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Post by goodmush on Aug 22, 2012 12:24:50 GMT -8
I would like to pose a question to everyone on what to put into a temple that my players are heading to. So a little scene setting... it's in the plane of Abyss, on the Layer of knifes, see Eighteen levels of hell: Mountain of Knives. I have put a ten level, five temple and five tower. I have the top floor finished but I am having a mental block on what to put into the rest. So my question, what would you put into this temple that fits the theme of the Mountain of Knives?
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Post by jazzisblues on Aug 22, 2012 13:24:32 GMT -8
Hmmmmm ...
Blade Golems (Might have to make these up) Undead of various kinds that uses bladed weapons Animated weapons (pc's walk into what looks like an armory only to have all of the weapons jump up and attack them)
That's the direction my head goes anyway.
JiB
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Post by Forresst on Aug 22, 2012 15:13:45 GMT -8
you could have a bunch of blade golems like JiB says, and then once the party gets through with those, the blacksmith who made them is in a towering rage because you just killed his pointy, painful little babies.
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Post by Kainguru on Aug 23, 2012 12:05:59 GMT -8
Hell raiser 2 . . . Knives instead of hooks on chains and a variety of demons all cut up and into the whole pain is pleasure thing . . . They don't want to kill the party they want them alive to enjoy the application of their exquisite skills with sharp objects. Rooms upon room of various patrons to their art trapped in personally designed cubicles of torment.
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Post by goodmush on Aug 23, 2012 12:15:52 GMT -8
I love all those ideas, and will be put into this temple. it does give my brain some ideas to start working with. even though I would love to see what else can be come up with. Pointy, painful little babies. My wife loved that one.
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Post by SirGuido on Aug 23, 2012 17:01:39 GMT -8
How about a level, where everything is made out of blades? Like the throne in Game of Thrones? Floors, chairs, walls, etc. Then toss in some difficult to deal with environmental stuff. Like alchemical grease, or oil of slipperiness, or something similar. Then if they fall, bam... damage. And then put them up against monsters and baddies that love to trip. Wizards who cast Grease. Things like that.
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Post by goodmush on Aug 23, 2012 19:03:44 GMT -8
That is a wonderful idea, and it has so many uses.
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Post by greatwyrm on Aug 24, 2012 16:01:51 GMT -8
Whetstone Golems that wander around sharpening everything.
How about a breed of abyssal vampire animal that keeps licking everything, hoping to find traces of shed blood?
A type of demon or spirit that represents all the cocky duelists who claimed they were the best swordsman in their respective worlds, only to die on a blade of someone better.
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Post by rickno7 on Aug 28, 2012 10:18:32 GMT -8
A "disposal" area where sentient blades are ground down into oblivion as punishment for failing their masters, or execution of "holy" blades that have been captured by demons. Perhaps they are tortured; bent, broken, chipped, dipped in acid.
Would be a good way for someone to find and redeem an epic sword.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2012 7:06:26 GMT -8
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Post by muntjack on Sept 9, 2012 9:01:12 GMT -8
Blade traps and puzzles. Could make up some interesting ideas from that so it's not just all combat.
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Post by SirGuido on Sept 9, 2012 19:33:01 GMT -8
How about creating a spanking new brand of ooze? A liquid metal ooze. That forms blades as it glides along its oozy way?
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 18:45:52 GMT -8
OOOH! OOOH! How about a magnet trap? If you trigger the trap either you get stabbed a lot as all the blades go to the magnet, or you get magnetized and now there's big sharp swords and shit flying around all coming straight at you!
You could totally do the ooze thing too. You could either have the ooze be really hot liquified metal (maybe from Igor the Angry Blacksmith's forge!) or liquid metal like mercury, where it isn't really hot or nothin, just... oozey.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2012 22:50:53 GMT -8
Give them a reprieve - a moment of beauty as they enter a magnificent garden/conservatory and a cloud of shiny butterflies swarms and sparkles in the light.
Then, as the butterflies pass amongst them, they realise that the butterflies have razor blades for wings and blood supplements nectar wonderfully.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Sept 15, 2012 8:46:19 GMT -8
Play with cliche's "The Edge of a Knife" have a bridge that is a giant blade (how do they get across ?). You could connect some of the towers with giant blades edge on that guardians could move along the sides of, but the PC's have to CAREFULLY! traverse. Definitely play up the ambiance of such a place sounds of sharpening, grinding, ringing steel. "Splitting hairs" knives so sharp they can cut through time/reality i.e. The Subtle Knife (Golden Compass Books). Someone, somewhere in the temple when the players are getting beat over the head with the whole KNIFE thing should come out and in their best Stu Aussie voice and say "That's not a knife!..." Battle ensues. Check out screenshots of Diablo III and Oblivion. I steal from good video games all the time! Some reason it didn't display that image...too big ? Here's the link. www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/2/5/2/3/1/daedra_s_-_aka_the_elder_scrolls_iv_-_oblivion_argonauts.jpg
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