In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign session, the PCs:
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- Met up with the same three drow warriors they'd rescued two adventures ago, who refused to return to the tribe until they had captured some game on their own, while they were stalking a group of six axebeaks busy pulling huge berries off of 10-foot-tall bushes
- Promised not to get in the drow's way while they picked off an axebeak on their own (for the sake of the warriors' honor)
- Found out there were actually two dozen axebeaks and a gray render protector, the axebeaks drunk on guzzleberries that had fermented on the vine, making them particularly aggressive (at which point the drow decided, "You know what? Those 15th-level heroes can go ahead and give us a hand after all!")
- Funneled the foes with a wall of force spell and two black tentacles spells, allowing the three drow to take on two axebeaks on their own without interruption
- Let the drow take off with their downed prey while the heroes dealt with the rest of the flock and the gray render, then moved on
- Met up with half a dozen non-expressive lizardfolk, who immediately attacked the PCs; most were taken care of with a prismatic spray spell, but that's when the three giant dragonflies showed up....
- After dealing with the remaining pod-spawned lizardfolk (they were plants!) and the flying insects, the PCs continued along the path of the stream they'd been following, to meet up with a giant bodythief plant stuck between a ring of massive, stone plinths
- After the elf sorcerer zapped it for 96 points of electricity damage (maximized chain lightning), they hid behind a 50-foot-tall wall of force (after it used a 12d6 acid stream breath weapon on the sorcerer in retaliation) and summoned monsters to go fight it (a greater earth elemental, Huge fire elemental, celestial polar boar, dire elk)
- Watched as the ruckus outside their cave brought out a mated pair of jungle giants and their styracosaurus draft animal
- Finally braved coming out from behind the wall of force once the bodythief plant was almost dead, then quickly slew the three cave dwellers
- Found a gemstone mine at the back of the jungle giants' sleeping quarters, in which was a crystallis - a being from the Elemental Plane of Earth that just wanted to get home (it had fallen through a rift to the Material Plane and hung around the gemstone cave because it reminded it of home)
- Talked to the crystallis, convinced it they could return it home if it didn't resist their spell, and had the dwarf cleric cast a banishment spell on it
- Had the greater earth elemental gather up the gemstones embedded in the walls of the deeper cave, garnering the PCs about 40,000 gp in all
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