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Originally Posted by Yssa
Achemists 'R' Us: The local Alchemists' Guild is low on supplies. Specifically, they are out of acid, the key ingredient to some of their most profitable products (people in this area seem oddly predisposed to lobbing acid-grenades at anything that moves). Far to the west is a swamp, no doubt rife with horde pygmies ( Monsters 36) and Muck Elementals, which is known to be a breeding ground for acid spiders. Sure, you could just go there and hack them to bits for their acid glands, but how much more fun (and/or profitable) would it be to capture some (by traps or by magic) to slowly "milk" acid from their fangs ensuring potentially limitless (albeit dangerous and ravenous) stream of income. . .
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This also works for "and the above explains why we need a bunch of adventurers to go into the guild basement and clean up the leftovers from this too-clever scheme".