Bard who keeps failing the persuasion check, campaign still ends in fire
KU between classes: cistern is a trap room, the field is a long rest that costs money, Egypt is the worst travel sequence.
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Joab was the fighter. Jeremiah is the bard whose persuasion keeps coming back 1. The city has a temple they think is a legendary item. He says it will not save them. They put him in the cistern. That is a trap room I would actually run, except my table would argue about whether you leave him in the mud.
Then he buys a field during the siege. That is the weirdest loot purchase in the series so far: you spend now on a hex you cannot occupy. Future-tense faith as a deed. Then you walk the temple’s ash. Then Egypt, which is a travel montage you did not want. He remains the mouth when every structure has failed. Campaign over, NPC still talking.
Steal / don’t steal
Steal: the cistern, the field-as-deed, the remnant that asks for a prophecy and ignores it. Do not steal a romance track. Do not turn Babylon into a generic empire with a red flag. The Man Who Buried a City is Book Two and it is a different dungeon than the oak. I finished it on KU. I am still not auto-completing thirteen. Two dungeons in, I am still in.
After I closed it
Would I drop this in the campus Discord? With a warning: not YA, not loot, persuasion keeps failing, the keep still burns. If that sounds like a campaign you want, borrow The Man Who Buried a City. If you wanted a dragon, you are still in the wrong dungeon.
I kept the cistern and the deed. I did not keep a magic scroll that solves the siege. The title is a job: he buries a city by telling the truth until the fire does the rest. KU, finished. Two Unsung dungeons in. I am still not auto-completing thirteen, and that is healthy. The Man Who Buried a City earned a slot. The next dungeon still has to earn the next slot.
The Man Who Buried a City is Book Two of The Unsung: cistern, field, temple ash, a mouth the city could not grant. I am recording that so the next title on this desk has to be a different life.