Jade Ravens LOL

[StrifeAKAWarmage]

Hey Im just wondering but what happened in your campains to the jade ravens did your PCs have anything to do with them?

[Guy Humual]

In our STAP, my character, Tristan Lidu, has come to despise Tolin (for reasons regular readers might realize). I think they're awesome personally. A Rival adventuring party is always good motivation for the PCs to get their act together.

[MrFish]

My pcs see them as a little out of their depth and kind of feel sorry for them.

[Evil Genius]

One of my players' characters is carrying on a romance with Liamae at the moment (we're still in SWW). Also, another PC (a dwarf) constantly berates Kaskus for being a druid, claiming it's not a role fit for a true dwarf.

[StrifeAKAWarmage]

haha thats funny my char has a relationship with Liamae and our paladin keeps fighting with tolin about there relationship with lavana

[Xaaon of Xen'Drik]

my players HATE the ravens, I didn't really put alot of thought into their first appearance, thus I had the Ravens kind of snub the party. This pissed off the cleric/rogue so much that when they found Kaskus Keil unconscious in the armory, he immediately tried to Coupe de grace him. Luckily the monk grappled him to stop the murder of the poor dwarf whose only fault was my lack of initial depth.

Liamae got eaten by a Fiendish croc that Bua Gorg summoned...they tried to stop his summons, but his +8 concentration got him through the initial round...

[Gavgoyle]

My players started off thinking the Jade Ravens are twits and nothing has improved their standing. After the first meeting, Phineas, the party's 'procurement specialist' looked at the other members and said "Two things. One, we do not name our group some dopey nickname, and Two, we are NOT wearing matching outfits!!"

By the end of the Bullywug Gambit, they think the Jade Ravens are a complete joke and are pretty much openly mocking them if they serve up any pomp.

[Humble Minion]

My PCs and the Ravens have an uneasy relationship. The PCs started off by hating their arrogant guts, and then turned to laughing at them when none of the Ravens could hit a damn thing when Drevoraz took over Vanderboren Manor. Then they were surprised when Tolin took it gracefully and was thankful, and started to think the whole alliance thing might work. Then things went to hell when for various reasons the PC wizard lied to Tolin during War of the Wielded (which I ran as a sidetrek after Bullywug Gambit) which led him to being possessed by one of the sentient weapons and nearly killing Lavinia. He took it badly, as you'd expect. The two groups have been separated since (we're still in Sea Wyvern's Wake) and things have been left to stew as they are, although the Ravens earned a bit of respect by taking down a grey render in an expanded brotherhood pirate encounter I ran. Time will tell how things go from here...

[Vigil]

Apparently, my group got along OK with the Ravens. There was some antagonism between Tolin and my pc's, mostly because Tolin has a stick shoved up his... burro.

Spoiler:

In Serpents of Scuttlecove, the party's first clue that the Ravens had gotten in too deep came when they found Kaskus's corpse strung up on hooks. They retrieved his body and raised him, and added tracking down and helping ALL of the Ravens to their list of goals.

They were suitably impressed when Tolin was found. He had been wracked with guilt over the loss of his team and joined the Resistance. Gone was any of his old pride, replaced with a quiet determination. He actually wound up being a better person, and the party liked him a lot more from then on.