Mystery Man
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My players will return to Hilltop after chasing this Skull around the underdark for a time to this:
You return to find the village of Hilltop a smoking ruin. It's meager wall is broken and toppled in various places. The common hall is nothing but a burned husk, the roof of the Bubbling Cauldron tavern has been burnt away leaving a skeleton of brick with no door. The head of the herbalist sits on a pike outside of what is left of his still smoldering shop. Bodies lay everywhere, some hacked to pieces, some with gaping wounds their entrails spilled out on the ground. One thing is certain, most of the villagers were unarmed and butchered while they tried to run away. One or two orc bodies are scattered among the dead. The smithy is still standing and has been converted into a makeshift hospital, some of the slapped together cots hold wounded and dying.
One of the survivors tending to the dead will recognize them from before and hands them a note from Ulagan:
You may have disrupted my plans little flies, but I my reach is long. This is my land, these are my slaves, you are dead. Come take me if you can.
I'd like to bounce some ideas around for where to go with this. They'll probably want to track him down as they'll find out that slaves/prisoner were taken. Anyhow, let me know what you think.
The campaign is set in the Silver Marches, they've been geas quested by Klauth and will be/are chaffing from having to do his bidding but that whole situation should be resolved by the time I'm ready for the Hilltop encounter.
For detailed info the link in my sig connects to my campaign diary.
Yikes! need more spoiler space!
My players will return to Hilltop after chasing this Skull around the underdark for a time to this:
You return to find the village of Hilltop a smoking ruin. It's meager wall is broken and toppled in various places. The common hall is nothing but a burned husk, the roof of the Bubbling Cauldron tavern has been burnt away leaving a skeleton of brick with no door. The head of the herbalist sits on a pike outside of what is left of his still smoldering shop. Bodies lay everywhere, some hacked to pieces, some with gaping wounds their entrails spilled out on the ground. One thing is certain, most of the villagers were unarmed and butchered while they tried to run away. One or two orc bodies are scattered among the dead. The smithy is still standing and has been converted into a makeshift hospital, some of the slapped together cots hold wounded and dying.
One of the survivors tending to the dead will recognize them from before and hands them a note from Ulagan:
You may have disrupted my plans little flies, but I my reach is long. This is my land, these are my slaves, you are dead. Come take me if you can.
I'd like to bounce some ideas around for where to go with this. They'll probably want to track him down as they'll find out that slaves/prisoner were taken. Anyhow, let me know what you think.
The campaign is set in the Silver Marches, they've been geas quested by Klauth and will be/are chaffing from having to do his bidding but that whole situation should be resolved by the time I'm ready for the Hilltop encounter.
For detailed info the link in my sig connects to my campaign diary.
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