I think the point stands. Nothing was coming out of the mines while the brain eaters were in charge. Now there's new supply in the market and new demand competing for equipment. A lose/lose for someone who considered themselves to have cornered the local market. Bad competition is good adventure fodder.Prak_Anima wrote:It's not a new find, they cleared a mind flayer out of a mining town after the mind flayer had killed everyone, so they just assumed control and brought in new miners, the town already mined star metal.npc310 wrote:Maybe these mafioso are really the stooges of a nearby lord who has made his fortune in the metals market. With their new find, the PCs may be upsetting the delicate balance and costing this guy a steady income of profits.
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The single mind flayer had the mine for all of a week, try to keep up man.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
First you've mentioned of the timeframe. Pardon me while I go suck a barrel of cocks. 
New old angle: bad competitor masterminded the town's mind flayer problem in the first place. Maybe not directly, he just arranged for rumors to spread that something of great arcane/divine/psionic/sexual/whocares power had been discovered in the mine. "Trouble" came around, and eventually the illithid proved to be the bandit that broke the town's back. Now that the PCs have cleaned up the mess, bad competitor is still trying to get a monopoly by any means necessary, and will redouble his efforts to shut the place down until he's ready to move in and take it over himself.
New old angle: bad competitor masterminded the town's mind flayer problem in the first place. Maybe not directly, he just arranged for rumors to spread that something of great arcane/divine/psionic/sexual/whocares power had been discovered in the mine. "Trouble" came around, and eventually the illithid proved to be the bandit that broke the town's back. Now that the PCs have cleaned up the mess, bad competitor is still trying to get a monopoly by any means necessary, and will redouble his efforts to shut the place down until he's ready to move in and take it over himself.
That's possible. Basically the angle I went with was that some particularly religiously crazy mind flayers believe that they are the fallen descendents of, essentially, mind flayer angels, the star spawn, and thanks to thousands of years of cultural drift and word meaning changes, that "star spawn" refers to them literally being the spawn of stars and hatching from meteors, and, hey, a nice, big meteor just landed, so the crazy mind flayer zealot went and gained access to it and killed everyone.
So it's possible that word was passed by an erstwhile competitor of the mine.
So it's possible that word was passed by an erstwhile competitor of the mine.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.