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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4332375" data-attributes="member: 41584">I like this one, but I'd tweak it so that the sword is inhabited by the spirit of an evil knight from ages past, something of a local boogeyman.  He was so wicked that when he was finally killed (dropped down a shaft into some catacombs), priests consecrated the entire area and abandoned it to the wilderness.The party has to bring the sword back to the catacombs and into the consecrated area that contained it's evil.Oops.  The consecrated area seems to have gotten de-consecrated (perhaps by whatever meanie / event caused the sword to find it's way into the hands of some peasant boy a day's travel away...).  The undead from the catacombs are rising up and the land itself is twisting from the festering evil left behind.  Can the party restore the ancient consecration?  Will they meet the undead form of the knight itself?  (Or just his equally possessed and evil full-plate armor?)  Can they just collapse the catacombs, somehow, burying the evil forever?In any event, the sword wants to get back to it's master, once it's thoroughly drenched in the blood of the living.  If it succeeds in returning to the withered corpse, it might somehow allow him to rise as a vampire, bloated on the blood that the blade has stolen!And for a newer idea;                 -= The Golem of Plague =-A priest of a people feeling persecuted by outsiders has crafted a golem of clay to defend his people from the unwelcome invaders.  Small problem.  His people are the virulently racist ones, and the 'invaders' are refugees from a war-torn land, seeking only a place to settle down.  He sends his Golem out by night to terrorize the refugees, at first to scare them away and destroy their 'nasty stinking hovels' huddled at the edges of town, but later he begins to direct it to more violent action.  The unhealing nature of the Golem's wounds appear as plague-like symptoms, and the Golem does not actually kill people (generally) but only strikes them once, and then leaves them permanantly maimed by it's attacks (the better to spread fear and encourage them to leave, rather than fight back, the priest thinks).Ah, but something has gone even more wrong.  The Golem is no longer following the orders of the priest, and he has lost control of it.  He is forced to hire the party to deal with 'the monster that has been terrorizing those poor refugees!' (not bothering to mention that the only reason he wants it destroyed is because it is now attacking HIS people!).Turns out the Golem's animating spirit has broken free, and is a goodly sort, more interested in justice than vengeance.  It is now punishing the rich people who created it, instead of plaguing the 'filthy refugees.'  -= Cinderella =-There was once a beautiful maiden, forced to live with her wicked step-mother and her two ugly step-sisters.  She was so lovely that her suitors sometimes called her 'thrice-blessed,' a compliment that brought a sly smile to her lips, as she was indeed beautiful enough for three women, having magically stolen the beauty of her step-sisters!Like a changeling child, she has come into the family and stolen vitality and beauty and vigor from all of them, and her suitors indeed often find themselves worn out by a night dancing with her, although they always have fond, if somewhat fuzzy, memories of their encounters...But hey, these things happen when you are dating someone with both fey and succubus ancestry...  If you survive the endless blather about her wicked family, and the occasional unsuccessful attempts by her 'wicked' relatives to kill her, in hopes of freeing themselves from her control, you might live long enough to find out that she's no keeper.</blockquote>

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