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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 1878767" data-attributes="member: 17691">Well, the McGuffin is surrounded by an anti-magic field with a radius of 20 ft. (which is why they couldn't simply dimension door, teleport or plane shift away with it). At one point one of the players came up with the idea that they could summon the paladin's flying mount and suspend the artifact 20+ ft. below the mount (or between two flying characters) and simply fly out of the city under cover of darkness. They were nervous about that idea because they feared the city guard would spot them. They kicked it around for a bit and then let it drop when they heard about the ship. I personally thought the idea had some merit.I also laid out the floorplan for the ship and briefly detailed the crew, their alliances (some were of the gnomish faction, others were not) and how'd they'd react in a fight if the party tried to take the ship by force. It would have been a tough fight (there were a handful of city guards stationed nearby) but they'd would have had the element of surprise and the ship was in an isolated dock so a well executed plan might have succeeded. The paladin character (Ketharian) would probably have disliked this option though unless there was no other choice.I considered the possibility that they might have tried to fast talk their way onto the ship but it would have been tough because it's a freighter; the crew wasn't expecting pasengers or any new crew members to show up. There was also a city official there who was overseeing the loading of cargo. Still creative PCs often can come up with surprisingly good stories when pressed.Finally, there is actually a fairy portal within the city's park which they could make use of to escape, but it only opens seasonally. They would have had to lay low for nearly a month until the summer solstice for it to be viable route out.Yeah, me too. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> Ketharian is PC5. I'm sorry I just don't recall her having much to say in this particular debate. She's was generally upbeat and was trying to believe the gnomes had good intentions.Your guess is correct. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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