Because he feels like they ' re trying to tell him what to do . <| sep |> Good job ! I ' ve been doing this with my laser , as well . Nice to see someone else enjoying theirs . <| sep |> You are awesome 😗 <| sep |> aw shucks . What if they don ' t care about the village ? Then they are supposed heroes who were asked to save a village and didn ' t . Doom resolves , and now there ' s a change in the world plus the reputation might follow them around , so the next time they miss a Parley roll , say , the blacksmith says hang on , you ' re those guys that left Vikingia to the skeletons . Not only are you not getting a discount , you ' re not getting a damn sword at all . If they ' re off to the far away city , they must have plans you can ask ! a few questions will give you the bones of a response . So what ' s in Distantville , thief ? oh , they ' re rich there , I figure we can get some wellpaying jobs . Rich , you say ? so any bandit problems for the merchants who live there ? ie maybe there ' s a group of outlaws to make a front with no , no , there ' s no bandits because there ' s no caravans everything goes through the Teleportationist ' s Guild I see what you ' re doing , thinks the player , but I ' ve got a better idea Of course it does . So , a Perilous Journey . Brilliant ! now there can be planar powers threatening the cashflow from the guild portals when they get there , plus PC buyin as it ' s their idea . You resolve the portents as makes sense in the fiction . That ' s no kind of an answer in the abstract but it makes sense in play , I promise . Sometimes it ' s as simple as film logic soldier looks at his machine gun emplacement , studies the field of view forwards muttering I ' m ready for ya now , suckers , and 6 on discern realities the zombified sergeant lurches up behind . If it feels like the right time for the snake monsters to burst through the sewers , it is . I think this ties in to your ' too fast ' you ' ve got your sense of how narrative works , and you ' re worried that what might happen might not fit with it . The secret here is that you ' re comparing two stories that could unfold ie things that don ' t yet exist . You know what ' s happened so far , you know what your fronts formal or informal want , and you know how that conflicts with what your PCs want . If you rub the last two together , keeping faith with the first , there should be interesting sparks . That said , I may have been blessed on this front , my last group had a writer and an actor in it .