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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Precelius" data-source="post: 3686005" data-attributes="member: 54289">You had asked a while back about Lost Abbey of Calthonwey.  Another Member gave a pretty good synopsis, but I'll try to elaborate a little more.  Keep in mind, this information is available mostly to the DM only.  A more abbreviated form is available to the PCs.Essentially, there is an abbey (the Abbey of Calthonwey) that appears & disappears every 100 years or so.  What led to its original disappearance, no one exactly knows.  It was, though, a few years after a dark and stormy night, when a very young boy was dumped by persons (or beings) unknown, right on the abbey's doorstep.  The boy was raised by the Monks & Clerics within the abbey, and eventually worked his way up through the ranks...eventually becoming a prime candidate for the head of the abbey.  Around the time of the "election" is when the abbey originally disappeared.  It has reappeared periodically, and adventurers have dared to enter it; however, no one has ever come out of it to explain what happened those many years ago, or to the many parties of adventurers that entered to discover its secret.[SPOILER]: THE BOY IN QUESTION WAS PLACED THERE BY THE POWERS OF DARKNESS TO DESTROY THE ABBEY, WHOSE MONKS & CLERICS WERE THE PROTECTORS OF THE TOWN BELOW.  THE "ELECTION" BECAME A CIVIL WAR WITHIN THE ABBEY.  SOME ALLIED WITH THE BOY, WHO PRACTICED BLACK MAGIC ON THE SIDE AND BECAME A LICH, WHILE OTHERS WENT INTO HIDING TO WAIT THEIR TIME TO OVERTHROW HIM AND HIS DARK MINIONS.  THE LICH FILLED THE ABBEY WITH ALL FORMS OF EVIL CREATURES (FROM ORCS TO DEMONS).  TO EVEN THE ODDS, THE PATRON DEITY/DEITIES OF THE ABBEY CAUSED THE ABBEY TO DISAPPEAR EVERY 100 YEARS OR SO (INTO A SORT OF LIMBO) AND THEN RETURNED IT PERIODICALLY BACK TO THE PRIME MATERIAL PLANE IN HOPES THAT ADVENTURERS WOULD ENTER IT AND AID THE "GOOD" MONKS & CLERICS IN THEIR REVOLT TO RECLAIM THE ABBEY.That's really a Reader's Digest version of the suggested plot.  As mentioned already, the DM has a lot of latitude to alter the plot as needed to keep things moving or maintain the aire of mystery that comes with this module.I've read on some other forums that this module is engrained in a lot of people's memories, but it's very difficult to get one's hands on it in this day and age.  My old DM from back in high school let me make a photocopy of it, which I used quite often over the next 4-6 years when I was a DM myself.It was a tough module from the standpoint of the PCs going through it, but it was also one of the more memorable ones.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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