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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThoughtBubble" data-source="post: 585161" data-attributes="member: 9723">You know, I read the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil in one night. I started on the LoT the next day. I got inspired to DM again because of them. I even registered just so I could say hi. So "Hi". Oh, and I really enjoy your writing.A couple of ideas for the stew:The church may wish to have Heydricus make an additional contribution in the way of mentoring a young believer. After all, "Tritherion kicks ass", and of course, our man H has done his share of kicking. Who better to teach a new potential champion? Then introduce him to his new, level one paladin (or plain commoner) page. Now, you have a dependant, someone who's mostly a pain in the ass waiting to happen. Sure Heydricus can kick the crap out of most things headed his way, but it's easy leverage to make his life a little more unpleasant. To make things worse, his page can be female, cute, and naieve. Now we've got some complications to roll in. If she's a member of Heydricus's fanbase, she might do any number of stupid things to get his attention. If she's not combat worthy, Make sure Heydricus knows that he doesn't have to take her anywhere, just deal with her once in a while during down time. In that case, she may even get resentful for being left behind. Either way, she'd be easy prey for the HMHHC to make some machinations. After all, she'd probablly hear a few things, maybe know here Heydricus is when he goes on a mission, and I'm sure the HMHHC's got to have access to some charming people who could use her as a source of info. If she's not a member of his fanbase, she can greatly disapprove of some of his behavior, and try to reason with him. If she ends up having to put another layer of shine on his armor, she can resent him for it. And either way, she can add fule to the fire if a collision with Anon is imminent. Of course, Heydricus does have plenty of people working under him allready, and it'd probablly be more fun if he stepped in a mess himself, and you've allready got a potential security leak in Jespo. For Pris, the one thing that struck me is that, if her rival caught wind of any of this (the baroness, Anon, or Pris's reputation being dragged through the dirt), I'm sure she'd be willing to take it and run with it. She'd be a potentially powerful ally of the HMHHC, if they were ever to find out about each other. And about Pris's part in the murder, I think it's perfectly in character to not worry about it. She went through the Temple of Elemental Evil. How many kills does she have? How much of her time is spent around horrible bloody death? You're bound to get jaded in a situation like that. And now she's supposed to worry about some situation she wasn't even paying attention to, with some guy who was probablly in the wrong anyway, that she didn't even deal that directly with? I can see how it'd be a small thing.Anyway, hope I said something of use in there.</blockquote>

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