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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawke" data-source="post: 4419157" data-attributes="member: 61721">We're about to start.  I love the location, I like the individual fights and how you go to different halls and explore. The plot needed some tweaking but there's more there than KotS imho.  Here's what I did Spoilers [spoiler]To add some social encounters and an overarching storyline I decided to make Szarrthraxx from Kobold Hall the leader of a group seeking to kill human-settlements in the Nentir Vale and retake it. The players began with Kobold Hall and overheard Kalarel and Szarrthraxx discussing their individual plans and such and Kalarel left to go do his dark deed and the players took out the dragon.  Later, they find evidence that Balgron the Fat has taken the money side of things from his benefactor and is now funding the operation to get various kobolds, goblins, orcs, gnolls, etc. in the area to attack. The players find Linora in the dungeon badly injured and being taken by Balgron to sell to the Bloodreavers as a slave. She says she overheard about a big attack by a group of kobolds on the town and runs off to warn them. Kalarel suspects that Balgron isn't going to play nice with him, so that's why he sealed the second level of the keep and instituted a password in case Balgron tried to come get him and his group of cult loyalists.  The players finally killed Balgron and found a letter on him from Hasifir, one of the mages of Saruun who claims to be behind it. Hasifir says that he wants to establish rule in the Nentir and use an army of creatures to go take other places. He knows of a dark place of power he hopes to use to make them all powerful & rich. He says the other mages don't know quite yet.  Only thing is... Hasifir isn't really the guy, it's Paldemar with the hopes that when Balgron fails whoever will come provide the letter and cause trouble in the seven pillar hall with accusations that one of the mages is interfereing outside the hall. In reality Paldemar is running the whole show from behind the scenes and working to create as many distractions as possible as he searches for the keys to power.  I hope it'll make some good story and social encounters in the seven pillared hall. I'm going to shift it to a clues situation as the players try to prove/disprove/whatever what is going on that leads them to the various locations in the mountain... but we'll see how that goes once they get there.[/spoiler] <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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