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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2765003" data-attributes="member: 63">A simple one recently that went over well:The group was exploring an Egyptian temple on Gaia (the magical world that exists in parallel with our own world, Terra). The temple was in a vast cave, and in the cave was a dry riverbed they had to cross. They could sense magic in the distance, and they knew the thing they were looking for was where the energy was coming from. So they went into the riverbed, torches and magical light held high, and they traveled. For, like, an hour.They never got close, and were getting confused as hell. When they turned around, they couldn't get back to where they came from. They had a clear directional guide -- the magical energy was powerful enough that all the spellcasters could sense it like magnetic north -- but it took them a while to realize the energy actually moved slightly to make them travel in circles. The light from their torches was not bright enough to see all the way across the dry underground riverbed, but they kept thinking they could see gems glinting on the ceiling of the cave, forty feet up.One PC levitated and saw there were actual gems in the ceiling. When he was that high up, though, away from the light sources of the rest of the PCs, he thought he could see, in the distance, stars in the darkness. He extinguished his own light source, and for a moment, floating near the ceiling, the stone vanished, and instead he could see up to the night sky, full of constellations.A bit of discussion later, the group turned off their lights and used a bit of Egyptian mythology to know that they wanted to follow the direction Osiris pointed. Eventually, by following that instead of following the fake magical energy beacon, they got where they were headed.There was also a tiny stream in the middle of the riverbed that they ran across once or twice, filled with lotus petals, but the stream, they figured out much later, actually took a slow, graceful arc around the location they were trying to get to, so that following the stream would also get you nowhere. However, anyone who took a lotus from the stream would not be attacked by the mummies.I quite enjoyed it, and so did the players.</blockquote>

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