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Hi all -
This Saturday we played our first Second Darkness session.
Party consists of John playing an Elven Summoner (Warlords of the Accordlands), Foust playing an Elven Wizard (PFBeta), Andrew playing an Elven Archer (Sovereign Stone CS), and Mike playing a Gearforged Eudrite (warforged, Comp. Psionic).
Robin and Gene weren't there.
The characters played a few rounds of bounder (all winning for the PC's), an when the thieves struck, they were blinded as well. However, one PC was able to get a look at both Angvar and Thuvalia. After the heist, he cast Minor Lasting Image (Eldritch Might) of them both near the door of the GG.
Later, when Saul hired the PC's to work for the GG, he tasked them with handing out 1CP valued chips around town to promote the GG.
Well, two of the PC's have Minor Lasting Image. Foust first went to the docks and later went to the area near the Dragon's Hoard, the Watercress and the House of Nabin. The first day, he past out chips as he was told. But he also cast MLI of a Dragon Getting Banged by a Goblin in the middle of the road. The next day he cast a Dragon with a head of a Goblin with the tag - Who's your daddy now? (from the concept from Shrek with the donkey and dragon).
Of course this drew the attention of the Overlord and tasked four gendarmes to follow the PC's (1 each).
Because the gendarmes followed the PC's - and warned them not to post any more magical illusions (a law was quickly passed) when they went to Lymas Smeed's house, they were not able to use force. However, one PC did have some money and paid 250GP to pay off Saul's debt.
They returned to Saul to explain that they believed that it was Bojask that killed Larur. After torturing Bojask and finding out that it was most likely Saul that was behind the assassination of Larur, they confronted Saul. Here, Saul explained that yes he did have Bojask kill Larur and attempt to frame Lymas Smeed because the GG was still in massive debt and he couldn't afford to owe the massive debt.
Saul asked the PC's if they'd kill Lymas for him - but also make sure that the balance book was found and that he had paid his debt a while ago, as well as change debts paid to non-paid for several people. Saul didn't know anybody in particular, but said any random person makes it better.
Because the gendarmes are always following the PC's they went through a few intermediaries to buy potions of alter self. They had 4 of the normal people from the GG take the potions and take over their image, thus getting the guards to follow the "PC's". They then took 4 for themselves, and took the image of 4 gendarmes that were off-duty. They made sure people saw the fake gendarmes (as well as the PC's image out passing 1CP chips). They entered, and murdered Lymas Smeed. I was truly shocked.
So of course they murdered Lymas, framed a poor schmuck, and possibly framed 4 gendarmes, and then burned down the house.
I also added in a random encounter earlier of 4 were-rats attacking the PC's, as well as Jakob the Gearforged trash collector (he's from Skip and Penny Williams from WotC's site for 4e). Jakob was already planned before Mike said he was going to play a Gearforged but he was his contact and reason for coming to town. I put the Gearforged as being from Numeria and part of the automatons - but as one of the few that have decided to leave the nation.
None of the party members are "good" and all feel that since the majority of the town is CN, that murder and other bad things isn't really illegal (slave trade and all). Thus if they freed slaves, they would be indeed breaking the law. So this is why they felt that some of the actions they did weren't out of line for the city. However, as they're mostly all elves, I feel certain that they'll work with the elves later in the module. Plus, I have it that there is a "warrior caste" among the elves. I'm allowing one player to be a Catfolk (Robin) as I've modified it that Shifters (Ebberon CS) and Catfolk are part of that "warrior caste." The archer is also part of this caste, which I've named Mil-wanroan to mean "homelands defense."
I do believe that Lasting Minor Image is a great idea, and it allowed me to have them followed. And it made the Overlord notice them. We haven't yet done the Foamrunner attack and when the place gets attacked and an attempt to burn to the ground (and the gendarmes aren't there they'll know they helped cause some of the issues).
I will attempt to post a "blog" like post regarding the game after each if others are interested in the antics of this merry band.
Be Well. Be Well Imaged.
Theocrat Issak
Wow - your guys got a LOT done for the first game - nice job.
Sounds pretty brutal - my guys skated the line sometimes, and other times they were practically pacifists.