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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3167193" data-attributes="member: 3448">After only a few minutes, Midwife Burleytoes rushed in.  She sucked in her breath as she took in Lady Zenia’s state, and then quickly began giving instructions.  “A quick birth is the only hope.  I’ll need the following herbs to induce her labor.”Less than a half-hour later, Lady Zenia was in active labor.  “There are some benefits to the magically accelerated pregnancy,” murmured Lady Constance.Midwife Burleytoes sat before Lady Zenia, feeling her abdomen.  “It’s in the proper position, but this will be a very difficult process, and she’s losing life energy rapidly.”  Still, the halfling midwife continued praying to Gunnora and working on delivering the baby.After a brief discussion, Lady Constance reached to find a sharp knife and returned with a wickedly curved sacrificial blade.  She ran it through a fire to sterilize it and then quickly made a large episiotomy to speed and simplify the delivery.  A few seconds later, the baby was born.Kit, wavering on her feet from the effort of reassuring Lady Zenia, sent, <<Your baby has been born!>><<Will it live?>><<Yes, it’s a healthy, normal baby.>><<Thank Glor’diadel…>>  Lady Zenia’s thoughts became faded and jumbled.Kit’s eyes widened.  She broke the mindlink.  “We’re losing her!”Dame Brionna poured as much healing magic in as she could, and Midwife Burleytoes added her own powerful spells.  Alistair shouted for a priest, and in a few moments a Glor’diadelian chaplain was also healing Lady Zenia.Dame Agatha looked around.  “She shouldn’t still be losing life energy…”  After a moment, she thrust a complicated sigil, like a holy symbol but much more complicated at the south wall.  “Lilith, Queen of Hell, seal this place!”------I feel the need to mention here that the DM demonstrated a poor sense of timing with this plotline.  Out of the 4 players for this session, two of us were expecting our first child less than a month after this game, and a third had had his first child about 6 months earlier in a slightly more exciting than ideal pregnancy.  So it was cool, and emotionally gripping... and not necessarily what we wanted right then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Updates are unlikely until Monday, as I'll be on the road and probably without net.</blockquote>

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