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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9268729" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>I don't know if I wrote it in the adventures, but in my home campaign that inspired WotBS (and the earlier campaign in which Rhuarc was a PC, and Coaltongue was just an upstart half-orc revolutionary), Trilla always had psychic powers. </p><p></p><p>I think I had recently read some Dragonriders of Pern and wanted a psychic dragon in my game, and the PCs came across a few manifestations of her nightmares that acted like breadcrumbs to help them track down where Coaltongue had taken her. If I recall correctly, he was threatening to kill Trilla unless Syana helped his army attack the Serens, who were the main power of the region (vaguely Roman - which some 20 years later my headcanon says were actually colonists from Crisillyir who sailed over from the continent where ZEITGEIST happens, around the time of the Great Malice).</p><p></p><p>Syana was going to give in and help, but the PCs (who also disliked the Serens, but didn't want Coaltongue to start a war that would lay waste to the countryside) thought they could maybe protect peace and get Syana as an ally to promote <em>diplomacy</em> instead of war. So they launched a rescue mission. </p><p></p><p>The battle took place on a river bank in a canyon where it would be hard for a dragon to attack without landing, but the PCs were stealthy (see: Rhuarc), and they managed to kill Trilla's guards and start to withdraw when they were spotted and a big fight kicked off. Coaltongue charged in, I think some of the orcs had summoned a devil, and the party had summoned an angel. The devil got blasted, Coaltongue got disarmed, and I had him use a bone from the devil to power attack to try to kill Syana. He knocked her out, but didn't kill her, and then another rogue PC hit Coaltongue with a big sneak attack. He fell into the river and was carried away (defeated, but not killed), and the PCs fled in the chaos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 9268729, member: 63"] I don't know if I wrote it in the adventures, but in my home campaign that inspired WotBS (and the earlier campaign in which Rhuarc was a PC, and Coaltongue was just an upstart half-orc revolutionary), Trilla always had psychic powers. I think I had recently read some Dragonriders of Pern and wanted a psychic dragon in my game, and the PCs came across a few manifestations of her nightmares that acted like breadcrumbs to help them track down where Coaltongue had taken her. If I recall correctly, he was threatening to kill Trilla unless Syana helped his army attack the Serens, who were the main power of the region (vaguely Roman - which some 20 years later my headcanon says were actually colonists from Crisillyir who sailed over from the continent where ZEITGEIST happens, around the time of the Great Malice). Syana was going to give in and help, but the PCs (who also disliked the Serens, but didn't want Coaltongue to start a war that would lay waste to the countryside) thought they could maybe protect peace and get Syana as an ally to promote [I]diplomacy[/I] instead of war. So they launched a rescue mission. The battle took place on a river bank in a canyon where it would be hard for a dragon to attack without landing, but the PCs were stealthy (see: Rhuarc), and they managed to kill Trilla's guards and start to withdraw when they were spotted and a big fight kicked off. Coaltongue charged in, I think some of the orcs had summoned a devil, and the party had summoned an angel. The devil got blasted, Coaltongue got disarmed, and I had him use a bone from the devil to power attack to try to kill Syana. He knocked her out, but didn't kill her, and then another rogue PC hit Coaltongue with a big sneak attack. He fell into the river and was carried away (defeated, but not killed), and the PCs fled in the chaos. [/QUOTE]
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