Going Mythic with Carrion Crown

[Andrew Betts]

So I've been doing a lot of thinking for my group and have some nice ideas about going Mythic with my Carrion Crown game and where to take it after book 6.

We're currently in Broken Moon and what I'm thinking of having happen is once they defeat Vrood and find the Carrion Crown poem/formula that there is a crack of thunder heard across Ustalav as the prison in Gallowspire begins to weaken and a small crack appears (granted they won't see this happening unless I do it in the vision) and when that happens they will all pass out. When they pass out they will be presented with a vision from whomever is granting them the mythic power (still working this out, but suggestions are great) I have 2 followers of Pharasma and a follower of Desna so I may go with deific power. Anyways they will be presented with the fact that the Whispering Tyrant is breaking free, something the Whispering Way has done could lead to his eventual escape. When they wake up they receive their first Mythic Tier.

Fast forward a couple of books to the end of book six. While fighting a slightly more powerful AA (I'll give him a couple Mythic ranks) nearing the end of the fight the tower shatters and the Whispering Tyrant rises, slaps down AA for trying to replace him, summons some undead and leaves to reform his horde.

I then plan to have the PCs going up against some mythic undead and possibly an even stronger WW until they're a little more on par with the WT before setting up with the opportunity for them to confront him once again to decide the fate of Ustalav and possibly Golarion.

So any thoughts? Ideas? Hey man that sucks?

What I need to figure out is when to get them the higher Tiers, I'd like them to be somewhere around 5-6 when they fight AA.

Thanks for anyone that reads this and thanks more for anyone that comments with ideas!

Andrew

[Joey Virtue]

Well there is that place that stores all of the WTs undead and is the mythic place from the mythic Golarion book

I dont think they need their Mythic Tiers just then I would wait

And AA should have quiet a few Mythic Tiers and that means alot of changes and additions to Mythic for the monsters
but if you wait till before book 6 and they have to go on a mission after they save the prince to become mythic to fight and stop AA

[Annika L]

My group is headed toward Gallowspire right now to face AA.

Once my group actually enters Gallowspire, I have some extra encounters and situations added to tie into my own continuation of the campaign, several of them will have reached a key point in their destinies and will ascend then, one is the scion of a deity, though she doesn't exactly know it yet, and will ascend, they all will be bathed in celestial blood from aiding and attempting to rescue the

Spoiler:

impaled angels in H2

and that will act as the catalyst for the remaining ascensions.

Since the WT is one bad dude, I'm having my players go on quite a few LARGE and difficult mythic quests before allowing them to attempt to put an end to him. They need QUITE a few mythic tiers beneath them to even hope to face him down. All the while the WW are working on freeing him. Nothing like a little pressure and terror to put a kick in the campaign =}

To me, I'd think you'd need to really work on the next three books encounters and situations to remake them as anything close to what I understand as Mythic...I am just now getting involved in the Mythic concepts and don't have all of the books yet.

I apologize for not being able to help with ideas for getting the pcs a few ties before they face AA, but after the AP there are some wonderful ideas for continuing the campaign that would create some powerful mythic adventures.

[Andrew Betts]

Well I've grabbed Mythic Mythos from Legendary Games as a boost for book 4. We'll see what more I need. Right now I'm more focused on trying to get through Book 3 they just got to the Stairs of the Moon.

[Annika L]

I really loved Stairs of the Moon, it ended up being really eerie-creepy to us. I guess if Desna was pertinent to your campaign group, it could be worked into a deity type ascension. I'll have to look for Mythic Mythos!

[Rakshaka]

I'm linking Desna to my group's moment of ascension when they

Book 4:

face the Dark Young of Shub-a-dub with two Mythic Tiers. Its appearance weakens the boundaries of reality that keeps the Tyrant's thoughts and dreams contained, yet allows the presence of Desna to seep through the thinness as well, having her grant a measure of power to the PCs to deal with the Outer World Incursion. Their moment of ascension:

"As you accept, the reality of the underwater dome fades away like smoke and you see before you a vast gulf of blackness filled with stars. Rather than the cold of the void, you feel a warmth, a radiance that pulses from every visible star around you and fills your very being. The moment precipitates a feeling you can never completely describe to anyone else but can never forget, a one-ness. This one-ness expands like warmth, a vast feeling of inter-connectivity between every living thing that dreams. In an instant, the feeling novas as billions of dreams beautiful and terrible flicker across your perception like the shuffling of a massive Harrow deck. You feel the destiny of these dreams begin to imbue you with their power against the unthinkable future proposed by the Thing before you, an end of millions of dreams followed by their horrible rebirth."

For the second tier, I'm going to raise the stakes in Book 5 by allowing the Blood Elixir to grant temporary a Mythic Tier to

Spoiler:

the Vampire Spawn it affects, making even more of an insidious drug. The source of the mythic power will be the Sun Orchid Elixir and some of Luvick Sievrage's (Spelling?) blood, who will also be Mythic. These will be alchemically combined into The Blood Knight, who will also possess a couple Mythic Tiers. Defeating him (and maybe Aisa) will give a second Mythic Tier.

For the third (and final tier for my campaign),

Book 6:

defeating the Grey Friar (who will have Mythic Tiers) and rescuing a certain somebody from Renchurch will grant them a tier. I plan on giving Marrowgarth some Mythic Tiers, as well as AA.

[Annika L]

Jaw drops in respect...very very well thought out!

[Rakshaka]

Glad you like!
Here's the music I am going to forever associate with Desna after using it at my own Stairs of the Moon vision. I'm gonna use it as I read the above text.