Three Plot Hooks Per Monster

[The Serge]

Succubus: A small town of historically close-knit people has recently become a hot-bed of vicious gossip and regular bar fights and brawls. In most cases, on-lookers report of seeing a female agitator and instigator.

 

[alsih2o]

delver- the city walls have recently been compromised by tunnels underneath. what could possibly be causing such a creature to approach the surface, much less a city?


p.s. shouldn't this all be in 'plots and places'?

 

[alsih2o]

halflings- one day, everyone wakes up to find all the halflings have left town, what could they know that caused this mass exodus? most just celebrate the lack of pickpocketing and petty theivery, but others realize there must be something amiss

 

[alsih2o]

ettin- one after another, farmers come to town crying for protection. it seems that an ettin, seemingly afraid of something else, has been raiding farms, stealing the wheels from every cart and wagon in the countryside. what could he want with all of them, and what does he fear?

 

[alsih2o]

giant bees- the cook who serves a local noble is empowered to call in a favor granted by the noble, sending our heroes off in search of the honey from a giant bees nest for a special dish to be served early next month.

 

[alsih2o]

fungus- the sheep around the town have been turning up dead. all found so far have a strange purple podwer around their snouts, smooth and silky, the powder is identified as fungal spores by a local alchemist, who himself turns up dead in 2 days

 

[Ferret]

Destrachan

A group of Destrachan have begun collapsing caves in the under dark to try and drown out drow, although it has caused major eathquakes on the surface.

 

[Urbanmech]

Destrachan: The villages new well is believed to be cursed. People who go off to the well alone are either found dead with blood oozing from their ears or disappear entirely.

 

[Urbanmech]

Invisible Stalker: Local nobles/law enforcement officers are crushed to death in their sleep. It appears that a mace or a large rock was used to kill them. The only other evidence that someone was there is the open window. There are no tracks leading away from the murder sights.

 

[Reprisal]

Orcs

There is a rumour that a terrible disease is annihilating the female orc population in the wastes to the North. This would explain the increasing number of raids on small towns and the abduction of healthy young women. What is the source of this disease, and can the problem be resolved without having to commit the forces needed to wipe the orcs out?

(Perhaps a vengeful Necromancer and/or Cleric, or perhaps something else?)