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markvi58 12-26-04, 11:30 PM	If I were to put a monastery in Sharn to the Mockery, where do you think I should put it. I'd like to have a hidden Fleyed Hand monastery in the City of Towers. Places that have connections to the Mockery in the Sharn Sourcebook are Malleon's Gate, Death's Gate, and Khyber's gate (*'s Gate = Mockery?). Malleon's Gate, pg. 63, the Medusa Gasslak has a shrine to the Mockery in his abode. He is a recent phenomena. I think that the monastery should be established. Death's Gate, pg. 92, the Death's Gate Guild has a shrine to the Mockery. Many Deathsgaters revere the Mockery. I think this may be too busy of an area to have a hidden monastery. Khyber's Gate, pg. 100, has a Temple of the Six. It is the Ogre Mage, Cavallah's base of operations. Once again doesn't sound like a very hidden place for a secret monastery, but this is in the Cogs. Any ideas?
Bluebrush 12-26-04, 11:56 PM	If you're determined to have it, fitting them in as part of Daask would be a good idea, maybe, since the dark six are more directly worshipped in Droaam. Though it'd probably work as more an informal "Master and his three beloved students" thing than having a big monestary sitting there for the authorities and the church of the Silver Flame to find. I don't think there's any monestaries in Sharn of other gods, but I could be wrong. (I do recall the Kalashtar community have a martial arts school which occours in the local community gathering spot.)
Edymnion 12-27-04, 01:20 AM	Actually, I'd say put it up in the good part of town. Take a page from the "D&D is evil!" people's book. Some of the rich kids (I say kids, I mean like mid to late teenagers) are dabbling around with "forbidden" things, and start themselves a little Mockery cult (hey, people that cut themselves up and look all gross, worshiping a dark god, that sounds to me like something a stupid teenager would think is cool and try to copy, just look at Marylin Manson). Thing is, they got in too deep, and things got out of control. Now, in the nice clean perfect little community in the top layers of Sharn, there's a dark spot hiding just under the surface. None of that obviously weirdo crazy people Mockery followers, but people you would otherwise think of as upstanding citizens. Thing is, in this part of town, everyone has money. Lots of money. And in a setting where levels don't matter, money is power. Leave the seedy guys in the lower reaches of the city, the core group, the masterminds, are the clean cut, well dressed, paragons of the community. And if anyone found out, well, what are they going to do? It would be like a tabloid reporting that Sean Connery was involved in a baby sacrificing devil cult. Everybody would chuckle, no one would believe it, and the person that made the claim would be ridiculed and then fade away and quietly dissappear... After all, when you make nasty, and true, claims about the people running the show, you can't expect to get away unscathed...
Just another user 12-27-04, 03:24 AM	Actually, I'd say put it up in the good part of town. Take a page from the "D&D is evil!" people's book. Some of the rich kids (I say kids, I mean like mid to late teenagers) are dabbling around with "forbidden" things, and start themselves a little Mockery cult (hey, people that cut themselves up and look all gross, worshiping a dark god, that sounds to me like something a stupid teenager would think is cool and try to copy, just look at Marylin Manson). Thing is, they got in too deep, and things got out of control. Now, in the nice clean perfect little community in the top layers of Sharn, there's a dark spot hiding just under the surface. None of that obviously weirdo crazy people Mockery followers, but people you would otherwise think of as upstanding citizens. Thing is, in this part of town, everyone has money. Lots of money. And in a setting where levels don't matter, money is power. Leave the seedy guys in the lower reaches of the city, the core group, the masterminds, are the clean cut, well dressed, paragons of the community. And if anyone found out, well, what are they going to do? It would be like a tabloid reporting that Sean Connery was involved in a baby sacrificing devil cult. Everybody would chuckle, no one would believe it, and the person that made the claim would be ridiculed and then fade away and quietly dissappear... After all, when you make nasty, and true, claims about the people running the show, you can't expect to get away unscathed... I don't know, a thing like that wold be perfect for a temple of the Mockery, but a monastery I see as needing more efforts and discipline than just week-end worshippers.
markvi58 12-27-04, 10:32 AM	The monastery could be in a hidden/isolated part of the cogs or the depths, but have a cult in the more affluent areas like Endymion mentions. The monastery could be the base of operations for the Fleyed Hand and also the force behind the cult above. The Mockery's goal is treachery over honor. What better way than controlling the youth of Sharn's best and brightest. The Silver Flame would be misled into thinking that the cult in the upper levels is just an example of misguided youth, and not as the public face of the Fleyed Hand. Muhahaha! I love the twisted and dark implications that arise from this!!!! Thanks for your help so far!