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<blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 7462520" data-attributes="member: 6784845"><p>I have not read through the book, but I have played through this part as a player. And yes, it is very confusing as to what the hell actually happened. But at this point in the adventure we knew about demonic influence, we knew (and had experienced for ourselves) the madness that is running rampant, and we knew that each of the factions in Mantol Derith did not trust each other one bit. Our group fully didn't understand what the cause of all this was, but we knew we destroyed a gem that affected anyone that touched it so that was a win in our books. I don't think we ever even learned that it was Fraz-Urbl'uu that was mucking things up there. </p><p></p><p>But one thing that I think helped sell this was to make the madness slightly more subtle for this chapter. Instead of the types of madness that turn you into a raving lunatic (my PC once broke down into uncontrollable crying for 1 hour) have the madness simply affect the NPCs memories while still being fairly lucid. The way our DM set it up was that the deep dwarves were keeping a deep gnome hostage for stealing their gem. We then investigated and talked to the NPCs that were in the area to try to figure out what happened. This part played out like a mystery novel trying to piece together the truth by finding holes in the statements and figuring out which details don't fit. While we didn't fully piece together the lore of what was happening we enjoyed the section as we got to feel like Sherlock Holmes for a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MonkeezOnFire, post: 7462520, member: 6784845"] I have not read through the book, but I have played through this part as a player. And yes, it is very confusing as to what the hell actually happened. But at this point in the adventure we knew about demonic influence, we knew (and had experienced for ourselves) the madness that is running rampant, and we knew that each of the factions in Mantol Derith did not trust each other one bit. Our group fully didn't understand what the cause of all this was, but we knew we destroyed a gem that affected anyone that touched it so that was a win in our books. I don't think we ever even learned that it was Fraz-Urbl'uu that was mucking things up there. But one thing that I think helped sell this was to make the madness slightly more subtle for this chapter. Instead of the types of madness that turn you into a raving lunatic (my PC once broke down into uncontrollable crying for 1 hour) have the madness simply affect the NPCs memories while still being fairly lucid. The way our DM set it up was that the deep dwarves were keeping a deep gnome hostage for stealing their gem. We then investigated and talked to the NPCs that were in the area to try to figure out what happened. This part played out like a mystery novel trying to piece together the truth by finding holes in the statements and figuring out which details don't fit. While we didn't fully piece together the lore of what was happening we enjoyed the section as we got to feel like Sherlock Holmes for a bit. [/QUOTE]
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