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[Anastasia]

Bonus Material: Missed plot hooks.

Vastwoods was full of plot hooks for the main story's plot. You ended up on the Sidhe path with Myann as a loyal ally and Feather's wife. But what if other paths were chosen? What were they? I'll elaborate a few, as much as I can without spoilers.

Mayor Redmond and SUPER MAGITECH!

Back in Carnath Falls, the party visited Mayor Redmond. He was an intellectual of sorts and clearly ahead of the curve. If you'd stuck around him longer or shown a lot more interest in him, it would have lead to a series of adventures around magi-tech. You know how various Sidhe things have shown science exists in the Vastwoods (Myann's penicillin, a human kingdom figuring out pasteurization way early)? This path would have explored those in more detail. It's like El and the Stratum would have played into this. The planned endgame was to tie it into the Stratum route. The upshot was the party building a bunch of magitech warships to go pick a fight with the Stratum.

Esona's troubleshooters

If you'd solved the spider problem for Esona, she'd have offered you money and a job. If you'd accepted, you'd have ended up as her personal trouble shooters. This would lead you into conflict with the undead that plagued Riverside and ultimately Johann. At the same time, you'd get involved in Riverside's problems and Esona's own issues. You would've been the fulcrum to Riverside's success or failure, and possibly Esona surviving or having a breakdown. There wasn't enough here for a full endgame arc, so this one would have probably comboed with another arc.

Sidhe Courtiers

So imagine if the party hadn't lost the wolf eyes or embraced the power they gave. Ultimately (and with or without Myann), the party ends up more and more like typical Sidhe. As such, they strike out to find their place in the fey realms. This was the Sidhe politics route. The flavor would be intense and not to everyone's tastes, but conversely Myann would lose her special snowflake status in this one, as the entire party is Sidhe-touched. Depending on how it goes, it could curve towards the route you're on now or something else entirely.

Orc troubles

This one was scrapped when Porridge died. It was next up after the white dragon's rampage and would've dealt with orcish politics. The orcs of the Vastwoods are a strange splinter group that aren't normal orcs. Dealing with the political hoo-hah of 'civilized' orcs with more brains than average would've followed. This is one of the few routes that may have led out of the Vastwoods, as the rest of the orcs start coming for a reckoning with their strangely errant brothers. Could Porridge and the party deal with this? Could anything be done in an atmosphere of machismo?

[Anastasia]

It's been a day to think it over. Figure out what y'all want to do and post it here, each of you. It doesn't need to be done by Monday if it's a timecrunch, but sooner the better. Include any and everything, be inclusive. We can always narrow down later. Feel free to post ideas to be developed.

[Nephrite]

Gildas will want to try and figure the Cursed sword from the Circle out again, and will take it to Vasili to have him help out if possible.

He'd like to get anymore books to help out with the current situation, ones that might help add to their knowledge on what to do.

He'll also check in on his cloak!

He'd also suggest the party use the book to try and enact them reaching the... whatever it is that controls the mantles and just see what happens. It might give them insight into what they need to do.

Gildas will also go to The Circle to return the arrow and ask if maybe they know any sane fey. Hey, maybe the Dreamer is a sane fey and that's why they keep it there.

He would also suggest that the party go to that invisible mountain he saw some weeks ago.

[Anastasia]

Gildas will want to try and figure the Cursed sword from the Circle out again, and will take it to Vasili to have him help out if possible.

Needs to be done IC. We'll cover that soon.

He'd like to get anymore books to help out with the current situation, ones that might help add to their knowledge on what to do.

This can be done OOC. Where are you going to look for them? The kobolds or anywhere more exotic?

He'll also check in on his cloak!

Can be done OOC. I'll post about this shortly (or tomorrow if I fall asleep, work was a dog).

He'd also suggest the party use the book to try and enact them reaching the... whatever it is that controls the mantles and just see what happens. It might give them insight into what they need to do.

Duly noted, something the PCs would need to do IC.

Gildas will also go to The Circle to return the arrow and ask if maybe they know any sane fey. Hey, maybe the Dreamer is a sane fey and that's why they keep it there.

Noted. IC.

He would also suggest that the party go to that invisible mountain he saw some weeks ago.

Do me a favor and dig up any info on it you got IC (in logs or in posts) and link me to them? Thanks. I forgot to record precisely what you were told there.

[Anastasia]

Addendum: Link me to the info on the cloak as well, really tired and not seeing it in my notes.

[Nephrite]

Here's what I've got:

For the books: Kobolds, Malaines if they don't have any more. Gildas can probably make it back to Mayor Redford with some Treeportation (GET IT?!)... I think it'd just be faster for him to fly really fast, but whatever!

On the cloak:

Sounds good. They'll get to work, go ahead and deduct 2k gold for now. They'll speak up if they need more.


On the mountain:

From the Lay of the Land a few weeks ago:
In addition to that, there's a strange disturbance. You can't pin it down with the spell except for 'south' and 'east', but it's a...mountain? An inconstant, moving mountain.

[19:11] <Gildas> His eyes widen, then he shakes his head. "One final question. Do any of you know of the... moving mountain to the southeast?"
[19:13] <@Kotono> The Dreamer's voice comes, along with a deep lethargy that nearly fells Gildas. "There is a mountain drifting along...a place of dreams and fancy, where the dreams of power crystallize. It has no bearings on anyone's lives, seek it only to find power and if you do not hold your lives too tightly."

[Ebiris]

Mountain sounds fun. I don't really care about using the book because it just makes stuff up.

John doesn't really have any goals of his own. He's pretty passive that way.

[Corwin]

Feather's pretty much accomplished all he wanted to. There's the undying skeleton as a loose end, but that's really it.

He'll be fine with doing most things, but probably not with going to Stratum.

[Nephrite]

A fluff post of Myann's rules to the Pixies would be pretty entertaining.

[Ebiris]

A list of mantles describing their effects on the owner's appearance from prettiest to nastiest would be neat too.

[Anastasia]

First one's easy to do.

Second will be a thing since there's an incredible variety of mantles. How the appearance comes out isn't related to a specific mantle as much as dumb luck and the base type of the fey involved.

d100

1-80: Major mutations. The mutations are more disturbing and unchecked with lower rolls.
81-95: Minor mutations. The mutations are relatively minor or do not overly disrupt the fey's appearance. Splashuzu's mom is in this category.
96-99: Internal mutations. All the mutations are inside so any visible changes are minimal. This doesn't prohibit certain things, such as having more than one body or abnormal bodily functions (such as spinning web or producing honey).
100: Sidhe's choice. Most Sidhe choose heavy mutations by nature.

Plus the same type of fey with the same mantle will manifest it somewhat differently. Note that Myann didn't use this table, as her situation is abnormal.

[Nephrite]

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the abilities of Hunter and Seeker, since those two kind of got punked offscreen.

[Corwin]

I need to swap out Animalistic Power when we have the time for it. See Invis or Spider Climb work instead?

[Anastasia]

Either is fine.

[Anastasia]

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the abilities of Hunter and Seeker, since those two kind of got punked offscreen.

Hunter was a supercharged ranger/wizard gestalt. The most likely ability to be gained are these.

Deadly Blow (Ex)

Whenever you deal melee damage to one of your favored enemies, they must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 hit dice + Strength modifier) or suffer a notable injury. The exact injury varies, but is generally debilitating. Examples are broken bones, concussions, bleeding wounds and so forth. Each successful hit threatens a notable injury, there's no limit to the number of times a round you can inflict one.

Mindsap (Ex)

You deal 1 point of Intelligence damage with each successful ranged attack. If attacking a favored enemy, add your favored enemy bonus to this Intelligence damage.

Seeker was a tracker. He had true seeing, blindsight and a few other goodies. Getting various perception boosters like that was to be expected. See invisibility, blindsense/sight or getting a big bonus to perception checks were all possible.