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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8447992" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>If you want to keep the players from feeling stuff happened without their input while they're in transit, well, it's pretty easy to announce now that divination magic doesn't work well on Axis Island, and scrying will constantly flip to show other locations, sometimes even impossible places. Even sending magic to and from tends to fail. So 1) this keeps info from getting back to Risur before the PCs, since the <em>Impossible</em> is the fastest ship in the fleet, and 2) this establishes in advance that the party can't do scry-spying on Axis Island when they later on realize it's important.</p><p></p><p>My brief thought on how to go forward would be that as they approach Flint, Captain Smith or the other team can tell them that he received a sending from Harkover Lee, and that he reported what he knew in 25 words: "Island liberated, constables returned before hand off to Danor, Duchess unaccounted for, Elfaivaran warrior Asrabey in custody, constables accompanied by Nathan Jierre. Heading for Flint."</p><p></p><p>He got a second sending, saying that Lee tried to scry on the Duchess but Axis Island interference just showed him random locations. He told Captain Smith that the constables will debrief the king when they reach Flint.</p><p></p><p>One of the locations Lee saw was a shallow grave, but he had no way to know the Duchess was dead.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure the Risuri navy has a handful of spellcasters who can cast sending, but they're not investigators, and in any case, the Risuri military is supposed to depart and leave the island to the Danorans. So as far as any Risuri spellcasters in the navy know, the Duchess was spotted here and there, but now she's vanished. They've reported that.</p><p></p><p>So the party has a bit of time to plan what they're going to report. Do they really want to conceal the truth from the king, so that he finds out at some later point that his sister was dead and the party lied to him the whole time? Whom do they want to keep in the loop, and who in the dark? Can they trust Nathan to keep his mouth shut? Can they trust each other?</p><p></p><p>Perhaps have Asrabey mention that, since he was tasked with killing the Duchess, he intends to report that to the Unseen Court in the Dreaming. The party <em>might</em> figure out some way to ensure he doesn't tell the king the truth, but it depends on whether Asrabey sees the party as clever opponents or just petty liars. Like, he's got a sense of duty and honor, but it's skewed a bit so fey shenanigans are honorable if they're <em>clever</em>. And spreading fake rumors that the Duchess is still alive is clever. Since they beat him, Asrabey might think that the honorable thing to do is to keep their secrets, especially since if he tells his masters the truth, then <em>they</em> know something the king of Risur doesn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 8447992, member: 63"] If you want to keep the players from feeling stuff happened without their input while they're in transit, well, it's pretty easy to announce now that divination magic doesn't work well on Axis Island, and scrying will constantly flip to show other locations, sometimes even impossible places. Even sending magic to and from tends to fail. So 1) this keeps info from getting back to Risur before the PCs, since the [I]Impossible[/I] is the fastest ship in the fleet, and 2) this establishes in advance that the party can't do scry-spying on Axis Island when they later on realize it's important. My brief thought on how to go forward would be that as they approach Flint, Captain Smith or the other team can tell them that he received a sending from Harkover Lee, and that he reported what he knew in 25 words: "Island liberated, constables returned before hand off to Danor, Duchess unaccounted for, Elfaivaran warrior Asrabey in custody, constables accompanied by Nathan Jierre. Heading for Flint." He got a second sending, saying that Lee tried to scry on the Duchess but Axis Island interference just showed him random locations. He told Captain Smith that the constables will debrief the king when they reach Flint. One of the locations Lee saw was a shallow grave, but he had no way to know the Duchess was dead. I'm sure the Risuri navy has a handful of spellcasters who can cast sending, but they're not investigators, and in any case, the Risuri military is supposed to depart and leave the island to the Danorans. So as far as any Risuri spellcasters in the navy know, the Duchess was spotted here and there, but now she's vanished. They've reported that. So the party has a bit of time to plan what they're going to report. Do they really want to conceal the truth from the king, so that he finds out at some later point that his sister was dead and the party lied to him the whole time? Whom do they want to keep in the loop, and who in the dark? Can they trust Nathan to keep his mouth shut? Can they trust each other? Perhaps have Asrabey mention that, since he was tasked with killing the Duchess, he intends to report that to the Unseen Court in the Dreaming. The party [I]might[/I] figure out some way to ensure he doesn't tell the king the truth, but it depends on whether Asrabey sees the party as clever opponents or just petty liars. Like, he's got a sense of duty and honor, but it's skewed a bit so fey shenanigans are honorable if they're [I]clever[/I]. And spreading fake rumors that the Duchess is still alive is clever. Since they beat him, Asrabey might think that the honorable thing to do is to keep their secrets, especially since if he tells his masters the truth, then [I]they[/I] know something the king of Risur doesn't. [/QUOTE]
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