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<blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 9268008" data-attributes="member: 21087"><p>The PCs make it through to the illusory tower and pit. They discover that both are illusions in really the best possible way: they are careful, they find out there is an illusion hiding a pit, and yet one or two of them still fall into the pit and get jumped. They explore the inside of Pilus' lab. They fight Aurus, kill him, and take his awesome hammer that Drojic as the only normal-ish melee fighter adds to his golf bag. </p><p></p><p>My tweak of the plotline has Ceala making the Orb of Storms that the Ragesians use in Seaquen secretly from Pilus,[ISPOILER] after her master has abandoned this secret biomancy lab for a giant flying <s>zord</s> <s>robeast</s> biomancy thing. [/ISPOILER]I decided that she had built a secret lab in the giant empty biomancy vat at the bottom of the map that was hidden by more illusion magic. I made a map an Dungeon Alchemist that fit inside the vat I that revealed once the PCs found it:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]347614[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The three different orb-looking things on the right half of the room in the picture were part of Caela's magic process for making magic weather-affecting orbs. When the PCs got into the room the process of making another orb was mostly complete. Also in the room were books about biomancy and cages and a dissection table for examining biomancy monsters (and maybe using them to power the creation of the orb).</p><p></p><p>As an aside making that room in Dungeon Alchemist was super easy. The usefulness of the program is limited by the different backgrounds and built-in room dressing. I had to use the "ice" floors and walls to try to make something that looked like glass, for example. But it didn't take any artistic talent to make the room look as good as it does.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the PCs make their way into what was Pilus' study and meeting room. Instead they find Caela there, who literally drops a giant plot clue on their heads when they enter. I do my best to make Caela a challenging fight, and have to settle for her being kind of annoying. Of course the PCs triumph. They find themselves with a lot of information about how to do biomancy and how to do weather magic with magic items, and a huge laboratory designed exactly for doing those things. They can tell that Caela was probably doing some things that the masters of the monastery were not aware of [ISPOILER](the PCs still don't know or realize that Pilus is also hiding things from Longinus)[/ISPOILER], and that she was doing them for the Ragesians, but they still feel like they're missing something.</p><p></p><p>They magically communicate with Simeon from inside the lab. He tells them enough about Castle Korstull for Scarlett to decide to finish making a weather controlling orb that affects magically bad fire rain. Then they head back to the village to rest and resupply before heading to Korstull.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere in there Balance leaves, granting Drojic her boon before finally leaving. [ISPOILER]She may or may not show up again, depending on how many callback opportunities are written into future mods.[/ISPOILER]</p><p></p><p>They head back to the monastery. Without Caela there to keep them out, and with Balance's effect on Eresh over, the monks let them in and grant them an audience with the two masters. They admit that they trusted Caela too much and that she betrayed them, and then proceed to throw her under the bus for everything else bad that happened. They are appreciative that the party was instrumental in pushing the Ragesians out of their valley. To help they offer (yet more) free horses, supplies, and share information about Ragesians and Shahalesti being around Korstull. </p><p></p><p>The party is not completely satisfied but isn't sure what else to do here. They leave the mountains and head into Sindaire, on their way to Castle Korstull and the Torch of the Burning Sky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pneumatik, post: 9268008, member: 21087"] The PCs make it through to the illusory tower and pit. They discover that both are illusions in really the best possible way: they are careful, they find out there is an illusion hiding a pit, and yet one or two of them still fall into the pit and get jumped. They explore the inside of Pilus' lab. They fight Aurus, kill him, and take his awesome hammer that Drojic as the only normal-ish melee fighter adds to his golf bag. My tweak of the plotline has Ceala making the Orb of Storms that the Ragesians use in Seaquen secretly from Pilus,[ISPOILER] after her master has abandoned this secret biomancy lab for a giant flying [S]zord[/S] [S]robeast[/S] biomancy thing. [/ISPOILER]I decided that she had built a secret lab in the giant empty biomancy vat at the bottom of the map that was hidden by more illusion magic. I made a map an Dungeon Alchemist that fit inside the vat I that revealed once the PCs found it: [ATTACH type="full"]347614[/ATTACH] The three different orb-looking things on the right half of the room in the picture were part of Caela's magic process for making magic weather-affecting orbs. When the PCs got into the room the process of making another orb was mostly complete. Also in the room were books about biomancy and cages and a dissection table for examining biomancy monsters (and maybe using them to power the creation of the orb). As an aside making that room in Dungeon Alchemist was super easy. The usefulness of the program is limited by the different backgrounds and built-in room dressing. I had to use the "ice" floors and walls to try to make something that looked like glass, for example. But it didn't take any artistic talent to make the room look as good as it does. Eventually the PCs make their way into what was Pilus' study and meeting room. Instead they find Caela there, who literally drops a giant plot clue on their heads when they enter. I do my best to make Caela a challenging fight, and have to settle for her being kind of annoying. Of course the PCs triumph. They find themselves with a lot of information about how to do biomancy and how to do weather magic with magic items, and a huge laboratory designed exactly for doing those things. They can tell that Caela was probably doing some things that the masters of the monastery were not aware of [ISPOILER](the PCs still don't know or realize that Pilus is also hiding things from Longinus)[/ISPOILER], and that she was doing them for the Ragesians, but they still feel like they're missing something. They magically communicate with Simeon from inside the lab. He tells them enough about Castle Korstull for Scarlett to decide to finish making a weather controlling orb that affects magically bad fire rain. Then they head back to the village to rest and resupply before heading to Korstull. Somewhere in there Balance leaves, granting Drojic her boon before finally leaving. [ISPOILER]She may or may not show up again, depending on how many callback opportunities are written into future mods.[/ISPOILER] They head back to the monastery. Without Caela there to keep them out, and with Balance's effect on Eresh over, the monks let them in and grant them an audience with the two masters. They admit that they trusted Caela too much and that she betrayed them, and then proceed to throw her under the bus for everything else bad that happened. They are appreciative that the party was instrumental in pushing the Ragesians out of their valley. To help they offer (yet more) free horses, supplies, and share information about Ragesians and Shahalesti being around Korstull. The party is not completely satisfied but isn't sure what else to do here. They leave the mountains and head into Sindaire, on their way to Castle Korstull and the Torch of the Burning Sky. [/QUOTE]
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