| Michael M. |
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I'm the GM for a group of 5 PCs - Barbarian, Oracle of Life, Wizard, Ranger, and Bard - who have just cleared out the Catacombs of Wrath. Everyone will be reaching level 3 next session.
They had a little trouble with with Erylium, but in the end they captured her before she was able to get away. After bringing her back to the Cathedral, they used Father Abstalar as an interpreter as they tried to interrogate the quasit. She wasn't particularly helpful, although she did mutter about being separated from her master long ago and hating the Enemy Above. Once they decided they'd gotten all the useful information possible from her, they did the same thing they've done with anything they've come across - they tried to sell her off. And they decided that, since she was so old, the person who would most likely want her is Brodert Quirk.
I was intrigued by the prospect. When they brought the quasit to Brodert, he quizzed it in Thassalonian. I decided that Erylium would be overjoyed at hearing the ancient tongue, and the two talked for a minute or so. One player (who knew Thassilonian) heard as Brodert quizzed Erylium about the Old Light, and when she confirmed his suspicions, he was overjoyed and paid the crew handsomely for care of the quasit.
So here is what I'd like to do.
Maybe Erylium really takes a shine to Brodert, who wants nothing more than to learn more from her about Thassilon and - more importantly - show up all those know-nothings that mocked and doubted him for years. After all: he was right all along, he has proof. And now he is going to show them all. Erylium, recognizing the wrath in Brodert, agrees to become his familiar and begin his retraining from expert 7 to wizard (evocation) 7. He comes back into the lives of the adventurers as a villain on some revenge murder spree, or even trying to resurrect the Runelord of Wrath.
I haven't gotten far enough along to figure out how to tie this in to the rest of the adventure, I just want to see their reaction to this little bit of greed come back to haunt them.
What do you think?