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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6797583" data-attributes="member: 94389">While usually frowned upon, a well-placed/well-timed Deus Ex Machina can "sidetrek" the adventurers for a time, opening up new leads, and delay the adventure proper as you see fit.Perhaps waves of skeletons and zombies come shambling into Red Larch (from the direction of Skull Rock) in a a steady cadence (once every 2 hours). The PCs help the villagers (they should be fighting too - in the background) defeat the first couple, but by the third wave it becomes apparent they won't stop. The PCs need to get to the root of the problem. There, run Skull Rock as normal, but with a "wave" of skeletons and zombies being summoned every two hours and shambling off to Red Larch (smart PCs will time their assault accordingly)...chalk it up to magic gone awry...if pressed, what's-his-face will reveal the stone/crystal thing in his cave became "overcharged, in anticipation of the 4 dooms of the apocalypse that will devour the world!" etc etc</blockquote>