| EmergencyKazoo |
Just started running the AP for my party, still on the first level currently, and I think I'm overthinking a couple things regarding Gauntlight's cupola, particularly with its day/night cycle.
I'll start with the less important question: for some reason I can't actually find language that specifies this, but if/when the party goes up to the cupola during the *daytime*, is the lantern glowing as described in the flavor text? I know the glow can't be seen from afar during the day, but I'm wondering if it would be glowing up close. The text seems written around the vampiric mist encounter, which could only happen at night after the A11 haunt, so is the flavor text only relevant to nighttime?
Now to my more pressing question: my PCs have encountered the A11 haunt during the night, without going up the stairs, and they've now gone back to town to recuperate and are planning on returning the next day during the daytime. If they go back to A11 on there next run, see that the blood *doesn't* attack them, then go up to the cupola and just see the lantern and nothing else-- since the blood spills back down and the vampiric mist wouldn't be there-- I imagine they wouldn't really feel much need to go back up to it for a while (unless something comes up later in the AP, I admittedly haven't read that far as I'm a slow reader). Is that just... okay? The writing in the AP seems to place some emphasis on this room at party level 1, with the milestone tracking specifically emphasizing that the party should clear it out before leveling up-- I'm using XP so that won't be an issue, but my point being that it seems like the book really wants my party to go up there.