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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM Eberron D" data-source="post: 6312201" data-attributes="member: 6775138">Thanks for your answers and let's clear things up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">THE PLACE:</li> </ul>A small hamlet. 50 villagers. Medium to poor economy (no fancy items on shops)Major NPCs - An elder Druid serves as protector and spiritual guide of the village- The old Mayor, last survivor of an invasion 3 years ago, well respected- The Cleric of the church of Sov.Host, newcomer, tries to work well with both followers of the Druidic faith and Sov.Host ofc.- The Artificer, ex-adventurer that lives in the hamlet 2 years now, well respected and helpful, owner of a small tower he built for his experimentshe believes he can travel in time someday, and has devoted his life in a research of this. No personal reasons, for science.- 3 more adventurers that reside in the inn, a hulking Fighter (AL CN), a Thief (AL NE) and a Wizard (the victim, AL CG)The 3 adventurers have no connections or ties neither between themselves nor with the rest villageThe Wizard is (was) a poor young guy, always reading and studying in research of new spells. Since he has hisspellbook stolen, he had no money and was stuck in the village waiting a chance to acquire some wealth or a newspellbook. I used that as hook to lure the players in the ruins. The Wizard approached the players saying that heintends to explore the ruins and if they will escort him they can keep the valuables they will find if they hand himspellbooks or spell scrolls they may find.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">THE TIME</li> </ul>During the nights the Artificer, in his tower, experiments on a machine he has built. It is supposed to be a time travel machinewhich has never worked before. The last 4 days the machine indeed worked but only for a second, the Artificer did not even notice it.The machine has a fixed range of effect - the village - and whatever is in that range travels in time (past or future). That 1 secondwas the glimpse that the warforged had (and the Druid confirmed since he was awake one night and experienced it as well).So the 4 glimpses the warforged had were 4 semi-successful experiments of the Artificer's time-machine.The "murder" happened during one of these nights. The Wizard was in his room, alone, resting for the next day he and the players wouldbegin their exploration of the ruins.During that time the Warforged was in the ground level (tavern) floor of the inn, following the command of his comrade (party's cleric)to watch for potential danger. The players - and the NPC Wizard victim - all were sleeping at separate rooms.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">REASON</li> </ul>The apparent reason of the murder was that someone does not want nosy humans near the ruins. The ruins are supposed to be the lair ofa secret cult, and the players walked in and cleared it. However they found no clue of the murder there, since the murder happened during anothertimeline and none in this timeline is responsible. That was the initial idea.That could work actually. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Already did that, the players are not experienced, and their knowledge and speculation is limited, so I got no help.That's 100% true, it was a on-the-fly idea that I had given zero thought. I am trying to save it now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Thanks for naming the issue, however!</blockquote>

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