There will be no new campaign chunk today (or RIGS tomorrow) as I am ill and being very queasy, making it hard to focus and concentrate. So you don have a balnk day, i’ll post a blast-from-the-past type post for the next couple of days,taken from the first volume of Campaign Chunks: The Glass Tower
Glass Tower
Description
The Glass Tower (GT) is, as its name suggests, a tower made of what appears to be a form of glass.
It stands at approximately 40 floors above ground and about the same number below ground. The outside glass is not normal glass as it would shatter under the pressure that all tall buildings suffer from. It is said to resemble an impossibly large glass dagger that has been thrust into the ground.
Apart from the semi-see through glass, what makes the GT standout is that fact that for 1/2 a mile around there is no vegetation. No grass grows, no flowers bloom.
Nothing.
The ground has been tested and nothing found to be wrong with it.
On certain days, about twice a year, the light will hit the GT in such a way as to make it seem like it is a tower of flame and fire.
At the moment the GT is currently uninhabited and unclaimed by any group or government, although scholars and scientists regularly attempt to study and date it. As such it is often used as a neutral meeting ground for conferences and negotiations.
Staying in the GT is a rather unnerving experience that can’t be explained, but the most common experience is that you feel like you are being watched and spied on…
But by whom?
Hooks & Rumours
• The GT is an experiment sent by powers unknown into this universe to study those who live here and their mental processes
• The tower is a natural phenomenon and one scientist has discovered a way to duplicate the process
• The “glass” is in fact a form of diamond. Ten times stronger and worth x1000 more. If ,and only if, you can remove a large enough piece, the wealth from this would be enough to purchase a kingdom
• Attendees at a conference going on at the tower are starting to suffer from extreme paranoia and require the PCs to police it. If this conference fails a rather messy war would break out and no-one is trusting each other
• The PCs are hired to map the lowest levels of the tower. This may seem easy but there is almost no natural light and the paranoia effect seems to get worse the lower you go.
• There is a spot in the tower that never receives any light.
• On certain days of the year, light hitting the tower refracts into a spectrum of light. This lasts for only 30 seconds or so and occurs once a century. The next event is due in almost a week.
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