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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reaper Steve" data-source="post: 5369709" data-attributes="member: 51528">I'm preparing to start running this on Monday. I don't have a problem with the setup, but maybe because I'm using something else to get the characters to Kiris Dahn. The quest for the Slaying Stone is an extra. My hook:One way or another, the PCs have a connection to Kiris Dahn, or one of the other PCs with said connection:The Dwarf Sentinel patrols the lands west of the Ogrefist Hills. He's hasn't been in Kiris Dahn since it fell 8 years ago because he knows it's overrun with kobolds and goblins. But there's been a large influx of humanoids lately, upsetting the balance. He's decided to find his Dwarf Slayer brother/friend/acquaintance (currently in Winterhaven or Fallcrest) and enlist his aid. They will then spread word of their intent in order to find others interested in Kiris Dahn:-- Human Cleric: the player stated that his character was sent to the Nentir Vale (far from home) to establish a shrine to Kord. I'll have him learn of the dwarves' plan to keep the humaniods in Kiris Dahn in check and motivate him with the 'Redeemer of the Desecrated' background and the 'Reclaim the Shrines' minor quest.-- Elf Wizard: a mentor/associate/peer inhabited Kiris Dahn but wasn't present when it was evacuated. His library was lost. This character will assume the 'Collect Arcane Writings' minor quest.--the fifth character hasn't been decided, but I imagine he'll be 'hired in' as the two above.--the last character is a Drow Ranger (Hunter, maybe Scout.) I'll introduce him in the first encounter. The first encounter will be the kobold ambush from Keep on the Shadowfell. The ranger was tracking the ambush party but arrives just after they spring the trap. It turns out that the Drow Ranger and the Dwarf Sentinel patrol roughly the same area. They've seen each other a couple times from a distance but never until now had any direct interaction. So, this gets the party together, with several individual motivations for going to Kiris Dahn. Several miles before reaching the village, they will encounter 'The Hungry Wolves' (Slaying Stone Encounter 1) and meet Treona and learn of the Slaying Stone. Hopefully the dwarf sentinel has the insight to release that maybe the increase in humaniod activity has something to do with this...</blockquote>

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