| bwoerth |
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Does anyone have a good sense of the timescale of this adventure? It seems kind of at war with itself, and I'm interested in any thoughts on how to resolve the conflict.
On the one hand, I kind of feel that even with accelerated progress, it should be a couple of years from being raised to attendants to lore-speakers. Janatimo even makes clear that studies take priority over investigation, suggesting the quite a bit of time can pass over the course of the adventure.
On the other hand, the events in the adventure seem pretty tightly coupled in time. Both of the investigations in chapter one follow directly from the end of _Kindled Magic_, in many cases assuming that a few days at most have passed. (And the PCs are to be raised to conversants a couple of weeks later, so possibly within a month of becoming attendants!) All of the events in chapter two are associated with the flooding of Asanda's Manor, and while people mention that a suspiciously long time has elapsed, there's a difference between "suspicious" and "they've literally been doing it for two years".
I have been struggling with this as well. It seems that chapter 2 should take a couple of years. But, Asanda's Mansion is to be flooded for two full years? I have already done the first two tasks in chapter 2, so they know about the flooding and the mansion. Just feels rough to keep adding these hints and not have them want to go run into investigate. Struggling to figure out exactly how to handle this.