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IMC, the party wanted to celebrate their 1 year anniversary as a kingdom with a Founder's Day Festival. I decided this would be a good time to use PFM Carnival of Tears and tie in the evil fey with the main story.
SoI timed the arrival of Quinn's carnival to coincide with the festival. Quinn, having arrived a few days before the festival, said he heard about the event and wanted to provide entertainment for the people, and offered to hold off on opening the doors to the carnival until the day of the festival.
Things were going well, with the party having their events first and then the carnival opened afterwards. The party took their time looking around but never gained enough virtue points to meet with Syntira (I considered changing Syntira's race to something other than what she is in the Module; having too many of those might be a bit confusing since I am also planning on using Fellnight as well, however I also thought of Syntira being the good sister of Nyrissa who was trying to oppose her's sister's plans).
Without meeting with Syntira, the party was left exposed to the Eye of Rapture, and at 5th level all of them failed the saving throw, and I rolled max on the duration in hours. Seeing what they wanted to see, they were allowed to drift back to the castle for a feast with the River Kingdom dignitaries who were visiting at the castle. They spent 3 hours in the castle before they went up to the roof for a fireworks display and I took pity on them and allowed them another saving throw, which half of them made. They looked on in horror below as hundreds of people lay dead in and around the festival grounds (350 people per hour killed according to the table, that's 1/3 of their town's population) and began breaking their compatriots out of the illusion.
Now they are all free of the eye's effects and are en-route to combat this terror. I know in the module it says at 700 the fey retreat into the woods, but the town in the module is much smaller than my party's town. I figure the fey will stay longer until 2/3 of the town are slaughtered and then leave, sure that the rest will run in fear and spread the news.
I didn't expect them all to fail. A lot of my players are spellcasters with high Will saves, and I am using the Hero Point rules, and they all had HP and didn't USE them!! After I began the game reminding them about HP and even gave 1 free use of a HP for that session only to the players who had extra player participation for that week!
Has this scenario happened to any of you?
IMC, the party wanted to celebrate their 1 year anniversary as a kingdom with a Founder's Day Festival. I decided this would be a good time to use PFM Carnival of Tears and tie in the evil fey with the main story.
SoI timed the arrival of Quinn's carnival to coincide with the festival. Quinn, having arrived a few days before the festival, said he heard about the event and wanted to provide entertainment for the people, and offered to hold off on opening the doors to the carnival until the day of the festival.
Things were going well, with the party having their events first and then the carnival opened afterwards. The party took their time looking around but never gained enough virtue points to meet with Syntira (I considered changing Syntira's race to something other than what she is in the Module; having too many of those might be a bit confusing since I am also planning on using Fellnight as well, however I also thought of Syntira being the good sister of Nyrissa who was trying to oppose her's sister's plans).
Without meeting with Syntira, the party was left exposed to the Eye of Rapture, and at 5th level all of them failed the saving throw, and I rolled max on the duration in hours. Seeing what they wanted to see, they were allowed to drift back to the castle for a feast with the River Kingdom dignitaries who were visiting at the castle. They spent 3 hours in the castle before they went up to the roof for a fireworks display and I took pity on them and allowed them another saving throw, which half of them made. They looked on in horror below as hundreds of people lay dead in and around the festival grounds (350 people per hour killed according to the table, that's 1/3 of their town's population) and began breaking their compatriots out of the illusion.
Now they are all free of the eye's effects and are en-route to combat this terror. I know in the module it says at 700 the fey retreat into the woods, but the town in the module is much smaller than my party's town. I figure the fey will stay...
I can't believe they didn't get enough Virtue points. Did you run all the events?
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I had all the events running but they chose not to go to some, so they skipped the candy apple, the sleigh rides and vacant tent event. The drunken lumberjack fumbled his swing at my PC and fell into a table of prepared ale mugs, so the PC let the drunken bystanders beat him until he was dying before they stabilized him, so I didn't award them a VP for that event.
They had 10 VP total by the time the fireworks started. They needed 11 or more.
I had all the events running but they chose not to go to some, so they skipped the candy apple, the sleigh rides and vacant tent event. The drunken lumberjack fumbled his swing at my PC and fell into a table of prepared ale mugs, so the PC let the drunken bystanders beat him until he was dying before they stabilized him, so I didn't award them a VP for that event.
They had 10 VP total by the time the fireworks started. They needed 11 or more.
Ah... okay. The Vacant tent event is the one with the girl being assaulted right? Did you say "you hear a struggle, a girl whimpering, etc" or something? I don't know any PC's who'd ignore that!
Crazy.
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I had all the events running but they chose not to go to some, so they skipped the candy apple, the sleigh rides and vacant tent event. The drunken lumberjack fumbled his swing at my PC and fell into a table of prepared ale mugs, so the PC let the drunken bystanders beat him until he was dying before they stabilized him, so I didn't award them a VP for that event.
They had 10 VP total by the time the fireworks started. They needed 11 or more.
Ah... okay. The Vacant tent event is the one with the girl being assaulted right? Did you say "you hear a struggle, a girl whimpering, etc" or something? I don't know any PC's who'd ignore that!
Crazy.
I drew a map of the area and they never bothered to check out the vacant tents section. My party was only interested in visiting a few areas of the Carnival. They skipped most of the contests, wanting to really only see the freaks, the peep show, the modern wonders exhibit and the ice maze. One of the PCs is a carnie herself from another troupe and said that area didn't hold anything of interest beyond living quarters for the carnies.