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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8441271" data-attributes="member: 5948">Major plot episode of Storm King's Thunder.  Suspect we know who the campaign big-bad is now.In the undersea storm giant palace.  The nasty two storm giant princesses were planning to coax the stone, cloud, fire, and frost giant emissaries to murder us in the belief that we'd been part of the death of the storm giant king.  Fortunately, we'd previously made friends with the storm giant guards (nameless NPCs are important too) and the stone giant, which gave us advance warning.  When the ambush got sprung we were then able to convince the fire giant and beat the frost giant into acquiesence, and then land a Confusion on the cloud giant which resulted in him and the frost giant beating each other near senseless.  Eventually, thanks to the various large and loud explosions (our gnome arcane trickster is getting real interested in giant runic magitech and how it can best be made to explode...) the storm giant guards arrived (as we'd previously planned) and dragged us before the queen (who we've been trying to get access to for days)Then in an absolute triumph of sustained high-teens social skills dice-rolling, the gnome proceeded to taunt the giant princesses into admitting they'd been involved in the death of their mother, and then, as a casual encore taunt the obstructive storm giant adviser lady into revealing her true blue dragon form (to the horror of every giant present) and bolting.My paladin owes the gnome a drink for that.  Several drinks probably.  A long series of low-single-figures insight checks, while he rolled high teens, had me completely taken in.  But I got a good solid 50hp smite in on her as she fled, so I feel better about that at least.  My PC is all very classically lawful good, humble, charitable devotion paladin of Ilmater who tithes 10% of his treasure to the poor etc etc, but I think he might go a bit maniacal about hunting her down.  It's always been his background that he loves killing a bit much and only became a paladin because the alternative was to become something that paladins hunted.  And he's a dragonborn who hated dragons BEFORE this.  Yes, I definitely think we may be running into the sin of wrath in the near future...(As an OOC note though, why the HELL did the actual art of Imryth in Storm Kings Thunder illustrate her, in her storm giant guise, as having a blue dragon's horns and blue scales on her arms?  I mean, I failed every possibly insight check against her, but jeez, it was hard to maintain the IC facade of gullibility when the official damn art made it so bloody obvious.)</blockquote>

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