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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1604227" data-attributes="member: 5675">Last week we played a short "meanwhile, on the surface..." game.  The players rolled up level 10 characters, and I threw villains at them.  Having escaped from the group of gnolls which was threatening to eat them (the group started tied up and surrounded, but a stilled Mist Form followed by a fireball and 2 or 3 lightning bolts put paid to that), they group then took out the group of more powerful Zhentarim which was leading the gnolls.Looting the slain for their cloths and armour, the group found a map with a meeting place clearly marked upon it, and decided to follow up on this clue.They traced the 'X' on the map to the site known as "Traya the Forsaker's Tower" (where the Clearwater Crusaders defeated a possibly evil mage named Dyfed the Abjurer in times long past).The tower was guarded by a pair of red-scaled dragon-kin, who eventually let the 'Zhentarim delegation' in. Inside the tower, which had been rebuilt, there was a large slab or iron, on which the group used a strange iron star they had found on the body of the Zhent cleric. The slab opened up into a large chamber, magically concealed within another dimension. Waiting for them was a towering draconic figure, flanked by a bronze dwarf and a dragon-kin. On one side of the table was a Shade, flanked by an ever-shifting silver statue and a human rogue. On the other side was a down-trodden looking human peasant woman, with a strange gleam in her eye. The half dragon introduced himself as 'Dyfed Dragonkine', now chief emissary of Gran'Rath Tendathaloth (the huge red Dragon which wants the Crusaders dead). The woman was named as Irae Tsarran, and the shade was named 'Rand Stormseeker'. This last caused a good degree of speculation from the group..oOo.Finally, the last delegate arrived by means of a gate spell. A Prince fo Shadovar arrived, and immediately threatened to blast 'Rand' into his component parts. The threat averted, a negotiation began as to 'how the Dalelands were to be divided after the Great Revenance'. Irae Tsarran's view was that there was no greater vengeance on the peaceful surface worlds than to have evil overrun them. Dyfed wished only to safeguard Gran'Rath's mountain range, but the Shadovari prince demanded Scardale Town from the Zhents. He offered to pay 100 million pieces of gold for the town.When pressed as to why, he told the others that it was to be the site of a great conjunction in 3 years, where a powerful rite of magic could be effected by the Shadovar.Which would plunge the world into darkness.The party, trying to stir up dissent, accepted the offer. The Shade vanished, and Dyfed tore the head off the peasant woman, who suddenly came to her senses and screamed at the last moment, as Irae's spirit stopped dominating hers.The session ended as the various paries separated and headed off their own ways; the heroes decided to find someone in suitable authority and tell them that the Great Revenance must be stopped, and the Dales saved so that the world would not end!</blockquote>

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