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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 4739964" data-attributes="member: 20323">Awesome. <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=":)" />What about the skull, the tome, and the Netheril laboratory beneath the city? One or more of those macguffins should be part of the next set of adventures. What was the hobgoblin general planning to use all these things for?A handful of ideas:Kin of the ConquererThe succubus "adopts" one of the PCs as her new son (the one who orchestrated the betrayal), impressed, and serves as a secret advisor about how to dismantle the hobgoblin military. It's clear she hopes to lure the PCs to evil, but her help appears to be genuine...By hobgoblin law the right of rule passes on to the PCs for slaying the previous ruler. However, the hobgoblins are split over whether to follow a bunch of non-hobgoblins (they were afraid of Vesuvius who was an exception to the rule/an honorary hobgoblin). Several warchiefs keep a close eye on the PCs and most support the anti-human hobgoblin faction. Outright withdrawing from Llorkh isn't an option as it would leave the city burnt to cinders and those not killed taken as slaves.There is a "reform" group within the hobgoblin army led by an ex-Hand of Bane (a "blood brother" of Vesuvius) who took a human as wife...it turns out she has changed his views and taught him what it means to love. This single act has ripples throughout the army, as other hobgoblins begin to find value in Llorkh's culture and find them questioning what they are doing there. The ex-Hand of Bane wants to oppose the warchiefs but he is hesitant to betray his own. He could be a critical ally or dangerous enemy, or (given his popular support) a new leader of the hobgoblin army.However, a resistance movement springs up to overthrow the "half-hobgoblin mercenary bastards", and the leader is a relative of one of the PCs! The resistance has two factions: one willing to use extreme measures and take innocent lives (they were anti the dwarf leader before), and one which are the true good guys. The resistance shakes the city, resulting in arbitrary arrests/detentions, random violence, and mass hangings. The PCs are faced with the unenviable position of playing hobgoblin/local area politics while avoiding resistance assassins and secretly channeling aid to the resistance.This leads to the PCs sinking realization...this chaos was part of the succubus' plan all along.</blockquote>

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