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<blockquote data-quote="jayoungr" data-source="post: 6859494" data-attributes="member: 6702445"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Chapter 2</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> <strong>aka "The Party Blows an Infiltration Mission"</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Governor Nighthill asked the group if they would investigate the cultists' camp and find out whether they had plans for further raids in the neighborhood. He offered to pay them each two hundred gold pieces. Aric's eyes lit up: "I could almost make a pillow out of that!" A little later, a young monk also asked them to find and rescue his master, Leosin Erlanthar.</p><p></p><p>The group set out and followed the wagon tracks across country to the east. After a couple of hours, they came across some mercenaries and kobolds roasting chickens over a fire. The PCs surprised the stragglers, killing most of them and scaring off the rest.</p><p></p><p>Night began to fall as they continued to follow the cart tracks. Eventually, they came to an area where the road ran between two high bluffs. Suspecting an ambush, they attempted to sneak up the sides of the bluffs but were spotted. A mercenary in a tabard with a red sun challenged them and asked them to identify themselves. The PCs retreated in a hail of arrows, taking only minor damage.</p><p></p><p>Next they saw a box canyon with campfires and a watchtower on the north side. Keeping their distance, they circled around from the north and waited for darkness. Then Ariana climbed the tower's ladder and found four kobolds at the top. She killed them all, but not before they managed to get off a couple of warning blasts on a horn. While the others climbed up behind her, she looked over the edge and saw the camp for the first time: about fifty tents and mud huts, with a big pavilion at one end.</p><p></p><p>They decided to get out of the tower, but by the time they reached the ground, some kobolds had swarmed over the edge of the canyon. Ariana knocked one out, but the other kobolds grabbed it and pulled its body back. The PCs retreated.</p><p></p><p><em>DM Notes: It's rather painful for me to listen to the recordings of chapter 2 and hear everyone getting frustrated as it went wrong. I don't really understand why the players chose to approach it as they did; obviously, there was some mismatch between what I thought I had communicated about the mission and what they heard. I should discuss it with them and see if we can figure out what went wrong, in retrospect.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayoungr, post: 6859494, member: 6702445"] [SIZE=5][B]Chapter 2[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [B]aka "The Party Blows an Infiltration Mission"[/B][/SIZE] Governor Nighthill asked the group if they would investigate the cultists' camp and find out whether they had plans for further raids in the neighborhood. He offered to pay them each two hundred gold pieces. Aric's eyes lit up: "I could almost make a pillow out of that!" A little later, a young monk also asked them to find and rescue his master, Leosin Erlanthar. The group set out and followed the wagon tracks across country to the east. After a couple of hours, they came across some mercenaries and kobolds roasting chickens over a fire. The PCs surprised the stragglers, killing most of them and scaring off the rest. Night began to fall as they continued to follow the cart tracks. Eventually, they came to an area where the road ran between two high bluffs. Suspecting an ambush, they attempted to sneak up the sides of the bluffs but were spotted. A mercenary in a tabard with a red sun challenged them and asked them to identify themselves. The PCs retreated in a hail of arrows, taking only minor damage. Next they saw a box canyon with campfires and a watchtower on the north side. Keeping their distance, they circled around from the north and waited for darkness. Then Ariana climbed the tower's ladder and found four kobolds at the top. She killed them all, but not before they managed to get off a couple of warning blasts on a horn. While the others climbed up behind her, she looked over the edge and saw the camp for the first time: about fifty tents and mud huts, with a big pavilion at one end. They decided to get out of the tower, but by the time they reached the ground, some kobolds had swarmed over the edge of the canyon. Ariana knocked one out, but the other kobolds grabbed it and pulled its body back. The PCs retreated. [I]DM Notes: It's rather painful for me to listen to the recordings of chapter 2 and hear everyone getting frustrated as it went wrong. I don't really understand why the players chose to approach it as they did; obviously, there was some mismatch between what I thought I had communicated about the mission and what they heard. I should discuss it with them and see if we can figure out what went wrong, in retrospect.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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