My group has been playing Shackled City for about a year and a half. We are currently at the beginning of Secrets of the Stone Pillars. When this campaign started, I was using PDF's of the published magazines and not the hardcover version. It was also my first time as a DM, and I'd only learned to play a few months before. This message board has been a great help to me -- though I only discovered it after playing a few chapters.
I say all this to try to set up the question at hand.
The PC's met the Mayor in the first chapter, there was a description of the Mayor's statue garden, and the information that Vhalantru had "commissioned" statues of brave heroes. My players are pretty savvy, so when the Beholder showed up at the end of Chapter One, they put this information together and have been on a quest to free what they suspect are petrified heroes.
I won't go into the details of all four of the failed attempts they've used for the past year. Suffice to say they tried several methods that were underpowered magic. Finally, last night, they were powerful enough to cast the proper spell, and released Dwem Stormshield from his stony prison.
And now the questions I post to anyone who wants to help brainstorm:
1) How many heroes are in the Mayor's garden?
2) How many years in history has this been going on?
3) What are some background ideas for the characters who have been turned to stone?
4) What will be the range of attitudes of people becoming unpetrified? How many would want to help the PC's?
5) What will be the range of attitudes of Cauldronites?
Thanks for any help.
If you want to read the history of the Dungeon Divas campaign, you can read about it here:
http://blackmoonlilith.com/divas/
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