Demonskar Ball in CotCT

[Mary Yamato]

My GM did a loose adaptation of Delvedeep's Demonskar Ball writeup (meant for SCAP) for CotCT. We ended up toning down the competitive set-pieces, but the ball itself was a good concept.

It led to one of my favorite character moments so far. The PC party leader Lashalla, a young woman of the lower nobility, has been cherishing fond dreams about Glorio Arkona's unmarried state. She was trying to nerve herself to ask him to dance, and not quite succeeding. Finally she got up the nerve, only to see him dancing with someone else: a pretty blonde girl who looked oddly familiar--

--in fact, the party illusionist, who had changed his apparent gender without changing much of anything else, so that it was quite clear who s/he was. (Not many blondes in Korvosa!)

She's furious, and plotting revenge. Glorio, I think, is just amused. (He gave the young wizard a sufficiently good groping that he surely knows he's a boy, but didn't seem to mind.)

We are not doing the plague, but for those who are, lavish balls held while the city is going to hell outside are a perfectly reasonable trope. Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" springs to mind.

Mary

[rironin]

Mary Yamato wrote:

We are not doing the plague, but for those who are, lavish balls held while the city is going to hell outside are a perfectly reasonable trope. Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" springs to mind.

Spoiler:

A very good idea - so good that I think the adventure authors already had Masque of the Red Death in mind when they wrote the Carowyn Manor scene, in which a noble family decides to have a ball with their friends to distract themselves from the plague, and things go horribly wrong.