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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 449901" data-attributes="member: 221">Re: The Rat Bastard’s Club is now recruiting new members!I currently run a mid-level magic game set in the Kingdoms of Kalamar.  By nature I prefer dark adventures full of undead or adventures that involve some sort of mystery but i try and force myself to include other elements so as not to be predictable to my players. I don't.  Not only do I know who my parents are but I think I am a big softy, truth be told.  <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=":)" />  My players might occassionally think different however and I guess I do like to think I am as full of devious subterfuge as your average criminal mastermind (even if I never actually do anything criminal).  In my last major campaign story-arc, the players still haven't (I don't think) really figured out what was going on (even though they managed to make most of the right choices anyway).The players venture upon a pirate ship, crashed upon the rocks of the shore.  All aboard are dead.  Some have been hacked apart by their comrades, others have simple been completely sucked of life by some unknown entity.  The cargo, food stuff for the most part, is damaged and rot has set in, attracting dire rats.  There is some coinage aboard, on the bodies, but otherwise nothing of value.  The captains log provides a clue as to what is going on.  A women was taken aboard at the last port of call.  She was very beautiful and equally flirtatious.  The captain worried that the men would fight over her.  The last entry makes it clear that the captain had also succumbed to her charms.  It reads, "They think she will be theirs! Never!  I slit Johnson's throat for the way he touched her her and tonight I plan on bedding her and proposing marriage."  There is no woman aboard the ship and the captain is dead in his bed, his body has been drained.There are tracks leading away from the ship.  They lead to a windmill.  Within the windmill are two bodies, both male.  Like the men on the ship they appear to have been drained, though there are no wounds upon them.  There is also a half-orc in the windmill, at the point of death.  He was the lone survivor from the wrecked ship and if he can he will relate that he survived by fleeing the ship aboard a swan boat created from a feather token that he took from the body of the Captain.  He beached the swan boat and then followed the woman from the ship to the lighthouse.  He hds been greatly saddened by the loss of his friends and wanted revenge on the woman.  But when he attacked her, she changed and ripped him apart with savage claws.  His sword seemed useless against her.  The only thing the half-orc can tell the PCs to help identify the woman is that in both shapes she had a tattoo of a skeleton key just above her left breast.The PCs can follow a trail, made by a woman from the windmill to a nearby town.  There they lose the trail.  The PCs should know by now that this woman is very dangerous and they may even realize she is actually a succubus.  Finding her in town will not be easy however, at least not until the bodies of men start stacking up.  The skeleton key is a tattoo given by a demon prince and can not be hid by magic.  It will appear above her left breast no matter what form she takes.Currently the succubus has found employment as a bar-maid (she was hired on the spot) and she plans on following men home, seducing them and then sucking the life out of them. My story hour and a second thread containing scenarios, maps and encounters can be linked to from my sig.<a href="mailto:wicht@uplink.net">wicht@uplink.net</a></blockquote>

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