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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5203946" data-attributes="member: 5948">CleverNickName, yep, it was 100% the plums for me.  I just wanted to have a reason why it mattered that the plum dumplings were *plum* dumplings, rather than, say, pork dumplings, or even rollmops or some other random food item.  The only other cultural touchstone I could come up with for plums was the whole Oriental 'plum blossom' aesthetic.  That left me a bit of a problem, because as far as google could tell me plum dumplings are an eastern European food item, but then I realised that linking the two cultures gave me my 'bridge' and I could fit the rest in from there.Just rereading my entry the next morning, which is always a mistake.[sblock]Why didn't I make it clear the nature of the fey in the adventure, that the fey ARE the location, and that when Chih Xuan dies he will, due to his connection to the Orchard, become one?Why did I have Czevak get killed in that particular way, when Rukxillana only killed her previous victims that way to stop people using speak with dead on them?  By the time Czevak dies, none of that matter any more.Why didn't I explain better why Rukxillana needed the mountain fey incapacitated?Why did I give it such an inaccurate title?[/sblock]Ah, post-entry regret.  No matter how many times you read through it, it would always have been nice to just have the time to do it once more...</blockquote>