One Night Stands: Jungle Ruins of Madaro Shanti
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The Jungle Ruins of Madaro-Shanti
Another of the One Night Stand Series¸ Jungle Ruins of Madaro-Shanti is an adventure for a party of 4-8 characters of fourth through seventh level. A century ago or more¸ when the town of Cholagadi was just a frontier fort on the coast¸ Madaro-Shanti was the most powerful city-state in the entire Ambicuaria Jungle. Its citizens were highly advanced in the arts of magic¸ and even retained some vestiges of magical quasi-technologies perhaps more ancient than humankind itself. Their prosperity made for jealous enemies¸ none more covetous than the powerful and sorcerous Kiengaa Tribe of the deep jungles. The Kiengaa plotted against Madaro-Shanti¸ making dark pacts with the monstrous ape-centaurs known as the Borsin¸ and with the monkey-faced¸ snake-like monsters known as the Hanu-Naga. Once this terrible¸ unnatural army was gathered¸ the Kiengaa and their allies laid siege to Madaro-Shanti itself.
As the walls of Madaro-Shanti fell¸ and the invaders swarmed into the city¸ the high priest of the city closed himself within the royal shrine¸ praying to all the gods for intervention. Yet none of the gods answered his prayers until the last - and that was Ojala¸ whom the people of Madaro-Shanti knew as a god of evil and treachery. A deadly bargain was struck that night¸ and true to his promise¸ Ojala caused a horrible wasting disease to strike the besieging army. But the full extent of the evil god's treachery became clear when the surviving people of Madaro-Shanti themselves began to succumb to the same disease which had slain their enemies. Within a fortnight¸ all the people of Madaro-Shanti had either died of the plague or scattered into the depths of the predator-filled jungle.
In only a few years¸ the city was overgrown by the jungle and fell into ruin¸ but the magical disease was to have one final consequence. Not only did the contagion affect the Kiengaa and the Madaro-Shanti - it also infected the mind of a powerful nature-spirit that inhabited the surrounding jungles. The nature-spirit Cho-Odaa¸ driven mad by the disease and hungry for vengeance against all humankind¸ has discovered the means to exact a terrible reckoning
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