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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1731994" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, a quick update.  I'd been planning this little seance with the High Lord's wife as the preferred potential hook to follow after finishing my last adventure, but I was really wanting more feedback from my players on which of the many plot hooks they were interested in pursuing.  And today, that answer has finally started to come out; turns out few of the characters have any interest in potential corruption at the High Lord's household, and are instead much more interested in the crimelord and what he can offer them.<sigh>  I don't have any great ideas for where to go with that one; I actually didn't even have hooks per se associated with him.But hey, any GM worth his salt can take these kinds of things and run with them, right?  The crimelord owns and operates a bath house called the Steams; it has a large room with cold and hot pools scattered throughout and then several rooms on the periphery of that that are essentially saunas.  It has just a little bit of a Japanese flavor; most of the side rooms are just separated from the main room by rice paper walls, that are probably quite fragile in the humid environment (although very fancy in this setting).  I haven't given much more thought other than that to what's in the bath house, but I did envision multiple floors, including an extremely fancy office for the crimelord, complete with arcane library of forbidden lore and maybe some "crackhouse" type elements; contraband and illegal substances being packaged and hidden, etc.I suppose I should have a laundry room for all those towels too...  maybe I can steal that laundry room scene from Three Musketeers as a location while I'm at it...</blockquote>

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