With a well stocked wagon and an elf girl named Milli driving, the party heads out the city gate headed east. Tis' a beautiful morning.
Unless the party decides otherwise I'll assume an eastern heading toward Silva Sacer.
Please have this discussion on OCC.
Before the last horse has left the gate, cries of Wait! Wait! come down from the gate house.
The party looks behind and sees the Queen leading an elderly woman toward the party.
Regenia says, Aurspexa has something to tell you. She had a vision this morning.
The old lady's voice creaks, Merit knows your hope. From Narconia, 6 with noose tied rope. Two from the East, a captain from the guard, a mythological beast, a girl fighting hard. Tayne The Touched, syphilitic, Cousin to The Queen. Tomorrow, from Narconia, death's warm Spring.
Regenia explicates the old woman's vision:
She means to tell you that Merit knows I have hired you. His spies are everywhere. He will send a party to hunt you. They will leave from Narconia tomorrow. Among them, my evil and crazy cousin, Tayne. Tayne was kicked out of my court only months ago. He is a practitioner of both arcane and divine magics. He's not a nice man.
When I asked her about the beast, all she could say was that she saw a goat. They obviously employ a guard captain, a girl, and two Orientals.
Avoid them if you can.
May the gods bless you all, and good luck.
Now, most of you have figured out the GM's conspiracy. There is a counter campaign to People Divided. There is a party of evil characters out hunting you. But they also have some other distractions to contend with.
Your friends are in this party: Grognardsw (as Tayne), Rukellian, PyroArrow, among them. They know where you want to go and what you want to do. But the map is big and like I said, they have "distractions".
The campaign is designed to create the potential for combat between the 2 parties. I hope you enjoy the subplot. I hope 1 or 2 of you are surprised, but I doubt it.
Grognardsw gets credit for the counter campaign idea. I took it from his "Palace of The Silver Princess"
I would like to see an OCC discussion on what direction to head. The presence of an evil party might make ya'll take alternate routs.
Once a direction is selected I can get to work.
