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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 3762703" data-attributes="member: 31454">Mechanically, probably hit points.In-game?- the story has progressed- ground is gained or lost- the situation gets better or worse for the characters- they managed or failed to rescue the innkeeper's daughter- the enemy forces have been depleted of a unit- the heroes proved their mettle to the townsfolk- an important clue as to the location of the cleric's long-lost brother was whispered through the dying lips of one of the bandits- a treasure map was found during the looting of the bodies- the scuffle did or didn't alert the dragon to the party's whereabouts- the delaying action of the rearguard frustrated the PCs' attempt to capture their king- the PCs now must make a daring running slide under the portcullis before it shuts or be forced to scale the castle walls- the heroes use their prowess to earn the respect of a might lord of mercenary warbands- it's a trap and now the heroes find the other forty goblins surrounding them with crossbows- one of the cut-throats was carrying a piece of an artifact which sets into motion the scramble to reassemble the Last Mirror of the Witch-King- the PCs accidentally killed their own countrymen in a late-night scuffle, leaving them in serious hot-water- the wizard learns that his old master hired these goons to test his young apprentice's spellpower- the wicked sorcerer was just setting the heroes up for a good ol' fashioned delayed blast fireball- the changelings managed to hold the heroes long enough that they missed the lightning rail to Sharn- the necromancer's ritual requires three hundred bodies to complete... and now he has four more- it was a bluff, and the one important piece of treasure that the PCs were supposed to recover, the True Crest of the Royal Family, was handed off to a fence long ago- great, now the inn smells like dead goblin, and the PCs have to clean it up at 3 in the morning</blockquote>

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