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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tar Markvar" data-source="post: 200504" data-attributes="member: 2859">Well, the whole idea of the colony is that some decades ago, a starship landed here carrying a group of escaping rebels against the Dragon Empire. They were carrying an artifact of great power. The rebels were found by a small cabal of wizards called the Society of the Horizons and were taken in and hidden by the Temple of Fharlanghn (spacefarers ARE travelers, after all, and in Kalamar, Fharlanghn becomes the god of the stars, as well), and they were cared for until they all died, years later. The wreckage was never found. Of course, formians, drawn by the order that technology represents, long since colonized the crater where  the wreckage landed. They've built up the earth around it so that surface dwellers can't find it, and they've repaired it and studied it to further their own technology. The colony is an outpost of a formian hive some 50 miles away (to keep the queen out of this... the party could hardly handle a CR 18 queen and her attendants), and its purpose was originally to study the wreckage, but it's since become a working colony of its own, in the way formians tend to build and structure things. They have enslaved people from the nearby town of Fopsido (sp?), including a young bard the PCs will hear telling the tale of their adventures in the stars when they reach the town. The town nearest the crater is in the swamp, so swamp creatures are possible. I figure some phase spiders would be lovely, as would ankhegs and a black pudding or two. To be truthful, it seems like the formians would eradicate anything they saw as a threat in their home, so anything nasty would either be aligned with them or brand new to the colony. That's where I run into problems finding non-formian threats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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