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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 2043358" data-attributes="member: 607">Here's an idea of how to add a M. Night Shyamala-ding-dong twist to WotVB (those who are playing it stay out!)[SPOILER] Lucan *isn't* trying to escape to Karrnath. This is all a ploy to attract the PCs, who are not the pursuers, they're the prey!Y'see, Lucan was turned into a vampire by a Blood of Vol member (BoV is the force behind the Emerald Claw), and has always had the intention of cornering the PCs in the abandoned ziggurat (chosed for its population of aberrations, suitably subdued by a favor of beings from Khyber). Garrow was supposed to help the PCs along the way. But he has a deep envy and hatred for Lucan, since it was he, Garrow, who should've been a vampire, not some turncoat human. That is why Garrow rams the PCs airship with his own. If everyone dies, Garrow can recover the schemas and slay Lucan and take his place in the BoV.But what the Emerald Claw didn't foresee was the attack from Scimitar and the other agents of the LoBster. And when the PCs (hopefully) slay Lucan, Garrow (now an failure before the BoV's high-ups) sees one last chance of looking good before his masters, by joining forces with the very first enemy of the PCs (who ran afoul with the LoBster during The Forgotten Forge and SotLW, even before they met Garrow).This makes the whole chase a smoke-and-mirrors ploy, adds much depth to Garrow and to his alliance with Scimitar, and ties the adventure into the schema-plot. [/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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