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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anest1s" data-source="post: 5871343" data-attributes="member: 94230">First of all: There are fiends involved I hope? I suggest a lichfiend succubus <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=":)" /> Why have some when you can have all?I think you should combine all the plots together. Even if it means that the PCs won't escort the supplies themselves, or something like that. The PCs learn that an army is closing, to sack the place for food etc. If you can't have them hear it on their way there, you can always have some witness who just got kicked out of the governors office for "speaking such horrific lies!". Sooner or later they will tell the villagers, and the villagers will probably believe that the governor made the PCs tell them that, in order to prevent me from revolting. If the PCs are heroes there and everything they say is believable, maybe the villagers will tell them that "the only chance for us to survive, is to overthrow the governor and then defend our homes"  or something like that. tl;dr version the PCs have to pick sides based on practical reasons too.A solution to the above problem would be to have the villagers abandon their homes. This means they WILL need food. Or they will have to hire mercenaries to help defend their homes. But only the governor has gold.Or maybe the governor is a good guy controlled by a lichfiend succubus <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />. This would also explain why the soldiers are loyal to him (the succubus gives him advice). Maybe they are dominated (hard), or payed too good (easy)? Or maybe they are disguised demons, and the devils are marching to kill them? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> Or maybe the military commanders have sold their souls to the demons, and are controlled by them (however everyone knows that devils buy souls. Maybe if you play 4e and succubus is a devil? lol)</blockquote>

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