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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lwaxy" data-source="post: 6495419" data-attributes="member: 53286">Dumb things players did... oh yeah!Leaving the above mentioned vaccum power after removing a powerful vampire from a realm was one such thing. Had they stayed for a while and taken his place, or even found someone who might have been a heir to the old royal line or something - but nope. One char wanted to get married asap and thus get back to his realm, the dwarf in the party wanted to go back home and start his family on a brewing business as he had found a lot of new beer recipes. The bard was making a ballad out of their story and wanted to perform it at the bard's college he was from. So they decided on downtime somewhere else. When they came back more or less the same way on another quest 2 years later, the place was not only incivil war but the fringe groups had begun involving neighboring countries. They didn't get what happened right away, it was a while later that the wizard in the party wondered if the whole mess might have to do with them killing the vampire a while back. <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=":-)" />A weirder thing happened with a group which had been under a mountain for a few weeks hunting down the abductors of a prince. They did only find the remains of the prince due to a few other mistakes, but on their way out, they came upon a small adamantine knife stuck in a wall in a temple to the sun god (all still underground of course). At least the bard and the noble in the group should have recalled the legend about a knife and a lost temple. It was the knife of a long dead elven assassin buried here for a true heir to use it when in need. The writing under it read "in dire times, call on me and I will give aid" or something quite close. My idea was that they would recall the story told to them in one way or another over the last 2 adventures to understand that the elven queen of a close by realm was frantically looking for the knife in the hopes to slay the bad luck bestowing slumbering dragon under her castle with it before it was due to wake up - long story that one, the group had been involved in it their lower levels. It was all the same players, too, same chars everything. I even mentioned that it reminded them of something even after they totally botched their knowlege rolls. The noble in the group, also an elf and not the brightest, suddenly seemed very interested. He drew the dagger out of the stone - he was a heir of the same elven line, if not anywhere close to being in line for the throne - and I had hopes that he would now return to the elf realm to be the liberator they needed, or give it to the queen at least. Instead, he started cleaning his fingernails with it. I must have looked quite confused, as he insisted that having clean fingernails was a need for a noble, indeed. And then, because of the magic in the room and it all being in a temple of their main deity, he put the knife back! This was a group who found every excuse to plunder everything. And they had had sooo many hints... They left the mountain and went elsewhere, not even telling the elf queen or her agents anything. Destiny spun madly and howled at the two moons <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=":-)" /> To not kill the elf realm completely, I had some lost farm girl find the dagger later and be the hero. But by then there had been a multitude of problems in the elf realm already, and subsequently a war with the orcs of the mountains who now percieved them as weak. Of course the story of the dagger and the farm girl got back to the PCs in songs and stories, and they then remembered having seen that dagger before. They didn't€ven keep quiet about it, they told a whole inn what they had done or rather not done. The noble was soon known as "clean nails, clouded mind" by other elves who found out about it and he wasn't really all that liked in his homeland anymore.</blockquote>

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