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Erkonin (Campaign #1) [Session 46: Making Deals with Devils is Stupid as well as Bad]
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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8168397" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Session 27: Killing And More Killing</p><p></p><p>Dramatis Personae:</p><p></p><p>Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore)</p><p>Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant)</p><p>Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge)</p><p>Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger</p><p>Joybell - Forest Gnome Paladin (Oath of the Ancients)</p><p>Thneed - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave)</p><p></p><p>GM: - Everyone Else</p><p></p><p></p><p>30 Sicklin 748 (Campaign day 61) (immediately after)</p><p></p><p>As we headed toward the cave, Taman, thinking back over what he’d seen in the teleportation circle in the cave, said that the runes were dwarvish letters and he thought he could remember the order of both the moveable ones (outgoing) and the ones permanently carved into the wall (incoming).</p><p></p><p>We also discussed how we could get the box of moveable runes out of the cave, before the Masks could go anywhere. And how we were going to deal with 8 of them. That discussion focused a lot on how to get them out of the cave one by one or in small groups so we could deal with them in detail.</p><p></p><p>All of that became moot once we got to the cave, because even from the outside, with just a bit of cautious peeking, we could see that the cave was empty.</p><p></p><p>Joybell: Are they going for the town?</p><p>Thneed: We should take advantage of this.</p><p>Mo: Hey, New Girl! Go check this out.</p><p></p><p>Before Thneed could go, Taman pointed out that he had the “get out of Dodge” cape and went into the cave. In addition to just scouting around, he was looking for anything invisible, which he didn’t find. He did see the box of tiles exactly where they were supposed to be. He wrote down the runes for the incoming circle (the permanently carved ones) and the outgoing circle.</p><p></p><p>While he was doing his scouting, Orryk began using his move earth ability to make piles of dirt outside the entrance to the cave, narrowing the 15’ entrance to a 5’ gap. Joybell stayed outside watching the path from the village, in case those returned. Mo cast a rope trick around the corner from the entrance to the cave, so we’d have a place to hide/retreat if we needed one. Taman interrupted Orryk’s work moving earth to hand him the box of tiles to put into the bag of holding.</p><p></p><p>As Fiona went to examine the circle to see if she could make sense of it, the carved, permanent (dial in) runes began to go from white to glowing gold. Everyone who was inside the cave scattered to the outside. Watching through the narrow doorway, we saw 10 Masks come through the gate.</p><p></p><p>Orryk took cover behind one of the piles of dirt and waited for one to come our way. Mo moved to a position where he could see into the cave and, seeing 10 of them all in a cluster, began playing a familiar tune frantically on his flute, blowing out the cloud of glowing smoke in a hypnotic pattern. Because they were all bunched up, they all were caught in the area of effect and only three of them resisted it.</p><p></p><p>The other seven were incapacitated.</p><p></p><p>Whew!</p><p></p><p>Taman moved to where he could see into the cave and got a massive, sneaky critical hit against one of the ones that wasn’t caught by the pretty lights. Then he hid behind one of Orryk’s piles of dirt. Joybell used two charges off the wand of magic missiles to shoot at that same one. Then she moved away from the entrance but stood plainly visible to them, so they’d come to her and attack her. Thneed put her hunter’s mark on that same one and shot at it twice, hitting with both attacks and dropping it.</p><p></p><p>Fiona then stepped into the gap for just long enough to toll the dead on the one Thneed dropped, killing it for real, then took cover behind a pile of dirt.</p><p></p><p>Two of the Masks took their action to wake up two other ones, but didn’t then do anything else. So we had four of the remaining 9 functional and five incapacitated.</p><p></p><p>Orryk moved away from the doorway, going near where Joybell and Scooby were trying to be a tempting target, and took two shots at one, then moved off into the trees. Mo viciously mocked one of the ones that was just shaken out of it’s daze, stun-locking it.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You’re a horrible creation from a bad mage.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved her mark to the one Orryk shot at it and, because of her horde breaker ability, the one next to it. Then shot at the first one again. Of her three shots, one hit. Sigh.</p><p></p><p>Taman put his hunter’s mark on the one Mo mocked and took a shot at it, but missed. Joybell fired a shot from the wand of magic missiles at the same one then moved to draw them toward the mouth of the cave. Fiona cast a blessing on Taman, Orryk, Thneed and Joybell.</p><p></p><p>The Masks that had actions used them to wake up other Masks and one moved closer to us -- leaving only three still stunned and six fully functional, which was not as good a ratio as the other way round.</p><p></p><p>Orryk took two shots, both of which hit, at the one that was moving toward us. Mo, slightly less panicked now, cast another hypnotic pattern, letting the first one drop for a moment -- the ones that had been hypnotized blinked and shook their heads for a moment, before getting hypnotized again. Once again, only 3 of them saved and the rest were captured by the pretty.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved into the doorway and seeing that two of the ones that still had their wits about them, shot at those two (using her horde breaker ability) and then took another shot at one of them. This time all three of her shots hit. Taman took a shot at the one that Thneed shot twice (her primary target) and hit it. Joybell shot a magic missile at that same one and moved to occupy the entrance to the cave, so they’d be bottled up between Orryk’s dirt piles. Fiona tolled the dead on it. The toll the dead did a teeny speck of damage to it, but did shut down its regeneration for a moment and tied up its ability to act for a round.</p><p></p><p>The Masks who were able to act once again used their actions to wake up others, leaving us with five awake and four incapacitated.</p><p></p><p>Orryk moved next to Joybell and took two shots at the one we were focusing fire, missing with both shots and swearing flagrantly in gnomish.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: We need to hold the $)#(% line!!</p><p></p><p>Joybell was shocked at his language.</p><p></p><p>Mo viciously mocked the same one, stun-locking it and setting it up to be killed.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Your parents are dead.</p><p></p><p>Then he moved back a bit. Thneed took her shots - hitting the one Mo had stunned, and the one next to it for even more damage. Her second attack just missed. Fortunately, Taman, who moved to fill in the rest of the line across the doorway (as in the picture above) didn’t miss and was able to drop the stun-locked one.</p><p></p><p>Joybell shot at one of the ones that were awake with a magic missile and held her place in the doorway. Fiona tolled the dead on that one.</p><p></p><p>One of them ran up into the space between the dirt piles and attacked Joybell, hitting twice. Another moved up behind it and shot at her with a bow, hitting twice. Fortunately, they couldn’t really gang up on her and, while she was hit hard, she wasn’t knocked down.</p><p></p><p>Orryk started in with his new vampiric gloves -- hitting the one right in front of us as we held the line and stunning it. Mo viciously mocked the one behind it, stunning it as well.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You’ve had your childhood stolen from you.</p><p></p><p>Thneed took advantage of the fact that Joybell is short, even by gnome standards, and shot right over her head at the one Orryk stunned. She hit it with two arrows, leaving it looking hurt but not on its last legs or anything. So Joybell finished it off with a mighty divinely powered blow with her short sword, dropping it. (And once again forgetting to use the sword of the medic’s healing word ability on any of the injured people in the party.)</p><p></p><p>Mo: Instead of getting them out of the cave, keeping them in the cave is the best decision we’ve made.</p><p></p><p>Fiona tolled the dead on same one she’d tolled before, so there were two stun-locked (one by her and one by Mo) leaving two able to act. Those two did not wake up any of the ones that were hypnotized (bless their little hearts) instead choosing to come after us. Specifically shooting at Joybell.</p><p></p><p>Joybell: I’m down, y’all….</p><p></p><p>They both missed with all attacks.</p><p></p><p>Joybell: Or not.</p><p></p><p>The ones that had been stun-locked (as opposed to the three that were still hypnotized) shook off the effect.</p><p></p><p>Orryk took a second to survey the situation.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: Stupidity is coming.</p><p></p><p>Then he ran into the cave, swearing flagrantly in Gnomish, shocking Joybell to the core. He punched one with the vampiric gloves, then ran to another and punched it as well, leaving two stun-locked and vulnerable</p><p></p><p>Mo viciously mocked one of the others.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Your future was stolen from you.</p><p></p><p>Thneed took two shots at one of the ones that Orryk punched, hitting once.</p><p></p><p>Taman: Oh, god, why are we doing this?</p><p></p><p>Then he ran in and stabbed the same one Thneed shot at. Joybell ran in as well, after a moment of confusion (we were holding the door, weren’t we) and got a tremendous hit, with extra divine power, followed by a regular hit on that same one - dropping it.</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast toll the dead on the one Mask who was neither stun-locked nor hypnotized. Then the stun-locked ones shook out of it but were unable to act otherwise.</p><p></p><p>Orryk, then ran around the room, doing one punch to each of those three (the ones not-hypnotized) with his vampiric gloves, locking all of them down again. Mo, seeing that nothing needed to be mocked this round, pulled out his crossbow and took an actual shot at one of them -- it felt weird, but he hit and did a fair amount of damage.</p><p></p><p>Mo: I point it this way, right?</p><p></p><p>Thneed hit our next target with both of her shots -- one of them in a critical location, and did a lot of damage. Taman then missed with his rapier. Joybell hit that one twice, but didn’t add the divine power, because it didn’t seem close to dying.</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast a scorching ray and sent bolts to all three of the ones that weren’t stunned, hitting two of them.</p><p></p><p>Because they had been stunned, the Masks didn’t heal at all but they did shake off the stun-locks again.</p><p></p><p>Just in time for Orryk to start punching them all over again. He managed to stun two of them with his vampiric gloves, but missed one.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: Mo, this one is yours.</p><p>Mo: On it.</p><p></p><p>Mo then viciously mocked the one that had managed to avoid Orryk’s punches. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one she, Taman and Joybell were focusing on, and her first shot dropped him.</p><p></p><p>Thneed couldn’t move her hunter’s mark again, but she did take a shot at another one, giving us the next pile-on target. Taman moved his hunter’s mark to that same one and did a great deal of damage to it with a sneaky scimitar attack. Joybell, alas, was completely unable to do her part -- missing with both of her blows against a stunned opponent. (Note: With advantage on two attacks her high roll was a 3.)</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast magic missile, sending darts at the one Thneed, Taman and Joybell were dogpiling on and the other one that wasn’t hypnotized.</p><p></p><p>After the Masks shook off the stun-locks again, at least the ones that weren’t hypnotized, Orryk tried to go around and stun them all with his vampiric glove strikes again, but this time it didn’t work -- he was only able to get one of them. Mo got a second with an all time classic vicious insult against the Masks, stunning another one.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Your family is all dead.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved her mark to the one she Taman and Joybell were working on -- she hit with both of her attacks. Taman then attacked and hit with his sneak attack and dropped it.</p><p></p><p>Taman then moved his hunter’s mark to the last one that wasn’t hypnotized. It didn’t really do him much good, though, because Joybell then dropped it with her first attacks. And then there were three.</p><p></p><p>We dropped one of the three hypnotized Masks very quickly -- Fiona stunning it with a toll the dead almost immediately after Joybell’s second attack shook it out of its hypnosis. Almost as quickly it shook itself out of the stun, but was unable to attack. And then as quickly again, Orryk punched it with the vampiric gloves and stunned it again.</p><p></p><p>(Note: There appears to have been a note-taking issue, because I can only account for the demise of seven Masks to this point, which would leave three hypnotized. But it’s clear from my notes that there were only two Masks left.)</p><p></p><p>Mo, seeing that there were only two left, coughed and let out a big cloud of smoke allowing the hypnotic pattern to drop. He then viciously mocked the un-stunned one.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You’re going to die without throwing a punch.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one Orryk stunned and shot it. With her horde breaker ability she shot the one Mo stunned. Then she attacked the first one again. All three of her shots hit. Nice. Taman moved his hunter’s mark to the one Orryk stunned as well and attacked with his rapier, getting in a good attack while the Mask was distracted by other opponents. Joybell dropped the one Orryk stunned with her first attack and hit the last remaining Mask with her second attack, but it stayed up.</p><p></p><p>Mo suggested that maybe we want to talk to one.</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast toll the dead on the one remaining one. Keeping it locked up for a moment.</p><p></p><p>As soon as it shook off that stun, Orryk punched it, once, with the vampiric gloves, locking it again.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: Mo, if you want to tie this guy up, do it now.</p><p></p><p>Mo did so, mummy-tying him with 40 feet of thick hempen rope. Orryk took the Mask's weapons and then used mold earth to put a big pile over him.</p><p></p><p>While this was happening, Fiona studied the teleportation circle.</p><p></p><p>Mo took the Mask off, reminding all of us that these aren’t the bad guys. The Masks themselves are abused children.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Your friends are all dead. We have a few questions. Would you be willing to talk to us? We need to know who you’re working for.</p><p>Mask: Our orders were to go to Callallah with the idea of capturing you in a pincer move. The group that headed to town is coming back. They turned around when we saw you here.</p><p></p><p>This revelation caused some consternation.</p><p></p><p>Taman: How do you get to your boss?</p><p>Mask: We use the portal.</p><p></p><p>Taman got the Mask to give him the address they used. Then he stabbed the Mask. Orryk immediately began hacking at the portal with the intention of making it not work anymore.</p><p></p><p>Then we fled the cave, running in a different direction from our fight with the first group of Masks at the bonfire.</p><p></p><p>On the way out, Mo used the flute of scribing to write, “Alighieri did this…” Which confused Thneed and made Joybell shake her head.</p><p></p><p>We headed toward the town, traveling way off the road, to see what the Masks might be doing there. Taman went in on his own to see what he could learn, with some inspiration from Mo in case he needed it. Taman came to some cleared farmland outside of town -- there were adults in the field cutting the hay with scythes. There were fruit trees around the edge of the field with children standing on the shoulders of very large people picking apples and pears. The large people didn’t wear masks, but were about the same size as the Masks.</p><p></p><p>Before talking to anyone, Taman got a look at one of the large people the children were harvesting with -- it didn’t appear to him to be capable of independent thought at all. The children were telling the large people what to do and were using them largely as beasts of burden or like they would farm animals. He also noticed that the large people weren’t muscular and solid like the Masks and they did have sexual characteristics (breasts, facial hair, etc.) that the Masks do not have. They also didn’t have the physical characteristics/facial features associated with acromegaly (Note: Think Andre the Giant.)</p><p></p><p>Taman approached a little boy standing on the shoulders of one of the giants, making his demeanor appear to be that of an ordinary traveler.</p><p></p><p>Taman: Hi.</p><p>Kid, climbing down from his “mount”: Who are you?</p><p>Taman: I’m an explorer. I like to draw maps.</p><p>Kid: We don’t get visitors. Mostly.</p><p>Taman: Why not? This seems like a nice village.</p><p>Kid: When it is, it is. When it’s not, it’s bad.</p><p>Taman: What happens when it’s not?</p><p>Kid: Masks come.</p><p></p><p>Then the child started crying. The giant he’d been standing on looked at the child blankly, then at Taman, then it sat down on the ground next to the child and started to cry as well.</p><p></p><p>Taman tried to comfort the child, without much effect.</p><p></p><p>Noticing this, one of the adults in the hayfield called out: “Hey, you! What are you doing here?”</p><p></p><p>Taman gave the same explanation about being an explorer mapping the area that he’d given to the kid.</p><p></p><p>Taman: The child was talking about something weird going on with masks, but when I asked about it he started to cry.</p><p>Man: The...it’s..it isn’t so much weird as bad. I don’t know how they’ll react to anyone coming here. How did you get here?</p><p>Taman: I walked.</p><p>Man: I was hoping for a direction.</p><p>Taman: I left Pelsoreen and went west exploring.</p><p>Man: They’ve been terrorizing our village for some time. Well, not always terrorizing -- they also protect us. But they come every once in a while and take our kids.</p><p>Taman: That’s terrible! How long has this been going on?</p><p>Man: Since before my great grandparents’ time.</p><p>Taman: Has no one stood up to them?</p><p>Man: Not for very long.</p><p>Taman: Where do they come from?</p><p></p><p>In response to that, the man pointed toward the cave.</p><p></p><p>Taman, through a bit more discussion with the villager, learned that the Masks aren’t in the town regularly.</p><p></p><p>He returned to us and we found a place to rest with a tiny hut about 15 minutes from the cave. Then we oiled up Taman with our other oil of etherealness and he went to scout to see what those other 8 Masks were up to. We knew they were in telepathic contact with the 10 we killed that came through the gate, but we didn’t know what they’d do when they saw that we’d killed the ones they were supposed to be making a pincer-attack with. The rest of us rested while he was gone.</p><p></p><p>In the cave, Taman saw exactly what we had left - 10 dead Masks, destroyed teleportation circle. Empty space. Nothing else. He didn’t see any fresh tracks going into the cave, so apparently the ones heading back for the pincer thing, peeled off and went elsewhere when we killed the last of the Masks in the cave.</p><p></p><p>Taman came back to the hut and, again, waited for the oil to wear off, then reported what he’d seen.</p><p></p><p>Mo, to Thneed: Can you do some ranger naughty word to find these guys?</p><p>Thneed: Yes.</p><p></p><p>She then spent the next minute focusing her awareness and concentrating on the area around her to detect the presence of her favored enemy (humanoids) in a five mile radius. She detected the village -- there were a few dozen people at that distance and in that direction. About halfway between Callallah and the cave, there were a group of eight of them on the path, not moving in any particular direction.</p><p></p><p>After a bit of puzzlement, and the thought that maybe when we killed the ones that came through the gate, they didn’t have orders so they were just in standby or something, we realized that halfway between the cave and Callallah was where Sorla was going to be waiting to keep anything bad from being taken to the village. They couldn’t hurt her at all and she couldn’t kill them.</p><p></p><p>We started heading in that direction, moving quickly. Despite her sense of urgency about this, Joybell didn’t rush ahead like a crazy gnome, but kept pace with Taman, and generally close to the rest of the party. Along the way, Taman and Thneed got some arrows from the near infinite supply of arrows in the bag of holding, so they were re-loaded for this combat.</p><p></p><p>As we got closer we could hear, and then eventually see, the combat -- Sorla in her hybrid were-bear form fighting with eight Masks. Fiona blessed Orryk, Thneed, Taman and Joybell.</p><p></p><p>Taman then moved forward just a bit and took a shot at the nearest one -- hitting for a lot of damage. Sorla, in what would be a repeated theme, missed with both of her attacks. Joybell fired magic missiles from the wand at the same one -- did a piffling amount of damage, but not much.</p><p></p><p>The beneficial effect of Taman and Joybell’s attacks was that five of them broke away from attacking Sorla and began moving toward us. (Sorla savaged one with a critical hit on an opportunity attack, but that was more of an anomaly.) Three of them stayed on her. The five moving toward us pulled out longbows and fired at us. Three attacked Joybell, two of them missing entirely, one hitting with both attacks, but not hurting her too badly. Taman, unfortunately was attacked by the other two and he took three arrows. Mo tried to use cutting words to make one of those shots miss, but was unable to do so. The other three attacked Sorla, to no net effect.</p><p></p><p>Mo took out the wand of web and used it to throw a cube of webbing, anchored partly to the trees on either side of the path, onto the three closest to us. Thneed put her hunter’s mark on the closest one, the one Taman and Joybell had already hit -- and missed with both of her arrows. She also missed with her hordebreaker attack against the one right behind it.</p><p></p><p>Orryk moved backwards, shooting twice with his shortbow, and hitting twice. Then he took cover behind a tree.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: Fall back! Take cover!</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast toll the dead on the one closest to us, then lay down on the ground. Taman moved away from the path and took cover behind a tree, before shooting that one in front twice. Sorla swung at the ones behind her to no effect. Joybell rode up to the one in front that we’d been focusing on, attacked twice, getting a hit in a vital area and dropping it, then she moved and dashed Scooby off into the woods, where she took cover behind a tree.</p><p></p><p>The other two caught in Mo’s web were well and truly stuck in it -- they fought to free themselves but were unsuccessful. The other two that had left Sorla and come to fight us ran at top speed closer to us, but weren’t able to close the distance and didn’t take the time to fire arrows.</p><p></p><p>Mo viciously mocked one of the two not caught in the web.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You’re never going to have any love or any interesting activities.</p><p></p><p>Then he lay down.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved behind a tree and moved her hunter’s mark to the one Mo had mocked (no stun-locked). She got two hits, one in a critical location. Orryk closed on that one and attacked it with daggers from his belt, hitting twice, then smacking with a backhand that also hit. Without standing up, Fiona cast toll the dead on the other one that was heading our way, stun-locking it. Taman moved up on that one and stabbed it for a lot of damage. Sorla actually got a hit -- though the Mask was just going to regenerate that damage. Joybell moved up to the one Orryk was attacking and hit with one of her attacks, drawing down the divine energy into her sword -- but it was still not great, her focus was obviously off.</p><p></p><p>The two that had been stunned -- by Mo and Fiona -- came out of it, but were unable to do anything. The two stuck in the web tried again to get themselves out. And again failed. Nice!</p><p></p><p>Mo stood up and mocked the same one again, then lay back down.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You have no future.</p><p></p><p>Thneed took her shots at the one Mo had just stunned and dropped it. Then she moved her hunter’s mark to one of the ones in the webbing.</p><p></p><p>Orryk ran across the road to the other one that was moving to attack us and used his vampiric gloves on it, stunning it, with his first blow. With his second blow he used a dagger and he followed up with an unarmed attack. All of those hit.</p><p></p><p>Fiona surveyed the situation and cast shadowbolt, which does psychic damage, on one of the ones Sorla was fighting. It was wrapped in a swirl of purple energy, after taking the damage.</p><p></p><p>Fiona, to Sorla: Hit the glowing purple one on your right!</p><p></p><p>Taman shot the one Orryk had attacked and did a lot of damage, leaving it reeling but still on its feet. Sorla, following Fiona’s instructions, attacked the glowing purple one, but even attacking with advantage she missed with both of her attacks. Joybell moved and dashed on Scooby to get to a different one of Sorla’s attackers, then she cast wrathful smite and attacked it. The first hit landed, rather weakly, but it delivered the energy of the spell. Her second attack did better.</p><p></p><p>Around this time, the three stunned Masks shook that off, the two in the web finally managed to free themselves (one went to Orryk and Taman, the other to Joybell and Sorla). One of them attacked Sorla.</p><p></p><p>Mo then viciously mocked the one Taman had stabbed and Orryk and punched and daggered, killing it with his barbed tongue. Then he inspired Taman. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one that had just moved to Orryk and Taman and shot it twice, hitting twice. Orryk attacked it, hitting with his gloves first, then with a dagger and a punch for his bonus action. Hitting with all three. Nice!</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast shadowbolt on the one that had gotten out of the web and was going for Joybell and Sorla, hitting for a lot of damage and stunning it. Taman attacked the one on him and missed, despite being blessed and despite Mo’s inspiration. Sorla went to attack the one Fiona had just stunned, drawing attacks from two of the three that she had been fighting with futility. They both missed. Then she missed with both of her attacks against the stunned Mask.</p><p></p><p>Joybell cast wrathful smite and attacked the one nearest to her, hitting twice and stunning it, but didn’t drop it. So she dashed away on Scooby into the woods (because otherwise she was in danger of being surrounded by three of them).</p><p></p><p>The two Masks that weren’t stunned moved to attack Sorla, because it’s hard to kick a useless habit. The rest of them came out of their stun-locks.</p><p></p><p>Whereupon, Mo immediately viciously mocked the one Sorla had moved to attack.</p><p></p><p>Mo: You’re about to be killed by an owlbear that can’t hit anything.</p><p></p><p>It seems like Sorla should have taken some damage from that as well. But then he inspired Sorla.</p><p></p><p>Thneed shot at the one she’d put her mark on -- hitting it with both shots and dropping it. At least temporarily.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: Fiona, can you kill this one?</p><p></p><p>Then he walked up to the line of them that had been fighting hitting two of them with the gloves and leaving them stunned. The third one was not, however. Fiona cast toll the dead on the one that was dropped killing it. Then she stood up and moved closer to the battle. Taman dashed up to one and attacked, but missed. Sorla attacked the one Mo had stunned and hit it! Joybell rode Scooby up to that one and attacked it, hitting twice but not dropping it.</p><p></p><p>The three stunned Masks then shook themselves out of it. The fourth one, standing right next to Orryk, attacked, hitting twice, despite Mo’s attempt to use cutting words to prevent one of those. The two attacks combined for a great deal of damage.</p><p></p><p>Orryk growled and flexed his fist, pulling the glove tight across his knuckles.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: I’m taking that right back.</p><p></p><p>Mo cast mass vicious mockery on all four of them, stun-locking the lot of them and doing a small amount of damage to each of them. Thneed moved her mark to one and then promptly dropped it with an arrow. Then she shot another one and used her horde breaker ability to drop the one next to it.</p><p></p><p>Orryk attacked the one that had been behind Sorla that Thneed hadn’t dropped, hitting twice and healing some of the damage that had been done to him. Fiona cast a fireball, sculpting it around Orryk, Scooby, and Joybell (who were used to this) and Sorla (who wasn’t). Taman then sneaked in and stabbed one of the two remaining for a lot of damage, dropping it.</p><p></p><p>Which left one stunned Mask. And Sorla’s attacks.</p><p></p><p>Party: Come on, Sorla!!</p><p></p><p>Sorla turned to the last one and hit twice, ripping it limb from limb. We all cheered for her and congratulated her.</p><p></p><p>And there we ended, in the path between Callallah and the Cave of the Masks. Surrounded by more dead masks (and having killed 25 of them in one day).</p><p></p><p>Joybell doesn’t know about anyone else, but she’s pooped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8168397, member: 7016699"] Session 27: Killing And More Killing Dramatis Personae: Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore) Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant) Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge) Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger Joybell - Forest Gnome Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) Thneed - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave) GM: - Everyone Else 30 Sicklin 748 (Campaign day 61) (immediately after) As we headed toward the cave, Taman, thinking back over what he’d seen in the teleportation circle in the cave, said that the runes were dwarvish letters and he thought he could remember the order of both the moveable ones (outgoing) and the ones permanently carved into the wall (incoming). We also discussed how we could get the box of moveable runes out of the cave, before the Masks could go anywhere. And how we were going to deal with 8 of them. That discussion focused a lot on how to get them out of the cave one by one or in small groups so we could deal with them in detail. All of that became moot once we got to the cave, because even from the outside, with just a bit of cautious peeking, we could see that the cave was empty. Joybell: Are they going for the town? Thneed: We should take advantage of this. Mo: Hey, New Girl! Go check this out. Before Thneed could go, Taman pointed out that he had the “get out of Dodge” cape and went into the cave. In addition to just scouting around, he was looking for anything invisible, which he didn’t find. He did see the box of tiles exactly where they were supposed to be. He wrote down the runes for the incoming circle (the permanently carved ones) and the outgoing circle. While he was doing his scouting, Orryk began using his move earth ability to make piles of dirt outside the entrance to the cave, narrowing the 15’ entrance to a 5’ gap. Joybell stayed outside watching the path from the village, in case those returned. Mo cast a rope trick around the corner from the entrance to the cave, so we’d have a place to hide/retreat if we needed one. Taman interrupted Orryk’s work moving earth to hand him the box of tiles to put into the bag of holding. As Fiona went to examine the circle to see if she could make sense of it, the carved, permanent (dial in) runes began to go from white to glowing gold. Everyone who was inside the cave scattered to the outside. Watching through the narrow doorway, we saw 10 Masks come through the gate. Orryk took cover behind one of the piles of dirt and waited for one to come our way. Mo moved to a position where he could see into the cave and, seeing 10 of them all in a cluster, began playing a familiar tune frantically on his flute, blowing out the cloud of glowing smoke in a hypnotic pattern. Because they were all bunched up, they all were caught in the area of effect and only three of them resisted it. The other seven were incapacitated. Whew! Taman moved to where he could see into the cave and got a massive, sneaky critical hit against one of the ones that wasn’t caught by the pretty lights. Then he hid behind one of Orryk’s piles of dirt. Joybell used two charges off the wand of magic missiles to shoot at that same one. Then she moved away from the entrance but stood plainly visible to them, so they’d come to her and attack her. Thneed put her hunter’s mark on that same one and shot at it twice, hitting with both attacks and dropping it. Fiona then stepped into the gap for just long enough to toll the dead on the one Thneed dropped, killing it for real, then took cover behind a pile of dirt. Two of the Masks took their action to wake up two other ones, but didn’t then do anything else. So we had four of the remaining 9 functional and five incapacitated. Orryk moved away from the doorway, going near where Joybell and Scooby were trying to be a tempting target, and took two shots at one, then moved off into the trees. Mo viciously mocked one of the ones that was just shaken out of it’s daze, stun-locking it. Mo: You’re a horrible creation from a bad mage. Thneed moved her mark to the one Orryk shot at it and, because of her horde breaker ability, the one next to it. Then shot at the first one again. Of her three shots, one hit. Sigh. Taman put his hunter’s mark on the one Mo mocked and took a shot at it, but missed. Joybell fired a shot from the wand of magic missiles at the same one then moved to draw them toward the mouth of the cave. Fiona cast a blessing on Taman, Orryk, Thneed and Joybell. The Masks that had actions used them to wake up other Masks and one moved closer to us -- leaving only three still stunned and six fully functional, which was not as good a ratio as the other way round. Orryk took two shots, both of which hit, at the one that was moving toward us. Mo, slightly less panicked now, cast another hypnotic pattern, letting the first one drop for a moment -- the ones that had been hypnotized blinked and shook their heads for a moment, before getting hypnotized again. Once again, only 3 of them saved and the rest were captured by the pretty. Thneed moved into the doorway and seeing that two of the ones that still had their wits about them, shot at those two (using her horde breaker ability) and then took another shot at one of them. This time all three of her shots hit. Taman took a shot at the one that Thneed shot twice (her primary target) and hit it. Joybell shot a magic missile at that same one and moved to occupy the entrance to the cave, so they’d be bottled up between Orryk’s dirt piles. Fiona tolled the dead on it. The toll the dead did a teeny speck of damage to it, but did shut down its regeneration for a moment and tied up its ability to act for a round. The Masks who were able to act once again used their actions to wake up others, leaving us with five awake and four incapacitated. Orryk moved next to Joybell and took two shots at the one we were focusing fire, missing with both shots and swearing flagrantly in gnomish. Orryk: We need to hold the $)#(% line!! Joybell was shocked at his language. Mo viciously mocked the same one, stun-locking it and setting it up to be killed. Mo: Your parents are dead. Then he moved back a bit. Thneed took her shots - hitting the one Mo had stunned, and the one next to it for even more damage. Her second attack just missed. Fortunately, Taman, who moved to fill in the rest of the line across the doorway (as in the picture above) didn’t miss and was able to drop the stun-locked one. Joybell shot at one of the ones that were awake with a magic missile and held her place in the doorway. Fiona tolled the dead on that one. One of them ran up into the space between the dirt piles and attacked Joybell, hitting twice. Another moved up behind it and shot at her with a bow, hitting twice. Fortunately, they couldn’t really gang up on her and, while she was hit hard, she wasn’t knocked down. Orryk started in with his new vampiric gloves -- hitting the one right in front of us as we held the line and stunning it. Mo viciously mocked the one behind it, stunning it as well. Mo: You’ve had your childhood stolen from you. Thneed took advantage of the fact that Joybell is short, even by gnome standards, and shot right over her head at the one Orryk stunned. She hit it with two arrows, leaving it looking hurt but not on its last legs or anything. So Joybell finished it off with a mighty divinely powered blow with her short sword, dropping it. (And once again forgetting to use the sword of the medic’s healing word ability on any of the injured people in the party.) Mo: Instead of getting them out of the cave, keeping them in the cave is the best decision we’ve made. Fiona tolled the dead on same one she’d tolled before, so there were two stun-locked (one by her and one by Mo) leaving two able to act. Those two did not wake up any of the ones that were hypnotized (bless their little hearts) instead choosing to come after us. Specifically shooting at Joybell. Joybell: I’m down, y’all…. They both missed with all attacks. Joybell: Or not. The ones that had been stun-locked (as opposed to the three that were still hypnotized) shook off the effect. Orryk took a second to survey the situation. Orryk: Stupidity is coming. Then he ran into the cave, swearing flagrantly in Gnomish, shocking Joybell to the core. He punched one with the vampiric gloves, then ran to another and punched it as well, leaving two stun-locked and vulnerable Mo viciously mocked one of the others. Mo: Your future was stolen from you. Thneed took two shots at one of the ones that Orryk punched, hitting once. Taman: Oh, god, why are we doing this? Then he ran in and stabbed the same one Thneed shot at. Joybell ran in as well, after a moment of confusion (we were holding the door, weren’t we) and got a tremendous hit, with extra divine power, followed by a regular hit on that same one - dropping it. Fiona cast toll the dead on the one Mask who was neither stun-locked nor hypnotized. Then the stun-locked ones shook out of it but were unable to act otherwise. Orryk, then ran around the room, doing one punch to each of those three (the ones not-hypnotized) with his vampiric gloves, locking all of them down again. Mo, seeing that nothing needed to be mocked this round, pulled out his crossbow and took an actual shot at one of them -- it felt weird, but he hit and did a fair amount of damage. Mo: I point it this way, right? Thneed hit our next target with both of her shots -- one of them in a critical location, and did a lot of damage. Taman then missed with his rapier. Joybell hit that one twice, but didn’t add the divine power, because it didn’t seem close to dying. Fiona cast a scorching ray and sent bolts to all three of the ones that weren’t stunned, hitting two of them. Because they had been stunned, the Masks didn’t heal at all but they did shake off the stun-locks again. Just in time for Orryk to start punching them all over again. He managed to stun two of them with his vampiric gloves, but missed one. Orryk: Mo, this one is yours. Mo: On it. Mo then viciously mocked the one that had managed to avoid Orryk’s punches. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one she, Taman and Joybell were focusing on, and her first shot dropped him. Thneed couldn’t move her hunter’s mark again, but she did take a shot at another one, giving us the next pile-on target. Taman moved his hunter’s mark to that same one and did a great deal of damage to it with a sneaky scimitar attack. Joybell, alas, was completely unable to do her part -- missing with both of her blows against a stunned opponent. (Note: With advantage on two attacks her high roll was a 3.) Fiona cast magic missile, sending darts at the one Thneed, Taman and Joybell were dogpiling on and the other one that wasn’t hypnotized. After the Masks shook off the stun-locks again, at least the ones that weren’t hypnotized, Orryk tried to go around and stun them all with his vampiric glove strikes again, but this time it didn’t work -- he was only able to get one of them. Mo got a second with an all time classic vicious insult against the Masks, stunning another one. Mo: Your family is all dead. Thneed moved her mark to the one she Taman and Joybell were working on -- she hit with both of her attacks. Taman then attacked and hit with his sneak attack and dropped it. Taman then moved his hunter’s mark to the last one that wasn’t hypnotized. It didn’t really do him much good, though, because Joybell then dropped it with her first attacks. And then there were three. We dropped one of the three hypnotized Masks very quickly -- Fiona stunning it with a toll the dead almost immediately after Joybell’s second attack shook it out of its hypnosis. Almost as quickly it shook itself out of the stun, but was unable to attack. And then as quickly again, Orryk punched it with the vampiric gloves and stunned it again. (Note: There appears to have been a note-taking issue, because I can only account for the demise of seven Masks to this point, which would leave three hypnotized. But it’s clear from my notes that there were only two Masks left.) Mo, seeing that there were only two left, coughed and let out a big cloud of smoke allowing the hypnotic pattern to drop. He then viciously mocked the un-stunned one. Mo: You’re going to die without throwing a punch. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one Orryk stunned and shot it. With her horde breaker ability she shot the one Mo stunned. Then she attacked the first one again. All three of her shots hit. Nice. Taman moved his hunter’s mark to the one Orryk stunned as well and attacked with his rapier, getting in a good attack while the Mask was distracted by other opponents. Joybell dropped the one Orryk stunned with her first attack and hit the last remaining Mask with her second attack, but it stayed up. Mo suggested that maybe we want to talk to one. Fiona cast toll the dead on the one remaining one. Keeping it locked up for a moment. As soon as it shook off that stun, Orryk punched it, once, with the vampiric gloves, locking it again. Orryk: Mo, if you want to tie this guy up, do it now. Mo did so, mummy-tying him with 40 feet of thick hempen rope. Orryk took the Mask's weapons and then used mold earth to put a big pile over him. While this was happening, Fiona studied the teleportation circle. Mo took the Mask off, reminding all of us that these aren’t the bad guys. The Masks themselves are abused children. Mo: Your friends are all dead. We have a few questions. Would you be willing to talk to us? We need to know who you’re working for. Mask: Our orders were to go to Callallah with the idea of capturing you in a pincer move. The group that headed to town is coming back. They turned around when we saw you here. This revelation caused some consternation. Taman: How do you get to your boss? Mask: We use the portal. Taman got the Mask to give him the address they used. Then he stabbed the Mask. Orryk immediately began hacking at the portal with the intention of making it not work anymore. Then we fled the cave, running in a different direction from our fight with the first group of Masks at the bonfire. On the way out, Mo used the flute of scribing to write, “Alighieri did this…” Which confused Thneed and made Joybell shake her head. We headed toward the town, traveling way off the road, to see what the Masks might be doing there. Taman went in on his own to see what he could learn, with some inspiration from Mo in case he needed it. Taman came to some cleared farmland outside of town -- there were adults in the field cutting the hay with scythes. There were fruit trees around the edge of the field with children standing on the shoulders of very large people picking apples and pears. The large people didn’t wear masks, but were about the same size as the Masks. Before talking to anyone, Taman got a look at one of the large people the children were harvesting with -- it didn’t appear to him to be capable of independent thought at all. The children were telling the large people what to do and were using them largely as beasts of burden or like they would farm animals. He also noticed that the large people weren’t muscular and solid like the Masks and they did have sexual characteristics (breasts, facial hair, etc.) that the Masks do not have. They also didn’t have the physical characteristics/facial features associated with acromegaly (Note: Think Andre the Giant.) Taman approached a little boy standing on the shoulders of one of the giants, making his demeanor appear to be that of an ordinary traveler. Taman: Hi. Kid, climbing down from his “mount”: Who are you? Taman: I’m an explorer. I like to draw maps. Kid: We don’t get visitors. Mostly. Taman: Why not? This seems like a nice village. Kid: When it is, it is. When it’s not, it’s bad. Taman: What happens when it’s not? Kid: Masks come. Then the child started crying. The giant he’d been standing on looked at the child blankly, then at Taman, then it sat down on the ground next to the child and started to cry as well. Taman tried to comfort the child, without much effect. Noticing this, one of the adults in the hayfield called out: “Hey, you! What are you doing here?” Taman gave the same explanation about being an explorer mapping the area that he’d given to the kid. Taman: The child was talking about something weird going on with masks, but when I asked about it he started to cry. Man: The...it’s..it isn’t so much weird as bad. I don’t know how they’ll react to anyone coming here. How did you get here? Taman: I walked. Man: I was hoping for a direction. Taman: I left Pelsoreen and went west exploring. Man: They’ve been terrorizing our village for some time. Well, not always terrorizing -- they also protect us. But they come every once in a while and take our kids. Taman: That’s terrible! How long has this been going on? Man: Since before my great grandparents’ time. Taman: Has no one stood up to them? Man: Not for very long. Taman: Where do they come from? In response to that, the man pointed toward the cave. Taman, through a bit more discussion with the villager, learned that the Masks aren’t in the town regularly. He returned to us and we found a place to rest with a tiny hut about 15 minutes from the cave. Then we oiled up Taman with our other oil of etherealness and he went to scout to see what those other 8 Masks were up to. We knew they were in telepathic contact with the 10 we killed that came through the gate, but we didn’t know what they’d do when they saw that we’d killed the ones they were supposed to be making a pincer-attack with. The rest of us rested while he was gone. In the cave, Taman saw exactly what we had left - 10 dead Masks, destroyed teleportation circle. Empty space. Nothing else. He didn’t see any fresh tracks going into the cave, so apparently the ones heading back for the pincer thing, peeled off and went elsewhere when we killed the last of the Masks in the cave. Taman came back to the hut and, again, waited for the oil to wear off, then reported what he’d seen. Mo, to Thneed: Can you do some ranger naughty word to find these guys? Thneed: Yes. She then spent the next minute focusing her awareness and concentrating on the area around her to detect the presence of her favored enemy (humanoids) in a five mile radius. She detected the village -- there were a few dozen people at that distance and in that direction. About halfway between Callallah and the cave, there were a group of eight of them on the path, not moving in any particular direction. After a bit of puzzlement, and the thought that maybe when we killed the ones that came through the gate, they didn’t have orders so they were just in standby or something, we realized that halfway between the cave and Callallah was where Sorla was going to be waiting to keep anything bad from being taken to the village. They couldn’t hurt her at all and she couldn’t kill them. We started heading in that direction, moving quickly. Despite her sense of urgency about this, Joybell didn’t rush ahead like a crazy gnome, but kept pace with Taman, and generally close to the rest of the party. Along the way, Taman and Thneed got some arrows from the near infinite supply of arrows in the bag of holding, so they were re-loaded for this combat. As we got closer we could hear, and then eventually see, the combat -- Sorla in her hybrid were-bear form fighting with eight Masks. Fiona blessed Orryk, Thneed, Taman and Joybell. Taman then moved forward just a bit and took a shot at the nearest one -- hitting for a lot of damage. Sorla, in what would be a repeated theme, missed with both of her attacks. Joybell fired magic missiles from the wand at the same one -- did a piffling amount of damage, but not much. The beneficial effect of Taman and Joybell’s attacks was that five of them broke away from attacking Sorla and began moving toward us. (Sorla savaged one with a critical hit on an opportunity attack, but that was more of an anomaly.) Three of them stayed on her. The five moving toward us pulled out longbows and fired at us. Three attacked Joybell, two of them missing entirely, one hitting with both attacks, but not hurting her too badly. Taman, unfortunately was attacked by the other two and he took three arrows. Mo tried to use cutting words to make one of those shots miss, but was unable to do so. The other three attacked Sorla, to no net effect. Mo took out the wand of web and used it to throw a cube of webbing, anchored partly to the trees on either side of the path, onto the three closest to us. Thneed put her hunter’s mark on the closest one, the one Taman and Joybell had already hit -- and missed with both of her arrows. She also missed with her hordebreaker attack against the one right behind it. Orryk moved backwards, shooting twice with his shortbow, and hitting twice. Then he took cover behind a tree. Orryk: Fall back! Take cover! Fiona cast toll the dead on the one closest to us, then lay down on the ground. Taman moved away from the path and took cover behind a tree, before shooting that one in front twice. Sorla swung at the ones behind her to no effect. Joybell rode up to the one in front that we’d been focusing on, attacked twice, getting a hit in a vital area and dropping it, then she moved and dashed Scooby off into the woods, where she took cover behind a tree. The other two caught in Mo’s web were well and truly stuck in it -- they fought to free themselves but were unsuccessful. The other two that had left Sorla and come to fight us ran at top speed closer to us, but weren’t able to close the distance and didn’t take the time to fire arrows. Mo viciously mocked one of the two not caught in the web. Mo: You’re never going to have any love or any interesting activities. Then he lay down. Thneed moved behind a tree and moved her hunter’s mark to the one Mo had mocked (no stun-locked). She got two hits, one in a critical location. Orryk closed on that one and attacked it with daggers from his belt, hitting twice, then smacking with a backhand that also hit. Without standing up, Fiona cast toll the dead on the other one that was heading our way, stun-locking it. Taman moved up on that one and stabbed it for a lot of damage. Sorla actually got a hit -- though the Mask was just going to regenerate that damage. Joybell moved up to the one Orryk was attacking and hit with one of her attacks, drawing down the divine energy into her sword -- but it was still not great, her focus was obviously off. The two that had been stunned -- by Mo and Fiona -- came out of it, but were unable to do anything. The two stuck in the web tried again to get themselves out. And again failed. Nice! Mo stood up and mocked the same one again, then lay back down. Mo: You have no future. Thneed took her shots at the one Mo had just stunned and dropped it. Then she moved her hunter’s mark to one of the ones in the webbing. Orryk ran across the road to the other one that was moving to attack us and used his vampiric gloves on it, stunning it, with his first blow. With his second blow he used a dagger and he followed up with an unarmed attack. All of those hit. Fiona surveyed the situation and cast shadowbolt, which does psychic damage, on one of the ones Sorla was fighting. It was wrapped in a swirl of purple energy, after taking the damage. Fiona, to Sorla: Hit the glowing purple one on your right! Taman shot the one Orryk had attacked and did a lot of damage, leaving it reeling but still on its feet. Sorla, following Fiona’s instructions, attacked the glowing purple one, but even attacking with advantage she missed with both of her attacks. Joybell moved and dashed on Scooby to get to a different one of Sorla’s attackers, then she cast wrathful smite and attacked it. The first hit landed, rather weakly, but it delivered the energy of the spell. Her second attack did better. Around this time, the three stunned Masks shook that off, the two in the web finally managed to free themselves (one went to Orryk and Taman, the other to Joybell and Sorla). One of them attacked Sorla. Mo then viciously mocked the one Taman had stabbed and Orryk and punched and daggered, killing it with his barbed tongue. Then he inspired Taman. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the one that had just moved to Orryk and Taman and shot it twice, hitting twice. Orryk attacked it, hitting with his gloves first, then with a dagger and a punch for his bonus action. Hitting with all three. Nice! Fiona cast shadowbolt on the one that had gotten out of the web and was going for Joybell and Sorla, hitting for a lot of damage and stunning it. Taman attacked the one on him and missed, despite being blessed and despite Mo’s inspiration. Sorla went to attack the one Fiona had just stunned, drawing attacks from two of the three that she had been fighting with futility. They both missed. Then she missed with both of her attacks against the stunned Mask. Joybell cast wrathful smite and attacked the one nearest to her, hitting twice and stunning it, but didn’t drop it. So she dashed away on Scooby into the woods (because otherwise she was in danger of being surrounded by three of them). The two Masks that weren’t stunned moved to attack Sorla, because it’s hard to kick a useless habit. The rest of them came out of their stun-locks. Whereupon, Mo immediately viciously mocked the one Sorla had moved to attack. Mo: You’re about to be killed by an owlbear that can’t hit anything. It seems like Sorla should have taken some damage from that as well. But then he inspired Sorla. Thneed shot at the one she’d put her mark on -- hitting it with both shots and dropping it. At least temporarily. Orryk: Fiona, can you kill this one? Then he walked up to the line of them that had been fighting hitting two of them with the gloves and leaving them stunned. The third one was not, however. Fiona cast toll the dead on the one that was dropped killing it. Then she stood up and moved closer to the battle. Taman dashed up to one and attacked, but missed. Sorla attacked the one Mo had stunned and hit it! Joybell rode Scooby up to that one and attacked it, hitting twice but not dropping it. The three stunned Masks then shook themselves out of it. The fourth one, standing right next to Orryk, attacked, hitting twice, despite Mo’s attempt to use cutting words to prevent one of those. The two attacks combined for a great deal of damage. Orryk growled and flexed his fist, pulling the glove tight across his knuckles. Orryk: I’m taking that right back. Mo cast mass vicious mockery on all four of them, stun-locking the lot of them and doing a small amount of damage to each of them. Thneed moved her mark to one and then promptly dropped it with an arrow. Then she shot another one and used her horde breaker ability to drop the one next to it. Orryk attacked the one that had been behind Sorla that Thneed hadn’t dropped, hitting twice and healing some of the damage that had been done to him. Fiona cast a fireball, sculpting it around Orryk, Scooby, and Joybell (who were used to this) and Sorla (who wasn’t). Taman then sneaked in and stabbed one of the two remaining for a lot of damage, dropping it. Which left one stunned Mask. And Sorla’s attacks. Party: Come on, Sorla!! Sorla turned to the last one and hit twice, ripping it limb from limb. We all cheered for her and congratulated her. And there we ended, in the path between Callallah and the Cave of the Masks. Surrounded by more dead masks (and having killed 25 of them in one day). Joybell doesn’t know about anyone else, but she’s pooped. [/QUOTE]
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Erkonin (Campaign #1) [Session 46: Making Deals with Devils is Stupid as well as Bad]
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