MAY 11, 2024

Game Mastering, TTRPG

<aside> 📒 The party entered the ancient city and was assaulted by its guardian

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The party scaled the mountain Lerion and got to the ancient city, sealed millennia ago.

Payoffs:

• the seals were disturbed by the treasure hunters some 30 years ago. The party found corpse of one of them
  • those “sleep paralysis demons” drove villagers of the mountain mad
• the entity was summoned by the ‘Ygirothians but turned out to be a bane of itself. So they run outside and get slaughtered
• the natives are dream-projections of the Neanderthals, persisting in the Dreamlands after being slaughtered by humans in the waking world.

Session ideas:

• combat through flash-backs: whatever was left of the corpse’s soul fought the “paralysis demon” and unraveled some of its memories.
  • a god (Great Ones) blessed amulet?
• Stage one: it summons three figures from the party’s past?
• Flashback one: the trio of adventurers talks about breaking the seal
  • the god-blessed amulet
• Stage two:
  • the consumed Neanderthals start rushing
• Flashback two: a group of shamans calls forth for help, seeing the siege taking them. ‘“The twisted” have found us once again!’. Their gods did not answer, so they decided to break some rules and call to what they were told to be afraid of.
• Stage three:
• Flashback three: a family of Neanderthals, exhausted, runs off, pursued by the “twisted”. Most of their tribe was dead and they go into an uneasy sleep. In the sleep, they are transported to the dreamlands - until their “spiritual umbilical cords” are cut off. And they never woke up.

Lore: