HoboKnight
2022-07-15, 03:26 AM
Hey, guys,
my party is currently in a Feywild, more specifically, in a massive settlement, ruled by an Archfey of shrubberies. Yeah, an entire city is hedge/shrubbery, and sort of on a side note - it is also a major trading hub for the region. In the settlement, my party got on a bad side of a hag who tried to frame them with a murder. She failed spectacularly(not one of the smarter hags, I guess) and during the entire commotion, hedge guards popped on the scene, arresting everyone, meaning party, hag in question, sister of a murdered woman who thinks party dwarf did it, a small family of goblins and a cleptomanic elven noble who filled his sack with gin, found in a shrubbery tavern, where the party was staying.
Party expects to be escorted to a court, use Zone of Truth and be done with it. But this is a rather chaotic setting, so: Guards did not arrest them because they keep the peace, but because one of the guards does some sort of pretend play to be a Material Plane guard. Guards are actually taking care of two things: making sure no one does anything bad to shrubberies and making sure no one disrespects the Archfey.
So, guards are now taking the party to "someone in charge". In this case, this is a sentient cat (sort of chesire cat) with a theater of its own. Bringing some interesting bufoons to a play can bring all sorts of benefits in this town and guards know it. My plan is for the cat to be a director, prepping the stage, cutting out all the non-suspensful parts(Zone of Truth, other sane and drama-breaking elements) and making one hell of a show from it. Who loses the head? Well...? Does anyone? Should I even introduce an execution in this play - perhaps a troll executioner with a massive blade who actually lops off a head of persons who perform most poor in this paly? Murdered woman's sister wants revenge. Goblin family are actually tourists and just want to be done with all the red tape and the kleptomaniac noble wants to get drunk (and have a shag if possible).
How should I go about it and what other NPCs should be present - the audience, of course - elves, satyrs, centaurs, gnomes, occasional goblin and a troll. Perhaps a number of casters with Greater Illusion abilities?
The theatre is a closed space of about 100x100 ft with all sorts of wooden beams crisscrossing the space under the cieling, where director cat can hop around and boss the play.
Super fun part is, only 1 party member speaks Sylvan - the others could be framed as retarded lost souls, seen as clueless idiots. Perhaps masks are found for everyone?
There should be little point and logic in it, but lots of entertainment, chaos and insanity.
thanks!
my party is currently in a Feywild, more specifically, in a massive settlement, ruled by an Archfey of shrubberies. Yeah, an entire city is hedge/shrubbery, and sort of on a side note - it is also a major trading hub for the region. In the settlement, my party got on a bad side of a hag who tried to frame them with a murder. She failed spectacularly(not one of the smarter hags, I guess) and during the entire commotion, hedge guards popped on the scene, arresting everyone, meaning party, hag in question, sister of a murdered woman who thinks party dwarf did it, a small family of goblins and a cleptomanic elven noble who filled his sack with gin, found in a shrubbery tavern, where the party was staying.
Party expects to be escorted to a court, use Zone of Truth and be done with it. But this is a rather chaotic setting, so: Guards did not arrest them because they keep the peace, but because one of the guards does some sort of pretend play to be a Material Plane guard. Guards are actually taking care of two things: making sure no one does anything bad to shrubberies and making sure no one disrespects the Archfey.
So, guards are now taking the party to "someone in charge". In this case, this is a sentient cat (sort of chesire cat) with a theater of its own. Bringing some interesting bufoons to a play can bring all sorts of benefits in this town and guards know it. My plan is for the cat to be a director, prepping the stage, cutting out all the non-suspensful parts(Zone of Truth, other sane and drama-breaking elements) and making one hell of a show from it. Who loses the head? Well...? Does anyone? Should I even introduce an execution in this play - perhaps a troll executioner with a massive blade who actually lops off a head of persons who perform most poor in this paly? Murdered woman's sister wants revenge. Goblin family are actually tourists and just want to be done with all the red tape and the kleptomaniac noble wants to get drunk (and have a shag if possible).
How should I go about it and what other NPCs should be present - the audience, of course - elves, satyrs, centaurs, gnomes, occasional goblin and a troll. Perhaps a number of casters with Greater Illusion abilities?
The theatre is a closed space of about 100x100 ft with all sorts of wooden beams crisscrossing the space under the cieling, where director cat can hop around and boss the play.
Super fun part is, only 1 party member speaks Sylvan - the others could be framed as retarded lost souls, seen as clueless idiots. Perhaps masks are found for everyone?
There should be little point and logic in it, but lots of entertainment, chaos and insanity.
thanks!