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    The player characters come upon a forest glade where two minor goddesses, the Muses of Art and History, are engaged in an old quarrel over which provides greater benefit to humanity. The Muses want the players to resolve their debate. Depending on the players' response, the Muses will either attack or thank the players. If the players try to avoid choosing or come up with a third option, the Muses will turn on each other. The best approach is for the players to say that Art and History strengthen each other. However, the Muses will still banish the players from the glade.

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    The player characters come upon a forest glade where two minor goddesses, the Muses of Art and History, are engaged in an old quarrel over which provides greater benefit to humanity. The Muses want the players to resolve their debate. Depending on the players' response, the Muses will either attack or thank the players. If the players try to avoid choosing or come up with a third option, the Muses will turn on each other. The best approach is for the players to say that Art and History strengthen each other. However, the Muses will still banish the players from the glade.

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    The player characters come upon a forest glade where two minor goddesses, the Muses of Art and History, are engaged in an old quarrel over which provides greater benefit to humanity. The Muses want the players to resolve their debate. Depending on the players' response, the Muses will either attack or thank the players. If the players try to avoid choosing or come up with a third option, the Muses will turn on each other. The best approach is for the players to say that Art and History strengthen each other. However, the Muses will still banish the players from the glade.

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    The player characters come upon a forest glade where two minor goddesses, the Muses of Art and History, are engaged in an old quarrel over which provides greater benefit to humanity. The Muses want the players to resolve their debate. Depending on the players' response, the Muses will either attack or thank the players. If the players try to avoid choosing or come up with a third option, the Muses will turn on each other. The best approach is for the players to say that Art and History strengthen each other. However, the Muses will still banish the players from the glade.

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    The passage describes an encounter between two goddesses (muses) who are quarreling in a forest glade. They ask the player characters to weigh in on which of their domains - art or history - is more important or beneficial.

    The goddesses, one a muse of art and the other a muse of history, are arguing over whose domain is greater or more useful to humanity. They want the player characters to decide which goddess is correct.

    The player characters can say either art or history is more important, try to leave without answering, or suggest a third option like medicine or agriculture. They can also try saying the domains strengthen each other.

    The Quarrelling Muses

    The Quarrelling Muses, by Yvris Burke


    The Players' Dilemma
    If the player characters try to leave unnoticed, the
    goddess in scarlet (a muse of art) calls to them for aid.
    If they run, have her chase them, pleading and saying
    she only requires a moment of their time.

    If they give in the muse of art will escort them back to


    the glade and introduce her sister, a muse of history.
    She’ll explain that they’ve revived an old quarrel, one
    they’ve had many times over the course of humanoid
    history, and they’d like your help in resolving it. They’d
    like you to tell them which of them is of greater use to
    the humanoid races. Does art or history provide the
    greater benefit?

    If the player characters try to leave without


    answering they’ll get lost in the forest and end up back
    in the glade over and over while the goddesses become
    increasingly impatient.
    Eustache le Sueur - The Muses (1652-1655)
    If the player characters answer that art is of greater
    benefit, the muse of history will attack them. The muse
    Quarrelling Muses of art will watch and laugh unless her sister is badly
    You’re walking through a dark forest when you hear the hurt, when she’ll threaten to join the fight unless the
    sound of raised voices ahead. As you draw closer you players leave immediately. If they run the goddesses
    can tell that one speaks in a low monotone of barely won’t follow. The player characters will have advantage
    contained fury, while the other is singing in an on Charisma skill checks and saving throws for the rest
    impressive soprano. of the day.

    The singing stops and you hear the discordant twang If the player characters answer that history is of
    of snapping harp strings just as the trees part and to greater benefit, the muse of art will attack them. The
    reveal a verdant forest glade lit with the sweet, golden muse of history will watch and laugh unless her sister is
    light of a setting sun, though it’s still mid afternoon. badly hurt, when she’ll threaten to join the fight unless
    Across a meadow of long grasses and wild flowers you the players leave immediately. If they run the
    see the source of the racket. Here are two minor goddesses won’t follow. The player characters will have
    goddesses, each twelve feet tall and glowing with divine advantage on Intelligence skill checks and saving throws
    radiance. They’re dressed in flowing silks and flower for the rest of the day.
    crowns, and their is hair curled and twisted gracefully
    If the player characters come up with a third option
    up from their long necks. One wears a cool blue gown
    like, say, medicine or agriculture, the goddesses will
    and the other an impassioned scarlet. The goddess in
    begin to fight about whose domain this belongs in.
    blue is sitting on a felled log, her arms and legs crossed
    Whichever goddess rolls higher initiative with use her
    and her face taught with wrath. The other in red is
    chain lightning spell on the other, hitting the player
    kneeling in the grass, similarly annoyed, tending to her
    characters nearby as well. After this attack the players
    broken harp.
    can run and the goddesses won’t follow.
    “I ought to burn your best library for that,” says the If the player characters answer that one is
    goddess in scarlet. “I still might, just you wait and see.” strengthened by the other, that art reflects the time in
    “They keep plays in libraries," retorts the goddess in which it’s made in a way that brings greater
    blue. “Sheet music, too. Though it’d be just like you to understanding, and that history informs and deepens
    burn your own symphonies to spite your sister.” art, the sisters will curl their lips in disgust at... contd.

    Page 1 | Quarrelling Goddesses, Dilemma


    The Quarrelling Muses, by Yvris Burke
    The Players' Dilemma contd.
    ... their mortal hubris. They’ll be banished from the
    magical glade by force, landing with a thump on the
    forrest floor and taking 4d6 force damage.

    After they leave the glade they won’t be able to find


    it again.

    Page 2 | Dilemma contd., Muse Stats

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