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My party was progressing through the adventures in the brick, they rescued Phon, did some investigation to who the murderer could be, captured Toridan Cran, drove off the goblins infesting the haunted house, began working for Zavere at Castle Shard and began the smugglers daughter episode.
Anyway, they handled that whole episode pretty well, handled the girl with extreme caution and ended up bringing her to Lord Zavere who recommended bringing the girl and watch to the brotherhood of redemption. Things were good until they tried to put the girl in shackles and she attacked and bit one of the players, who killed her quite easily. (was a great RP episode with the paladin standing up for not killing the undead girl and the self-centered anti-establishment rogue befriending her (as best as is possible with a psychotic undead nice girl). Anyway, after the girl died they finally got a better look at the watch and it started offering (telepathically) wishes to the party wizard if he would free it. He stuck to his guns and refused any offers it made.
After some discussion the party settled on bringing the girl (though dead-dead) and the watch to the brotherhood of redemption. During this time, the wizard took out his hammer and smashed the front plate of the watch after it asked him yet again to be freed. At this point, I was somewhat stumped as I hadn't predicted this, so I had a dramatic event occur where the demon inside escapes in a black mist, that promptly tries to enter Lord Zavere who was there during part of the banter and discussion.
Anyway, it fails, and escapes into the castle and the party and Lord Zavere are unable to locate it. The night ended with the party returning the broken (mended with a spell and dweomered with Nystuls magic aura) watch to Linnech who I reasoned had no real idea of exactly who was inside and how it worked. He paid them for disposing of his daughter and returning the watch to him.... not knowing it doesnt work.
Now here is my question, I had originally planned on having the party do the Night of Dissolution in a few more levels, but I am falling in love with the Banewarrens and I think that is where I really see this party having thier best time. The group is composed of 1 paladin, 1 samurai (wanted for murder as he was setup by his lord) 1 wizard, 1 ranger/cleric and 1 urban ranger.
ATM they are level 2 but they should level up very shortly after a foray into the sewers. The undead girl bit a character and I am having the wound fester, so they going to seek to collect enough rat tails to get a free cure disease from the church.
I couldnt find anything on the demon possessed watch at the spur of the moment when they broke it, so I just went with the flow and figured I could make it interesting.
Here is what I am thinking about what can happen next, and I would love your DM input on potential problems or hiccups this can cause.
1) The demon inside the watch broke out and is on the loose in the city, so the party will likely have to go capture or kill it.
2) the Demon inside the watch never left castle shard, but instead has hidden inside the shard itself and is seeking to corrupt it. (which would greatly tie down Lord Zavere and his lady.)
3) Linnech will try to sell the watch to the Balacazars, who then will figure it is a fake, come after Linnech, who will gladly sell out the party in order to save his life (which probably wouldnt work) but this is a great way to get the Balacazars to start hunting and tracking down the party.
My main goal is to set them up for the Banewarrens, however their level is low. (assume 3rd level).
Thoughts and/or suggestions?
My party was progressing through the adventures in the brick, they rescued Phon, did some investigation to who the murderer could be, captured Toridan Cran, drove off the goblins infesting the haunted house, began working for Zavere at Castle Shard and began the smugglers daughter episode.
Anyway, they handled that whole episode pretty well, handled the girl with extreme caution and ended up bringing her to Lord Zavere who recommended bringing the girl and watch to the brotherhood of redemption. Things were good until they tried to put the girl in shackles and she attacked and bit one of the players, who killed her quite easily. (was a great RP episode with the paladin standing up for not killing the undead girl and the self-centered anti-establishment rogue befriending her (as best as is possible with a psychotic undead nice girl). Anyway, after the girl died they finally got a better look at the watch and it started offering (telepathically) wishes to the party wizard if he would free it. He stuck to his guns and refused any offers it made.
After some discussion the party settled on bringing the girl (though dead-dead) and the watch to the brotherhood of redemption. During this time, the wizard took out his hammer and smashed the front plate of the watch after it asked him yet again to be freed. At this point, I was somewhat stumped as I hadn't predicted this, so I had a dramatic event occur where the demon inside escapes in a black mist, that promptly tries to enter Lord Zavere who was there during part of the banter and discussion.
Anyway, it fails, and escapes into the castle and the party and Lord Zavere are unable to locate it. The night ended with the party returning the broken (mended with a spell and dweomered with Nystuls magic aura) watch to Linnech who I reasoned had no real idea of exactly who was inside and how it worked. He paid them for disposing of his daughter and returning the watch to him.... not knowing it doesnt work.
Now here is my question, I had originally planned on having the party do the Night of Dissolution in a few more levels, but I am falling in love with the Banewarrens and I think that is where I really see this party having thier best time. The group is composed of 1 paladin, 1 samurai (wanted for murder as he was setup by his lord) 1 wizard, 1 ranger/cleric and 1 urban ranger.
ATM they are level 2 but they should level up very shortly after a foray into the sewers. The undead girl bit a character and I am having the wound fester, so they going to seek to collect enough rat tails to get a free cure disease from the church.
I couldnt find anything on the demon possessed watch at the spur of the moment when they broke it, so I just went with the flow and figured I could make it interesting.
Here is what I am thinking about what can happen next, and I would love your DM input on potential problems or hiccups this can cause.
1) The demon inside the watch broke out and is on the loose in the city, so the party will likely have to go capture or kill it.
2) the Demon inside the watch never left castle shard, but instead has hidden inside the shard itself and is seeking to corrupt it. (which would greatly tie down Lord Zavere and his lady.)
3) Linnech will try to sell the watch to the Balacazars, who then will figure it is a fake, come after Linnech, who will gladly sell out the party in order to save his life (which probably wouldnt work) but this is a great way to get the Balacazars to start hunting and tracking down the party.
My main goal is to set them up for the Banewarrens, however their level is low. (assume 3rd level).
Thoughts and/or suggestions?
