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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8726597" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 114: December 1995part 3/5The Raven's Bluff Trumpeter: The ongoing big plot events continue to move slowly in here. Discount Merlin's gives up on trying to satisfy the petty regulations of the NIMBY's and buys a big plot of land about a mile to the south of the city where they can arrange the monsters however they please. ConCentric in march will apparently be the first time you can actually take your characters through there. Just remember that the level limit around here is 12 so there's no point grinding to rush through the high levels only to have to start again at 1st. The adverts for mercenaries also gradually move from buildup towards payoff. Who is their target and what adventures will players who signed up face? As long as they're not part of a secret plan for someone to attack and take over Raven's Bluff the council of lords are ok with it, but some members are still suspicious. This definitely isn't over yet.In unambiguously good news though, a whole bunch of adventurers that had disappeared mysteriously reappeared just as mysteriously, released from Ravenloft by the magnanimity of the Dark Powers. Hopefully they'll be given the proper counselling to recover from the trauma and get back to less stressful adventures soon, and they have enough info to share that anyone else sucked into the mists will be slightly better prepared. Forgotten Deities: Another entry where gods operate in a similar way to real world corporations, appearing under multiple names aimed at different demographics, and engaging in hostile takeovers of others working in the same field, but keeping the old name when appearing to those worshippers. Ssethh, also known as Merrshaulk elsewhere, is the god of snakes & yuan-ti. During the time of troubles, he managed to kill Vaerae, another demigod with a snaky portfolio, which he's now using to expand his worship among humans. Doing some googling, this shell game turns out to have even more layers in future books, with egyptian god Set imprisoning Ssethh (with names that similar, who's surprised by this) and using both alternates for his evil schemes, because it's handy to have both LE and CE worshippers when you're LE personally and want to maintain plausible deniability for the underhanded stuff you do. This is why it can be hard to find out how your cosmology really works, because even good gods will lie to their worshippers. (or at least, massively oversimplify because telling the whole truth would be like explaining quantum physics to pre-schoolers. ) This is all pretty interesting, if rather convoluted and unlikely for your players to unravel IC. Another example of how the Realms is bigger than any one story and there's always some more secret societies plotting evil to foil, even if their odds of ultimate success are slim with the even larger number of heroes wandering around.</blockquote>

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