Twenty-fourth Session (7 page pdf) – “River Into Darkness” – the PCs steam up the Vanji River on a magic-powered keelboat and deal with the snake-and-disease-intensive bowels of the jungles of the Mwangi Expanse. And the station house they come to seems strangely depopulated…
A lively kech attack from the trees overhead keeps the mood sinister – and finally, they reach Whitebridge Station which has fallen to some catastrophe – and finally, contact with the elves! Turns out they don’t have tails after all, that was just a racist rumor.
I feel like racism is an important theme in a story like this. Paizo has gone way the other way, trying to make everything sparklingly sensitive, which is great if all stories you want to tell are G-rated, but in my opinion if you are doing a story where, basically, fantasy Europeans are on the loose, it’s a cop-out to NOT have to deal with their racist depredations. Of course in this story, the PCs have been hired by the racist depredators, so we’ll see how it turns out…
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