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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 83022" data-attributes="member: 172">Okay, update time for anyone still listening and/or willing to contribute:Last game, I gave the players their options and they followed a few other leads that pointed them in the direction of the gate to the ice age world. For more info on the ice age world I am planning, see my post on the whereabouts forum:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/messageboards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5498" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/messageboards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5498</a>Which is the "deal with the war machines" plot.I may end up playing several sessions before we end up with that, but I'm still not sure when this "game day" will be, so what I am going to start doing is working up a backlist of adventure ideas so when it happens, I can be ready.With that in mind, the activities for next week will start out with the party venturing into the ley line nexus that contains the gate. The party has a magic amulet which they (correcly) beleive contains the spirit guardian of the gate, that was trapped by Drakar to allow them to use the gate.The party discovered last week that the third NPC is somehow under the control of Drakar by speaking to fellow prisoners that they released. She was imprisoned with the other prisoners, and was visited by a psion who used some effect on her. A week later, the guards came, let her out, and she assisted Drakar of her own accord.When they release the spirit, he will reveal some facts about the gate. The gate was made to accomodate a lot, and Drakar this. They have already returned with some war machines, but he will allude to the fact that they are greater war machines and other artifacts still to be had. In all likelihood, when the PCs enter the gate, they will have a few objectives.Their primary objective will probably be to neutralize the mind seeded NPC... she is the key to the whole plot.However, even if they succeed at this, Drakar has already escaped with several war machines, and the players may think of or be nudged into finding a foil or counter to this menace by further exploration.Drakar knows that the mind seeded elf is the key to their plan, so they guard her well. That said, this may fall down to a tactical scenario as they players try to outmanuever Drakar, guess what they are doing, and try to evade whatever machinions they activate.Hopefully, there will be an exploration and diplomacy aspect to it as the players need to get information from the locals and possibly allies against Drakar.Oh, one other thing, regarding Galea. While reading the MotP, I was inspired as to a very interesting plot regarding her true nature while reading the Manual of the Planes... perhaps she is a mirror of a true galea that was slain in a mirror plane. The true galea was the betrothed of a knight that I have destined to become a betrayer in my current campaign; he too is actually a mirror creature. They player's digging into the past will reveal this past and bring to the fore the NEXT stage of the campaign after this three-part campaign comes to an end. So I will be putting Galea on the back burner for the time being, and she won't be part of the game day (unless it REALLY gets delayed).</blockquote>

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