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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4489760" data-attributes="member: 35909">Thanks all for the ideas.  Ran it tonight, and things went pretty well.  I stuck with the dawn-noon time period, though I did have one event the night before.  It was something I had planned on doing from the beginning, mostly cause it'd be funny to mess with that player's head.Did a soldiery march with weapon drill, foiled by liberal use of the grease spell, a candle lighting by magnifying glass focusing the sun's rays foiled by an invisible rogue blowing on the glass to fog it up.  And a ceremony to harness the sun's light into the holy symbol interrupted by a silent image dark cloud.  Then, I didn't need to do the final private ceremony, since over the course of the two days the head priestess had (thanks to some sense motive rolls) become suspicious of the returning "hero" and the guy who found him and helped him get to the town alive and well, having an invisible Musteval detect evil on them.  It worked, doors were shut for the supposed ceremony, and instead she aggressively pursued the issue with them, battle ensuing.[sblock]I was just happy I managed to make the rolls a surprise even though it was open rolling in a chat room.   I had the one telling the false story to an admiring girl (who wanted to believe it too much to doubt him) roll bluff, but instead of rolling sense motive for the girl, did it for the priestess.  Likewise, made it seem like when I asked for d20 rolls when entering the chamber, used the description of it to think it had something to do with a passive magic on the room, not that an invisible stranger was peeking at their minds.  They were actually shocked when SHE basically declared battle, having expected to walk in there and take her by surprise!  Made me almost as happy as the first session when a bunch of average human warriors (level 1) brought half the party (gestalt level 3) to the brink of death.[/sblock]I'll have to make a more elaborate ritual some other time they deal with Pelor or a similar god and use some of these other ideas.</blockquote>

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