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<blockquote data-quote="Fox Lee" data-source="post: 6078941" data-attributes="member: 4346"><p>It's a sunken temple which I assume is part of the previous civilisation whose ruins remain around Seaquen - in practicality it's a way to get hints about the Aquiline Heart, and in my game I used it to dispense info a bout the Torch too (because I put myself in the difficult position of the Torch <em>not</em> being a previously-known artefact, and therefore had to work out how to tell the PC about it it without just having somebody say "go find this previously unknown macguffin"!).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Very true! I wasn't expecting it to turn out like it did at all. My group didn't pay a huge amount of attention a lot of the leads, actually; they turned in the Dianoem and went to hunt spiders quite readily, but I couldn't really get them to socialise or look around town to find out what was happening - for some reason they were nowhere near as curious or proactive as they normally are. I mostly used their cohorts to hook them into stuff - like I had Faolan (Crystin) become friends with - and slightly dependent on - Laurabec, in the absence of her father (who was the heroes' prisoner until he escaped during the Witches' Isle fight, to take up the role he's supposed to have in the Biomancy plot).</p><p></p><p>I managed to get one player to do a Wayfarer audition, of <em>sorts</em>, in that he used his History skill to give them an incredibly long-winded speech about the inaccuracies and overblown artistic license in their production. This not not exactly make them want to hire him, but in the end one of the writers chased him up to beg him to join as a consultant. He kind of left it at that, though - he's my "spectator player", so really I was lucky I even got the initial interest out of him ^^;</p><p></p><p>They <em>did</em> take a lot of interest in the elf/eladrin princess though, partially because they made an ally of Shealis, who returned as part of the princess's retinue. At the moment they're conspiring with Shealis to formulate a plan where the princess (in this case an imperious brat named Aviela, not honourable nice girl Shalosha) <em>thinks</em> she is in charge of the Alliance forces, while keeping her from having any real authority. This is actually great for me, since I added several in eladrin nobles with comparable claims to succession, all of whom are trying to find the Torch (or a comparable artefact) in order to secure the throne (one of them is replacing Onamdammin as Pilus' ally, since I have no country comparable to Ostalin). It should be easier to bring that conflict to the fore, since that's the biggest thread they chose to invest in <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hmmm, that's an interesting thought! I should prepare for that possibility too, since my guys <em>will</em> probably try to talk down anybody I don't make gibberingly evil <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fox Lee, post: 6078941, member: 4346"] It's a sunken temple which I assume is part of the previous civilisation whose ruins remain around Seaquen - in practicality it's a way to get hints about the Aquiline Heart, and in my game I used it to dispense info a bout the Torch too (because I put myself in the difficult position of the Torch [i]not[/i] being a previously-known artefact, and therefore had to work out how to tell the PC about it it without just having somebody say "go find this previously unknown macguffin"!). Very true! I wasn't expecting it to turn out like it did at all. My group didn't pay a huge amount of attention a lot of the leads, actually; they turned in the Dianoem and went to hunt spiders quite readily, but I couldn't really get them to socialise or look around town to find out what was happening - for some reason they were nowhere near as curious or proactive as they normally are. I mostly used their cohorts to hook them into stuff - like I had Faolan (Crystin) become friends with - and slightly dependent on - Laurabec, in the absence of her father (who was the heroes' prisoner until he escaped during the Witches' Isle fight, to take up the role he's supposed to have in the Biomancy plot). I managed to get one player to do a Wayfarer audition, of [i]sorts[/i], in that he used his History skill to give them an incredibly long-winded speech about the inaccuracies and overblown artistic license in their production. This not not exactly make them want to hire him, but in the end one of the writers chased him up to beg him to join as a consultant. He kind of left it at that, though - he's my "spectator player", so really I was lucky I even got the initial interest out of him ^^; They [i]did[/i] take a lot of interest in the elf/eladrin princess though, partially because they made an ally of Shealis, who returned as part of the princess's retinue. At the moment they're conspiring with Shealis to formulate a plan where the princess (in this case an imperious brat named Aviela, not honourable nice girl Shalosha) [i]thinks[/i] she is in charge of the Alliance forces, while keeping her from having any real authority. This is actually great for me, since I added several in eladrin nobles with comparable claims to succession, all of whom are trying to find the Torch (or a comparable artefact) in order to secure the throne (one of them is replacing Onamdammin as Pilus' ally, since I have no country comparable to Ostalin). It should be easier to bring that conflict to the fore, since that's the biggest thread they chose to invest in :) Hmmm, that's an interesting thought! I should prepare for that possibility too, since my guys [i]will[/i] probably try to talk down anybody I don't make gibberingly evil :p [/QUOTE]
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