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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5806840" data-attributes="member: 54707">Tonight after watching The Thing with my  daughter (the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing) I had a sort of  bizarre and I think horrific and creepy idea for a series of adventures, or a  campaign.    On one of the worlds of my game there is an ancient  city, long deserted, and which was partially buried over time. It was said to  have been built by a race of true Giants (and master architects and builders) at  the base of a mountain, and there is a huge carving (for lack of a better term)  that had been partially carved into one of the mountain sides.   The city is full of interesting constructs but is still  considered extremely dangerous (and because Giants are so feared in this world),  and because the city is long deserted and considered haunted no one will  approach it. The city was said to have been built by Giants but under the  direction of a still much older race that supposedly disappeared and not much  was known about them, or at least not much information has survived to this  day.   Anyway, a few weeks ago (in game time) a huge comet was  said to have fallen from the sky and smashed into one end of this huge, dead  city. Debris was thrown for miles, earthquakes occurred, aftershocks are still  common, and a dark cloud rose above the area that has yet to fully dissipate.  The comet was of course not a comet at all but a large spacecraft. Much of the  craft survived the impact (due to construction and technological advantages) but  many of the creatures aboard were killed. And the craft was a sort of storage  vehicle for various creatures that were either being held captive, experimented  upon, or both.   After the crash many of the crew were killed by the  escaping creatures. So far the events are similar to Expedition to the  Barrier Peaks. But at this point the story changes. Aboard the  craft was an Alien (from the film, but created not from a human host  but from something altogether different and with different abilities than the  film Alien), a Vagr (from the Predator film, but again a cross  bred version of the Predator), the Thing (also from the films), a  Mind Flayer, and a previously unknown being that in game terms would be  a Demon.   The Party (your players) are sent in to investigate the  site where the comet was said to have fallen not knowing that the comet was  actually a spacecraft or that these five creatures are in the area. The city  itself is also full of both physical monsters like Chimera of different kinds  and of spectral beings like Wraiths. There are devices, artifacts, and even  relics left over from the construction of the city and from the age when the  city was alive.   Some being or force has somehow gained the ability to  control the minds of the Five Creatures (Alien,  Predator, Thing, Mind Flayer, and Demon) and all five creatures/beings are  operating under the illusion/assumption that they are a single party of all of  the same type creatures. The Mind Flayer believes the other four are Mind  Flayers, the Alien believes the other four are Aliens, etc. The controlling  force is using these five creatures as a patrolling/security/expeditionary force  to keep others from approaching the crash site and the city. In effect they act  as a Party of NPCs in opposition to the Player Character Party seeking to get to  the crash site and explore what's left of the city.  What this controlling force is not even the crew members  of the spacecraft know, and the survivors among them are also being hunted down  and exterminated by the Five Creatures (and maybe by others as well).     The crew of the spaceship had previously been contacted  and directed to the city believing they were approaching the Dead City to  capture and extract some of the creatures in it for their work, but as they  approached the city an energy beam (or was it sorcery, or magic, a psychic  force, or even something supernatural - they do not know at this point?) shot  out from the supposedly long dead city or perhaps the mountainside, disabled  their craft without causing any apparent physical damage, and caused it to  crash.   The result was a wrecked ship and the death or escape of  most of the subjects aboard.   Who caused the crash, or how, is unknown.    The crew was able to prevent the Five Creatures from  gaining access to weapons, so far, but the five creatures have not needed them  so far. Each uses their own natural abilities to hunt anything they feel led to  hunt and kill. The Thing uses it's abilities, the Alien its abilities, the Mind  Flayer his. And so forth. This is of course a series of Adventures/Campaign for  very high level characters.     The Players:   The Player Character Party   The Surviving Crew Members (possible  allies or possibly a severe threat)   The Anti-Party (the Five  Creatures)   The Others - the other subjects of the  spaceship who were either being held or were being experimented  upon   The Chimeras (the Monsters that were  already inhabiting the City, created by unknown means and by unknown  parties)   The Spectral Monsters (the spectral  beings already inhabiting the City)   The Creators - those responsible for  creating the Chimeras inhabiting the City   The Dead Race - at least one member of  the Dead Race who had the giants construct the City still lives   The Ghost of the Last Giant - the ghost  of the Giant who was buried alive by the Dead Race as the cornerstone of the  City   The Unknown Being - the being or force  that is controlling the Five Creatures and maybe some of the other events as  well     The Adventures/Campaign: you may  encounter any group pf Players at any point elsewhere in the Campaign as  well   1. Make your way to the Crash Site while encountering  and surviving, or if possible killing, the Anti-Party    2. Find out what the comet really is while encountering  the surviving crew members   3. Get aboard the space craft and discover whatever you  can, if necessary survive encountering the Others, try to find out what is  actually going on   4. Fight your way through the Chimeras and if you  survive encounter the Ghost of the Last Giant   5. Fight your way through the Spectral monsters while  the dead Race also tries to prevent you from digging up he body of the Last  Giant/Cornerstone of the City - use that body and burial site to discover clues  to some of the devices, artifacts, and relics buried in the city   6. Use the artifacts, devices, and relics to fight or  kill the other players (if necessary) and find the Unknown Being who may or may  not be behind this entire series of events   7. The last adventure will be for the party survivors to  find the Unknown Being, find out exactly what it is doing and how, and go up  against it (if necessary), kill it, or work with it.     The Environments:   The Crash Site and the Spaceship remains   The visible Dead City   The underground/buried Dead City   The Chimera Warrens   The Mountainside   The Keep of the Unknown Being       The PC Party will of course know nothing of any of this  until they begin to have encounters and to piece together what possibly might be  happening as they go along. The only things they will know beforehand will be  that the City was supposedly built by Giants, was the home to a long dead race,  has been in ruins for centuries or even much longer, and that a comet recently  fell into it causing some monsters to flee the city and attack the neighboring  countryside.   Well, that's probably the weirdest set of adventures  I've thought of lately.   And maybe the most lethal. Even with a well equipped,  very powerful, and relatively numerous party I would expect lethal causalities,  depending upon who they can befriend, of between 40 to 70%. Even before the very  last encounters.   Feel free to describe your own Weird, Creepy, and Lethal  Adventure and Campaign Ideas.</blockquote>

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