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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2175313" data-attributes="member: 3192">As a player I just wanted to add a few other details. Earlier in the session the cleric who died to the Bodak's gaze, Valgrim, touched a strange corpse's bodypart which had fallen from a destroyed flesh golem. It had a bizarre tattoo and when Valgrim touched the tattoo it crawled up onto his arm. This of course, was the same kind of dimensional anchor tattoo that the prisoner we rescued had. To keep things straight, the prisoner is also a cleric (named Darian) of the church of Lathander. The Paladin and Valgrim were along to help us spring Darian.  So, Valgrim dies, we rescue Darian, and after running out of the Mindflayer prison we teleport home. Or so we think. Neither Darian nor Valgrim's corpse arrives with us. So back we go. Darian then tells us what will happen to Father Valgrim by next morning. --Suggestions of cutting off Valgrim's arm and Darian's shoulderblade were quickly put down.--  The paladin, Valgrim's protector insisted on burying his liege without desecrating the body. Essentially this meant leaving the +1 Moderate Fortification Full Plate which our party had lent him on the corpse. Seeing as only one PC was very effective against the bodaks (mine <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) we weren't going to simply fight the bodak when it formed the next morning. (as I understand it). To further complicate the matter, Darian was the only one capable of "removing curse" the tattoo. And of course he had no spells until prayer next morning. And that would be after the bodak would have formed.  Here is how we dealt with it:[spoiler]Soooo...we emptied out the bag of holding the night before. One PC sewed the bag shut with leather, while mine (a dwarf) chiseled out an alcove in our offshoot sleeping chamber cave - about a 1/2 mile from the prison. The bag was placed in the alcove and Valgrim's protector paladin placed an everburning torch next to it (for Lathander's light).  The next morning, Darian prayed and "stoneshaped" the alcove over leaving a pocket within. Then he "removed curse" his tattoo to prepare to leave. At the paladin's urging, my PC chiseled in a symbol of Lathander over the pocket and we *popped* back home. What had us in stitches throughout was the thought of the next poor slobs who found that spot a half mile under ground. The symbol of a SUN god would surely mean goodness within, right? Even the bag had Lathander's holy symbol upon it as Darian is the party's item crafter. We howled envisioning the next group of upworlders to find such a "fortune" in the dangers of the underdark. It was a complete encounter in itself. As good as Orc and Pie. Kill the Bodak : get the bag of holding and 16K armor. Beautiful. EDIT: "hey look what's in this bag!"[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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