Help Wanted with ideas for Chapter 3 (levels 9-14) of my campaign

[Thraka]

"We can smell the smoke of our smoldering homes, the dire promise that our children will inherit only dust and bitter memories. It is destruction for which you hunger, sweet girl, and so I must ask: have you ever craved the taste of cinders?"

 

[Dross]

Your refusal to take the throne as tradition and the court would have it is treasonous. Traitors deserve to die.

 

[Ferrum]

To the parlaiment, with sweeping gestures and a bellowing voice:"The stewardship of a kingdom has no leniency for your childish dreams of a departed brother miraculously returning from the dead, yet you, dear princess, have failed to leave the nursery."

Turn to Nelaria, lowers his voice "So in terms you can understand; Ashes, Ashes, you all fall-"

A short dramatic pause as teleportation magic begins to swirl about him, and the artifact rolls off the tips of his fingers, in a low, gravelly voice he whispers: "down."

I dunno, just something about using nursery rhymes as prophetic words of doom gives me that cold black feeling inside.

 

[Sugarmouse]

Triel casts a gaze up at the Balcony, smiles and looks back at the Princess.

"Think of this as beating the rush."

 

[greywulf]

Excellent. Truly, excellent. I'm jealous!

How about:

"You can meet your brother in this very room. In death!"

Oh, the irony.

 

[corcio]

how about
SUCK IT
im just kidding. i think it all just depends on how hes been involved thus far. i mean if he has a personal vendetta then he could obviosly have a specific threat against one of the characters
or a general evil one to the whole audience. foreshadowing is always very suddle but so worth it. especially if you know someone will have to die for it later.

 

[Musrum]

"The House of (HouseName) is rotten to the core."
"They have been a curse on our great nation since the day they crawled out from under their rock."
"A mewling bunch of insipid, inbreed, incestuous insects."

"Time for some House cleaning..."

*Exit*

 

[Cor Azer]

To the parlaiment, with sweeping gestures and a bellowing voice:"The stewardship of a kingdom has no leniency for your childish dreams of a departed brother miraculously returning from the dead, yet you, dear princess, have failed to leave the nursery."

Turn to Nelaria, lowers his voice "So in terms you can understand; Ashes, Ashes, you all fall-"

A short dramatic pause as teleportation magic begins to swirl about him, and the artifact rolls off the tips of his fingers, in a low, gravelly voice he whispers: "down."

I dunno, just something about using nursery rhymes as prophetic words of doom gives me that cold black feeling inside.

I really like this one (I'm also a big fan of nursery rhyme quotes), but I'd probably leave the "down." unsaid and just describe the slo-mo descent of the artifact.

 

[Herobizkit]

To the parlaiment, with sweeping gestures and a bellowing voice:"The stewardship of a kingdom has no leniency for your childish dreams of a departed brother miraculously returning from the dead, yet you, dear princess, have failed to leave the nursery."

Turn to Nelaria, lowers his voice "So in terms you can understand; Ashes, Ashes, you all fall-"

A short dramatic pause as teleportation magic begins to swirl about him, and the artifact rolls off the tips of his fingers, in a low, gravelly voice he whispers: "down."

I dunno, just something about using nursery rhymes as prophetic words of doom gives me that cold black feeling inside.

Personally, I think this one's the winner.

 

[Michael Morris]

As some know, my campaign is linked to Magic: The Gathering. I've decided on what the artifact will be - a Chaos Orb. I'm thinking about letting Nelaria know what it is so she can shout telepathically but silently to her brother, "Get out of here! Now!!"

Give the players a full moment of panic.

Hmm.. Dunno.

Anyway, on other questions - Triel's agents have attacked the party no less than 4 times. He has also kidnapped, tortured and mentally crushed a party member - replaced him with a doppleganger and had that doppleganger attempt to kill the party. Suffice to say, they hate this guy. I mean REALLY hate him. But he's been off stage for more than a month of real time. I want sorely to remind them WHY they hate him so but taking an NPC that they love away from them with him.