Role-play trimmings for dungeon based activity

1. Role-play trimmings for dungeon based activity

   #1

   I don't often run dungeons, but I am about to include one as a major part of a current story.
   
   Here are a few ideas I have come up with for keeping role-playing and drama to the fore:
   
   Background: The PC's are investigating a ruin discovered near a community. The amount they can explore each day is limited by the work of excavation. Each night they retire to an encampment of workers and supervisory knights near the dig.
   
   Out of dungeon role-play events:
   
   1. The PC's awake to find the corpse of a creature from the ruin in their bed/tent. Someone doesn't want them there.
   
   2. An eccentric noble claming to own the land the site is on comes and watches the work and asks many questions. His interest does not seem entirely noble.
   
   3. A local knight attempts to molest a young woman near the encampment.
   
   4. Mercenaries arrive offering to assist with the dig.
   
   5. A mysterious woman is seen in the darkness watching the area but dissapears whenever approached. That night the encampment is filled with mist and a vast pack of wolves attack.
   
   6. When the PC's go to the church for healing they discover the priest has been possessed by a very malevolent spirit which tries to destroy them.
   
   7. The inquistion arrive and attempt to arrest everyone concerned with the dig.
   
   As always the strength of these ideas lies in the vividness of delivery - naturally each is merely the germ of a more expansive story. However hopefully this will both provide variety during the dungeon exploration and, importantly, greatly raise anxiety about what they will eventually discover in the ruin...

2. Role-play trimmings for dungeon based activity

   #2

   Oooo. Mind if I steal some of those?
   
   
   A couple more ideas
   
   8: A valuable artifact is discovered in the ruin. When the PCs wake up, it is gone. A foreman on the dig is implicated.
   
   Or you could go Elizabeth Peters (Must read for anyone who runs archaeological adventures)
   
   9: A member of the party is murdered (Or if resurrection isn't easy, a major figure on the dig). The killer's agenda is unknown.

3. Role-play trimmings for dungeon based activity

   #3

   I certainly like number 9 - cheers! One of the major villians 'on site' is masquarading as a humble and slightly incoherent squire to a knight, hiding his true power.

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