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<blockquote data-quote="Rabbitbait" data-source="post: 6672714" data-attributes="member: 60100"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Meanwhile - A Side Note to the Main Action</span></p><p></p><p>A small group heads off to Wroat, to petition the king to allow the Xandrar and Drum Keep forces to take on the Featherspire and the nearby cult. The group consists of:</p><p></p><p>Morythas (PC dragonborn paladin)</p><p>Sir Isteval</p><p>Windharrow (the bard rescued from the Dwarvish city)</p><p>The cultist (as a prisoner)</p><p>2 guards.</p><p></p><p>They all have horses – the cultist being chained to his saddle, so make good time.Morythas and Windharrow surprisingly get on very well and Morythas learns that Windharrow has spent quite a bit of time in the Feywild, after he accidentally stumbled through a weak point in the world. When he came back, the world had changed. However he had come back (accidentally) with Aerisi Kalinoth, an elvish princess he had been having a dalliance with, they spent some time wandering together. On one of their adventures they discovered a spear, obviously highly magical. Aerisi took it, and then her personality slowly began to change. Since then she has slowly built up the cult, working with the Feathergale Knights to find recruits.</p><p></p><p>However Windharrow began to worry, Aerisi was becoming more capricious, killing her followers for the slightest infraction, real or imagined. She began treating Windharrow with disdain and he was beginning to worry about his chances of survival. Luckily for him, that was when the heroes arrived and rescued him.</p><p></p><p>After 3 days travel, the group are bedded down for the night, with guards on watch. Suddenly something wakes Morythas up. He opens his eyes and sees the cultist looming above him, a sword in hand. Nearby the guards are lying in pools of their own blood, throats slit. Windharrow is standing above Sir Isteval, sword in hand.</p><p></p><p>Morythas breathes fire at the cultist, instantly killing him - as he falls he realises that the cultist already had quite serious sword wounds on him.</p><p></p><p></p><p>He looks back at Windharrow, and realise that he is actually standing in a defensive stance over Sir Isteval. Sir Isteval groans, and opens his eyes.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"What, what's going on. Is there trouble afoot?"</p><p>"Yes, my lord" answers Windharrow, "the Cultist escaped somehow. He killed both the guards, but Morthas and I managed to defend you sir."</p><p>"Er, good, good. Well done both of you," says Sir Isteval. </p><p></p><p></p><p>But Morythas is suspicious - he feels that the cultist could not have escaped alone and must have had help from outside sources. He decides that urgent action needs to be taken against the Featherspire Knights and their best chance is now, before a new leader becomes firmly established.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sir Isteval and Windharrow continue to the king though to try and get permission to attack the spire with an army if needed. He reminds Morythas that the heroes are not officially working for him, and that if they take any action that is not officially approved he will not be able to protect them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>With that in mind Morythas, grabs a horse and starts heading back north.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">DMs notes:</span></p><p></p><p>The player of Morythas is on holiday so I sent him this breakdown via e-mail. It ended up being 3 sections with each one ending with "What do you do?" Often in my campaigns I have periods where players are on downtime and I find that e-mail can be a good way of progressing the game and the individual characters plotlines without bogging down everyone else, and also potentially keeping the plotline secret from other players.</p><p></p><p>It shortcuts things a bit, but I find that used sparingly it works well.</p><p></p><p>I was worried that Morythas would travel all the way to Wroat and get entangled in politics, but luckily it didn't work out that way. With Windharrow travelling alone with Sir Isteval, that gives room for some behind the scenes occurances which will grow the depth of the campaign. All good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rabbitbait, post: 6672714, member: 60100"] [SIZE=4]Meanwhile - A Side Note to the Main Action[/SIZE] A small group heads off to Wroat, to petition the king to allow the Xandrar and Drum Keep forces to take on the Featherspire and the nearby cult. The group consists of: Morythas (PC dragonborn paladin) Sir Isteval Windharrow (the bard rescued from the Dwarvish city) The cultist (as a prisoner) 2 guards. They all have horses – the cultist being chained to his saddle, so make good time.Morythas and Windharrow surprisingly get on very well and Morythas learns that Windharrow has spent quite a bit of time in the Feywild, after he accidentally stumbled through a weak point in the world. When he came back, the world had changed. However he had come back (accidentally) with Aerisi Kalinoth, an elvish princess he had been having a dalliance with, they spent some time wandering together. On one of their adventures they discovered a spear, obviously highly magical. Aerisi took it, and then her personality slowly began to change. Since then she has slowly built up the cult, working with the Feathergale Knights to find recruits. However Windharrow began to worry, Aerisi was becoming more capricious, killing her followers for the slightest infraction, real or imagined. She began treating Windharrow with disdain and he was beginning to worry about his chances of survival. Luckily for him, that was when the heroes arrived and rescued him. After 3 days travel, the group are bedded down for the night, with guards on watch. Suddenly something wakes Morythas up. He opens his eyes and sees the cultist looming above him, a sword in hand. Nearby the guards are lying in pools of their own blood, throats slit. Windharrow is standing above Sir Isteval, sword in hand. Morythas breathes fire at the cultist, instantly killing him - as he falls he realises that the cultist already had quite serious sword wounds on him. He looks back at Windharrow, and realise that he is actually standing in a defensive stance over Sir Isteval. Sir Isteval groans, and opens his eyes. "What, what's going on. Is there trouble afoot?" "Yes, my lord" answers Windharrow, "the Cultist escaped somehow. He killed both the guards, but Morthas and I managed to defend you sir." "Er, good, good. Well done both of you," says Sir Isteval. But Morythas is suspicious - he feels that the cultist could not have escaped alone and must have had help from outside sources. He decides that urgent action needs to be taken against the Featherspire Knights and their best chance is now, before a new leader becomes firmly established. Sir Isteval and Windharrow continue to the king though to try and get permission to attack the spire with an army if needed. He reminds Morythas that the heroes are not officially working for him, and that if they take any action that is not officially approved he will not be able to protect them. With that in mind Morythas, grabs a horse and starts heading back north. [SIZE=3]DMs notes:[/SIZE] The player of Morythas is on holiday so I sent him this breakdown via e-mail. It ended up being 3 sections with each one ending with "What do you do?" Often in my campaigns I have periods where players are on downtime and I find that e-mail can be a good way of progressing the game and the individual characters plotlines without bogging down everyone else, and also potentially keeping the plotline secret from other players. It shortcuts things a bit, but I find that used sparingly it works well. I was worried that Morythas would travel all the way to Wroat and get entangled in politics, but luckily it didn't work out that way. With Windharrow travelling alone with Sir Isteval, that gives room for some behind the scenes occurances which will grow the depth of the campaign. All good. [/QUOTE]
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