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<blockquote data-quote="Stormdale" data-source="post: 221071" data-attributes="member: 3555"><p>I ran the same adventure tonight with the same result! However, I’d been building up to it for a few weeks using one of the PCs background stories. The cult leader was his nemesis evil brother, who had taken over the Church in Hommlet (the original setting in T1, not the new version) a while back. The pregnant girl was his younger sister who was pregnant with the evil brothers child! (Boy did the player love that bit of news when it was dropped last week!) Anyway last week they returned to find good old safe Hommlet in disarray as Burne and Rufus had been arrested on grounds of homosexuality (I run a gritty style game) and the Church .(i.e evil brother) was now in charge of town. If found guilty the two former town leaders would have been burned at the stake. I’d alluded for weeks that Burne and Rufus "lived together" but the players stilla ren’t sure if they are gay or not. Questioning several witnesses in the case they’d discovered that the charges had been trumped up as a convenient way to dispose of the town leaders but only had a few days to find more prooof. Since another PC was Burne’s nephew they had twice the reason to try and free them. So tonight the party had to find evidence framing Jaeger (the evil NPC/brother) before the case went to trial. Just to make it even more difficult Jaeger was going to preside over the court case. Fortunately for the PCs an ally noticed the girl (in labour) being led out of town by armed guards (the evil clerics body guards) and followed them to an old abandoned farmhouse before going to get help (the PCs). They sprung into action ready to thwart the evil plans…</p><p></p><p>Things turned to custard when the monk was disintegrated (rolled a 1 for his save) and then the paladin did the same at the same trap (if you’ve run the adventure, you know where it happened<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, the three survivors suitably protected continued onwards and arrived just in time for the ceremony and packed themselves. One wizard was on the verge of running away (his standard reaction to stress/combat situations), the fighter wanted to get his brother who was conducting the ceremony- to hell with the odds-, while the third survivor, a fighter/wizard decided to take matters into his own hands. He cast truestrike and then, without consultation of the others, took out the newly born baby before the ceremony could be completed. The other wizard dropped a fireball and then the two brothers went toe-to-toe (boy was the player fired up for this one, for weeks he’s been trying to get his brother who enjoyed full protection of the church!) while the (few) surviving cultists ran screaming from the temple. The nemisis eventually bugged out as the player was carving him up and lived to fight another dayJ. </p><p></p><p>One of the most intense and fun sessions for a long time. The poor monk player went through his third character in three sessions tonight. I thought taking out the baby was a legitimate solution but the players are still arguing over the implications of the action amongst themselves. They sure stopped a greater evil but will have to live with the consequences. They also managed to find more than enough evidence implicating Jaeger in the cult and saved Burne and Rufus, to boot. All in all a fun nights gaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormdale, post: 221071, member: 3555"] I ran the same adventure tonight with the same result! However, I’d been building up to it for a few weeks using one of the PCs background stories. The cult leader was his nemesis evil brother, who had taken over the Church in Hommlet (the original setting in T1, not the new version) a while back. The pregnant girl was his younger sister who was pregnant with the evil brothers child! (Boy did the player love that bit of news when it was dropped last week!) Anyway last week they returned to find good old safe Hommlet in disarray as Burne and Rufus had been arrested on grounds of homosexuality (I run a gritty style game) and the Church .(i.e evil brother) was now in charge of town. If found guilty the two former town leaders would have been burned at the stake. I’d alluded for weeks that Burne and Rufus "lived together" but the players stilla ren’t sure if they are gay or not. Questioning several witnesses in the case they’d discovered that the charges had been trumped up as a convenient way to dispose of the town leaders but only had a few days to find more prooof. Since another PC was Burne’s nephew they had twice the reason to try and free them. So tonight the party had to find evidence framing Jaeger (the evil NPC/brother) before the case went to trial. Just to make it even more difficult Jaeger was going to preside over the court case. Fortunately for the PCs an ally noticed the girl (in labour) being led out of town by armed guards (the evil clerics body guards) and followed them to an old abandoned farmhouse before going to get help (the PCs). They sprung into action ready to thwart the evil plans… Things turned to custard when the monk was disintegrated (rolled a 1 for his save) and then the paladin did the same at the same trap (if you’ve run the adventure, you know where it happened:), the three survivors suitably protected continued onwards and arrived just in time for the ceremony and packed themselves. One wizard was on the verge of running away (his standard reaction to stress/combat situations), the fighter wanted to get his brother who was conducting the ceremony- to hell with the odds-, while the third survivor, a fighter/wizard decided to take matters into his own hands. He cast truestrike and then, without consultation of the others, took out the newly born baby before the ceremony could be completed. The other wizard dropped a fireball and then the two brothers went toe-to-toe (boy was the player fired up for this one, for weeks he’s been trying to get his brother who enjoyed full protection of the church!) while the (few) surviving cultists ran screaming from the temple. The nemisis eventually bugged out as the player was carving him up and lived to fight another dayJ. One of the most intense and fun sessions for a long time. The poor monk player went through his third character in three sessions tonight. I thought taking out the baby was a legitimate solution but the players are still arguing over the implications of the action amongst themselves. They sure stopped a greater evil but will have to live with the consequences. They also managed to find more than enough evidence implicating Jaeger in the cult and saved Burne and Rufus, to boot. All in all a fun nights gaming. [/QUOTE]
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