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Has anyone considered adding this in somehow? Just the trial part
Barzillai is an opera fan who apparently has private performances so it could partly fit
Although there isn’t an obvious reason why it would be needed as a hook. When they want to get in the opera house they have a free invitation
And getting in there early is probably not useful and potentially extremely dangerous
I used it as the Theater of the Real for the Sarinis. Worked like a charm--it was a Sarini that wrote it and there's a mint reference at the Mayor's meal later in that chapter.
What do you mean by Theater of the Real in this instance? And was this linked to infiltrating the Sarini’s as an added extra ?
See book 3, page 9, it's a listed interest. Theater of the Real is basically snuff plays.
When we ran CoT, it was one of the most memorable parts. I don’t think it’d fit well with the opera house encounter, but roguerouge integrates it pretty damn well in his Sarini side quest.
Think gladiatorial combat meets Shakespeare.
Roguerogue was this all mentioned in the previous side quest topic?
I remember reading about the stats of the Sarini siblings but not any theater stuff
Am I guilty of skim reading ?
Nope, it would be hard to remember--it was from a few weeks ago and a brief mention in that thread: Manor of Sarinis
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I added it in . We played basically the whole stage play part (and Barzillai was in the audience at the grand performance, looking very haggard and leaving before the end), and then the Westcrown Mayor's party afterwards.
I included the Sixfold Trail as a way to get into the Sarini mansion. The Sarinis are more involved in our game than in the published AP. In our version, the Sarini mansion hosted the underground Asmodean temple before Thrune won (and they Asmodeans subsequently acquired their current digs). It's still there, but closed down. And it was there that the Pit Fiend Oughorthan had set up his trap for the original Silver Ravens after the end of the civil war.
The PCs found a Silver Raven figurine at the Newt market, being sold by proxy. They shadowed the seller and confronted him. It turned out that he was a former Sarini house guard who had stolen the figurine from the Sarini leader's office (teh guard couldn't longer stomach the atrocities going on in the mansion, and had bailed). He had heard the head of the family boasting to Barzillai himself during a visit that the Silver Raven figurine in his office came from the "old temple below our mansion" and was "given to my father by Oughorthan, from the bloody hand of Jackdaw herself".
This of course made the the PCs very interested to explore the old Sarini basement temple themselves. Now, I wanted to use the Westcrown Mayor's from the Sixfold trail mansion as the Sarini estate, and wanted the PCs to use the play as the way to enter the after-show party, to then be able to sneak into the basement.
The way I railroaded them into the play instead of just breaking in or trying to get jobs as e.g. gardeners, was that firstly, the major domo, Nodo, of house Sarini was a quite powerful Accomplice Devil in service to the family (information they got from the very afraid ex house guard). He interviewed all contractors and employees "thoroughly". Also, the estate had a version of a permanent Forbiddance cast on it, but instead acting on alignment it affected everyone not of the Sarini bloodline. It could be alleviated for non-family by a ritual using blood smeared on a personal object, which was then then worn, something the Sarinis did for personel and guests. And the after-play party was the best way for someone like the PCs to get invited to the mansion.
I had shortened the play and the party from the Sixfold Trail to be able to better fit it in, but the addition worked out quite well.