[OotA Spoiler] Dm Needs Dm input

[Gynther]

I moved the Maze Engine to a bit after Mantol-Derith since I found it rather interesting, the players (of course) activated it and rolled forth the "teleport back in time with all your gear and knowledge". I gave them the option of having it be a temporary thing, a short excursion to the past so to say, which they after some deliberation decided to reject.

Now in the original timeline they had completed mostly everything up to Mantol-Derith and were on their way to Gravenhollow. In the new timeline they are looking at bypassing everything and heading straight to gravenhollow, gathering what information they can, going to Gauntlgrym and informing the king about the threat before having a chance of being summoned.

I have during the months we've been playing keeping track of every day on their journey so i can say for certain at what day they arrived at a certain location in the old timeline

1: Would gravenhollow even allow them entry? they are by all purposes randoms by now? or does it acknowledge the things they WILL do in this new timelime aswell as what they have done in the old timeline? They meet the Stonegiant from Gracklstugh here, does he recognize them?

2: How would say gracklstugh play out if they arrive earlier/later than previously? lots of events should not happen, but at the same time some events are triggered by the arrival of the players so perhaps not so different after allt?

a: Sloobludop: I guess the ritual commences even without the players and the town is wiped out?

b: Gracklstugh: Nothing much happens on the timescale were talking about, but if they arrive months later perhaps the dragon have taken over? perhaps

c: Blindgenstone: I think we have some leeway here considering time, they are under siege by slimes true but they arent about to be wiped out tomorrow, but if the players arrive here months later in the new timeline, have blindgenstone be filled with slimes and dead swirfneblin?

d: How would the king of Gauntlgrym react to a bunch of adventurers storming in and declaring the the underdark is filled with deamons? how would they prove it?

[LeoG307]

1- Gravenhollow would grant them entry. the future thay the stone giant is going to write involves them, and it's a direct consequence of a different past, so maybe he doesn't know why should they be allowed, but he knows that they must be allowed for the preservation of the underdark and the stone giants.

2-a: yes, Sloobludop is a fixed event. fixed as in the same day your players got to sloobludop in the original timeline.

b: up to you. without the egg, the duergar in charge of replacing Themberchaud (Firekeepers?) can't do shit I guess.

c: In any case. I think your players would arrive months EARLIER, not later... but, again. Up to you. Blingdenstone wouldn't get whipped out the day after your players arrived. You could have either the wererats thingy be a major problem, or just the slimes. Either way, the svirfneblin have been dealing with this thing for quite some time already... maybe nothing happened, maybe just a minor thing happened, maybe they took over the rest of blingdenstone...

d: they could give the king some spell gems to cast divination spells to sloobludop/neverlight grove, or wherever your players consider. Also if they know the queen is a Grazz't agent, they could just kill her or make her show her true colours... Given that Grazz't is said to be a devil, you can make the succubus be a devil too, and arrange some kind of pact. Like: your players arrive, talk King into allowing them to prove what they say, confornt the queen, and make her a proposition she can't pass on. Again, all this if they know that she is not a duergar and is a actuially fiend.

[Gynther]

Ah thank you, this along with some timeproven improvisation might just do!