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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5128015" data-attributes="member: 18280">The iron mine near the town of Deepingdale has been prosperous...up until now. As the miners opened up a new deeper level of the mine, they started disappearing at an alarming rate. One of the few survivors has babbled something about some sort of multi-headed dragon, deep in the darkness.In reality, the "dragon" is an illusion created by a race of illusionists and necromancers dwelling deep beneath the mine.  It is an icon of their "deity", a very real pyrohydra which dwells in the center of thier "city" -- its young are used to ritually devour "sacrifices" in gladitorial combat in their arena (KOed PCs thus have a chance to survive).Encounters include squads of skeletons, glowing green and blue from phosphorous mold, that are suplimented by illusions of the same.  I.e., the PCs face a squad of 20 skeletons, 15 of which are illusory and 5 of which are real.....what do you disbelieve, and what do you accept at face value?The illusionist/necromancers were once the slaves of an even older, non-human(oid) race that has departed (but has left signs of their existence in the architecture, in iconography, and in culture).  Think HP Lovecraft here.There are factions that the PCs may exploit within the city, deep fey living in nearby caves (largely neutral, but perhaps of interest to the PCs, and certainly a potential source of information), and some lost miners still awaiting "sacrifice" in the arena for the PCs to rescue.  And, of course, deep within the temple is the illusionist/necromancers' "god" -- a pyrohydra that can speak, with human intelligence and cunning.  Of course, there is also a great treasure -- a ruby larger than a human heart -- that the temple holds and the hydra still guards.  It is, in fact, the heart of the last Old One, still eerily linked to its powers..........Good luck!RC</blockquote>

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