What if the PCs ignore the Catacombs of Wrath?

[Yan Grorson]

It doesn't seem like its a problem at the moment. We had only 3 PCs, so I added a little side quest so that they would be level 3 after dealing with Tsuto at the Glassworks, but 2 more have joined the party, so a party of 5 at level 3. After reading Tsuto's journal, they have no interest in delving into what seems to them to be an unrelated cave when the threat at Thistletop is so imminent. I'm not looking for advice on how to force them into the dungeon crawl they don't believe is important, rather how can I use Erylium and the catacombs from here?

[Fromper]

Reading the adventure, I was thinking the same thing.

[Kalshane]

Have a few sinspawn wander up from the caverns and cause some havoc in town. If this is after they've slaughtered their way through Thistletop, I'm sure there'd be more than enough wrath points in the pool for Erylium to raise quite a number of them.

Or, up the levels of the denizens and have them deal with it when the full dungeon opens up later in the AP.

For my own game, the PCs turned Tsuto's journal over to the Sheriff after they read it, who in turn informed the mayor, who called a meeting of the Town Council with the PCs. They expressed concerns about the monsters dwelling beneath Sandpoint according to the journal, and deemed it was a more immediate threat than Thistletop.

[Tangent101]

You could always have one of the NPCs ask "is this Goblin leader in the Catacombs right now? If she's negotiating with this demon under the town, we need to stop it right away!" They could even offer the PCs a reward to do so (probably 100 gp per PC).

[Yan Grorson]

Thanks guys, this is some good stuff.

My party is usually so inquisitive, but they are a bunch of chaotic casters following their LG leader, and he doesn't think a spooky cave has anything to do with the Thistletop threat, at least not that is more pressing. The others defer to his judgement. They are the right level for it, so I'm not really worried about it.

[xobmaps]

I think James Jacobs talked about an early draft having (wrathful) people in town start turning INTO sinspawn seemingly at random until the well was shut down, nominating Das Korvat (sp?) as the first when he finds out about the kid's hopscotch rhyme about him. I am on lunch break, so forgive me for not finding a link.