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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 463108" data-attributes="member: 41">The Company of the Random Encounter story hour just blipped on my 'must read' radar.Thanks, Adam!  That's a fantastic post, and entirely in line with what I had in mind for the emotes and the Pholtans.  Re-read out the mystery that Tau was investigating, and you'll see the seeds for this very sub-plot.  The Pholtans will *not* be happy with the true purpose of the emotes (should it come to pass), and for various reasons, neither will the Iuzians.  Those emotes are the most precious resource Good has in the Eastern Flannaes right now, but the Liberators don't realize this yet.   (And they won't if they don't rescue Tau!)However, I hadn't considered that the Pholtans would have celestial might backing them up.  That will be fun, since the Liberators have never fought with the 'good guys'.The Pholtans won't be able to get as far North as the Liberators are any time soon.  Right now, there is a buffer between the Pholtans and Cur'ruth-- the Troll King.  The PCs have been yawning to themselves about the trolls, so I was going to use the Pholtans to remove that plot hook.I had imagined that Tau was being 'put to the question' in Wintershiven.  He pretty much ruined his relationship with Pholtus during the play of the game, and his higher-level spells aren't being granted at all.  I imagined that either the Liberators rescue Tau, or he would be executed for Intolerable Heretical Practices and Ideas Contrary to the Law.However your post made me consider this point:  The hierarchy of the church needs Tau in order to advance their political agenda.  Yes, he is bordering on heresy with his unique ideas and his crazy 'think for yourself' attitude, but he is Heydricus' childhood friend, and the Liberators are the wildcard in the Pale's plan to annex Tenh and 'unify' the Flan people under the Right Lordship of Pholtus' Chosen.Would Tau give up his suspicions about the emotes and what the mines at Cur'ruth really are?  How complete is his disenchantment with the Church?Here's another question-- now that the PCs have defeated the Bleeding Stone, what are the Iuzians going to do to get retribution against the PCs?</blockquote>

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