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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 955430" data-attributes="member: 527">SPOILERS:SPOILERS:SPOILERS: Yes, well, it's a short, sad story, but the party gave their opponents a very sweet opportunity to frame them earlier in the adventure.   Half of them ended up in jail; half of them on the lam in the town.  I stitched that deviation back together by having Brother Egil come with a writ from Thuron etc to have the prisoners released from the Tower of Justice.  If you know what I mean. ;-) So they're already in up to their necks in trouble.  They've gone above and beyond in annoying Verlaine; they are convinced Thuron (Secret Historie) also is up to something.  They are boggled by Egil, so much so that he is currently tied up.  Captain Lydon (Holiday in the Sun) is currently the only one who they have good relations with. The problem here is that the villians have big plans in motion.  If they were to successfully frame the PCs for X's murder, it would imply that they also had succeeded at other parts of their plans.  That the PCs had been "out of the loop" while big stuff happened.I've still got a few tricks up my sleeve; I'm hoping it won't come down to it, but I fear that they may miss the whole end of the module.  (And the beginning of Madness as you point out.)Here's the situation in Freeport-specific terms: 1) they did not search Temple 2, therefore they did not find any clues contradicting their current assumptions, 2) no information is being exchanged with Egil due to mutual distrust, they are missing those clues which might also cause them to reconsider, 3) Nikko fled Temple 2 up the secret stairs, setting in motion the final part of the adventure, 4) the party decided not to pursue Nikko.Does that look ominous for our heroes?  ;-)  I think so.  I suspect that the bad guys can carry out the final part of their plans unopposed, which is bad news.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks to all for the brainstorming.  Each new idea gives me more options to play with, and since I expect things to diverge rapidly in the next session, I need all the options I can get!</blockquote>

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