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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4430151" data-attributes="member: 198">Nice analogy. And it applies for the campaign as a whole, I think <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=":)" /> That was a very interesting moment for me, since I was quite prepared for things to go very badly as soon as the blood magic got mentioned. As usual, I didn't know what would eventually happen, since I was playing it by ear in response to what the PCs said (and how they said it). But if you hadn't already told the Gatekeepers or didn't make that very clear to the dragons, the PCs would not have been leaving the meeting in one piece, and the campaign could have taken a very different direction. As I think you mentioned IC during the game, you guys screwed poor Xaggy a lot worse by spilling the beans about him to the Chamber than you could by going back there with a dozen 20th-level PCs. Much worse!Little behind the scenes info, since it doesn't make much difference now - Xagygyrag was designed to screw you over, but as usual, there was an IC reason for it. He has access to unusually powerful divination magic in the Black Well (remember the PCs finding that the dragons of Khesavuthir had records of dragonmarks appearing all over Eberron, including Khorvaire and other places they haven't been?) and he has an ability to change his available spells for the day. So once Xagygyrag had the first fight with the PCs (which told him a little about their capabilities), he spent a significant part of the day learning as much as he could about the PCs. He didn't get as much info as he would normally have, but he did go into the next fight knowing that they included two druids and one wizard as their primary casters (and a few other things). So he prepared a spell loadout which was heavily protective and combat-based (he only had a few when you first met him) and also protected himself from fire and electricity since most druid damage spells use one of those elements.Of course, now he knows your capabilities even better than he already did, so...</blockquote>

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