Joshua Goudreau |
I just bought Destiny of the Sands I: A Bitter Bargain and read the bit about Grandmaster Torch at the beginning. I knew that the Shadow Lodge stopped being a faction but I don't know any of the details. The most recent scenarios that we have run at my local lodge were from Season 3 while Torch was still a faction leader. Some of my players even met him back in First Steps and liked him.
So can anyone give me some details on his betrayal so I can weave them into the game next weekend?
Rogue Eidolon |
I just bought Destiny of the Sands I: A Bitter Bargain and read the bit about Grandmaster Torch at the beginning. I knew that the Shadow Lodge stopped being a faction but I don't know any of the details. The most recent scenarios that we have run at my local lodge were from Season 3 while Torch was still a faction leader. Some of my players even met him back in First Steps and liked him.
So can anyone give me some details on his betrayal so I can weave them into the game next weekend?
It's all in the scenario Rivalry's End.
In the game I played and the game I GMed, players just happily let Torch leave without moving to stop him (but if you do try to stop him, he sics some really weak half-orc guards on you and then hightails it), and both of my Shadow Lodge characters bear him no ill will for his actions so far (though they think his choice of details in his escape were foolish and unlike him) and would have no problem helping him in the future, but I think the deal with the scenario you are running is that it gives the players a huge opportunity to decide what they think about the whole thing and either help Torch or sabotage him.
Rogue Eidolon |
Well that explains a lot. Thank you for bringing me up to speed, Mark. Also, seeing as how you're in Boston you should make the trip up to visit us in Maine.
I don't have a car, but I'd certainly be happy to GM for you guys remotely some week at the very least! Will we see any of our Lodge members from Maine at Totalcon?
- 3 |
Simple ego. He wanted to personally thumb his nose at the Pathfinder Society as he expected the PC's to survive to tell their story.
Naw man, he's unfinished business. You'll see, Mr. Torch will come back from the shadows, grander than ever!, throwing light into all the little nooks and crannies the Decimvirate tries to keep hidden. Just you wait! Maybe, just maybe, when Torch triumphantly resurfaces to expose the Society, I'll get my shadow back, jump down from this tree and back into the material plane, and aid Torch in his noble campaign.
Mr. Torch isn't finished fighting the good fight for all Pathfinders!
Disclaimer: Fully aware that my cursed, stranded character can neither return to play, nor rejoin the Shadow Lodge. She's not dead, though, so peanut gallery, go!
Daedalaman |
Joshua Goudreau wrote:I just bought Destiny of the Sands I: A Bitter Bargain and read the bit about Grandmaster Torch at the beginning. I knew that the Shadow Lodge stopped being a faction but I don't know any of the details. The most recent scenarios that we have run at my local lodge were from Season 3 while Torch was still a faction leader. Some of my players even met him back in First Steps and liked him.
So can anyone give me some details on his betrayal so I can weave them into the game next weekend?
It's all in the scenario Rivalry's End. ** spoiler omitted **
I'm pretty sure he did what he did to draw suspicion away from his agents that were in the Society and allow them to continue in the society without suspicion. He did it to protect the men and women who were his lackeys, which is actually very in character for him.
Rogue Eidolon |
Mark Seifter wrote:I'm pretty sure he did what he did to draw suspicion away from his agents that were in the Society and allow them to continue in the society without suspicion. He did it to protect the men and women who were his lackeys, which is actually very in character for him.Joshua Goudreau wrote:I just bought Destiny of the Sands I: A Bitter Bargain and read the bit about Grandmaster Torch at the beginning. I knew that the Shadow Lodge stopped being a faction but I don't know any of the details. The most recent scenarios that we have run at my local lodge were from Season 3 while Torch was still a faction leader. Some of my players even met him back in First Steps and liked him.
So can anyone give me some details on his betrayal so I can weave them into the game next weekend?
It's all in the scenario Rivalry's End. ** spoiler omitted **
That's...good sleuthing. I didn't think of that, and it's a very good reason.