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mix. But perhaps the Golgari Swarm's most dangerous G O LGARI ASSI G NMENTS
quality is the widespread confidence among its mem-
d6 Assignment
bers that it will survive any catastrophe that might befall
1 Find a valuable item believed lost in the undercity.
the surface world. This certainty means Golgari villains
will stop at nothing in an attempt to provoke such an 2 Retrieve a corpse in the undercity.
event- triggering a virulent plague, causing explosive 3 Collect a sample of a fungus in the undercity.
plant growth, or inciting the other guilds into open war, 4 Steal something that is important to another guild.
for example. Over the course of a campaign, a group 5 Kill an outspoken enemy of the Golgari.
of adventurers might foil Golgari plans to accomplish
6 Position a fungus so that its spores will spread into
all these things, or the characters might be constantly
a populated area and drive the inhabitants out.
struggling against one ongoing disaster.
For example, the characters might spend the early
OTHER ADVENTURE HOOKS
part of the campaign resolving disputes between guilds,
unaware that the Golgari are actually the instigators of The Golgari Adventure Hooks table offers ideas for addi-
those conflicts. Perhaps incidental to these missions, tional adventures themed around the Golgari Swarm.
they also face a spore druid who is in the early stages
of testing a terrible plague. Then, as the campaign G OLCA RI ADV ENTURE HOOKS
reaches higher levels, the plague breaks out again, this
d6 Adventure Hook
time spreading rapidly. The crisis heightens tensions
Citizens who die in a particular neighborhood
among the other guilds, especially when food sources
sprout fungal growths and rise as zombies, then
are th reatened. At the climax of the campaign, the
heroes must defuse conflict among the guilds while shamble toward the undercity.
finding a way to get at the druid at the cause of it all, 2 Shriekers sprout throughout a neighborhood.
who is locked in an undercity mansion waiting out the 3 Swarms ofinsects under the control of a Golgari
catastrophe. shaman (see chapter 6 for the stat block) terrorize
a neighborhood.
GOLGARI CHARACTER GOALS
4 Poor people who subsist on Golgari food contract
Characters who are members of the Golgari Swarm a dangerous, contagious magical infection.
might be sent on missions into the undercity, particu- S Several kraul have moved into an old tenement and
larly jobs that involve retrieval or salvage. The secretive
are making their neighbors nervous.
agents of the Ochran are more likely to pursue goals
6 A beloved statue, long assumed to be the image of
that call for theft or even assassination, while shamans
some forgotten community hero, suddenly returns
could participate in the swarm's work of "reclamation"
to life after being petrified for a hundred years.
in surface neighborhoods. The Golgari Assignments
table reflects this range of possibilities. An assignment
can also serve as a side quest for Golgari adventurers
to undertake while pursuing a larger goal with a mixed-
guild party.

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