciding what to do, when the party's psion sensed a new presence.  They ran to the edge of the lake and saw a floating mass of black tendrils hovering over the sword hilt.  It spoke to them, told them to help it free Indomitability, and it would get them safely from the forest.  The psionic PC tried to read the creature's soul, to learn if it was similar to Indomitability, but he couldn't overcome its resistances.The black tendrils pulled the sword from the water, and a giant stag roared upward from the surface of the lake, flames bursting from its body.  Two of the PCs of the group moved to fight Indomitability, but they weren't doing well.  The fey were fleeing, screaming.Then, one of the players said, "I'm going to start singing the fey song.  What happens?"And then, completely off the cuff, I decided: "As your voice renews the fey song, Indomitability and the new creature recoil.  Indomitability seems somehow smaller, more tangible.  And Rivereye (the psion), the other creature's essence is finally clear to you.  Trapped in a solid body, its defenses are weak, and you can see that it is the incarnation of Deception.  It scrambles for the edge of the lake as its body becomes heavy, and soon a humanoid figure stands before you, covered in black tendrils."They drove off Deception, and convinced Indomitability that fighting would help neither side, eventually gaining its trust.  And so was born the fey song, which had power over these psychic incarnations.  It allowed me to make the incarnations much more frightening, because to most people they would be incorporeal, ghost-like monsters, but the PCs could use the song of the fey to trap them in a solid body.  It ended up becoming a very critical plot point, and one of the most iconic aspects of any of the PCs.</blockquote>

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