OK, so it's the beginning of What Lies in Dust and I have a player who followed up socially with Chammady Drovenge after the mayor's dinner. She, knowing he's part of the group who's been foiling her plans, seduced him successfully and they now have a hot and heavy secret affair going. This is based on her actions detailed in the final book with the priest of Abadar, so it's in character.
I figure she'll use him and/or the party to do what *she* wants done as long as she can pick the things that will float their boat. So I'm looking for ideas that will advance her ultimate agenda. Here's what I've come up with so far:
1. Sian is still out and about. I think she'd use Sian to assassinate the priest of Abadar's family, then try to point the party that way to kill Sian and tie up that loose end, knowing they could do it.
2. She might send them on ventures to get them out of the city and disrupt the activity of the Hellknights, who are still a force for law and order and troublesome to her plans.
Anybody see other things she could point them toward, preferably which tie in with the ultimate plot targets? Not having run this before, I'm not sure which events in books 4-6 work out well and which could be changed or swapped using the party as an unwitting tool of the Drovenges.
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OK, so it's the beginning of What Lies in Dust and I have a player who followed up socially with Chammady Drovenge after the mayor's dinner. She, knowing he's part of the group who's been foiling her plans, seduced him successfully and they now have a hot and heavy secret affair going. This is based on her actions detailed in the final book with the priest of Abadar, so it's in character.
I figure she'll use him and/or the party to do what *she* wants done as long as she can pick the things that will float their boat. So I'm looking for ideas that will advance her ultimate agenda. Here's what I've come up with so far:
1. Sian is still out and about. I think she'd use Sian to assassinate the priest of Abadar's family, then try to point the party that way to kill Sian and tie up that loose end, knowing they could do it.
2. She might send them on ventures to get them out of the city and disrupt the activity of the Hellknights, who are still a force for law and order and troublesome to her plans.
Anybody see other things she could point them toward, preferably which tie in with the ultimate plot targets? Not having run this before, I'm not sure which events in books 4-6 work out well and which could be changed or swapped using the party as an unwitting tool of the Drovenges.
How about the whole devil contract scroll thing again. Have her go to kill Sian to tie up lose ends and have Sian with another one of those from a fake employer that the party will want to find not do to much research into. If the players never got the first one this is a really good plan. Also in 4 they could be sent into the house under false assumptions to free the pit fiend. It doesn't work out if he gets out but if she tells them simply to shut everything off then leave because the place is gonna blow, well technically true it makes it so that she gets an attempt at the fiend and is taken into account as a possible ending. I'll write more as I think of them.
CvH: Those are good ideas, and she would not be lying to say she has an ally imprisoned by the house of Thrune under the Mayor's Mansion. I kinda hate the idea of sending them in early and missing the apocalyptic scene at the beginning of Infernal Syndrome, but it might work out like that anyway. I'll look at it. I still have to read the other books and see what sort of deux ex mechanisms for getting players information can be replaced by Chammady. Thank you!