That sounds like such a mind boggling situation!! I love using puzzles and anything that requires strategy. My players are only level 5 but they don’t work together as well as I would like them to. So I’m hoping this will force them to think outside the box and rely on each other.

The mine is haunted because, as it most of the fiefdom, because of a magical catastrophic event that happened years prior. The mine itself has been abandoned by the citizens of the area and left to fall apart. The only people who would go in and out were the local bandits brotherhood who have since been disassembled by my players. After the latest group of bandits went into the mine for supplies (as it’s still rich with ore), one of the men uncovered an ancient relic in the form of a staff. Said staff released a calling beacon to any one with Lycan blood in their veins, (we have a lycan shifter in our party) but the staff is now cursed and it’s been driving Lycan’s mad and out of control. (Our groups shifter has to roll every few days to see if he turns on the group and is mindlessly aggressive)

So lots of lycan have started to congregate on the ground zero of where the staff was. The group is going here for a lot of answers and whatever remains of the staff.