Every year around and on Halloween I used to run a horror adventure with my old group. We had lots of fun and I even had people tell me a few times that I "invoked" nightmares. I didn't run one this year because we currently game at a local hobby store (Lightspeed Hobbes on rt 6) and besides limited time, I couldn't set up the ambient atmosphere correctly (music, lighting, etc..). Though I did insert a little encounter to set up for next year or sometime in the future. Hopefully we will be still playing the current campaign. I am running the Cyradon starting adventures and ran a little encounter at the end of the first module.
The characters got debriefed by Grayson and went to go get some rest in the camp. They encountered a lady who was crying about something. She ran off and they followed/tracked her to her "nicely" set up clothing shop. Upon questioning her she mentioned a keepsake she had when they came through the portal and it is now missing. The characters found something that sounded like the item she described in the building of the climax of part one. But they had to go get it from the junk pile where they were debriefed. They returned to the shop only to find it was as dilapidated as the rest of the buildings and no one had been in there in eons. They made their way inside to discover everything was still in the same place it was when they first visited the place earlier, but only in a decaying state. They found a skeleton of a woman in, from what they could tell, the same clothing the lady was wearing. So they took the keepsake and attached it to it's partner on a necklace the skeleton was wearing. Then a ghost appeared behind them resembling the lady, she told them they now had her blessing for releasing her. They encountered a priest/mage type the next day who was looking for the "keepsake", he told the characters that he thinks that it was 1/2 of a holy symbol to a long lost and forgotten dark goddess. Of whom he thinks was the goddess of nightmares.
So, who did they really encounter and what did she really mean by the characters having her "blessing"?
Until next time........
Bruce
