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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Memnus" data-source="post: 3196764" data-attributes="member: 14001">Session recap: 17-? FestalSavengriff opened the floor to the totem, and busied himself with working.  Valdir went to scout for approaching giants, only to be greeted by a dragon coming down.  The retreat was sounded, and everyone braced for the attack.  This was the largest squad yet faced - six giants, two of whom were in full plate mail and casting spells, and two dragons.  One dragon was pinned by a tanglefoot bag, and Gadreman, Drack, and Zerash held the door long enough to kill it and two giants before the others retreated.  A Wall of Air rendered Valdir's assistance useless, so he took off through winding passages looking for a way around.  The giants covered their retreat by icing the stairs.  Finally, Gadreman got the idea of blocking off the door with the hydra corpse.  Not a moment too soon, either - the giants had thrown a Frost Worm down to deal with them.Finally, Savengriff got the totem opened.  It turned out to have extraplanar connections - it tore a hole in the floor to some strange realm of stars.  The opening had the unfortunate effect of killing the wizard, but it left his spellpool focus, tied to something beneath by a yellow strand.  Zerash siezed it and heard the wizard's voice, instructing him to go in and sever the ties.  Skeptical, he jumped, and was eventually followed by the others.They found themselves standing on a writhing blue ribbon, feeling like standing on stretched cloth.  Two silver streamers stretched from there back up the way they came.  In one direction, the ribbon went off toward more silver streamers; in the other direction, it fell away sharply toward a cloud of swirling colors.  Guessing at Savengriff's instructions, Zerash instructed the swordsmen to cut the streamers.As the streamers were slashed, the blue ribbon suddenly fell away beneath their feet, and they fell after it.  Time and distance were strange in this place, though, and as it settled they landed softly on it, and if felt softer to stand on than before.  Tied to each other with the rope, they proceeded back up the ribbon to the next silver streamers, and cut those too - four more sets in all.  Finally, they inspected their work. The blue ribbon lay peacefully, stretching from the cloud on one end to infinity at the other, and now felt more like standing in a warm stream of water than a stretched cloth.Finally, to make their way out, they turned to Savengriff's spellpool focus.  A plain silver brooch, it was tied with a yellow strand to some point in the distance.  It was a thing that could only be tied to Mittendien, though, and standing on that strand was nearly like standing on the blue one.  Following it to its end, they found that it terminated in a square portal just wide enough to step through, and as they did, they found themselves in a small office, with a carving of the royal crest of Mittendien hanging on the wall...XP: 800 each((The next several sessions will be rather a lot of roleplay, with less beating stuff up.))</blockquote>

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