Food for Naught

Overview

PC's are eating at a local establishment where nobles and dignitaries frequent. The food is poisoned!

Trigger

The PC's are eating at the establishment, there are also several local nobles currently at the establishment.

Description

Your meal arrives and you start eating when you notice a man fall from his chair seated at the table to your side. The man sitting next to him grabs his throat and starts to choke. You look down at your food and wonder?

Dm notes

The food is intended to poison the local nobles and kill them. If the PC's make their save they are not effected by the poison (if they are high level then make the save with a minus). If they fail the save then they start to choke and in 10+1d10 rounds they will die. It will be easy if the party has a cleric in the group, otherwise you might want to put a church down the street that has the ability to save them. But make it cost them! Either a favor to the church or a large amount of money. (NOTE: This is not intended to kill the PC's just a fun encounter, but stupid thinking never stops death!) If they also save the Nobels that have eaten the poison they will reward the party with a 100gp (total) and ask them to find the would-be killers.

Key

If the PC's save the nobles they will ask/hire them to search out who poisoned the food. Or the PC's may think that it was an arch villian that tried to poison them.

Posted by

Joseph DuBois
Last updated: Wed Jan 03 1996 wmh