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<blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6876715" data-attributes="member: 25818"><p>Somehow, despite the fact that I have been running D&D continuously for years now, I missed running this the first time around. Nevertheless, I'm running it today for a local group, and so I read it yesterday.</p><p></p><p>[sblock]My one issue is that, in a world where we have people being sacrificed to open portals every Friday, it seemed jarring to me that this particular one required the <em>corruption</em> for four monks. Why? They're nothing special, and corruption is time-consuming. I have no problem with the nature of the golden bubbles -- if they're going to corrupt the monks, then <em>of course</em> they need some easy way inside their minds. But why corrupt them‽ It seems illogical.</p><p></p><p>While I was ruminating last night, I came up with an idea. Maybe the monks are genasi, with a strong link to the Elemental Princes? Maybe they could (if they were able) trace their descent to Yan-C-Bin, millennia ago? Then the corruption makes some sort of sense -- Yan-C-Bin isn't just trying to open a permanent portal to the Elemental Plane of AIr, he's trying to link himself to it in such a way that he can't be banished back home. He has seen (well, not personally, but he heard the news from underlings) about what happened with Tiamat, and he doesn't want to be sent back -- if he can "fool" Toril into thinking he "belongs" there, that anchors him in reality in a way that isn't so easy to undo. This way requires him to use his descendants, but he has to corrupt them body and soul to do so. He uses four monks to maximize how "much" of himself he will be able to keep in Faerun.</p><p></p><p>I would also modify Periwinkle Shin's statements, to the effect that all four are orphans who were brought to the Monastery of the Yellow Rose -- this was the work of Yan-C-Bin's agents decades ago, scouring the countryside for Yan-C-Bin's descendants in order to enable this undertaking.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Anyway, if you run it at home as part of an ongoing campaign, I would use this method to tie up some of the vague parts of the backstory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RealAlHazred, post: 6876715, member: 25818"] Somehow, despite the fact that I have been running D&D continuously for years now, I missed running this the first time around. Nevertheless, I'm running it today for a local group, and so I read it yesterday. [sblock]My one issue is that, in a world where we have people being sacrificed to open portals every Friday, it seemed jarring to me that this particular one required the [I]corruption[/I] for four monks. Why? They're nothing special, and corruption is time-consuming. I have no problem with the nature of the golden bubbles -- if they're going to corrupt the monks, then [I]of course[/I] they need some easy way inside their minds. But why corrupt them‽ It seems illogical. While I was ruminating last night, I came up with an idea. Maybe the monks are genasi, with a strong link to the Elemental Princes? Maybe they could (if they were able) trace their descent to Yan-C-Bin, millennia ago? Then the corruption makes some sort of sense -- Yan-C-Bin isn't just trying to open a permanent portal to the Elemental Plane of AIr, he's trying to link himself to it in such a way that he can't be banished back home. He has seen (well, not personally, but he heard the news from underlings) about what happened with Tiamat, and he doesn't want to be sent back -- if he can "fool" Toril into thinking he "belongs" there, that anchors him in reality in a way that isn't so easy to undo. This way requires him to use his descendants, but he has to corrupt them body and soul to do so. He uses four monks to maximize how "much" of himself he will be able to keep in Faerun. I would also modify Periwinkle Shin's statements, to the effect that all four are orphans who were brought to the Monastery of the Yellow Rose -- this was the work of Yan-C-Bin's agents decades ago, scouring the countryside for Yan-C-Bin's descendants in order to enable this undertaking.[/sblock] Anyway, if you run it at home as part of an ongoing campaign, I would use this method to tie up some of the vague parts of the backstory. [/QUOTE]
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