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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 213999" data-attributes="member: 1645">Thank you, Angelsboi.  What did you feel was strongest about it?  And what was weakest?It certainly turned out that way, but it only seems natural -- what with both Kuo-Toa and Ghouls in the same scenario.  I enjoyed calling them the "Deep Ones of Kuo-Toa, foul fish-men from the stygian depths".You liked how I handled that?  Really, it was the only semi-decent thing I could think up.  Since the aquatic Kuo-Toa are the enemies, and earth and water are opposed, I assumed the Earth Elemental would make a good party ally, rather than an obstacle to overcome.  I am oddly proud of the ancient stone tablets as the Scroll of Planar Ally though.I feel a bit odd criticizing my honorable opposition, but let me put on my nemmerle cap and fire up a few torches... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Let me point out any plot holes (or questions I may have) first:They're suspicious until the local priest's daughter goes missing?  Wouldn't the strangers in town be the prime suspects?So no one in the small town has noticed that no workmen are in fact renovating the church?OK, so the church has been desecrated.  Always good.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So a single Kuo-Toan Priest Ghoul attacks them?  Why is he a Ghoul?  Did he become a Ghoul after desecrating the church?Were those tunnels always there?Scones aglow?  Oh, sconces aglow with torches.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Why undead Kuo-Toa?  And why not Ghouls if we've already established one above ground?Always good.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />OK, that elemental template feels really tacked on!  I was right about the Earth Elemental being really hard to fit in though, wasn't I?So a doppleganger happens to have an underground lair attached to the local church, and he wants to destroy the small fishing town just because?  And he knows how to summon a Fiendish Kuo-Toan Earth Elemental?  Using the magic-key blood of the priest's daughter to unlock the Kuo-Toan holy ground?OK, that actually helps explain things.So was the church built on top of the Kuo-Toan holy ground on purpose?  And had they previously exterminated the fish-man threat?  Were the Kuo-Toan undead then casualties of the last Man-Kuo-Toa war?  Could we replace the doppleganger with a magically disguised Kuo-Toa priest?  (Too bad Trickery isn't one of the Kuo-Toan Cleric Domains!)</blockquote>

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