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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amazingshafeman" data-source="post: 2461560" data-attributes="member: 29870">July was a light month filled with a real life wedding and some playtesting.  As such, the real campaign only saw the party temporarily split up.  The gnome warmage worked off his duty to the city-state by serving guard duty at a distant outpost (player was gone), while the rest of the crew travelled south to attend the halfling rogue's brother's funeral rites.  Visiting the big city for the first time, the abjurer is now considering doing whatever it takes to get an invitation to the Crystal Tower (private wizard school).  In a similar vein, the halfling has learned much more of her people's very secretive religion and is considering a pilgrimage to the Plane of Fire.Unbeknownst to the party, upon returning home, they will finally be plunged into the meat of the initial story arc, having only flirted with it up to this point.  They will begin questing for the various pieces to Yuhallamar's Key, which holds the power to open and close the local portal to Baator (hidden in the depths of a lost tomb, further hidden below the city).  This is a quest set into place by the subtle machinations of the teifling's father, Balius, as Balius plans to use his son's hatred of all things Baator to thwart the plans of a rival devil baron and gain his powers for himself.  The teifling mistakenly thinks that Balius' rival is his father. The first part of the four or five part quest sees the party trekking across the desert to recover the obsidian sphere that sits atop the key staff.  This will be the group's first desert adventure, but it's a request the players have been making for several weeks.  Only one piece of the key staff does not involve desert travel, and one piece will most likely involve an interplanar race as the other two factions vieing for control of the key staff come closer to its discovery. Unfortunately, because of RL vacations, the obsidian sphere will probably be the only artifact recovered in August.  Hopefully the full quest will be completed by January.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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