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MenacingZiggurat

Menacing Ziggurat

This seven-tiered structure rises above the city like a slumbering giant. Screams and unhealthy sounds may sometimes be heard within, and only the bravest will pass near it. Its worshipers are never observed entering or leaving, and are heavily cloaked and masked besides. Anyone could be one of them. None in the City know why the Overlord tolerates its unhealthy presence.

Hooks

• The temple merely maintains its ominous reputation to keep thieves from plundering the wealth hidden within.
• The temple houses a secret service of the King, who secretly watch the city for insurrection and treason.
• The temple houses a blood cult who sacrifice captives and engage in unpleasant rituals to please their dark god.
• The temple houses a cult who have imprisoned a dark god beneath the massive stone bulk of the structure. The sacrifices are necessary to ensure that it never wakes.
• While infiltrating the temple, you see a comrade, a friend who should have no business here. Has he been one of them all along? Is it something else wearing your friend's face?

People

One, high priest of the ziggurat (Could Be Anyone 5, Dagger Up His Sleeve 4, Poison in His Words 3, No Influence Outside the Temple 1)

Slumbering Dark God (Maddening Countenance 5, Hungering Maw 4, Dreams the Truth 3, Immobile While Appeased 1; 10 chi)

Complications

Sneaking past a gathered ritual (challenge 3, 1 round); overhearing their words while remaining hidden (challenge 5, 1 round); sudden appearance of candlelight around the next corner (mooks 1/4 to evade or subdue); dagger-bearing cultists (mooks 1/15).

Color

Lit only by occasional candles. Heavily cloaked cultists appearing from nowhere. Unnatural quiet. Glimpses of bizzare rituals in rooms you pass. A great stone block of an altar under the sky at the ziggurat's peak. A heavily barred door in the structure's depths which may hide its secrets.

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