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<blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3774228" data-attributes="member: 1154"><p>MY PLAYERS STAY OUT!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>OK.</p><p></p><p>So, the Terminators were built by the chip left behind by a time-travelling terminator. Chicken-and-egg kinda thing, right? I'm sort of stealing that idea for my upcoming session.</p><p></p><p>A while back, the PCs were searching out an ancient wizard called the Archivist, and found out that he was actually a Warforged. In my campaign, Warforged were created tens of thousands of years ago by the terribly cliche super-magical-but-long-dead elvish society that ruled the world. They were created with a restriction that only allows them to remember 30 years prior to "now," whenever now might be. The archivist was a warforged who sequestered himself in a tower, wrote books of everything he could remember for 30 years, and then spent thousands of years reading re-reading them, to preserve his memories.</p><p></p><p>Anyways, long story short, the PCs accidentally destroyed his tower and all his books.</p><p></p><p>They lost track of Krouto (his name), and are about to discover him shipwrecked on a deserted island. He'd been searching for the lab where the warforged were first created.</p><p></p><p>So fast forward some more, they beat the lab-dungeon, and come to the final room where they find out that the Alakari (said cliche empire) didn't invent the Warforged, they found one that had been buried for thousands of years even before their time. They just used it as a guide to build the rest... That first warforged is still in the lab... and that first warforged is Krouto!</p><p></p><p>Long dormant, "old" Krouto's eyes begin to dimly shine when "new" Krouto approaches. "Old" Krouto touches the "new" one and transfers all his memories to him...</p><p></p><p>Krouto isn't just given the memories of the lifetime of an entire world, he's given those memories many, many times over. It seems that Krouto has been waging war against Psychosis, the ill-defined world-threatening force which the PCs are currently working to stop, and has failed hundreds or even thousands of times already. Each time, Krouto created a hole in time to travel back and try again.</p><p></p><p>The catch is... he can't just use knowledge from the last time, because each time it's played out differently. Even the very nature of the beast has changed; in one timeline, Psychosis may have been a physical terror like the Terrasque, while in another, it may have been an entity of psionic energy, and in another, it was a disease. By travelling back through time, Krouto's created a "nexus of possibilities," and it's impossible to predict what will happen. All he knows is that Pychosis has assaulted the world in a variety of ways, in a variety of forms, and has never been stopped.</p><p></p><p>So... By now you're wondering what the point of this post... I kind of am too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I guess I'm worried that it feels too... story-driven. There's not a whole lot that I can do to involve the PCs, since they're all human (and a gargoyle), other than having Krouto make allusions to how he's fought beside them, and others, many times before. Even then, that's me telling the players something, doesn't really give them much of a choice in the matter.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asmor, post: 3774228, member: 1154"] MY PLAYERS STAY OUT! OK. So, the Terminators were built by the chip left behind by a time-travelling terminator. Chicken-and-egg kinda thing, right? I'm sort of stealing that idea for my upcoming session. A while back, the PCs were searching out an ancient wizard called the Archivist, and found out that he was actually a Warforged. In my campaign, Warforged were created tens of thousands of years ago by the terribly cliche super-magical-but-long-dead elvish society that ruled the world. They were created with a restriction that only allows them to remember 30 years prior to "now," whenever now might be. The archivist was a warforged who sequestered himself in a tower, wrote books of everything he could remember for 30 years, and then spent thousands of years reading re-reading them, to preserve his memories. Anyways, long story short, the PCs accidentally destroyed his tower and all his books. They lost track of Krouto (his name), and are about to discover him shipwrecked on a deserted island. He'd been searching for the lab where the warforged were first created. So fast forward some more, they beat the lab-dungeon, and come to the final room where they find out that the Alakari (said cliche empire) didn't invent the Warforged, they found one that had been buried for thousands of years even before their time. They just used it as a guide to build the rest... That first warforged is still in the lab... and that first warforged is Krouto! Long dormant, "old" Krouto's eyes begin to dimly shine when "new" Krouto approaches. "Old" Krouto touches the "new" one and transfers all his memories to him... Krouto isn't just given the memories of the lifetime of an entire world, he's given those memories many, many times over. It seems that Krouto has been waging war against Psychosis, the ill-defined world-threatening force which the PCs are currently working to stop, and has failed hundreds or even thousands of times already. Each time, Krouto created a hole in time to travel back and try again. The catch is... he can't just use knowledge from the last time, because each time it's played out differently. Even the very nature of the beast has changed; in one timeline, Psychosis may have been a physical terror like the Terrasque, while in another, it may have been an entity of psionic energy, and in another, it was a disease. By travelling back through time, Krouto's created a "nexus of possibilities," and it's impossible to predict what will happen. All he knows is that Pychosis has assaulted the world in a variety of ways, in a variety of forms, and has never been stopped. So... By now you're wondering what the point of this post... I kind of am too. :) I guess I'm worried that it feels too... story-driven. There's not a whole lot that I can do to involve the PCs, since they're all human (and a gargoyle), other than having Krouto make allusions to how he's fought beside them, and others, many times before. Even then, that's me telling the players something, doesn't really give them much of a choice in the matter. Any ideas? [/QUOTE]
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