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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 1878380" data-attributes="member: 12328">Hilarious!And well played by you as the DM!  I thought while reading it that the PCs would hear a splash just as the crates start to fill with water when the gnomes jettison their competitors as so much ballast bound for Davy Jones' Locker.  You might even have drowned them!  But, your nice gnomes left them in a safe warehouse.  The players should count their lucky stars the PCs are not dead after a misstep like that, especially with the history of a few gnome deaths on their heads.  I really am surprised the gnomes ddin't try to get a little pay back for that!Now is their chance to pursue the treacherous gnomes.  They have to team up with another faction that happens to have a ship; or hire a pirate boat; or steal their own vessel.  Or the artifact is just gone.  Maybe the players are just sick of it.  Maybe they had their chance and blew it.  The gnomes do whatever neutral thing they do with it and their dwarves; the world changes for good or ill; and the game goes on.I don't think you're a cruel DM.  I've exploited player choices in much worse ways.  I once used a greater doppleganger to kill off an entire party PC by PC until I had a TPK, and I had each eliminated PC help emilimate the next one by playing the doppleganger who was now in the guise of that PC!  It was great!  They embraced it in a truly dark fashion.  Some felt badly later, but there were no such complaints at the table!</blockquote>

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