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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 2819941" data-attributes="member: 12631">Weeks off? In MIDNIGHT?You're dead to me!Well, the route they're gonna take matters a lot here. Will they be going through the Fields of Ash and Blood, or along the scenic Felthara? Or take the long-yet-probably-faster-and-safer route and hike over to Alloduan and catch a boat headed around to the coastal cities of the south (probably via gnomish smuggling relay)?Perhaps a Sarcosan sussar-in-exile in Caradul wants them to escort his herd (uh... flock? swarm?) of prize thoroughbreds through the forest to improve the bloodstock of some freerider's steeds. How much extra trouble can the PCs get in while they have a pack of meals-on-hooves with them (and that goes for the nominally friendly Dire Beasts and desperate human refugees as well as peckish orc soldiers)?Perhaps as they travel they come across legates overseeing a gang of halfling slaves digging tunnels and catacombs - the order is planning to consecrate a Black Mirror right on the front lines, giving them an almost unstoppable beachhead. It's not ready quiet yet, through, so daring PCs can free the slaves and future sacrifices and wreck the building materials. Less daring PCs can just try and get a emssage to the nearest elven commander and let her deal with it.Or perhaps the Shadow has captured a treant and are proceeding to turn it into <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/Func0013.html" target="_blank">something abominable</a>. They cleave into its bark, pouring in tainted blood and dark alchemical components, slowly torturing the treeman to death and Fell ressurection. As was pointed out on <a href="http://www.agaisnttheshadow.org" target="_blank">www.agaisnttheshadow.org</a> , if the dispel animation ability is expaned to include the various elven guard-plants (the magical, semi-sentient trees, vines and hedges from Minions of the Shadow), such a creature operating at the behest of legates would be a very dangerous linebreaker indeed.Or perhaps the PCs come across one of the Queen's avatars or a high ranking advisor, rushing through the woods on a mysterious mission - and she resents any attempts to find out what she's up to. The PCs may notice something suspicious about her behaviour (bandaged wounds from elven weapons, carrying a copy of the MacGuffin from Crown of Shadows - the one they themselves were carrying just recently. Is this an imposter, carrying intelligence back to the Shadow? A traitor?</blockquote>

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