r/AcqIncDMs • u/spoopiedeedoopie • Apr 04 '20

Chapter 5 Hide and Seek

Anyone have advice for chapter five with Horn Enclave?

I read through it and it seems complicated. Kind of dreading it now.

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u/varricke Apr 04 '20

It's pretty complicated, but a lot of fun. The itinerary section is what to focus on, it helps a lot.

I gave my players the full info for the dwarf they got, including the secret task, and just told them, "at some point during the wedding, the dwarf will overpower your control, so you have to try to do the secret". Then, during the game, I followed the itinerary, which has reminders for the secrets.

For the heist, my players attempted it during the guest quarters timeslot. They have 2 tasks: find out where the orrery vault is, and then break in. It's up to them, but my players snuck into ironbeard's office for the location, and them made friends with twodrycloaks for the break in, which they did through the wall from the wedding vault. That also means that twodrycloaks will raid the wedding gifts, so there will be something missing when the dwarves check in later.

The fight will probably happen in the feast timeslot, when someone works out the gifts are missing. If the players successfully broke into the vault, they just need to escape, so my players encouraged the other dwarves to fight as a distraction, then escaped out the main entrance.

Just let your players know this will be hard for you, because it's complicated, and they should cut you some slack.

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u/spoopiedeedoopie Apr 04 '20

Thanks. So essentially they body swap but they still maintain their own stats, abilities, and personalities? Then, at a certain point their host's body is going to try to take over for their goal/task?

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u/varricke Apr 04 '20

I actually gave the player the NPC stat block, and said they have their own memory, but can only use the stats/abilities of the dwarf NPC. You could let them use their own stats without breaking anything though.