Apocalypto: 101 Apocalyptic Adventure Ideas

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#1

yellowdingo

Apr 07, 2010 1:15:24

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The World as we know it is comming to an end...




1. Rumors are the Devil's Tool


"I'm telling you I smelt it." Farmer Derran huddled over warm ale in front of him and stared at his fellow farmers. "It was the foul scent of a fiend."
Anek the Turnip farmer leaned in.
"If it is, then a Second Demon War may be apon us. There would not be a fiend inside the Wards unless it was the case." The others nodded in agreement.

Briefing: Rumors spread in a small community of a Second Demon War. These rumors spead across the realm bringing instability and paranoia. Adventurers with no official authority (and Strangers) are attacked and treated with suspicion.

2. The Abbey Falls

Father Stahl knocked and waited for a Nun to greet him and bring him to the Abbess. The Abbey loomed above him in silence...
Someone should have come. He knocked again and waited.
It was growing dark when his impatience got the better of him and he knocked a third time. A Small postern seemed unlocked and creaked open slightly.
Father Stahl stooped to make entry.
Inside, the halls were dark and silent. There at the far end of the entry corridor was a single nun standing in silent shadow.
"Hello? It is I! Father Stahl. Is the Abbess here?" The Nun seemed to float slowly toward him. Her face was shadowed in utter blackness and only red glowing eyes looked out from that darkness.
The hairs on Father Stahl's neck bristled in awareness.
There was something very wrong here.


Briefing: An Abbey is no longer communicating or visiting the surrounding communities. All the Nuns in an Abbey have become undead revenants. This horror is soon unleashed on surrounding communities if Not investigated and dealt with.



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#2

yellowdingo

Apr 07, 2010 23:24:24

3. Hammerfall

Ganth watched from crows perch as the star fell into the sea. The Horizon at site of impact seemed to bulge oddly before spreading evenly with the fringe.
"Captain?" A weary old sailor looked up from the Deck.
"What is it Ganth?" Captain Fraks was tired. Hopefully this wasnt some raider.
"Starfall Captain. South East. The Horizon bulged momentarily before settling." Ganth could still see a slight glow where it fell.
"What!" Tidal surge. It had to be.
"Hard to port!" Hopefully they could make it back to Harbour long before the Tsunami hits.


Briefing: An Asteroid impacts out in the ocean throwing up a Tidal Wave that will destroy every coastal community in a four thousand mile radius. 

#3

yellowdingo

Apr 08, 2010 21:53:57

4. Plague Ship


They had watched the old ship pass through the heads of the harbour and make for the docks. Only when it failed to reduce sail and call for roapmen to be sent out to tow it into place did they realize that something was wrong. It continued straight in and hammered into the docks tearing up the timbers.
Dockworkers who had moments ago fled the impact now scurried to board the vessel tangled in timbers.
Dabney the Hookman held the edge of the ship with his hook pike while others strugled aboard.
He stared at the Pilot lashed to the Helm. There was something wrong with him. Then he heard it.
"Plague! Theyve got Plague!" Men poured off the floating coffin and others on the dock ran.
The Dockmaster called for Roapmen withgrapnels to tow it out past the heads and fire it. Men with long prybars struggled to break it loose of the Dock.

Briefing: A ship with a dead and dying crew suffering from the Plague sails into harbour and crashes into the docks.

5. The Wagonmaster

Aelic the Trader coughed with the flu as he halted his oxen drawn wagon at the signal of the watchman blocking his entry.
Aelic handed over the usual entry fee of eight coppers before he was waved in.
Watchman Francos slipped the coins into his pocket before ruturning to his stoop against the outer wall. A barely audible thud and one of the Watchmen inside the gate gave a cry.
The Wagonmaster had collapsed on the dirt road inside the gate.
Francos leaned over the trader.
"Are you all right?" Aelic coughed up blood in a contaminated spray of disease.

Briefing: A Trader arrives in town carrying a flu that will kill most of the population within a week.

#4

Grimbus

Apr 11, 2010 16:54:39

A dimension door opens and a 30 megaton atomic weapon falls from the sky. It lands in the mud and fails to explode. Everything goes well until the halfling cleric thief  (wisdom 4) decides to remove the casing with Thor's hammer and Gloves of Storm Giant Strength to investigate the ticking noise.

                                                                      Boom
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#5

yellowdingo

Apr 12, 2010 4:00:01

A dimension door opens and a 30 megaton atomic weapon falls from the sky. It lands in the mud and fails to explode. Everything goes well until the halfling cleric thief  (wisdom 4) decides to remove the casing with Thor's hammer and Gloves of Storm Giant Strength to investigate the ticking noise.

                                                                      Boom
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                                                             Boom Boom Boom
                                                        Boom Boom Boom Boom
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                                                 Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom                                                              




Dimension Door? Wouldnt that be a Gate Spell...?