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The green valley [45x50] and Tunnel under Vienna [50x70]
🕑 Added 2024-05-15 13:36:47 +0000 UTCQuest idea for the Green Valley (with the dragon bones)
The value of dragon bones has skyrocketed due to new alchemical uses. Two scholar friends, a man and a woman, have commissioned our heroes to accompany them to this remote place after they found evidence that a long time ago an extremely powerful dragon was seriously wounded in a battle and is said to have fled to this place . The scholars are certain that the curse that struck the dragon must also have killed it. The surrounding areas are deserted and empty, nothing dares to come to this place. When our heroes arrive here and see the skeleton, they will probably be happy that they don't have to fight an older dragon. But while our heroes, under the guidance of the female scholar, begin to break open the bones and extract the particularly valuable bone marrow, some strange things take place.
- The heroes feel like they are being watched from the cave entrances.
- There are already some holes in the dragon's bones.
- Anyone with particularly good hearing will hear a cracking sound coming from the dragon's bones. A good Investigation roll will reveal that something is moving inside the dragon bones.
- There is a smell of decay throughout the valley, even though the bare bones have been here for centuries.
Meanwhile, the other scholar begins to make a few test potions in a small pot to determine the quality of the find. At first he will just smell the fumes, then he will discreetly start modifying his potion and then he will slowly drink it down, spoon by spoon (with a good Perception check, the heroes will notice that there are some twitches going through his body. But as a game master, I would try to distract them with the movements inside the dragon and in the cave entrances, so that they believe that the real danger comes from there.) Eventually the male scholar's eyes become piercing lizard eyes and his tongue splits. The will and power of the great dragon have survived his death in his bones and now he has finally been able to lure a human being here who can initiate the incantations for his rebirth.
The scholar will now walk around the dragon, murmuring incantations. At the point when the heroes finally realize this and react, the dragon's spirit will summon the creatures of this valley that have long been under its influence to stop them. Huge parasitic worms with lizard-shaped snouts and teeth burrow out of the bones. Other animals stream out of the caves (e.g. large lizard bats, goats and sheep with dragon characteristics), which primarily use fire blasts in long-range combat.
There are now two ways to get out of here alive.
-The heroes kill the scholar to interrupt the ritual. (His friend is strictly against this)
-The heroes and the female scholar perform a counter-ritual. As the dragon's spirit slowly moves into its bone body and flesh forms on its body, its spirit can be redirected to another creature that is within the bones. Namely a small specimen of these boneworms.
If the latter succeeds, the scholar is saved and the heroes are free to decide what to do with this worm, which contains the spirit of a powerful dragon (perhaps it can even speak as a worm and be used for other things later in the campaign)
I wish a lot of fun with this ideas and my maps! :)
-Your AtaraxianBear
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