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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8385912" data-attributes="member: 508">It was a short session: we had to delay our normal start time from noon until 1:30 because my nephew had a picnic with his high school chorus class, and we had a hard stop at 4:30 because the other family we game with had a birthday party they had to go to.  So I swapped the adventure I had originally planned to run today with the one that came after it, since I thought that one would only take us a couple of hours to run through (and I was correct, within 5 minutes).So, traveling to the site of the next dream victim, the PCs met up with a young human wizard who'd set up a sideshow tent alongside the road.  For the low cost of five silver pieces each, he offered to show them wondrous creatures they'd never seen before.  Intrigued, they took him up on it (well, all for my nephew's bard, who waited outside the tent with the animals, guarding the wagon).  The apprentice wizard used an elaborate magic staff he'd "borrowed" from his wizardly master, creating an image in the middle of the tent of a bunch of jungle plants and, eventually (after tuning the staff a bit), a pachycephalosaurus.  This was a dinosaur from another entire continent that he was scrying upon with the powers of the staff.  However, the image was pretty dark (it was night over on that continent), so after some complaints from the farmers who'd paid to see the show, the apprentice wizard tried fiddling with the staff to get a better picture.  It worked, but only because he'd opened up a teleportation circle at the scene, such that the dinosaur and the plants surrounding it were suddenly right there in the tent with the ten commoners and four PCs.So the villagers all scream in terror, which sets off the pachycephalosaurus in a panic, and before you know it he's crushed the head of one of the farmers and the commoners are all scrambling to find a way out of the tent.  And then the three velociraptors who had been sneaking up on the pachycephalosaurus showed up....After dealing with them, there were two more waves of "invaders" - a halfling mounted on a bipedal herbivorous dinosaur and the pair of deinonychi that had been chasing him.  The PCs fought off the predators and then used a bunch of sign language (the halfling didn't know Common and none of the PCs spoke Halfling, having never seen one before - they're not present on the PCs' home continent) to get the halfling back into the circle inside the tent, where the apprentice wizard's master was able to return them back to their home continent (along with the corpses of the slain dinosaurs) once he'd been alerted to the mess his apprentice had caused.Johnathan</blockquote>

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