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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trowizilla" data-source="post: 1756089" data-attributes="member: 18181">Ah, a beloved memory. The party is in Igelden, a trade city run by a High and a Low council. Council meetings are held twice a year, and the only acceptable excuses for missing a meeting are childbirth, grave illness, and being on a city-sanctioned quest. No other excuses are allowed, period. The penalty for missing a council is forced suicide, with no resurrections possible. So, the party gets to know a Lady Eleanor, who is trying to pass legistlation to ban the child brothels, slave trades, and body sales that had been proliferating in the city. They also run into the Lord Velden, a middle-aged, pot-bellied man who happens to head nearly all of the city's vile businesses. Who is also a highly prominent politician. Who kidnaps Lady Eleanor the day before the council meeting.After fighting and sneaking their way through Velden's estate, the party bursts into Velden's bedchamber to discover Velden, a bound Eleanor, and a Tainted Elf sorcerer they'd been clashing with for a few sessions. They, of course, make for the elf, and Velden, who is a sneaky, resourceful (#^$@#), sees his chance. He steps to Eleanor, puts a dagger to her throat, and says "If anyone moves, she dies."A long, tense stalemate ensues. A single shot would probably take out Velden, but not before he cuts Eleanor's throat. Resurrections IMC take at least a week, so if she dies and they raise her, she'll have to commit suicide for missing the council meeting.Finally, the atheistic wizard uses her "divine answer" card she got from a (heavily altered)  Deck of Many Things, and gets the Goddess of the Holy Fire to step in. Velden made a lovely barbeque, the Tainted Elf teleported out of there, and the wizard now owes service to a deity she'd never believed in. I love me some plot hooks.</blockquote>

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