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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SurfMonkey01" data-source="post: 1492668" data-attributes="member: 1898">Well, folks, I call on your help once again.  The gang's all rarin' to go drow-hunting this weekend, so I came up with a fun little Underdark plot.  Now I just want to get it a stamp of OK before I start the statting.  Since you guys helped shape the campaign into what it is today, I figured I'd ask you.DrowRoutinely raid the surface for humanoid infants and children that can be raised as slaves.  In recent months have dealt with the continual theft of their slaves by the illithids.  The last surface raid was about a week ago, in Cormyr.  Much of the raiding party didn’t make it back, and the take was mostly human infants.  The survivors were attacked by the illithids on their way back, and most of their latest take was stolen from them.IllithidsSmall band led by a powerful sorcerer.  Recently he has begun to experiment with magical control devices, hoping to find new ways of implementing them.  His ultimate goal is to create a magical device – either control or contingency – that can be implanted in a person, surround them with its aura, and yet be completely undetectable to anything less than manual invasive surgery.  The slave and sleeper agent potential for something like this is limitless.  To test each iteration of the experiment, the illithids steal new humanoid slaves from the drow (although the drow themselves would be preferable, their natural magical immunities make them trickier test subjects).Red Wizards"Scorpius," a favored agent of the Zulkir of Conjuration, has been sent to look into the illithids and their experiments.  Originally sent to side with the illithids and steal their experiments should they succeed, he has instead approached and allied himself with the drow.  He did this after learning that they may have kidnapped infant Azoun V.  By allying himself with the drow, he can still take the illithids’ experiments while they were distracted by the drow (outfitted with magic items supplied by him) attack, but now he can also secure the infant by demanding the child as payment for his assistance.  The drow, who were apparently unaware of exactly what they had in their possession, readily agreed to the Thayan’s terms.  However, upon inspecting the humanoids recently taken, "Scorpius" was displeased to learn that apparently Azoun was among the number that had been stolen by the illithids.  Of course, this made his bargain with the drow almost useless – but then again, if he was going to have to fight the illithids for what he wanted, some cannon fodder would be nice…PS - Come on -- Calico Jack's the only one who has comments on the story hour?  I said please, didn't I?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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