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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 6077786" data-attributes="member: 2642"><p>Vortberd was a brain fart on my part. Laurabec and Tiljan I recognized the names of (as I've said, Tiljan was actually a PC in my group for a while).</p><p></p><p>However, there's no Lyre of Building that I recall in the 3E version, much less an entire subplot around it, and I have no idea what the Aquilla is.</p><p></p><p>It's also interesting how different two groups' takes on an adventure like this can be - "totally ignored the Wayfarers" is the furthest thing possible from what my group did! They ignored most of the city stuff in the middle - basically, everything you can do in Seaquen that isn't Wayfarers-related and/or absolutely essential to the main plot, they displayed no interest in whatsoever. At one point they complained that those parts didn't give them any obvious hooks half an hour after I explicitly listed six of them, which is the point where I gave up on that stuff and skipped straight to the war council. In fact Laurabec's final scene at the end had zero impact because they'd forgotten who she was despite meeting her on two separate occasions.</p><p></p><p>I was about to apologize for the digression, but actually that last part <em>does</em> fall under "how did your group surprise you?", just not in an entirely pleasant way.</p><p></p><p>Their latest entry into that category, in the fourth adventure - accepting the mission to assassinate Kelkin, but instead of fighting him, persuading him to sit the battle out and prepare for the real enemy, Ragesia. It's a very obvious approach when you think about it, especially given his links to Gabal and distrust of "Nina", but for some reason neither the adventure writer nor I contemplated any possibility of that encounter being something other than a battle.</p><p></p><p>(Ryan - was there <em>ever</em> a real Nina, or is "Nina" ONLY a guise for... well, what she actually is? I plan to play it as the latter, but the former would create a parallel with Vuel's fate in the second adventure.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 6077786, member: 2642"] Vortberd was a brain fart on my part. Laurabec and Tiljan I recognized the names of (as I've said, Tiljan was actually a PC in my group for a while). However, there's no Lyre of Building that I recall in the 3E version, much less an entire subplot around it, and I have no idea what the Aquilla is. It's also interesting how different two groups' takes on an adventure like this can be - "totally ignored the Wayfarers" is the furthest thing possible from what my group did! They ignored most of the city stuff in the middle - basically, everything you can do in Seaquen that isn't Wayfarers-related and/or absolutely essential to the main plot, they displayed no interest in whatsoever. At one point they complained that those parts didn't give them any obvious hooks half an hour after I explicitly listed six of them, which is the point where I gave up on that stuff and skipped straight to the war council. In fact Laurabec's final scene at the end had zero impact because they'd forgotten who she was despite meeting her on two separate occasions. I was about to apologize for the digression, but actually that last part [I]does[/I] fall under "how did your group surprise you?", just not in an entirely pleasant way. Their latest entry into that category, in the fourth adventure - accepting the mission to assassinate Kelkin, but instead of fighting him, persuading him to sit the battle out and prepare for the real enemy, Ragesia. It's a very obvious approach when you think about it, especially given his links to Gabal and distrust of "Nina", but for some reason neither the adventure writer nor I contemplated any possibility of that encounter being something other than a battle. (Ryan - was there [I]ever[/I] a real Nina, or is "Nina" ONLY a guise for... well, what she actually is? I plan to play it as the latter, but the former would create a parallel with Vuel's fate in the second adventure.) [/QUOTE]
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