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I am currently running my group through Hell's Rebels (they just left the Livery.) and so far things are going well. In our previous game (Rise of the Runelords) where I was a player and one of my players were Gm'ing, we reached the stone giant fortress of Jorgenfist and found the Runeslave Cauldron in there. I was playing a particularly mercenary kind of character so with no prospects for profit in sight for the group plotted with our sorcerer to sell the cauldron. We had previously established that my character had done mercenary work for generals in Cheliax, therefore the GM accepted that my character knew of several prospective clients within the hierarchy of Cheliax, all of whom who would pay a pretty penny for the artifact. The game disintegrated as we finished chapter 4 so we never decided what actually happened to my character or the cauldron.

That brings me to the point of this thread, I am thinking that either the Church of Asmodeus or Barzillai himself has gotten a hold of the cauldron. So what I am wondering is where I could place this artifact in the adventure? Currently, I am thinking that Barzillai is holding it in reserve and is using his arsenal of advisors, slaves, servants and hired help to modify the cauldron to work on other creatures than giants.

I would then add, as a clue for the players, a series of academics and experts in arcane magic being invited to the city. If the players were to investigate this influx of academics and wizards they would find that even they don't really know what they are supposed to work with, however, the price that Barzillai has offered them was enough to overcome any apprehension they might have.

Then as the adventure reaches the middle, i am thinking sometime during Turn of the Torrent, Runeslaved soldiers start turning up bolstering the ranks of the Dottari and the Chelix citizens group. This new development should get them to look deeper and would, in the end, lead to one of Barzillai's experts attempting to defect as the he finds using the Runeslave Cauldron on Chelix citizens to be sick and wrong.

This little storyline would then conclude with the players learning of the existence of a Chelix fort a few miles north of the city, where Barzillai is using captured dissidents, dead Dottari and loyalists and other undesirable elements to bolster his forces with an army of runeslaves.

Any comments on this little idea?