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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9533974" data-attributes="member: 508">ADVENTURE 87: BLEEDOVERPC Roster: Alewyth Putterpye, dwarf priestess of Aerik 18             Thurloe Pulver, human fighter 3/wizard 3/spellsword 10/eldritch knight 2             Wakuren, half-orc cleric of Cal 9/paladin 9             Xandro Silverstrings, human bard 6/rogue 12             Zander Quilson, elf sorcerer 18Game Session Date: 7 December 2024 - - -"We've got a problem, kupo!" said Mogo as the five dreamwalkers approached him in the Corridor of Dreams.It was a much busier corridor than the dreamwalkers had seen before, with other moogle guides leading dreamwalkers they'd never met before through individual dream-doors.  "Remember when the Queen of Dreams took you to another dream-galaxy to gain your kaiju spirit guides, kupo?" Mogo asked.  "Well, dream-galaxies have a tendency to drift around a bit, and one has bumped up against ours such that several dream-images bled over from their dream-galaxy to ours, kupo!"  He indicated the corridor in which all of the activity was occurring.  "We've confined the alien dreams to this section of the Corridor of Dreams, and now we need you to go into the dreamscapes and deal with these foreign intruders, kupo!"Four separate dreamscapes had been set aside for Mogo's five dreamwalkers, each dream sealed behind a door and shuffled so they were side by side.  Normally, a practiced dreamwalker could activate a portal in each dream-door to get a sneak peek at the dream held within, but with the interference from the foreign dream-images, the details of each dream were blurry, allowing the viewer to make out a bit of background of each dream but not much else.  The four dreamscapes consisted of a bunch of buildings in a part of a small village; an opera house interior; a rustic-looking cottage of sorts where everything was abnormally large; and an outdoor setting with lots of stumps where the trees had been cut down.  "You can deal with the dreamscapes in whichever order you like, kupo!" Mogo revealed.Talking it over quickly amongst themselves, the five opted to open the dream-door to the overly-large house first.  Stepping into the dreamscape, they found themselves in the back of a massive house, with a pair of thronelike chairs behind them and a blazing bed of coals before them.  Beyond the coals stood an enormous wooden table with equally-large chairs set around it, while beyond that was a pair of double doors.  Other wooden doors along the sides of the walls likely led to smaller rooms.Before the dreamwalkers could get their bearings, there was a creak at the far end of the dwelling as the front doors slowly opened.  Two shadowy figures stood outlined in the doorway for a moment, before stepping fully into the chamber and closing the doors behind them.  These were creatures the dreamwalkers had never seen before: fully the size of cloud giants, each was a thickset, humanoid rabbit wearing a stupefied expression on their buck-toothed faces.  One held a gaudily-colored sandal that he held up to the side of his head.  Looking first at the five foreign intruders in the back of their home, the two humanoid rabbits looked at each other in confusion and each asked the other, "Bwaaah?"Xandro whipped out his Dardolian Lute and wasted no time starting the initial chords to the song of inspirational courage, as the two Rabbids grinned wickedly at the thought of terrorizing these pint-size intruders.  But before they could do so, Zander cast an Elobar's black tentacles spell in the front of the room, causing thick, ebony appendages to rise up from the floor and try to wrap themselves around the two Rabbids.  One of the pair was instantly entangled, while the one carrying the flip-flop managed to elude their grasp - only to point at his fellow and laugh at his predicament.  "BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!" he chortled.Alewyth decided to go meet them in physical combat but saw no reason to leave them with such an obvious size advantage.  Casting a righteous might spell upon herself as she moved forward, she doubled in size - as did Sjondra in her hands, ready to dish out some pain.  Thurloe went with a fireball spell, catching both Rabbids in the blast area and singeing their white fur.  He moved up as well, but was careful to keep the giant-sized Alewyth between himself and the two Rabbids.Still laughing at his partner (who had scooped up some of the tentacles that were crushing him and made a sort of impromptu hairdo out of them), one of the Rabbids stepped out of the field of writhing tentacles and turned to face these intruders, one of whom was now close to his own size and definitely female.  He made kissy faces at Alewyth and started heading her way.But then Wakuren struck, stepping forward and casting a blade barrier spell that cut a path through both Rabbids and any tentacles in between them.  As if completely unused to the very concept of magical spells, the Rabbids stood dumbfoundedly as the blades of force chopped away at them.  "BWAH-BWAH-BWAH-BWAH-BAAH!" they cried in unison.Xandro swapped his lute for his rapier and charged the kissy-faced Rabbid, dashing beneath the massive table (he didn't even need to stoop to do so) and slicing out at it with his blade, catching it in a furry leg.  Zander moved more cautiously forward, taking cover behind a curving wall and summoning forth a fire elemental onto the top of the table.  The humanoid figure formed of flame stood as tall as either Rabbid, if not taller, and the wood beneath its feet started smoldering as it reached out and swatted at the closest Rabbid with a fiery fist.Alewyth activated her butterfly brooch and flew over the pit of burning coals, the better to make a direct line to her enemies.  She brought Sjondra down onto the head of the one who had seemed in a kissing mood, changing his outlook on the dwarven priestess entirely.  "BWAH-BWAH-BWAAAAH!" he cried in pain and fury.  Thurloe hung back to see what the others would do.The Rabbid moved to slap Alewyth with its flip-flop, but in doing so completely ignored Xandro hiding underneath the table, which was a mistake - the rogue's Deathwhisper blade went stabbing deep into the Rabbid's exposed belly, drawing blood.  The Rabbid toppled forward, quite obviously slain; the rogue couldn't be sure if he'd seen what he thought he'd seen, but he could have sworn the creature's eyes had closed in death and then momentarily turned into a pair of "X-es" before the entire creature winked out of existence."BWAH-BWAH-BWAH!" screamed the remaining Rabbid as he heroically escaped from the blade barrier spell and made it through the black tentacles still trying to grab him up.  He dashed off through a side door, which he slammed behind him.  Seeing he had gone to the west side of the building, Wakuren stepped up to another door on the same wall and opened it, hoping the two doors might connect to the same room.  Here he was in luck, for the room was a lengthy one, filled with numerous giant-sized beds, and the bedraggled Rabbid was down at the south end of the room, while the half-orc stood waiting for him to the north.Xandro sheathed his blade and returned to playing the song of inspirational courage, knowing that was something he could do to aid his friends immediately, while it would take him a fair bit of time to chase down the Rabbid on his own.  Likewise, the fire elemental took up a protective stance in the fire pit, making itself comfortable while waiting for their foe to come within range.  Zander moved through the open door behind Wakuren, casting a prismatic spray spell at the Rabbid.  While he had hoped to slay him at once or send him off to a random plane, he merely got a small gout of fire blasting at the Rabbid, further singeing his fur.  It was Alewyth who entered next and finished the Rabbid off with a searing light spell, causing him to pop like a bubble upon death, just like the other one.  And with both Rabbids slain, the dreamscape started fading away; the dreamwalkers exited through the dream-door and returned to the Corridor of Dreams."Which one next?" Alewyth asked the others."Let's try the townscape," suggested Thurloe, opening the dream-door and stepping inside.The townscape was under attack.  As people screamed in terror all around them, three giant monsters approached the buildings making up the village.  The first was some sort of construct with a tyrannosaurian build; the next was a kind of short-winged pterodactyl with a triangular head that shot beams of energy from its mouth; and the third was a squat, toadlike thing with spikes all over its back and along its lengthy tail."Kaiju fight!" Thurloe called back to the others, activating his spirit kaiju and taking on its form as he transformed into its likeness.  Soon Thurloe was no longer present in the dreamscape, and in his place stood MOGUERA, another construct with an upright, humanoid build.  He began striding towards the other construct, sending a burst of energy from his eyes its way, hitting Mecha Godzilla in his armored chest but failing to deal it too much damage.Xandro entered the dreamscape next, turning into Gigan as soon as he saw the enemy kaiju attacking.  His spirit kaiju relied upon physical contact to inflict damage upon his enemies, so he took to the air with his stumpy wings.  Next came Alewyth, who, upon seeing the spiny-backed Varan, called out, "Th' spiny one's mine!"  Then she turned into her own spirit kaiju, a similarly spined dinosaur called Anguiras.  She smashed her way through a building in an effort to bring the fight to Varan as soon as possible.Wakuren transformed into Gamera almost immediately upon entering the dreamscape and took to the skies, pulling his rear legs into his turtle shell and sending out bursts of flame that propelled him towards Gyaos, the pterodactyl-thing.  Zander was the last to enter and the last to take on the form of his spirit kaiju, a humanoid foo lion named King Caesar.After that, it was a rampage among giant monsters.  Anguiras and Varan went to war with each other and were fairly evenly matched, but once Gigan arrived on the scene and started attacking Varan from the side with his two lancelike front limbs, his wicked beak, and the rotor blades embedded in his chest, it was only a matter of time before the spiked reptile fell.MOGUERA and Mecha Godzilla traded energy blasts as the dreamwalker construct closed the distance; King Caesar had trampled through buildings to get within hand-to-hand combat range with the metal tyrannosaur, and was helping to keep him busy while Gamera positioned himself to attack Gyaos from behind.  Gamera sent blasts of fire from his turtle-mouth past Gyaos's head, engulfing Mecha Godzilla while its focus was on King Caesar and MOGUERA.  But as the physically toughest of all the giant monsters in the dreamscape, it was only fitting that Mecha Godzilla was the last enemy standing, after Gamera and Gigan took out Gyaos.  After that, it was a mere matter of time before the evil construct fell before the might of the other five kaiju joined in combat against it.  But once Mecha Godzilla fell and the dreamscape started fading away, the dreamwalkers regained their normal forms and returned to the Corridor of Dreams."That was weird," Xandro said.  "Let's do the opera house next."  He opened the dream-door and found himself entering the opera house from the front; the place was packed, with every seat filled, but each of the opera-goers was fast asleep.  This predicament was not apparently sitting well with the performer on stage, a round, pink creature holding some sort of wand to its mouth and singing, "Jigglypuff, Jigglypuff...."Thurloe cast a greater invisibility spell upon himself and faded from view, as Xandro unpacked his Dardolian Lute again.  However, instead of playing the song of inspirational courage, as he normally did, he instead created a new tune of his own to counter the effects of Jigglypuff's magical singing.  Almost immediately, those audience members closest to Xandro and his countersong started waking up, confused about what was going on."Please exit quietly and in an orderly fashion," suggested Alewyth as she advanced down the aisle behind Xandro, her dwarven warhammer Sjondra out and ready for business.  But Zander beat her to the punch, casting a chain lightning spell that sent the skin from Jigglypuff's balloonlike body stretching away from the little pink monster.  When it snapped back into place, it was slightly different: the pink creature was a bit taller and a bit thinner, having evolved into a slightly more powerful form: that of Wigglytuff.Wigglytuff was not the least bit amused at the actions of these intruders to his concert - and that was after already being miffed that his audience had (once again) fallen asleep during his performance.  Wigglytuff got mad, and when Wigglytuff got mad, Wigglytuff got big: his balloon body expanded to the size of a horse, an elephant, a roc.  And still he expanded, until he stood a full 60 feet tall, the swirl of unkempt hair at the top of his head brushing the ceiling.  And still he kept on singing, the words now slightly morphed into a deep, "WIGGLYTUFF, WIGGLYTUFF....""Thurloe!" Wakuren hissed in the general direction of the invisible spellsword.  "Give me an arrow - quick!"  Thurloe passed an arrow from his quiver into the half-orc's hands; it turned visible once the handoff was complete.  Wakuren cast a silence spell upon it and handed it back to Thurloe, who caught on to the idea at once.  He placed the arrow into his bow, lined up a shot, and sent it shooting across the opera house to lodge into Wigglytuff's belly.  (Just for good measure, he fired off a few other arrows as well, but by that time Wigglytuff's elastic skin was thick enough not to be popped by anything as small as an arrowhead.)The pink monster's song, however, ceased immediately, although it was obvious from his lip movements that Wigglytuff was still singing.  Xandro shifted immediately to the song of inspirational courage.  With the audience now returning to wakefulness from their imposed slumber and seeing a massive, 60-foot-tall, pink balloon monster miming away on stage before them, most of them decided to vamoose at once.  Alewyth found herself swimming upstream against the panicked crowd as she slowly advanced towards the stage, but once she got within range she cast a dismissal spell - and just that quickly, Wigglytuff was gone, having been forcibly returned to his home dream-galaxy.That left but a single dreamscape left of the four assigned to Mogo's dreamwalker team.  The five entered through the dream-door without hesitation, finding themselves standing at the edge of an outdoor concert.  A band of four individuals stood upon the top of a rocky outcropping, playing instruments not dissimilar to Xandro's lute.  The audience sat upon tree stumps or on blankets spread between them, enjoying the music - and oblivious to the dangers that approached.For in the distance came a small army of unusual creatures.  The vast majority of them were humanoid in build but with blue skin and black ears like those of a mouse or rat; their torsos were unusually squat and some even looked like blue bushes.  Several of these carried chopped-down crossbows of some sort, which shot little bolts of electricity that turned the concert-goers to stone when they hit.  Among these blue weirdos were a half dozen men wearing tall hats, and with chomping mouths filled with sharp teeth in the middle of their stomachs.  A trio of gaunt giants in top hats towered in the back rows, dropping apples onto the startled humans; these attacks likewise turned the poor humans to stone.  And flying in the back of this formation was a monstrously large glove that had an eye where its thumbnail would be; it gave an evil chuckle as it approached, its hand in a finger-pointing pose at it soared through the skies."Blue Meanies!" cried one of the concert-goers, right before an apple came bonking her on the head, turning her to stone.  The Apple Bonker responsible for her petrification didn't even move its arms, which it held straight out in front of it; a new giant apple suddenly materialized between its hands and it moved to find a new target.The four musicians had stopped playing their music in shock of the event before them, but Xandro picked up the tune on his lute and quickly turned it into the song of inspirational courage.  Then Zander stepped forward and called out, "I got this!" as he cast a sunburst spell in the middle of the formation.  By this time, most of the audience had been petrified by the Apple Bonkers and the lightning bursts of the Blue Meanies' guns, but the elf sorcerer wasn't particularly worried about collateral damage, realizing this was only a dream, after all.  So if the few remaining humans in the audience not yet turned to stone became blinded by the elf's spell - as did the entire Blue Meanie army with the exception of the Dreadful Flying Glove - he figured it was well worth it.  And the spell was quite effective, not only blinding but also killing the first two lines of Blue Meanies.Thurloe activated the fly spell in his celestial armor and took to the skies, cautiously moving forward - he didn't want to get grabbed by the Dreadful Flying Glove, which he imagined was somewhat like a sentient Borgodast's crushing hand spell.  Wakuren cast a thunder strike spell at the Dreadful Flying Glove, viewing it as the deadliest of the army left remaining now that the others were all blind.  (That didn't make them any less dangerous, however, as the Blue Meanies staggered about and shot their lightning-guns all willy-nilly.)  The half-orc's spell went rippling down the length of the sentient blue glove, tearing open a seam here and there.  But then Alewyth cast the final blow, a fire storm spell that engulfed the blinded Blue Meanies, the sightless Snapping Turtle Turks, the stumbling Apple Bonkers, and the Dreadful Flying Glove himself.  All burned to nothingness, at the end of which the band began playing again and those who had been turned to stone were returned to flesh.When the dreamwalkers returned to the Corridor of Dreams, they saw others exiting the nearby dream-doors, and the moogles conferred among themselves.  "That's all of them taken care of, kupo!" Mogo announced.  "We can now move on to tonight's normal dreamwalking lessons, kupo!""I hope the normal lessons aren't going to be as weird as those alien dreamscapes," offered up Xandro, as the dreamwalking teams all went their own separate ways with their own moogle instructors. - - -This was admittedly just a means of throwing the PCs up against weird stuff they normally wouldn't encounter in a standard D&D campaign.  The Rabbids were two plastic Happy Meal toys Harry had in his room that I decided I needed to throw at the PCs, while the standard-sized Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff were plastic minis I have in my man-cave, and the "inflated" Wigglypuff was represented in the game by a foot-tall Jigglypuff stuffed animal Harry got me for Christmas some years ago as a gag gift.  (Jigglypuff is my favorite Pokémon, for the sole reason that both of my boys, as kids, absolutely hated him!)  Mecha Godzilla, Gyaos, and Varan are all from my plastic kaiju model collection; we played a game of Giant Monster Rampage in the middle of the D&D session for the last time in this campaign - it was too good of an opportunity to pass up.  The Blue Meanies were the only standup tokens I had to make for this adventure, and they didn't last more than two rounds. - - -T-shirt worn: As this adventure took place in the Dreamlands, I wore my Einstein shirt where the smoke from his pipe is forming galaxies.</blockquote>

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