Silent Tide question

[MoFiddy]

Hello all,

I am going to run Silent Tide tomorrow evening. Something occurred to me as I was making a few notes today. Yargos replicates the signals, but then tries to alert the city after he realizes that he actually started the invasion.

Why is he eating dinner at the Soggy Piper when Nessian's ruffians grab him? Can't dinner wait until after he has taken care of the codebook and the invasion?

It just doesn't click for me. Am I missing something?

[cblome59]

MoFiddy wrote:

Hello all,

I am going to run Silent Tide tomorrow evening. Something occurred to me as I was making a few notes today. Yargos replicates the signals, but then tries to alert the city after he realizes that he actually started the invasion.

Why is he eating dinner at the Soggy Piper when Nessian's ruffians grab him? Can't dinner wait until after he has taken care of the codebook and the invasion?

It just doesn't click for me. Am I missing something?

Hrm, never noticed that little flaw before.

Seems to me from a reading of the fluff at the beginning that either he tried to warm them and they didn't believe him, or he stopped to drown his sorrows a bit.

Either way, I've never had a player ask.

[ThornDJL7]

If memory serves, he doesn't set it off, he just has the commands memorized. Nessian is who sets it off, and has his men dispose of the guy he stole the book from.

I'll look at it again when I get home.

[Sir_Wulf]

Yargos didn't set it off, but he played around enough to trigger some sort of manifestation. The frightened scholar carelessly let his secret slip: Nessian then heard of it and stole the codes from him.

[MoFiddy]

Sir_Wulf wrote:

Yargos didn't set it off, but he played around enough to trigger some sort of manifestation. The frightened scholar carelessly let his secret slip: Nessian then heard of it and stole the codes from him.

This is pretty close to the introduction. It does say that he watches the Black Echelon rise and start fulfilling their ancient past after he replicates some of the signals from the codebook. Nessian then takes the codebook.

It probably won't come up, but it just seemed kind of strange.

"Well, I've triggered undead to wander around Absalom, but that new microbrew sounds mighty tasty." :)

[Matthew Trent]

MoFiddy wrote:

It probably won't come up, but it just seemed kind of strange.

"Well, I've triggered undead to wander around Absalom, but that new microbrew sounds mighty tasty." :)

You can hardly expect someone to figure out how to fight evil on an empty stomach. It makes sense to me.

[MoFiddy]

Matthew Trent wrote:

MoFiddy wrote:

It probably won't come up, but it just seemed kind of strange.

"Well, I've triggered undead to wander around Absalom, but that new microbrew sounds mighty tasty." :)

You can hardly expect someone to figure out how to fight evil on an empty stomach. It makes sense to me.

Yes...very true. Fighting monsters burns quite a few calories.