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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7437786" data-attributes="member: 79141">Very much so, yes.  It wouldn't be Zeitgeist without Rumdoom.  Not our Zeitgeist anyway!  His player was out for several weeks for real-life reasons - not for the first time.  So we staged another departure during his final week, which happened to coincide with the showdown on the Lance.  To my reckoning this is his third such dramatic disappearance, the others being his self-sacrifice against a sea-monster during adventure 3, and then setting off on his own to take down Sly and the Family Stone during adventure 4. We try to make his reappearances equally dramatic.  This is my favourite so far.  Nicely timed.  I only knew he was coming back on the day of the session.It was altogether possible that he might be out for the whole of the rest of adventure #9.  If that had happened I had the idea that he and the deep fey would have sailed on to Axis Island and got involved in the White Tongue's sabotage of the planar ritual.  Rumdoom wouldn't have realised what was going on, all the while thinking he was thwarting the Ob.  Ho ho!  I'm almost disappointed that never got to happen.By the way - I can't find any reference to the souped-up powers of the Golden Icon of Apet when the planar seal is open.  I'm happy to make them up, but wondered if I was missing them.  Also, do the powers remain for the rest of the campaign?  (It would be nice if they did, but it says they don't work during Stanfield's ritual, so I was wondering if they started up again afterwards or not.)Edit: I should add an explanation of my fudging of the identity of Professor Bugge, alias Cedric San.  We created the character and backstory of Sevitar when only the draft of #9 was published, and the necromancer is called Cedric San in that draft.  I always had an idea that Sevitar would die at some point and return at this moment, so seeded the link way back then.  Of course, the identity of San got changed in the meantime, and while I could have simply switched it back, I preferred the backstory of Bugge, so I simply combined the two.</blockquote>

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