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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EugeneZ" data-source="post: 5164910" data-attributes="member: 83605">I made a pretty big deal out of one of the minor NPCs in Shelter, Nelebekus/Brutus. I thought he was an interesting character, considering he's one of the first hints you get of the connection behind many of the events in that adventure. At one point the PCs went on a wild goose chase in order to find him. Eventually they met him at the Royale, and accidentally scared him. He got away. So the players really wanted to nab him. Finally, they nailed him aboard the ship and threw him overboard dramatically.For some reason, I was focused on other stuff during this whole scene/encounter and completely forgot the build-up to this character, so I wasn't sure why everyone thought killing him was a big deal. So that was the minor goof -- I didn't really do a good job of dramatising him during the combat. But the really big goof was that when the PCs were clearing out the last of the Ragesians at the beginning of Banquet, I had thought, "Wait! What happened to Nelebekus? They never found him after he escaped at the Royale! Now's a great time to bring him back!" so I had him show up as the "final boss" in the awesomely confusing tunnel system. I said something like... "The knight laughs and you clearly recognize the voice of Nelebekus!"... Yeah. Everyone was really confused and thought he had come back from the dead or something and after they reminded me that he drowned in the Ocean, I rescinded the laugh and said he was just some random Ragesian Dread Knight. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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