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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 6859988" data-attributes="member: 16212">In agreement with the previous poster I did a couple of things to engage the party at Sloobludop.First, Shushar asked them to speak on his behalf, as I had written his backstory as being an exile (can't remember if that's in the text), and in returning home, he was effectively risking death and expected to be put on trial. Second, I've made the Society of Brilliance an integral part of the campaign, and Grazilaxx had already encountered the party and told them that the Society had become separated, and he should look out for his companions; from there it was a no-brainer to write in one of the Society as the upcoming sacrifice (I chose Skriss).We've only just finished that section and although I felt the uncomfortable tug of the rail-road as I led events towards Leemogoogon's emergence, it worked very well. All of the PC's and NPC's endured a revelatory vision when the demon appeared, and Ront was seduced into allowing his simmering hatred for the paladin, who had taken charge and effectively made the orc his sidekick, to finally spill over. He turned on him in the middle of the escape and almost killed him with one hit! The players absolutely loved it, although the paladin, already "favoured" of Zuggtmoy after he tried to heal a maddened purple worm of its fungal afflictions (!), is really being put through the wringer. The player in question assures me he's fine with it. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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