Good afternoon all!
My group of 5 (now 6, as Winter has joined the group controlled by a 6th person) are about to get to Okeno to free Kaklatath.
I require some help with the corruption from Xhamen-Dor. It states in book 5 that the PC's are infected and I'm going to play this off on the Winter PC. I Have a few questions though:
1) When should the PC's start knowing a great deal about him? They have heard OF him because of Lowl's plans.
2) apparently the PC's are already corrupted and immune, requiring a DC30 heal check to notice signs of the infection. Is it implied they've been corrupted from the start of the AP?
3) Will Kaklatath be a great source of all this information and give the PC's a big backdrop of information?
I'd love to hear how other DM's handled the corruption aspect (especially how they did it and when they did it)
Many thanks!
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Having just finished Book four, and being about to move onto book 5, here's my thoughts:
1) I had the Mad Prophet tell the PCs most of the info on Xhamen-Dor, particularly the way his mind-virus spreads. He made a big point of mentioning that he was dooming them with this information.
Kaklatath would likely know even more, particularly that XD is essentially a bioweapon used by Hastur to consume worlds, though she's not going to be too familiar with the current specifics of the infection (which is mentioned to have evolved over the years.
2) I think the idea is that the PCs became infested when they first heard the name Xhamen-Dor, though by the book it seems like that knowledge only gives you a 1% per year chance of becoming seeded.
3) Yeah, Kaklatath is a pretty good source of backstory. Book five gives her a bunch of exposition to exposit when the party finds the necronomicon, but I don't really see why she wouldn't share most of it when first meeting the PCs.