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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1791264" data-attributes="member: 1710">My homebrew world's storyline is getting beaten into a new shape. :\ All but two of the PCs have left for college (or in the case of one player, moved to DC to teach). Since the story was custom made for the PCs I have to try and explain why the PCs are leaving the group, and why the new ones are joining. I'm considering running a PBEM version of the campaign parallel to the regular one, then combining the two when I write up the summary; which may take some doing.In the last session the PCs were recovering from being poisoned when they were jailed by the captain of the town guard because he was given a warrant for their arrest and execution. A family they helped out earlier witnessed the arrest and spoke up on their behalf (the party had repelled an attack on the family's livestock by a local legendary monster). A regional magistrate showed up and decided the warrant was most likely a forgery and cut a deal with the party; while they were waiting for confirmation on the warrant's veracity, he would release them on their own recognizance on the condition that they help him seek out the black dog of death (the legend they fought previously) and slay it.Helping out was sort of a no-brainer since, even if the bogus warrant was upheld, killing the hound would probably net them a pardon.Incidentally the magistrate was the new player's PC.They tracked the animal to a large clearing in the woods. The hound seemed to be giving a pretty poor fight when the paladin decided to climb a large rock in the center of the clearing so he'd have the high ground. The rock was about six feet tall with a thick patch of weeds growing on top. He was about to pull himself up when the female hound hiding in the weeds just about bit his face off, then used her breath weapon on him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Needless to say, he fell, right beside the male hound.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Turns out the big guy was sort of 'feigning ineptitude' until his mate could get the drop on someone because, after she revealed herself, his fighting improved.When the male was killed the female fled. The party tracked her to a small cave where she was finished off after wounding them a few more times. A search of the cave revealed a small alcove above a foot-deep pool of water. So, the rogue was in the pool with the paladin on his shoulders and the paladin was trying to see into the alcove despite the slippery cave walls. A gout of flame shot out of the alcove which sent the paladin and rogue crashing to the ground... again.As it turned out, there was a young hellhound up there. The magistrate (actually a Scout from warcraft) tried using his grappling hook to drag the animal out of its hole and down to where they could kill it and after a few failures it worked. But then they were stuck with a hellhound pup in the same five-foot square (surrounded by the cave walls) as the pool and the scout. After what essentially amounted to the PCs all trying to catch a greased pig, they managed to kill it.When they got back to town they were treated like heroes. They also received the news that A: the warrant was proven to be a fake, B: the woman who delivered/forged the warrant was captured, and C: she was also the one responsible for poisoning them earlier. She was actually the mother of a criminal they brought to justice in the last town; a criminal who was hanged by the mayor on the basis of their testimony... She had disguised herself and followed them to this town in order to get revenge.</blockquote>

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