We Will NOT Play DnD

Putterdale learns from the Chancellor of the University that waking up Inglethom was, in fact, a terrible thing that isn't going to produce many acolades. In fact, if Putterdale doesn't get it solved in due time, there could be serious penalties the likes of which no professor wants to suffer. If anything would motivate Putterdale to adventure, it's the fear of losing his job and being forced to adventure for a living.

In a system where the players can mechanially force a villain to answer hard questions, like, "what are you trying to achieve, actually," it's important for a GM to remember that your villains don't always have to be rational. Sometimes it's just as good to say something deranged and then laugh like a lunatic.

The dreaded Inglethom is revealed, but Sid finds that the real reveal are the dread and arcane powers of his own player characters. In a system where anyone can be or do anything they feel like, the risk of introducing a "high level" demigod, completed unsupported and undefended, is a risky idea indeed.

The party manages the simplest part of their adventure! Finding the ancient tomb of Inglethom - a figure shrouded in mystery possibly if only because Paul didn't do any actual research on him. The tomb isn't empty, however.

Mayson enlists the help of one of his co-workers, Sid, to run a new campaign! However, Sid isn't used to a highly proactive play group, and is used to needing to move all his players around like static pieces on a board. The group swiftly gets out of his hands, and blows something up.