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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5128127" data-attributes="member: 386">This reminds me of a western, for some reason.Gold rush!  Gold was found in a sleepy little town in the hills.The newly-appointed leader (sheriff) of this small town/county, Gorn Wie, is happy with the prosperity coming from the mine.  He's had to put up with a lot of crap that comes with being a boom-town in a gold rush, so he figures that he deserves a little extra.  He's imposed a tax (in the name of a Law God); it's rather harsh, but not horrible - people can still make a good living.If you can find a lode of gold, that is.  Taxes drive up inflation, and that's made some families struggle to break even.  Some of the people who were here before the gold rush are out on the street.  Others have taken up begging and other means of making a living.Kul Boz, a simple farmer, turned to thievery after his sister, Kess, became a whore.  He was caught and pilloried.  After he was freed, a strange traveller came across him and whispered secrets of a god of Greed to him.  Kul Boz learned the rites and rituals of this god from the strange traveller.Coming back into town Kul Boz turned to some of the worst off - whores, beggars, drunks - and told them of his revelations.  He gathered a small cult dedicated to theft and hoarding.  In response, Gorn Wie increased the patrols of guards to deal with this threat, making life even worse.Faced with this, Kul Boz and his minions captured that which was most precious to Gorn Wie - his wife - and sacrificed her along with their ill-gotten loot, summoning a monster.  The monster lurks in the mines, devouring the souls of those it finds, growing larger with each new kill.  For each person it kills, it grows another head, a twisted version of the person in life, and it can take that person's form if it so chooses.You'll want more NPCs but there you go.</blockquote>

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