Hey all. Returning to the threads for some more brain storming. My turn at DMing will be coming in about 8-12 weeks and I thought I'd start working on my newest idea.
So the party will be level 10ish when they start this adventure. My current idea is that there is a noblewoman that gets kidnapped by a dragon, currently I've chosen cloud dragon, that may change. This particular dragon has been masquerading as a noble in Daggermark for a few months prior to kidnapping the damsel. He keeps a unique treasure horde. For instance he prides himself on his griffin kennel that he's been breeding for 50-100 years, flying all over the world and taking the eggs of the best specimens he can find and then breeding them with the rest of his stock. He's decided to add a "princess" to be his consort and new addition to his treasure trove.
I'm thinking that he will keep the damsel in a Mage's Magnificent Mansion that he's made permanent, I recently purchased a couple of boxes of "Buildings of Malifaux" from world works games and I want to stretch the limits of my new toys into creating one big mansion the PC's can wander through in the search for the Damsel. My initial thought is that there will be a mansion in Daggermark that has an entrance to this extra dimensional mansion, with another entrance in the actual cloud dragon's lair.
So some things that I need to iron out. What exactly does he take aside from the damsel. I'm thinking he might also either hire or kidnap the damsel's seamstress, maybe some ladies to attend to her. He doesn't want to be cruel, he just wants his own princess. I also think he might steal the "crown jewels" or something to accessorize his princess.
Additionally, I'm not sure what kind of minions he's going to have. His tastes are going to run to the exotic, he prides talent and quality over quantity, so a tribe of kobolds aren't exactly his schtick. I was thinking maybe a Genie butler/assistant. And that he might actually just hire out well known thieves for other things like stealing the jewelry etc. But I want to have more things in his "employ." and currently I've only got ideas for the griffins and genie. What else might he have?
Any thoughts?
Another thought i had would be to have the mansion just take off and fly away while Cirro hosted some kind of ball. "They didn't just kidnap the princess... They stole the whole gods' forsaken crime scene!"
Been working the whole geneie angle, came up with Cirro has a 3 wish Vizier djinn.
Wish 1: floating mansion.
Wish 2: djinn to act as butler until third wish is made.
Wish 3: after pc's catch up to Cirro, "I wish for you to deal with them good butler."
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This is a bad wish: Wish 3: after pc's catch up to Cirro, "I wish for you to deal with them good butler."
We're talking about a Djinn here. The obvious response is not to attack them, but to negotiate (deal) with the party, then leave.