| Andrew Cunningham |
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We're slow. I just finished Burnt Offerings last game, and started Skinsaw Murders. The players were interested in Thistletop not just because of the goblin attacks on Sandpoint, because they were able to rally things sufficiently that that wasn't a credible threat, but because the Thistletop Tribe was trafficking, platinum-per-head, in human chattel. After all, why seek out the greedy when you can just purchase them on the open market...?
They avoided Orik, who (seeing that things had just gone to pot!) ran the hell away.
Offscreen, Lyrie and Nualia had a falling out, leading to Nualia using The Claw on Lyrie just before the players' arrival; she fled across the bridge just as the players arrived, and had to content with Bruthazmus, Nualia, and a shifting cast of the available yeth hounds.
Lyrie bribed the players with her wand of magic missile to let her pass (and they wondered why the hell she was endemoned...), they dealt with their issues (read: Drowned the hell out of Bruthazmus) without laying a scratch on Nualia (and getting one player slain in the exchange).
Just before she could chase after them, they cut the bridge.
When they came back to Thistletop, they found it eerily deserted (they _still_ haven't explored the second-basement), looted it, and got the hell out via rafts and creativity.
So, nobody really died. I've got Lyrie having set up shop on Chopper's Isle, content to live-and-let-live with the players, since they did (as far as she knows!) finish off her ex-boss. I'm contemplating having her set up shop with Brodert Quink, since she'll listen to his babbling in exchange for a reasonable face about town.
Meanwhile, I think that Nualia has learned all she can usefully learn in Thistletop. What she needs now is some way of getting Malfeshnikor out of cold-storage. She's going to begin trying to seduce the party mage and the party druid to the Dark Side via postal correspondence, while living out of (where else?) the Sandpoint Theater and exchanging services with Jubrayl Vhiski for day to day activities she can't take around town.