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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iwatt" data-source="post: 2480929" data-attributes="member: 11085">Yup. IMC in the Silver Marches, I rolled a random encounetr and it turned up to be a small scouting party of fey'ri. Since I didn't want to have the miximg it up with the Fey'ri just yet (hadn't studied the stat blocks in a while so I wasn't feeling confident), so I decided they'd found tracks of elves that looked kinda wierd. The animal companions of both party rangers were distraught since they could smell the brimstone. Of course my PCs decided that this was an evident plot hook  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> So they begin tracking the fey'ri. I deiced to give the fey'ri half a day head start to dissuade them from continuing the chase. No luck. So time passes and I decide to roll for another random encounter to spice things up. Comes up troll. So I decide that the trolls had ambushed the Fey'ri and taken them back to their lair. Of course the PCs decide they have to rescue these "innocents". Right about now I jst give up on getting them back on track and let them go troll hunting.....6 PCs average level 5 (sorcs so no fireballs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). I'm thinking it's going to be a hard fight (3 trolls in the ambush plus Momma back at home), so I set it up for them to have an obvious option to escape (and use my Hot Pursuit chase rules <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). Of course the party somehow manages to walk over the trolls through great strategic planning and an insuffereable amount of natural 20's rolled by the full PA  cleaving enlarged barbarian.So finally I had to let them find the fey'ri.... inside the kettle. Momma Troll was preparing her world famous elf stew (extra spicy when using Fey'ri). I had to give the PCs a bone though, so I ended having them find a journal by the fey'ri leader talking aboput her life 1,000 yeasr ago (before been frozen in time, since I kinda remembered that had happened to some memebers of house Dalgloreth (sp?) ). It also mentioned orc slaves. You should have seen the look on my PCs face (all newbies to the FR except fopr a couple who are very good at keeping their OOC knowledge of the game separate).So of course my carefully crafted Against the Horde campaign had to be set aside to focus on the PCs trying to unravel the mystery of these horned evil elves..... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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