[PbP PFS GM school 2024] GM Brenael's B3: Shadows and Scarecrows (Inactive)

Game Master Brenael

Can a good PbP post be concise? Yes, it can. Posts should not include more words than are needed to convey the ideas. What those who make overly short posts often miss is that good PbP posts often contain more ideas than a shorter post, which requires more words.

There is a fourth “c” though: Fun.

Verbosity can be Fun!
Maybe not for University, but here in PbP, it is as legitimate even if it violates your three Cs.
Again, in my experience you are far more likely to encounter the opposite problem. Maybe your experience will differ from mine.
=)

Fun is an absolute requirement! =)

So a quick review of what was happening:
* Teflar had been secretly sent to Rannan’s Ranch to root out a hidden cult of Desnans.
* Teflar brought an acolyte, Kareida, to spy on the ranch’s people. Kareida posed as a lone traveler looking for work, hoping to earn the heretics’ trust enough to get close to them.
* Kareida convinced one family that she was a Desnan and that family welcomed her as one of their own.
* When Kareida reported to Teflar that she had found suspected cultists, Teflar praised her, and asked her to honor Zon-Kuthon by torturing and interrogating the traitors.
* Kareida couldn’t bring herself to do this and so she fled around a month ago.
* Knowing she was no match for Teflar she donned a scarecrow disguise to throw Teflar off her trail and began sneaking into the village to spirit the followers of Desna away to safety in the nearby hills.
* In the final encounter, Teflar was aiming to kill the villagers and Kareida and blame the scarecrow.

The two encounters you skipped:
1. You would have been shown another set of footprints (made by shoes Kareina had crafted to leave 'scarecrow' footprints).
2. Met up with the family checking on the couple who went missing and potentially found evidence of their worship of Desna and heard that they were worried about being discovered. Although it is unlikely you would have learned much of this with a kuthonite in your midst.

And that about wraps it up for this game. The table has been reported and the chronicles are available here

Please let me know if there are any problems.

Thanks everyone for playing and for a fun and interesting game. I hope everyone has had fun and hope to catch up with each of you at another table in the future!

Thanks for running! Hope you enjoyed it too!

Thanks for running @GM Brenael!

Thanks guys for the game!