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Old 05-05-2022, 12:17 PM   #645
ajardoor
 
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The Cage of Truth and Consequences

Okay, a little idea for a mega-dungeon/setting.
First, we have two empires at war;
The Dragon Empire, which is basically Not!Fantasy!Imperial China.
And more relevant to the players, The Truth League, which is basically Fantasy!NotMedieval India except their state region is Zoatharianism, especially the bit where Truth is extremely important to their culture (to the point where lying can get you the death penalty in some cases).

The player characters have been imprisoned by The Truth League and got tossed into their favorite giant state prison, The Cage of Truth and Consequences. The Cage is a massive facility stationed all across a few islands with features like big mining operations (prison labor!), abandoned buildings, metal cages the size of hotels, farming operations (more prison labor!), hidden tunnels and the remains of what used to be here before the prison got built over it. The Dragon Empire also certainly has spies infiltrating here, not to mention whoever The Truth League captured and put here.
The Cage of Truth and Consequences is basically the mega-dungeon the players explore and fight in, and live in too (there is an effective "town" area, for the players to rest and buy stuff, in the form of a relatively tame prisoner block with guards who are just corrupt enough to okay a black market and services).

The various wings of The Cage are basically mega-dungeon "levels" or areas ("This is where we dump the political prisoners, this is where we dump the foreign drug cartel."). The constant threats to the players are a natural outcome of the usual pressure cooker environment that is a prison. The "monsters" are guards, inmates, loose wildlife, and other annoyances. Traps are a combination of crappy infrastructure, inmates getting creative and paranoid, guards trying to keep the prisoners out of restricted areas, forgotten infrastructure from before the prison was built, and intentional sabotage by Dragon Empire agents. The "treasure" is stuff like stolen supplies, contraband smuggled in, artefacts from the forgotten ruins of what came before, weird stuff mined out, raided small armories, improvised gear fashioned from magical creature corpses and salvage from crashed ships (air or water).
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