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<blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6491876" data-attributes="member: 221"><p>Reading through the ingredients, it was Chicken Dance which first jumped out at me I think. It obviously implied a more light-hearted sort of adventure. So I asked myself, what would Willie Walsh do... Dwarven Tragedian was the next ingredient my brain latched onto... Shakespeare came to mind, as well as Pratchet's Weird Sisters, with its fantasy take on a Shakespeare play... Perhaps a troupe of performers doing plays and vaudeville acts. Maybe one of the acts should be a group of dancing chickens. Perhaps controlled by magical headgear. </p><p></p><p>Sleeping on it, my mind wrapped itself around the idea of a Dwarf actor who needed protection from fake death threats. Of course, for it to be an adventure, the Dwarf would have to actually be in some sort of trouble. Devious Machinations implied a convoluted series of events which hid the actual danger. A kidnapping, maybe some sort of person in the troupe who wants the dwarf dead and sees the fake death threats as a way to hide their own plan.</p><p></p><p>When I sat down to write it, I started with characters and shaped the events around the characters. Reading the rules I opted to not flesh it out as much as I might have (the rules do say that brief is better than long), so I did not detail every actual murder attempt nor the actual contents of the room. I knew from the outset that Anarchist was going to be the weak link because I did not create the character from there, but instead worked it in. </p><p></p><p>The Inscrutable Fey could have been more stressed by stressing that she never, ever shows her face, but always, always wears the veil in every situation, thus making her face literally inscrutable. The Magic Moth suggested to me the moths of Desna in Golarion, but I did not do as much with it as I might have. I thought having a moth that shrunk people and put them to sleep might be funny though (for the DM). </p><p></p><p>The whole adventure is meant to be slightly lighthearted, with comedy coming from the situations and the characters but with very real consequences possible. </p><p></p><p>The Chicken Dance and the vault came from the Vin Diesel "The Pacifier" movie, where the secret vault needed a kids dance to understand how to bypass the traps. If I was going to actually write up the adventure, I would make the moves of the chickens one of those things that gets stressed in repeated but simple song at each performance. Also maybe get events to talk one of the characters into performing with the chickens. </p><p></p><p>When I was done with the simple writeup, I thought I had the makings of an actual fun sort of adventure with lots of possibilities for further development and much actual roleplaying. The mystery in Act 1 would get written up in a lot more details, with various events and mishaps. I had this image of one scene where poisoned fruits left for the dwarf got eaten... by one of the chickens a'la Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark's "bad dates" scene with the monkey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wicht, post: 6491876, member: 221"] Reading through the ingredients, it was Chicken Dance which first jumped out at me I think. It obviously implied a more light-hearted sort of adventure. So I asked myself, what would Willie Walsh do... Dwarven Tragedian was the next ingredient my brain latched onto... Shakespeare came to mind, as well as Pratchet's Weird Sisters, with its fantasy take on a Shakespeare play... Perhaps a troupe of performers doing plays and vaudeville acts. Maybe one of the acts should be a group of dancing chickens. Perhaps controlled by magical headgear. Sleeping on it, my mind wrapped itself around the idea of a Dwarf actor who needed protection from fake death threats. Of course, for it to be an adventure, the Dwarf would have to actually be in some sort of trouble. Devious Machinations implied a convoluted series of events which hid the actual danger. A kidnapping, maybe some sort of person in the troupe who wants the dwarf dead and sees the fake death threats as a way to hide their own plan. When I sat down to write it, I started with characters and shaped the events around the characters. Reading the rules I opted to not flesh it out as much as I might have (the rules do say that brief is better than long), so I did not detail every actual murder attempt nor the actual contents of the room. I knew from the outset that Anarchist was going to be the weak link because I did not create the character from there, but instead worked it in. The Inscrutable Fey could have been more stressed by stressing that she never, ever shows her face, but always, always wears the veil in every situation, thus making her face literally inscrutable. The Magic Moth suggested to me the moths of Desna in Golarion, but I did not do as much with it as I might have. I thought having a moth that shrunk people and put them to sleep might be funny though (for the DM). The whole adventure is meant to be slightly lighthearted, with comedy coming from the situations and the characters but with very real consequences possible. The Chicken Dance and the vault came from the Vin Diesel "The Pacifier" movie, where the secret vault needed a kids dance to understand how to bypass the traps. If I was going to actually write up the adventure, I would make the moves of the chickens one of those things that gets stressed in repeated but simple song at each performance. Also maybe get events to talk one of the characters into performing with the chickens. When I was done with the simple writeup, I thought I had the makings of an actual fun sort of adventure with lots of possibilities for further development and much actual roleplaying. The mystery in Act 1 would get written up in a lot more details, with various events and mishaps. I had this image of one scene where poisoned fruits left for the dwarf got eaten... by one of the chickens a'la Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark's "bad dates" scene with the monkey. [/QUOTE]
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