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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9887230" data-attributes="member: 1125">I decided to try a different approach and well, maybe it could work afterall...“Sheila!” Bobby barked, slamming the screen door so hard it triggered the House Alarm Ritual causing a faint silvery shimmer to settle down over the porch. “Call the Sheriff’s Office and tell ‘em it’s not a prank this time, those damn kids from the collegium are up at the ruined temple again and someone’s failed a concentration check!”Inside, Sheila didn’t even look up from her sending stone. “Already on it. They’ve put you on a priority list now. Said to ask: ‘Are the entities fiends, fey, or “unidentified intrusion from the far realms”?”Bobby pinched the bridge of his nose. “They’re Vrocks, Sheila! Big, screechin’, feathered nightmares. One of ‘em did that spores thing and Eric’s boy is coughing up glitter. Tell Hank to send a Paladin”“Right,” Sheila said, typing. “Dispatch says a Level 7 Response Team is en route. ETA… twenty minutes.”“Twenty minutes?!” Bobby wheeled toward the window. In the distance, something shot skyward shrieking like a rusted hinge. “we aint got twenty minutes. Those things already slaughtered ten of our spring lambs! If we loose more, we wont be able to pay the druids for last years blessing”From the hill came a flash of violet light, followed by the unmistakable screaming of another failed save. Bobby grabbed his old club from the cupboard, although it had been modified into the stock of a pump action shotgun, silver lined barrel etched with runes, upgraded and reclassified under martial weapon proficiency.“Don’t,” Sheila said calmly. “We’re retired remember, you know that Diana’s Adventurers manual says do not engage any creatures above your CR!”“…to hell with CR!” Bobby replied as he stepped out the door “those kids have already failed their damn wisdom saves, we might be the only chance they’ve got!”A second vrock launched skyward as Bobby steered his old pick up towards the ruined temple. Erics boy was still both nauseated and stunned on the ground, while his girlfriend Nancy May was trying to read a scroll written in Old Demotic .Bobby pulled up along side the pair, tossed Nancy a spare Red Potion Pack and pulling his shotgun, took aim at the skyward Vrock and pulled the trigger. Somebody had to roll initiative…</blockquote>

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