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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 523299" data-attributes="member: 41">Oh, no-- those NPCs would have killed us all dead-- I'm guessing they were about 16th-18th level themselves, and we were between 13th and 16th.  If Taran had understood that he might have acted differently, but I couldn’t see any way for him to figure out what *I* already knew at a metagame level. But that was the tension point of the scene-- Thelbar could see (via a permanent arcane sight) just how powerful those baddies were, but Taran didn't get it.  Remember, Taran isn't very smart.  He does get his comeuppance though (twice!), so be patient.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> After taking some ass-whoopings, Thelbar decides to do something about Taran’s . . . deficiencies, and that pays some dividends.  But we’ll get to that later.This essentially happens next chapter (or the one after, I forget exactly), so stay tuned.Thelbar knew instantly that the PCs were hopelessly outmatched.  He was trying to resolve the situation so that the matron mother didn't have to carry through on her threat to kill us if we turned them down.Thelbar gets his ass-whup on when he thinks he can win.And yes, later on it *does* make sense why the goddess (es) would select a bunch of 13th-level nobodies when they already have some 17th-18th level bad-as$es to go to.  You know that had to just *kill* the drow mage—begging favors of his lessers, and do-gooding surface worlders to boot!Not on Kyreel's part.  The drow can't stand her, but she believes in the doctrine of Palatin Eremath --that evil is merely an early stage of all souls' inevitable journey to the good.  But who do the drow hate more, a dark elf sell-out, or the soul who was most responsible for their goddess being banished from the Prime Material?  Kyreel is both of those things, and you can be sure that her current race was chosen as a very, very specific statement.This story-line is where some of the PCs unresolved past-life stuff starts coming to the foreground.  Nothing is wasted in Palatin Eremath’s faith.Yes, Gorquen, elven fighter.  She was the woman who adventured with Indy during the infamous “it’s not the size of the cudgel, it’s the heft of the swing” adventure (Chapters 19-21).  Gorquen is played by the woman who plays Prisantha in my Liberation of Tenh game, and only makes very rare appearances at this game.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From Chapter 29: Gorquen examines the statue, a look of wonderment on her face. "She . . ." Gorquen trails off for a moment and looks at Elita, who has tears in her eyes. "That's my . . . that's an Ahk Velar fighting stance," Gorquen says. "And look at her birthmark," Elita whispers. "Gorquen, this statue is you." "Palatin Eremath," Gorquen says, "she is Ishlok!"</li> </ul>Gorquen left the party to shepherd the statue of the Risen Goddess out of Undermountain along with the Ermathian faithful.  That branch of the Ermathian faith is now based out of Mistledale (with the PCs from this campaign), but Gorquen is off on other adventures for her goddess.Soon, we'll see how what the Champions of the Risen Goddess are doing in the Dalelands are impacted by what Gorquen is simultaneously doing in the High Forest.This campaign story-line and meta-plot has branched out and been running in three separate D&D games for about the last 2 months.  It's been a really successful experiment, and produced some very interesting scenes.It also has completely refuted my earlier claim that we are less evil to these PCs than we are to others, but I can’t give anything away . . .</blockquote>

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