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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7514537" data-attributes="member: 54629">So during last night's session, two of the PCs joined the Zhentarim and dragged the others along on their nighttime foray to the Dock Ward in search of the elf killer. (The PCs are elf twins, so it's more than just a job. It's personal.)Since I'd bought the Guild Adept "Waterdeep City Encounters" booklet, I decided to roll for a random encounter while they were out patrolling. I got the "Newsprint Seller" encounter, and went with the Sea Maidens Faire option, since it seemed to make the most sense.First off, it says the faire is offering a three-for-two discount on entry plus free drinks. OK. The trouble is: the adventure itself never actually specifies if the Sea Maidens Faire is run from the ships. There are no hours of operation and certainly no prices listed anywhere!I decided on the fly that people could pay to go and see the animals in their cages on the one boat, while they could join in a bit of a party with the performers and such on the other boat. Entry was one shard per person.So far so good. But then they discovered the crew members' Elvish accents. They bothered one ship's captain about it, then the other, then finally Zardoz himself. The adventure never really offers any suggestions about what to do if the PCs ask about why all these humans have Elvish accents, so I wasn't really prepared for that line of questioning and couldn't come up with an answer. I ended up just having the ship captains - and Zardoz - stonewall/ignore/deflect.When they were rowing out to see Zardoz, I had Zelifarn show up. He asks them to discretely ask about the submarine. How do you discretely ask about a submarine? They pretended that one of their number had fallen into the water while attempting to board the Eyecatcher and had noticed the submarine for themselves.I again had Jarlaxle (as Zardoz, complete with Sean Connery accent) be evasive: it was just a "thing" he'd picked up in Lantan. When they asked if it was an underwater craft that for searching the shipwrecks at the bottom of the harbor (an idea that was in the forefront of the players' minds after Zelifarn had mentioned doing so himself), I had him just say "maybe".As the players felt they weren't really getting anywhere with the Sea Maidens Faire crew, they decided to leave. I felt a bit bad about it, as I would've liked to have let them get somewhere with their questioning, but a) the adventure gives no guidance on this front and b) I couldn't come up with anything on my own on the fly.In retrospect, I suppose I could have had Jarlaxle truthfully admit that his crew are all disguised male drow and that the reason they are disguised is because they're renegades and don't want their kin finding them. I don't suppose that would've caused any harm.Anyone got any thoughts?</blockquote>

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