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2017-11-13, 04:51 PM
So to keep things short and simple, I basically have a player who has been undergoing some changes and part of that process was flashbacks given to him from the creature that began his transformation. He absorbed some of it's memories and saw glimpses of it's memories in his dreams including the location of it's old lair.
Now in the story, the lair is empty. It has been abandoned for about a thousand years at this point and there was never really meant to be anything in there except maybe the act of finding it being a fun little easter egg type deal.
But the player has taken these visions as something that is intended to "guide" him and he is utterly convinced that there is something he is intended to find down in that cave. I've tried to sort of subtlety hint that there really isn't anything there, but he doesn't pick up on it and I don't want to just metagame it out and tell the guy there isn't anything there and his heart is so set on finding this place and exploring it.
So now i'm in a pickle because I have no idea what to put in there for him to find! I thought i'd have more time to puzzle this out and come up with something, but i've been doing so many gigs lately that I haven't had much opportunity to put a lot of brainpower into it.
I was kind of leaning towards maybe giving him another vision directing him somewhere else, but the problem is he is a fairly dominant personality in his party and I feel that if he had another "objective", he would just go straight to it and drag the rest of the party with him. The world they're playing in is rather open ended and they currently aren't involved in anything particularly time sensitive that they are aware of. I was going to wait until a certain level threshold to give him another vision with another objective. But I can't think of anything to put in that lair. =/
Random looters wouldn't have been a problem, even after all this time, because it's location makes it not only extremely inaccessible but you wouldn't even realize it is there without either already knowing where it was or just doing a lot of underwater exploration. So it's possible there may be something left in there that the original owner didn't take, I just can't decide on what.
I really don't want it to contain a power-increasing magical item. So i'm not really sure what to put there... I'd hate for him to make that journey all the way there to find a big empty cave, ya know?
Now in the story, the lair is empty. It has been abandoned for about a thousand years at this point and there was never really meant to be anything in there except maybe the act of finding it being a fun little easter egg type deal.
But the player has taken these visions as something that is intended to "guide" him and he is utterly convinced that there is something he is intended to find down in that cave. I've tried to sort of subtlety hint that there really isn't anything there, but he doesn't pick up on it and I don't want to just metagame it out and tell the guy there isn't anything there and his heart is so set on finding this place and exploring it.
So now i'm in a pickle because I have no idea what to put in there for him to find! I thought i'd have more time to puzzle this out and come up with something, but i've been doing so many gigs lately that I haven't had much opportunity to put a lot of brainpower into it.
I was kind of leaning towards maybe giving him another vision directing him somewhere else, but the problem is he is a fairly dominant personality in his party and I feel that if he had another "objective", he would just go straight to it and drag the rest of the party with him. The world they're playing in is rather open ended and they currently aren't involved in anything particularly time sensitive that they are aware of. I was going to wait until a certain level threshold to give him another vision with another objective. But I can't think of anything to put in that lair. =/
Random looters wouldn't have been a problem, even after all this time, because it's location makes it not only extremely inaccessible but you wouldn't even realize it is there without either already knowing where it was or just doing a lot of underwater exploration. So it's possible there may be something left in there that the original owner didn't take, I just can't decide on what.
I really don't want it to contain a power-increasing magical item. So i'm not really sure what to put there... I'd hate for him to make that journey all the way there to find a big empty cave, ya know?