I've only skimmed through Three Faces of Evil, but I can't figure out where Smenk got the worm which the PCs will find in Filge's lab. Unless I'm missing something, there are no worms in Dourstone mine. Did Smenk steal the only one the cultists had?
And after Reading handout #1 in Three Faces of Evil, it appears that the cultists are still trying to locate the worms, and the undead hosts in which they reside.
I recall he visited Ragnolin and stole it off a shelf in the mines. He became concerned for his own interests and safety when he witnessed the cultists praying around the pool and took the worm to show his necromancer friend Filge.
Filge explains, "The green worm? Balabar nicked that jar from a laboratory in the Dourstone Mine."
If I remember correctly it's described in the Whispering Cairn in the introduction to the Observatory section.
Y'all seem to be missing the point of his question. In The Whispering Cairn, it says Smenk stole the worm from a shelf in the lab in the Dourstone Mine. But in Three Faces of Evil, the Dorstone Mine is detailed, and is missing a lab that was worms in jars.
So if Smenk stole their only worm-in-a-jar, one would think the cultists would realize the worm was missing and realize it went missing right after Smenk's visit.
Where did Smenk get the worm?
From the bottom of a bottle of Kyuss-brand tequilla? :)
I don't have 125 yet, but 124 does clearly mention Smenk took a jar with a worm from beneath Dourstone Mine. Either it was the only one and/or the cultists have cleaned out that lab since Smenk was there, or we have ourselves the first continuity error of the Age of Worms Adeventure Path. My guess is that Erik or James will spin a yarn along the lines of the lab being cleaned out. ;)
OK, I haven't received issue 125 yet, so in that case I can't answer the question.
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While the actual, honest answer is that we just forgot to put a shelf of Kyuss worms into "The Three Faces of Evil," it's really not that great of an error. It's certainly possible that the green worm that Smenk snatched was the only one that the cultists of the Ebon Triad had. Or perhaps the Faceless One did indeed notice but allowed the theft to stand for his own inscrutable reasons. Or maybe the cultists cleared out their remaining worms and shipped them off to regions unknown?
If the probability drive on my time machine was working, though, I'd go back and put some more green worms in jars on the shelves in area 27 of the Labyrinth of Vecna.
I want to know about the break down in intelligence that led us to beleive that Kyuss worms were in fact in the mines. I think we need congressional hearings to look into the fact that these worms, which we were told clearly were the reason that we were going into the mines, are not, in fact, in the mines.
Furthermore, we have caused undue stress on the poor evil cultists that we have put out of the mine, whom we would have left alone had it not been for false reports of worms actually in the mines.
Sorry . . . my bad . . . lol
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I say becuase of this, we need to call a congressional hearing to examine the effects of performance enhancing drugs in the realm of adventure writing. This will consist of hearings on the effects of caffiene, in specific relation to Diet Dr. Pepper, and the effects of using steroids to rehab the index finger, due to injuries stemming from the constant dialing of Pizza delivery joints.
Either it was the only one and/or the cultists have cleaned out that lab since Smenk was there, or we have ourselves the first continuity error of the Age of Worms Adeventure Path.The first continuity error appears in the Whispering Cairn, with the whole "How did Alastor get through the mouth if the Seekers already took the lantern" issue.
The first continuity error appears in the Whispering Cairn, with the whole "How did Alastor get through the mouth if the Seekers already took the lantern" issue.
Okay; what I meant was "the first continuity error from adventure to adventure," e.g., in one adventure, the bartender at the Homely Sow is a halfling, and in the next he's a gnome, etc. With different authors penning each adventure, that sort of thing is bound to happen.
I say becuase of this, we need to call a congressional hearing to examine the effects of performance enhancing drugs in the realm of adventure writing.
Hey Patman, I um. . . er, never mind.
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Either it was the only one and/or the cultists have cleaned out that lab since Smenk was there, or we have ourselves the first continuity error of the Age of Worms Adeventure Path.
The first continuity error appears in the Whispering Cairn, with the whole "How did Alastor get through the mouth if the Seekers already took the lantern" issue.
Because Alastor solved the lantern puzzle, and died twenty years ago, and the Seekers came later?