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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3374265" data-attributes="member: 48586">Spoilers! You no read!If I really wanted to abbreviate the Lotus Dragon Guildhall, it'd go something like this:Party shows up at the Taxidermist's shop. While questioning what's his face, a thug noisily enters from the trapdoor at the back and blustering, &quot;The Lady Lotus says she needs to talk to you down below before she-&quot; Shuts up when he sees the party talking to what's his face. Awkward pause... Taxidermist turns invisible and scrams out the back, thug runs back to the trapdoor and down into the Guildhall muttering, &quot;Oh, crap!&quot;Players are like dogs, something runs from them and they feel a compulsion to chase it.When the PCs get below in the Guildhall instead of engaging them in a fight, have multiple thugs flee in different directions. Have Rowyn show up a moment later saying, &quot;What the bloody has gotten into-&quot; gulp, sees the PCs, mutters, &quot;Damn that Vanthus!&quot; and runs to her room leading the PCs on a merry chase through all of the relevant areas (map room with note about the PCs), bugbear zombie, and finally a confrontation with Rowyn and Gut Tugger in her room where she almost immediately quaffs her potion of gaseous form and splits. If you want to have the rahgodessa still, it would make a great diversion there in her chambers while Rowyn makes good on her escape. Or possibly as a guardian of the treasury room instead of the trap.Anyway, there's my suggestions. That's a quick way of getting through the Guildhall and leading the PCs to all of the important stuff. A few thugs might show up afterward as token resistance, but basically the PCs showing up means &quot;the gig is up.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3374265, member: 48586"] [b]Spoilers! You no read![/b] If I [i]really[/i] wanted to abbreviate the Lotus Dragon Guildhall, it'd go something like this: Party shows up at the Taxidermist's shop. While questioning what's his face, a thug noisily enters from the trapdoor at the back and blustering, "The Lady Lotus says she needs to talk to you down below before she-" Shuts up when he sees the party talking to what's his face. Awkward pause... Taxidermist turns invisible and scrams out the back, thug runs back to the trapdoor and down into the Guildhall muttering, "Oh, crap!" Players are like dogs, something runs from them and they feel a compulsion to chase it. When the PCs get below in the Guildhall instead of engaging them in a fight, have multiple thugs flee in different directions. Have Rowyn show up a moment later saying, "What the bloody has gotten into-" gulp, sees the PCs, mutters, "Damn that Vanthus!" and runs to her room leading the PCs on a merry chase through all of the relevant areas (map room with note about the PCs), bugbear zombie, and finally a confrontation with Rowyn and Gut Tugger in her room where she almost immediately quaffs her potion of gaseous form and splits. If you want to have the rahgodessa still, it would make a great diversion there in her chambers while Rowyn makes good on her escape. Or possibly as a guardian of the treasury room instead of the trap. Anyway, there's my suggestions. That's a quick way of getting through the Guildhall and leading the PCs to all of the important stuff. A few thugs might show up afterward as token resistance, but basically the PCs showing up means "the gig is up." [/QUOTE]

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