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Take a leap of faith into the Hall of Molten Dreams
🕑 Added 2022-07-15 23:47:58 +0000 UTCTraveler! Beware of the influence that charismatic leaders can bring upon the world. In this adventure, a foreigner mage whose charisma attracts all kinds of low-lives and pariahs has started a congregation that worships himself. He unearthed a strange ruin where he found a ritual that can split the mind and let people permanently move to the Realm of Dreams.
While the utility of such a spell is a matter of discussion, the mage has promised his followers that this permanent trip is the secret to eternal life and permanent happiness. They follow him and try to please him so that he performs the ritual and lets them travel to the oneiroscape. The local authorities offer a hefty reward to a group of adventurers capable of rooting the evil out of the temple while saving the lives of as many townsfolk as possible.
This is a level 5 delve-adventure that features dungeon-crawling in dangerous a dangerous dungeon, an ancient temple where a charismatic leader has started an ungodly congregation, and a strange ritual that can split the mind from the body and let the soul meander in the Realm of Dreams! Here's a low-def preview of this illustration:
Here's a close-up of the middle chamber where six stone enclosures contain a viscous liquid that used to be the people that now wander the Dream World. Their bodies liquify and become an unstable arcane substance.
The Ritual of Dreams can be performed on the dungeon's upper level. The participant must jump down into the spikes in the dungeon. If the mage performs the ritual correctly, the mind travels to the Dream Realm while the body becomes an arcane focus for future spells.
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