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As the title says I have a rather interesting problem. At the end of endless night my group got to the portal and defeated the drow as planned. What I never expected was for them to take the second son prisoner and take him through the portal with them.
I'm really not sue how to run the path with this little wrench in the monkey works so any suggestions would be great.
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As the title says I have a rather interesting problem. At the end of endless night my group got to the portal and defeated the drow as planned. What I never expected was for them to take the second son prisoner and take him through the portal with them.
I'm really not sue how to run the path with this little wrench in the monkey works so any suggestions would be great.
To some extent, it depends how they treat their prisoner. However, if he's an actual prisoner, I'd expect that to make the initial encounter go a bit easily on the players. Here's proof they were fighting the drow (the elves know the drow exist, after all...) Assuming they're willing to hand him over to the elves, I'd make that their 'introduction,' and use it as a pretext for a rapid audience with the queen.
Now, if they want to hang on to the prisoner, or give a hard time about it, that can be used as a seed for the Winter Council's antipathy - a cover for their slightly darker motives.
Overall, I don't see that really needing to change much...
Drew Garrett
As the title says I have a rather interesting problem. At the end of endless night my group got to the portal and defeated the drow as planned. What I never expected was for them to take the second son prisoner and take him through the portal with them.
I'm really not sue how to run the path with this little wrench in the monkey works so any suggestions would be great.
Well what we have here is a case of sorry bout your luck :). Let me explain, when the pcs poof out of the gate there are elven guards who they land in the middle of and a noble who teles them to the capitol. I'm assuming the poor brat is the first thing they grab and then there's probably some interrogation of the pcs and maybe a diplomatic tension until they explain themselves. Afterwards the Drow, who has them all freaked out, gets sent (along with the pcs) back on the adventure railroad while the aristocracy and especially the Queen deal with danage control and cover ups over the sudden appearance of an honest to goodness drow. Elves in black suits can cart him off for "questioning" and the queen can proceed with her plan (and now has an even better public reason to do what she does and not seem like she is plotting anything). That's my take on it anyway :)
Also I think I'd almost feel bad for the things that will happen to that poor drow in the search for what he knows.
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That's actually really cool! I wouldn't call it a problem as much as I would call it an opportunity. The adventure, as written, could never assume the PCs would have a drow prisoner, of course, but now that they have one, the PCs should have a pretty tough go at keeping him alive. Although the Winter Council is secretly on its knees, one of the first folk the PCs meet is a Winter Council ally, and he'd probably do his best to have the drow prisoner taken away and hidden. If this happens, it might be cool for the PCs to find the drow again in a prison cell in Thorn's End.
Whether or not the prisoner remains a bad guy or is eventually redeemed by the PCs actions is, of course, up to the PCs.
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That's actually really cool! I wouldn't call it a problem as much as I would call it an opportunity. The adventure, as written, could never assume the PCs would have a drow prisoner, of course, but now that they have one, the PCs should have a pretty tough go at keeping him alive. Although the Winter Council is secretly on its knees, one of the first folk the PCs meet is a Winter Council ally, and he'd probably do his best to have the drow prisoner taken away and hidden. If this happens, it might be cool for the PCs to find the drow again in a prison cell in Thorn's End.
Whether or not the prisoner remains a bad guy or is eventually redeemed by the PCs actions is, of course, up to the PCs.
Fair enough. Its the strangest thing ever though Its an all evil party yet they seem to be more merciful and do a lot less damage than most good parties.