Gilladian
Adventurer
Well, yesterday my players dived into Tresendar manor, hunting Redcloaks. Due to a series of odd and fun circumstances, the rogue was separated from the rest of the party by the bugbears and was forced to flee. She ended up meeting Glass-staff by herself. At first, she didn't recognize him as her own personal enemy, someone who had done her family wrong when she was a child, but later she did. She passed herself off as a new Redcloak, and warned him that "the bugbears are on a rampage". He ordered her to follow him, and went off "to talk some sense into those crude beasts". Of course, as soon as they got out into the hallway, she sneaked off and left him yelling at the two remaining bugbears, and managed to escape (the rest of the party had already done so).
The important thing now is what the Redcloaks decide to do. Glass-staff is all about packing up and leaving. He'll probably take the bugbears with him as bodyguards, and report back to the Black Spider. How that will go, I'm not sure...
Will the Redcloaks decide their time in Phandalin is over, and pack up to leave? That seems a little anti-climatic, though realistic. Will they stay and fight to the death? That seems unlikely - they want to live, and so far the PCs are defeating them handily. Will they set more traps in their lair and then leave? I kinda like that idea. Will they abandon the prisoners, kill them, or take them along? The PCs don't really even know that there ARE prisoners at this point. The Redcloaks have been selling them to a local mining company who is using them for highly illegal slave labor in a coal mine nearby. If the Redcloaks took the prisoners and sold them before leaving, it would make sense, and might even draw the PCs attention to the place, which hasn't happened yet.
Any other ideas what Glass-staff, the Redcloaks or the Bugbears could do? The Nothic will just hang out, waiting for more dinner, but the others should have plans. And what will the Black Spider do (by the way, he's an ordinary evil elf in my world, not a drow)?
The important thing now is what the Redcloaks decide to do. Glass-staff is all about packing up and leaving. He'll probably take the bugbears with him as bodyguards, and report back to the Black Spider. How that will go, I'm not sure...
Will the Redcloaks decide their time in Phandalin is over, and pack up to leave? That seems a little anti-climatic, though realistic. Will they stay and fight to the death? That seems unlikely - they want to live, and so far the PCs are defeating them handily. Will they set more traps in their lair and then leave? I kinda like that idea. Will they abandon the prisoners, kill them, or take them along? The PCs don't really even know that there ARE prisoners at this point. The Redcloaks have been selling them to a local mining company who is using them for highly illegal slave labor in a coal mine nearby. If the Redcloaks took the prisoners and sold them before leaving, it would make sense, and might even draw the PCs attention to the place, which hasn't happened yet.
Any other ideas what Glass-staff, the Redcloaks or the Bugbears could do? The Nothic will just hang out, waiting for more dinner, but the others should have plans. And what will the Black Spider do (by the way, he's an ordinary evil elf in my world, not a drow)?
