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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids" data-source="post: 6333451" data-attributes="member: 6776411">Rise of the Runelords (Season 3 / Episode 5) – 27/03/2014 Karrack and Solaris chase after the shadowcursed monks that abducted Asha. By the time they catch up, she has freed herself, defeated her captors and hijacked their owl. Meanwhile, Ben is carried towards the nest of the roc, where her chicks wait impatiently for breakfast. Ben hacks off the roc’s leg and falls 30ft into the nest. Rast throws a pot of alchemical glue at the enormous bird, sticking its feathers together and hindering flight. The bird lands awkwardly, tipping the nest at an alarming angle. Grogg flies towards the disorientated roc and delivers the coup de grâce. The heroes adopt the surviving roc chicks as cute party mascots. Grogg slaughters one to feed the other two. Flying on, the heroes soon reach the Sunspire monastery and meet the sunkissed monks that live there. The monks remember Solaris. They explain that Aereon is not his uncle at all, but the abbot of the monastery. Long ago, a darkness festered within Solaris’ soul and Aereon tried to lock that darkness away. Iit could not be contained and now reaches out to abduct the abbot and the sun relics holy to the monk’s order. Solaris and the others agree to travel through the cracked shadowglass to the Moonspike (a dark reflection of the Sunspire monastery) to release Aeron and defeat Solaris’ dark shadow. The heroes defeat more shadowcursed monks as they ascend the Moonspike. Atop the tower, they confront the dark fragment of Solaris’ soul. Asha sustains a terrible head injury and collapses insensible near the edge of the tower (only a ridiculously good soak roll avoided death). Gary plays an adventure card on Grogg that allows the half-orc to bypass one character’s invulnerabilities (completely f*cking up the story). Grogg defeats the dark Solaris, who transforms into a dragon! To be continued…. (GM Notes: Meh). (Additional GM Notes: I think I’m going through Savage Worlds burnout (again). Deviating from the adventure path has been nothing but trouble and I regret doing it at all and hope to get the plot back onto Paizo’s railroad ASAP. I plan to burn the Savage Worlds adventure deck as soon as this rotation is over, as they have finally outstayed their welcome. I don’t blame Gary, I dealt him a card that gave the party an advantage in what should have been a difficult combat and he used it. However, I hadn’t anticipated how devastating this would be on the plot I had laid out*. I don’t know how to reconcile those plans considering how things panned out at the table, so I’m going to scrap the whole plot and move on from this whole, shambolic episode. I apologize to my players if my general disinterest in the system of late is having an adverse effect on their enjoyment. Thankfully, it will be over soon).</blockquote>

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