I've got a group and they just got to the Jorgenfist Fortress. They defeated the Hill Giants at the Storval Stairs. The did a little scouting and saw the fortress and the different tribes of giants.
They rested that night and the cleric in the morning did a Divination asking his God, Sarenrae for help in getting into Jorgenfist.
So I decided to use Longtooth and she answered by telling the priest to seek out the one who burned the Church. They figured out it meant to find the dragon. The Ranger located the cave in which Longtooth resided and they made a plan to get into the cave.
The sorceror cast fly on them and before entering the cave the priest cast spells to buff them.
When the entered the and got close to Longtooth he sent a message to the priest and said "Concede". He said it in a way that meant he was conceding, but the priest ignored the message.
The Barbarian and monk engaged the dragon, but the dragon did not take any AoA when they closed on him. When it was Longtooth's turn he withdrew. Still the Ranger, Barbarian and monk continued to attack.
Finally, they were puzzled why wasn't the dragon attacking and the priest realized he conceded.
They were then talking with Longtooth and he agreed to aid them for the first 2 shares of the treasure they find. The Elf, Dwarf and the priest during the conversion spoke in elvish and dwarvish about what to do.
Things were going well, until the priest figured he got the information he needed from Longtooth and that the Dragon would betray them. So instead he took a 5 foot step away from him, putting him 15' from the dragon and used his wand of magic mmissle's and attacked Longtooth.
Longtooth was already hurt but it was not enough to kill him. Enraged by this action Longtooth focused his attack on the cleric and hit with all his strength and did over 90 points of damage to the cleric, killing him.
Needless to say the Ranger, and Barbarian attacked and killed Longtooth. But their priest was now dead.
So I looked at the map and put a Dwarven fortress within the Iron Peaks and the Dwarf wrote a message in Dwarven asking for help. The monk had a bird token they used to send the message. He said they would give them a dragon's horde for aid in saving the priest.
The elf was not happy with this, but unfortunately the player was telling me what he was writing in Dwarven.
The put the treasure into Bag's of Holding they had and went to the river and went downstream were they meet the dwarves.
They returned to the Dwarven fortress and gave the dragon's treasure to the Dwarves. There cleric resurrected the priest.
The priest and the monk then did some terrific role playing since the monk is lawful.
She was arguing that the priest was in negotiations with Longtooth and that he should never have attacked him like that. And with her being Lawful she felt betrayed by his actions. It play out to be some good roleplaying.
This is where we ended the session and I received the following email from the priest;
Out of Character -- no one hears this but Fen & Sarenrae.
On the morning after his resurrection, this is Fen's prayer:
Oh most holy goddess, who brings the sun to shine to remind us of the glory of your goodness, please hear my prayer...
I am humbled and glorified by your divine wisdom and mercy.
I see the smallest part of how blind I am in the encounter with that dragon. I was unsure of what to do and was foundering in my doubt. But then, in your mercy, I saw a small glimmer of your radiance.
During my uncertainty, my friend Mountain said something about how 'the goddess sent us here.' In my arrogance my mind insisted that sending this group to the dragon was in answer to my question of how to most safely get to our goal. I sinned against you and felt anger when September said he had already found the cave which the dragon revealed was a secret entrance. Why hadn't you simply told us to enter the cave? Please forgive me my goddess. I feel awful for that doubt and anger.
But this sin made me recoil in shock and disgust at myself. How could I be angry at you who are the perfection of goodness.
It was then I realized that the fault was in me. And the knowledge of how short sided I had been came through. That, in your wisdom, you had answered the question I *should* have asked.... What can I do, in my small way, to aid you my goddess?
And then it became clear. We were to be your sword of justice for the attack of your temple in Sandpoint. You sent us there to slay that evil creature and prevent future atrocities. In my joy at having had this insight, I sinned again and forgot how insignificant I am. I forgot my duty to protect myself so that I might continue to serve you.
I humbly thank you for restoring my life and renew my vows to you and to working ever in your name.
Thank you for hearing my prayer Sarenrae.
So I was looking for suggestions as to how to respond to the priests prayer.
1. No, they were not sent to kill Longtooth by Sarenrae
2. I want the priest to have some type of atonement.
I was thinking of a Female Dwarven Paladin who speaks with the priest after he is done with the prayer. But this Paladin is actually Sarenrae herself. I won't tell the priest this directly, and will see if he can figure this out himself, whether he things the Paladin is just another worshiper or it was Sarenrae herself.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
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If you really want to instill the shame in him maybe have the character have a dream where the dragon, with the guidance of a kind hand, comes to realize against it's nature that evil is not the correct path. Like a vision of what could have been if the dragon had not been killed.
Redemption is Sarenrae's thing.