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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8249180" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Session 39: The Hag and Some Frost Giants</p><p></p><p>Dramatis Personae:</p><p>Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant)/Wizard</p><p>Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore)</p><p>Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge)</p><p>Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger (Horizon Walker)</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>12 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 103) (immediately after)</p><p></p><p>We resumed following the orrery, which was still pointing in the same general direction it had been. The rest of the day passed. As we were making camp, Taman sensed for fey and found that there was one less than a mile away behind and to the left of us, so the hag was still presumably back there.</p><p></p><p>There were also two clusters of six -- one was one mile away to the left of us and the other about five miles ahead. We figured that we’d probably get to the ones ahead of us the next day.</p><p></p><p>We camped in a tiny hut and kept watches through the night, which passed without incident.</p><p></p><p></p><p>13 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 104)</p><p></p><p>The next morning, before the hut came down, Taman sensed for fey again and found that there was a cluster of six fey about half a mile ahead and to the left of us. The single fey (presumably the hag) was a couple of miles behind us.</p><p></p><p>We headed out, following the orrery and staying alert. Mo let Clyde the Baboon ride in the combat hammock, which he kept warm with prestidigitation.</p><p></p><p>Shortly after we headed out, the sword of warning alerted all of us (except Taman, who just spotted them) to the presence of small white figures with wings about 40’ up the sides of a rock-strewn gorge. They were standing on ledges part way up the sides of the gorge (the wall of which were 90’ high).</p><p></p><p>Taman took a shot at the nearest one to us.</p><p></p><p>Taman: Snipers!</p><p></p><p>Taman recognized that these are cold fey called Beli -- they have short bows and the shots have a chance of hastening death by exposure.</p><p></p><p>Mo cast hypnotic pattern on the three on the other side (that Taman hadn’t shot at), getting two of them caught up in the pretty lights. Then he inspired Joybell.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Go get ‘em!!</p><p></p><p>Thneed and Orryk worked together to take down the one that had saved against the hypnotic pattern. It fell off the cliff and landed with a thud. Thneed was confident it had been dropped because of the effect on her hunters’ mark spell, but the next second it stood up again.</p><p></p><p>Taman: They regenerate unless they take fire damage.</p><p></p><p>The Beli (other than the two hypnotized ones) began flying down towards us, shooting their arrows.</p><p></p><p>Joybell, noticing them moving into range: Bless them.</p><p></p><p>One of them got a critical hit on Mo, which left him weakened with exhaustion and caused the hypnotic pattern to drop. A couple missed. Orryk caught one of the arrows that would have hit him, dropping it to the ground at his feet. Taman also got hit.</p><p></p><p>Joybell cast searing smite and hit the one that had been dropped and regenerated, dropping it for real. Then she moved to where she could protect Mo from another attack.</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast a fireball on three of them, dropping two and leaving the third partially melted looking. Mo finished that one off, mocking it to death.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Your skin looks terrible…</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved her hunters mark to one of the remaining two, and did it a lot of damage with her two arrows.</p><p></p><p>Omnath finished that one off with his fire breath, getting his first kill! Orryk shot the last remaining one with his bow and in response it started to flee, flying away into the mountains. We all took shots at it and after a few hits by others, Thneed dropped it.</p><p></p><p>We wanted to examine the bodies, but they had melted away before we could look at them. When they were alive they’d looked like small, bat-winged, white-skinned humanoids with unpleasant mouths filled with many teeth.</p><p></p><p>We hadn’t been traveling for very long at all, so we continued on our way without a rest. Joybell used the restoration bead from the necklace of prayer beads on Mo, so he only had one level of exhaustion. Due to his exhaustion, he rode in the battle hammock.</p><p></p><p>At lunch, we stopped and Fiona made a tiny hut so we could have a nice, warm short rest. Taman checked for fey and found a single fey about half a mile ahead.</p><p></p><p>After our break, we continued proceeding. We’d gone about that half mile and found ourselves in another rocky gorge. In the gorge ahead of us, an unpleasant looking woman, Mo’s height, with blue-white scraggly hair, stood on a ledge about 50’ up on the side of the gorge.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Hello, young lady!</p><p></p><p>Orryk, to the rest of the party: I thought we were going for Rule 1?</p><p>Joybell: Maybe she’ll come down to us so we can fight her.</p><p></p><p>Hag: Top ‘o the afternoon!</p><p>Mo: Why are you following us?</p><p>Hag: For my own amusement. You’re a persistent lot…</p><p>Taman: Do you know a guy who looks like a dilyarli wearing a large hat? (Followed by a more precise description of Ildna.)</p><p>Hag: You’re looking for the broken dilyarli. I could make it easier for you to find him….if you do me a favor. There’s another hag in these mountains and I want you to kill her.</p><p></p><p>Orryk, to the rest of the party: She’s caused most of the problems we’ve run into. Is she just going to stop harassing us?</p><p></p><p>Taman How far away is this other…</p><p>Hag: You can call us hags. It’s about 10 miles that way.</p><p></p><p>She pointed off at an angle that would have taken us away from the route we were following.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: We can go and kill another hag so this one will leave us alone. Or we can just kill this one without traveling days out of our way and things will be easier.</p><p>Taman: You’re right!</p><p></p><p>Then Taman took a shot at her.</p><p></p><p>Joybell: Wait!? What? What’s going on?</p><p></p><p>Taman’s shot, unfortunately, missed. Joybell used the wand of magic missile, but the hag cast a shield spell and stopped them. Orryk moved, spreading out a bit, and shot at her, getting one through her shield spell.</p><p></p><p>The hag cackled at us then poured a vial of liquid over her head, disappearing as the liquid covered her body.</p><p></p><p>Mo tried to cast faerie fire on the area where she was, but she didn’t light up.</p><p></p><p>Taman took a moment to try and spot her -- after a second he saw a glitter of snow in the air in the middle of the gorge that he surmised was sparkling as it fell off of her broom of flying. He tried to shoot her, but missed. Joybell, seeing where he’d aimed, threw the javelin of lightning at her and hit with a great shock of lightning. Orryk followed up with an arrow shot.</p><p></p><p>After Fiona missed and we figured that she’d moved again. Mo held a faerie fire until someone pointed out her location to him and inspired Taman.</p><p></p><p>Mo: Find her.</p><p></p><p>Taman took another moment to look for her again and spotted her 120 feet down the valley, apparently flying away in the direction we were heading. She was out of range of Mo’s spell and none of the arrows we fired in her direction hit.</p><p></p><p>Joybell collected her javelin of lightning, Clyde was put back into the warmed battle hammock, and we resumed proceeding. The rest of the day passed without incident and we passed out of the narrow gorges and passes we’d been in and out into a large, open, relatively flat alpine meadow. Fiona created a tiny hut and we made camp for the evening.</p><p></p><p>Just before we rested, Mo created a teleportation circle to the library in Stately Kang Manor and sent Clyde through it with a note that said “From Mo.”</p><p></p><p>Chulty will take care of him.</p><p></p><p>During the first watch, Joybell and Orryk spotted two frost giants. They weren’t walking right toward us in a bee-line, but they weren’t just out on patrol passing by either. They appeared to be looking for us. They stopped about 200’ away and sat down, looking at the dome.</p><p></p><p>Joybell and Orryk woke up the rest of the party as soon as we spotted the giants.</p><p></p><p>Mo threw a card from the deck of illusions out through the dome -- an orc appeared outside the dome. Recognizing that an orc wasn’t an especially intimidating illusion, he threw another card -- an image of Mo himself appeared next to the orc.</p><p></p><p>As the second illusion appeared, the giants each threw a boulder, both of which hit the illusion of the orc. Because it was an illusion, it was still standing there, despite the boulders.</p><p></p><p>Orryk pointed out to Thneed that she could shoot out through the dome.</p><p></p><p>Taman, to the giants, in common: Hold your fire! We come in peace.</p><p></p><p>They didn’t respond, so he said it again in sylvan. They still didn’t respond.</p><p></p><p>At that, Orryk and Thneed started shooting arrows at them. After a couple of arrows hit, the giants moved back another couple hundred feet and sat down again, still looking at the dome.</p><p></p><p>We went back to our rest, Joybell and Orryk finishing out the first watch. They woke Mo and Thneed for second watch. Mo stepped outside the dome, thinking to polymorph himself into a giant ape and throw the rocks back at the giants, but they were too far away and he decided against and went back into the dome.</p><p></p><p>The second watch and third watches passed without incident. The giants were sitting comfortably and also getting a long rest.</p><p></p><p></p><p>14 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 105)</p><p></p><p>The next morning, just before the dome came down, Taman and Joybell left the dome first -- the giants didn’t react to that, so we continued on our way. As we proceeded, the giants stood up and stretched then they tried to sneak after us.</p><p></p><p>When we noticed that one of them had succeeded in sneaking off and we didn’t know where it was, Thneed cast pass without trace and we began sneaking ourselves.</p><p></p><p>We decided to set an ambush for them, but Joybell wanted a chance to talk to them first.</p><p></p><p>Orryk: No. Joybell messes up every ambush we’ve tried.</p><p>Joybell: Last time you fussed at me about this, I hid and Taman and Thneed stood in the road and you didn’t fuss at them!</p><p>Orryk: They do stupid things. I expect better of you.</p><p></p><p>We found a spot between a couple of boulders on the alpine meadow. Joybell and Scooby hid behind one (reasonably well for a change) and watched the giants (we had both of them in our sights again) cross the meadow. We saw 4 of the beli things with the giants.</p><p></p><p>Taman and Thneed took some shots, both at the giants and the beli. Fiona cast a fireball that caught one of the giants and two of the beli. The two beli looked pretty hurt by it, though the giant looked like he’d avoided most of the damage.</p><p></p><p>Mo cast hypnotic pattern on the larger giant and two of the beli, then he laid down to be a more difficult target for ranged attacks. Joybell moved out from behind the boulder she’d hidden behind and used the wand of magic missiles to shoot the two beli that had been in the fireball, dropping one of them.</p><p></p><p>Thneed stepped out from behind a different rook, took her shots, then moved back behind Fiona.</p><p></p><p>Taman and Orryk, each in turn, stepped out from behind rocks and took shots - focusing on the beli, because that ability to exhaust people is really dangerous.</p><p></p><p>The hag walked up at an angle from where the giants were. She looked at the situation and threw a snowball at the hypnotized frost giant, snapping him out of his fascination with the pretty lights.</p><p></p><p>The larger giant ran up on Taman, pulling out a huge great axe and swinging - it would have gotten a critical hit, but Taman got a lucky break and the swing instead was a mighty blow into the ground. Unfortunately, the giant’s second swing did hit him. The other giant moved up toward us, but wasn’t able to attack.</p><p></p><p>It was able to get into fireball formation with the other giant, though, and Fiona didn’t miss the opportunity. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a very powerful fireball. Mo followed it up with a shatter spell that caught the two of them as well.</p><p></p><p>There were a number of attacks on the smaller giant - culminating with Taman dropping it with his scimitar before it ever got to attack.</p><p></p><p>Orryk moved so he could take a shot at the one un-hypnotized beli, then went into some cover. Omnath, waiting for an opportunity in the combat, moved next to Mo, who warmed his hands on the magma mephit.</p><p></p><p>The hag caught a glint of light with something in her hand and fired a bolt of cold light at Taman and Joybell. And Scooby, who dropped and went back to where celestial wolf-mounts are when they die here.</p><p></p><p>The big giant followed that up with a big hit on Joybell. His second attack only missed because of Mo’s cutting words.</p><p></p><p>Fiona cast scorching ray at the hag -- she protected herself with a shield of sparkling ice, but two of the bolts still got through. Joybell attacked the remaining giant, smiting it weakly, still upset about losing Scooby.</p><p></p><p>Taman turned away from the giant and charged the hag, casting zephyr strike on the way. He hit her for a lot of damage. Orryk spent a ki-point to dash over to the hag as well, hitting and stunning her with a stunning strike! (It worked!)</p><p></p><p>The frost giant, finding most of his opponents gone, hit Joybell two more times. Ouch!</p><p></p><p>Fiona dropped a fireball right onto the hag and a beli -- the hag was stunned and unable to dodge out of the way. The beli tried to dodge, but was killed anyway.</p><p></p><p>Thneed shot at the hag, then Taman moved into a position to flank her and dropped her with a sneak attack. Woot!</p><p></p><p>Orryk went back to the giant, making a couple of attempts to stun it, but neither of them worked.</p><p></p><p>Which was a pity, because the giant then hit Joybell and almost dropped her.</p><p></p><p>Joybell, remembering the code word from the fight with the dragon: Banana! Mo! Banana!</p><p></p><p>Mo didn’t cast a polymorph on her -- instead he cast a shatter spell on the giant and dropped it. Which worked out fine as well.</p><p></p><p>The two hypnotized beli were dispatched quickly.</p><p></p><p>And there we ended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8249180, member: 7016699"] Session 39: The Hag and Some Frost Giants Dramatis Personae: Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant)/Wizard Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore) Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge) Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger (Horizon Walker) Joybell - Forest Gnome Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) Thneed - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave) GM - Everyone Else 12 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 103) (immediately after) We resumed following the orrery, which was still pointing in the same general direction it had been. The rest of the day passed. As we were making camp, Taman sensed for fey and found that there was one less than a mile away behind and to the left of us, so the hag was still presumably back there. There were also two clusters of six -- one was one mile away to the left of us and the other about five miles ahead. We figured that we’d probably get to the ones ahead of us the next day. We camped in a tiny hut and kept watches through the night, which passed without incident. 13 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 104) The next morning, before the hut came down, Taman sensed for fey again and found that there was a cluster of six fey about half a mile ahead and to the left of us. The single fey (presumably the hag) was a couple of miles behind us. We headed out, following the orrery and staying alert. Mo let Clyde the Baboon ride in the combat hammock, which he kept warm with prestidigitation. Shortly after we headed out, the sword of warning alerted all of us (except Taman, who just spotted them) to the presence of small white figures with wings about 40’ up the sides of a rock-strewn gorge. They were standing on ledges part way up the sides of the gorge (the wall of which were 90’ high). Taman took a shot at the nearest one to us. Taman: Snipers! Taman recognized that these are cold fey called Beli -- they have short bows and the shots have a chance of hastening death by exposure. Mo cast hypnotic pattern on the three on the other side (that Taman hadn’t shot at), getting two of them caught up in the pretty lights. Then he inspired Joybell. Mo: Go get ‘em!! Thneed and Orryk worked together to take down the one that had saved against the hypnotic pattern. It fell off the cliff and landed with a thud. Thneed was confident it had been dropped because of the effect on her hunters’ mark spell, but the next second it stood up again. Taman: They regenerate unless they take fire damage. The Beli (other than the two hypnotized ones) began flying down towards us, shooting their arrows. Joybell, noticing them moving into range: Bless them. One of them got a critical hit on Mo, which left him weakened with exhaustion and caused the hypnotic pattern to drop. A couple missed. Orryk caught one of the arrows that would have hit him, dropping it to the ground at his feet. Taman also got hit. Joybell cast searing smite and hit the one that had been dropped and regenerated, dropping it for real. Then she moved to where she could protect Mo from another attack. Fiona cast a fireball on three of them, dropping two and leaving the third partially melted looking. Mo finished that one off, mocking it to death. Mo: Your skin looks terrible… Thneed moved her hunters mark to one of the remaining two, and did it a lot of damage with her two arrows. Omnath finished that one off with his fire breath, getting his first kill! Orryk shot the last remaining one with his bow and in response it started to flee, flying away into the mountains. We all took shots at it and after a few hits by others, Thneed dropped it. We wanted to examine the bodies, but they had melted away before we could look at them. When they were alive they’d looked like small, bat-winged, white-skinned humanoids with unpleasant mouths filled with many teeth. We hadn’t been traveling for very long at all, so we continued on our way without a rest. Joybell used the restoration bead from the necklace of prayer beads on Mo, so he only had one level of exhaustion. Due to his exhaustion, he rode in the battle hammock. At lunch, we stopped and Fiona made a tiny hut so we could have a nice, warm short rest. Taman checked for fey and found a single fey about half a mile ahead. After our break, we continued proceeding. We’d gone about that half mile and found ourselves in another rocky gorge. In the gorge ahead of us, an unpleasant looking woman, Mo’s height, with blue-white scraggly hair, stood on a ledge about 50’ up on the side of the gorge. Mo: Hello, young lady! Orryk, to the rest of the party: I thought we were going for Rule 1? Joybell: Maybe she’ll come down to us so we can fight her. Hag: Top ‘o the afternoon! Mo: Why are you following us? Hag: For my own amusement. You’re a persistent lot… Taman: Do you know a guy who looks like a dilyarli wearing a large hat? (Followed by a more precise description of Ildna.) Hag: You’re looking for the broken dilyarli. I could make it easier for you to find him….if you do me a favor. There’s another hag in these mountains and I want you to kill her. Orryk, to the rest of the party: She’s caused most of the problems we’ve run into. Is she just going to stop harassing us? Taman How far away is this other… Hag: You can call us hags. It’s about 10 miles that way. She pointed off at an angle that would have taken us away from the route we were following. Orryk: We can go and kill another hag so this one will leave us alone. Or we can just kill this one without traveling days out of our way and things will be easier. Taman: You’re right! Then Taman took a shot at her. Joybell: Wait!? What? What’s going on? Taman’s shot, unfortunately, missed. Joybell used the wand of magic missile, but the hag cast a shield spell and stopped them. Orryk moved, spreading out a bit, and shot at her, getting one through her shield spell. The hag cackled at us then poured a vial of liquid over her head, disappearing as the liquid covered her body. Mo tried to cast faerie fire on the area where she was, but she didn’t light up. Taman took a moment to try and spot her -- after a second he saw a glitter of snow in the air in the middle of the gorge that he surmised was sparkling as it fell off of her broom of flying. He tried to shoot her, but missed. Joybell, seeing where he’d aimed, threw the javelin of lightning at her and hit with a great shock of lightning. Orryk followed up with an arrow shot. After Fiona missed and we figured that she’d moved again. Mo held a faerie fire until someone pointed out her location to him and inspired Taman. Mo: Find her. Taman took another moment to look for her again and spotted her 120 feet down the valley, apparently flying away in the direction we were heading. She was out of range of Mo’s spell and none of the arrows we fired in her direction hit. Joybell collected her javelin of lightning, Clyde was put back into the warmed battle hammock, and we resumed proceeding. The rest of the day passed without incident and we passed out of the narrow gorges and passes we’d been in and out into a large, open, relatively flat alpine meadow. Fiona created a tiny hut and we made camp for the evening. Just before we rested, Mo created a teleportation circle to the library in Stately Kang Manor and sent Clyde through it with a note that said “From Mo.” Chulty will take care of him. During the first watch, Joybell and Orryk spotted two frost giants. They weren’t walking right toward us in a bee-line, but they weren’t just out on patrol passing by either. They appeared to be looking for us. They stopped about 200’ away and sat down, looking at the dome. Joybell and Orryk woke up the rest of the party as soon as we spotted the giants. Mo threw a card from the deck of illusions out through the dome -- an orc appeared outside the dome. Recognizing that an orc wasn’t an especially intimidating illusion, he threw another card -- an image of Mo himself appeared next to the orc. As the second illusion appeared, the giants each threw a boulder, both of which hit the illusion of the orc. Because it was an illusion, it was still standing there, despite the boulders. Orryk pointed out to Thneed that she could shoot out through the dome. Taman, to the giants, in common: Hold your fire! We come in peace. They didn’t respond, so he said it again in sylvan. They still didn’t respond. At that, Orryk and Thneed started shooting arrows at them. After a couple of arrows hit, the giants moved back another couple hundred feet and sat down again, still looking at the dome. We went back to our rest, Joybell and Orryk finishing out the first watch. They woke Mo and Thneed for second watch. Mo stepped outside the dome, thinking to polymorph himself into a giant ape and throw the rocks back at the giants, but they were too far away and he decided against and went back into the dome. The second watch and third watches passed without incident. The giants were sitting comfortably and also getting a long rest. 14 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 105) The next morning, just before the dome came down, Taman and Joybell left the dome first -- the giants didn’t react to that, so we continued on our way. As we proceeded, the giants stood up and stretched then they tried to sneak after us. When we noticed that one of them had succeeded in sneaking off and we didn’t know where it was, Thneed cast pass without trace and we began sneaking ourselves. We decided to set an ambush for them, but Joybell wanted a chance to talk to them first. Orryk: No. Joybell messes up every ambush we’ve tried. Joybell: Last time you fussed at me about this, I hid and Taman and Thneed stood in the road and you didn’t fuss at them! Orryk: They do stupid things. I expect better of you. We found a spot between a couple of boulders on the alpine meadow. Joybell and Scooby hid behind one (reasonably well for a change) and watched the giants (we had both of them in our sights again) cross the meadow. We saw 4 of the beli things with the giants. Taman and Thneed took some shots, both at the giants and the beli. Fiona cast a fireball that caught one of the giants and two of the beli. The two beli looked pretty hurt by it, though the giant looked like he’d avoided most of the damage. Mo cast hypnotic pattern on the larger giant and two of the beli, then he laid down to be a more difficult target for ranged attacks. Joybell moved out from behind the boulder she’d hidden behind and used the wand of magic missiles to shoot the two beli that had been in the fireball, dropping one of them. Thneed stepped out from behind a different rook, took her shots, then moved back behind Fiona. Taman and Orryk, each in turn, stepped out from behind rocks and took shots - focusing on the beli, because that ability to exhaust people is really dangerous. The hag walked up at an angle from where the giants were. She looked at the situation and threw a snowball at the hypnotized frost giant, snapping him out of his fascination with the pretty lights. The larger giant ran up on Taman, pulling out a huge great axe and swinging - it would have gotten a critical hit, but Taman got a lucky break and the swing instead was a mighty blow into the ground. Unfortunately, the giant’s second swing did hit him. The other giant moved up toward us, but wasn’t able to attack. It was able to get into fireball formation with the other giant, though, and Fiona didn’t miss the opportunity. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a very powerful fireball. Mo followed it up with a shatter spell that caught the two of them as well. There were a number of attacks on the smaller giant - culminating with Taman dropping it with his scimitar before it ever got to attack. Orryk moved so he could take a shot at the one un-hypnotized beli, then went into some cover. Omnath, waiting for an opportunity in the combat, moved next to Mo, who warmed his hands on the magma mephit. The hag caught a glint of light with something in her hand and fired a bolt of cold light at Taman and Joybell. And Scooby, who dropped and went back to where celestial wolf-mounts are when they die here. The big giant followed that up with a big hit on Joybell. His second attack only missed because of Mo’s cutting words. Fiona cast scorching ray at the hag -- she protected herself with a shield of sparkling ice, but two of the bolts still got through. Joybell attacked the remaining giant, smiting it weakly, still upset about losing Scooby. Taman turned away from the giant and charged the hag, casting zephyr strike on the way. He hit her for a lot of damage. Orryk spent a ki-point to dash over to the hag as well, hitting and stunning her with a stunning strike! (It worked!) The frost giant, finding most of his opponents gone, hit Joybell two more times. Ouch! Fiona dropped a fireball right onto the hag and a beli -- the hag was stunned and unable to dodge out of the way. The beli tried to dodge, but was killed anyway. Thneed shot at the hag, then Taman moved into a position to flank her and dropped her with a sneak attack. Woot! Orryk went back to the giant, making a couple of attempts to stun it, but neither of them worked. Which was a pity, because the giant then hit Joybell and almost dropped her. Joybell, remembering the code word from the fight with the dragon: Banana! Mo! Banana! Mo didn’t cast a polymorph on her -- instead he cast a shatter spell on the giant and dropped it. Which worked out fine as well. The two hypnotized beli were dispatched quickly. And there we ended. [/QUOTE]
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