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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 8167462" data-attributes="member: 6801286">During a grand feast, my players learned that a port town that they often frequent, was under some kind of attack. This could have made for a great battle, but instead they chose not to respond immediately. And this is where things got very interesting.When they returned to the port town, they found it in ruins. A great battle had been fought here, and it had cost a lot of lives, and destroyed a large part of the town. The town was ill-equiped to defend itself against whatever it was that attacked it. It was interesting having the players investigate the aftermath of a battle, rather than take part in the battle.As they would soon find out, not only was the damage to the town a direct result of their choices, but so was the source of the attack. You see, way back at the start of the campaign, the players had fled from a ghastly living ship. They had invoked the help of a nearby giant to aid them, and he had picked up the pursuer and thrown it over his shoulder, onto the island. The players knew it probably wasn't dead, and that they would have to deal with it at some point.In the town square they found the smoking carcass of the creature. It had taken every man in town, and the entire supply of the weaponsmith, to take the beast down. It was indeed the weapon smith himself who dealt the killing blow. During the battle however, the smithee had been destroyed. The weaponsmith was now the hero of the town, but his business and home were ruined.Taking some responsibility for all this, one of the players offered to hire the smith and fully fund a new work place for him. He had earned it. This is however not the end of this story. The living ship was a corrupted creature, and many a man had taken parts from the carcass as a trophy. Others had sold parts of it as magical ingredients. The consequences of this could be disastrous.</blockquote>

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