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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3053178" data-attributes="member: 704"><p><strong>Same way you bring in any other conspiracy</strong></p><p></p><p>There is no shortage of means for people to use magical disguises to avoid such inconveniences as looking more like a snake than a person. Just have the players encounter a Yuan-Ti using such means and do the reveal at a dramatically appropriate moment.</p><p></p><p>From that point, just pick some adequately nefarious plot for the players to thwart, or better yet, a nefarious plot that you can dupe the players into carrying out.</p><p></p><p>I suggest going with Orphans and an internal faction conflict within the Yuan-Ti. Its not hard to do either.</p><p></p><p>First, lets say we have a Yuan-Ti running an orphanage, and using it as a front to give the children to other Yuan-Ti who then transport the unfortunate but cute little children to the Yuan-Ti lair for slaughter and consumption, or slavery or whatever. He does this through human go-betweens who 'adopt' the children and then take them to another Yuan-Ti, who then does whatever sort of atrocity you see fit.</p><p></p><p>Another Yuan-Ti who is a rival to the one behind the Orphanage scam wants to have his rival killed. So he approaches the players in disguise and tells the party that he suspects that the head of the orphanage is running a slavery operation. The players investigate, catch the slavers, confront the leader of the orphanage, and suddnly its "OMG snakes", and a good time is had by all.</p><p></p><p>After the party takes down the head of the orphanage, the Yuan-Ti that hired them can then jump them when they are injured and if he wins, sell them to the other Yuan-Ti. But make sure you have a way for the Yuan-Ti that manipulated the players to escape. If the players win and kill him, the Yuan-Ti plot will be harder to continue from that point.</p><p></p><p>END COMMUNICATION</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Zardoz, post: 3053178, member: 704"] [b]Same way you bring in any other conspiracy[/b] There is no shortage of means for people to use magical disguises to avoid such inconveniences as looking more like a snake than a person. Just have the players encounter a Yuan-Ti using such means and do the reveal at a dramatically appropriate moment. From that point, just pick some adequately nefarious plot for the players to thwart, or better yet, a nefarious plot that you can dupe the players into carrying out. I suggest going with Orphans and an internal faction conflict within the Yuan-Ti. Its not hard to do either. First, lets say we have a Yuan-Ti running an orphanage, and using it as a front to give the children to other Yuan-Ti who then transport the unfortunate but cute little children to the Yuan-Ti lair for slaughter and consumption, or slavery or whatever. He does this through human go-betweens who 'adopt' the children and then take them to another Yuan-Ti, who then does whatever sort of atrocity you see fit. Another Yuan-Ti who is a rival to the one behind the Orphanage scam wants to have his rival killed. So he approaches the players in disguise and tells the party that he suspects that the head of the orphanage is running a slavery operation. The players investigate, catch the slavers, confront the leader of the orphanage, and suddnly its "OMG snakes", and a good time is had by all. After the party takes down the head of the orphanage, the Yuan-Ti that hired them can then jump them when they are injured and if he wins, sell them to the other Yuan-Ti. But make sure you have a way for the Yuan-Ti that manipulated the players to escape. If the players win and kill him, the Yuan-Ti plot will be harder to continue from that point. END COMMUNICATION [/QUOTE]
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