The Sacrifice Camp (OOC)

Being an NPC and relying on the PCs to drive the story? :)

Albert seemed to arrive twice, here and here again, so I was not sure what to do with that.

I might just use her to kick things along a bit since we seem to have stalled.

Ah :)
I was waiting to see what happens when she reaches the other women. I didn't want to assume that one thing or the other happens.
In my head, Albert was still quite far away from the others. First he saw them in the clearing, then he started walking closer. But he was kinda waiting to see how the group reacts to Lady and the other way around before acting himself.
I'll post a reply later today. :)

Sure. You can take a route that brings you past the altar.

What did you have in mind?

Problem: no Trace of Phil. The woman was referring to Daryl when she said he got away.

Seems that way. That revelation is the consequence on the 7-9.

My idea is to touch the altar and say a prayer. Just to see if anything happens. Maybe be able to 'cleanse' it. If I can conjure some kind of bright light or have it be set aflame as a sign of Raynor, that would be kinda cool.
The main goal would be to impress the women so they back off.

It doesn't have to do anything if it's not plausible.

We might need Norbert's dog to find him.

Never mind. I just read what happened in the RP thread :D I guess it's not needed anymore.

Not to impress the women, no, but you could still try setting the stone table aflame if you really want. :)

I might try it still if it fits within what's going on at the time :)

Ouch. And here was poor Phil thinking he had the strongest bond with Norbert!

Norbert will drop everything and everyone if he remembers. And he will probably die from shame. But even if it is only four day ago, the events at the other barons house seem a lifetime ago.

Maybe we can slowly start to think about the number of barons again.

So true. :)

Er...? I thought the dog was with Theo? Theo is not Phil. I am not sure if a mistake was made here?

I thought the cages were still close enough for the dog to hear the whistle. Norbert believes the witch has caught all his allies and caged them up. Maybe Phil escaped, he reasons.
He also feels Theo is safe enough to recall the dog and he is sure he will need the dog in search of Phil. Norbert is really upset and starts to wonder why no one talked about Phil.

Sure. Dogs have good hearing and whistles travel.

Not that close that you guys can still know that Theo is safe without the dog, though, but less than a minute for you to get to him if you want.

Norbert is not really aware who is still with Theo. The situation was (is) rather stressful and confusing.

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How do we wish to proceed. The characters seem a bit directionless, so we can decide as players what we want next.

At one extreme I can wrap this whole thing up and get everyone together and you can 'go home'.

Or I can introduce one of a few twists that were unexplored.

It is up to the players if there is more to be done here, and if we want to play out 'the search for Phil'.

I think Albert would want to find Phil too, but that doesn't mean we have to play it out.

For the story's sake, I'd like to skip that part and get home to wrap things up and maybe move on to something new.

Yeah, I didn't figure the characters would just leave the poor boy lost. So this was more about how much we want to play this out.
Noted. Though don't make decision 'for the story's sake', the story is a slave to the players.

Something new might be called for, I am not sure the current events are gripping the players.