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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5407171" data-attributes="member: 16069">HS1 The Slaying StoneSession 3 Part 3Down again, Rogar leading the way- the other PCs following a little behind, a number of locked chambers are found, and swiftly unlocked- a hastily abandoned bedroom and a storeroom with a camp bed in it- a little more residuum is recovered but nothing else of note- a few clothes and some mouldy reagents and damp unusable chemicals.A kitchen is located, although it too has been ransacked, and muddied- the Bullywugs have been here, nothing of note, and finally to a locked door which is on the third attempt opened, and unleashes a tide of foetid mud- Neb and Drake are knocked off their feet and sent tumbling down the hard stone corridor.The pair are quickly righted and the PCs wade into a chamber twelve inches deep in sulphurous mud, over the far side of the chamber is a beautifully crafted magical staff- spinning like a top causing a swirling maelstrom in the mud.Neb uses his arcane knowledge to determine that this is some sort of portal, small though it is, to the Plane of Elemental Chaos- and if they don't close it, then the chambers here will eventually fill with the foul mud.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40504969@N08/5230064738/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5230064738_83c2ec1610.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The PCs try out their new Mud Man Face Packs.And to make matters worse a gang, initially four, of Mud Men surge up from the liquid filth and start giving the PCs the 'hard word'...A Skill Challenge to complete (to close the Portal) and the Mud Men to defeat.A lot of melee this time, and a little less fun because of it, but that's my fault- I must do better, hide much more stuff around the place for the PCs to find, or else provide more role-playing opportunities- a few talking enemies etc.Ah well... not so bad. At the end of session 3 the PCs have just short of 500 XP, I figure they should have enough XP to level every five or six sessions, at least that's what I'm going to try for.Next time... Mud glorious Mud!</blockquote>

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