| wickedb |
I'm sort of proud of myself for this one and wanted to share. Instead of telling my PCs about the assassination attempt through rumors or whatever it is your supposed to do, I had the book start with the calling from Zellara. She appears to the character carrying the deck and he gathers everyone together, so she appears and begins a reading.
Anyways halfway through the reading, Zellara became aghast at what she 'saw'. She told the PCs it'd be best if she just showed them and created in front of the a floating moving image of Queen Ileosa's address. So that they could see for themselves what happened, but have no power to change it.
In fact they weren't even sure about when this had happened/will happen and they all went running off to find Croft. Only to find her distraught and waiting to take them into the sanctioned room to talk to them.
It worked since the PCs didn't bother asking me to explain how she created such an image for them to watch, and I was able to show them everyone's reactions and do away with any doubt from hearsay. Man did it go smooth. :)
Added points since my PC's had truly befriended Croft in the past book and had at one point (knowing Croft herself could possibly be in danger for helping them) asked for for someone else they could contact should she ever be 'out of touch'. Blindly, I named the sable company commander. They were so excited to have another high powered ally. It brings the 'troll DM' in me great pleasure to know he's now dead :D