Due to players being unavailable, I've had to postpone my prepared game ideas, so I need some stuff for tomorrow evening. Tomorrow's party will be a LN Dwarven Drunken Master/Sacred Mountain Monk, a CG Halfling Skirmisher Ranger (using hand crossbows), and a CN Elven Cutpurse Rogue. All are level 7. The Rogue will be going to Shadowdancer soon, and she'll be learning her shadow skills from a Shae named Ashera. I plan on having Ashera show up this game and request something of the elf in return for a gift (some shadowed armor) and the promise of teaching down the road. The Shae has a grudge against the kingdom's Thieves' Guild, but that's going to be an issue a few games in the future. I think she might want to test the elf's mettle before sending her after the Thieves. What kinds of things might she require?
Intelligence is the most likely requirement, gathered by those unassociated with the Shae, i.e., the PCs.
Thus she would want information on fences, merchants, protection rackets, etc.
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A... Simple test... of skill... and cunning... An... Obsticle coarse... with... large swinging... axes that... come from... the ceiling...
Bonus points if you read it right. I think that if the Shae can somehow prove that the Elf is, in fact, a thief... That will be what makes her:
A) ATTACK THE PARTY!! AHAHAHAHA
B) Hold her insatiable grudge until the right moment... and then attack the party.
C) Teach the Elf to hate the guild as much as the Shae does.
Please... let us know... how it goes...
Thanks for the ideas, guys! I'll see what these inspire me to do and let you all know.
The game went great! We went with a murder mystery. Here's what happened:
The shae, Ashera, called the elven rogue, Firae, out to the Dark Forest at night with a summoning whisper. Firae stopped at the edge of the spooky woods and decided to return with the others during the day. The next day, the party entered the forest, fought some beasties, and met Ashera. She asked them to look for her friend, Gerden, who was supposed to be bringing her a ring.
The party found Gerden's body off the trail near town. He had a sword wound in his gut and singes on the edge of his clothes.
The party asked around town and ran into Aela, a traveler that the party knows is a magic user. She proffered that a dragon disciple could have committed such a murder, and she revealed that she was one herself (though she's blue, not red). The party then began hunting down a red dragon disciple in town.
They found their way to a gossipy drunk who told them that he had seen smoke curling out of Hawk Morgan's mouth once, and that Hawk had not been smoking at the time. Hawk likes to hang out at the seedier locales.
The party busted into the town's shabbiest drinking hole and busted some heads until they found that Hawk was at the brothel. The heroes headed on over and confronted him. He indeed had the ring Gerden was carrying, and he refused to hand it over. Instead, he leapt out the window and revelaed himself to be not a dragon disciple, but a true red dragon. The heroes jumped out onto the rooftops and fought the fearsome beast. Once he was slain, the party ranger skinned him, and they brought the skin back to Ashera for her to craft into new equipment.
Fun was had by all!