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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Weiley31" data-source="post: 8442908" data-attributes="member: 7017196">Party of Two duo Campaign: Both of my buddies, first time DND players now with like three or four weeks under their belts since starting. One Elven(Dark Elf) Warlock and one Half-Elf Ranger. Both now level 4 after leveling up at the end of the session before.I'm skipping the prior session before, because for now I wanted to talk about the one highlight of yesterday's session that involved a flashback of my buddy's Warlock character. Short PDF version of the session before that was, two major fights, the Ranger scoring a Crit Hit kill on a Warg boss after it hit the Ranger pc for 20 hp/half his overall total, and a whole situation involving fending off a zerg rush of bandits while covering an Arch-Druid NPC who had to cast a ritual to clear the field.Context: Anywho, said prior session before the current one yesterday ended with a Flashback sequence which explained how the Ranger and his Panther animal companion met.(he's a revised ranger beast conclave.) So my buddy who played the Warlock, was kinda saddened he didn't get a flashback sequence. So I rectified that by having yesterday's session start off with a full on flashback sequence for the Warlock. The Ranger player "guest starred" in it by playing the role of a Sidekick/Survivor stat block NPC. That way both players wouldn't feel left out or one just sat there watching me and warlock player rp some.So the scene started off with the Warlock character in the hall of his Arcane Society's library, studying and crap. Then one of the more well known and tenured Arch Brothers of his order, Merrimus, stopped by and had a light chat with the Warlock player and role playing insured. The Sidekick/Survivor npc came in and a small rivalry/competition played out between the Warlock pc and said npc. Of course the Warlock won and my buddy managed to score a high enough roll on his Persuasion roll to be able to convince Merrimus to take the Warlock pc as his apprentice. The DC was set at 25. My bud rolled an 18+4(proficient in Persuasion+the 3 point bonus that was auto added on because Merrimus held the Warlock pc's skills in high regard. He hit EXACTLY 25 after all bonuses and what not were calculated.)The entire thing was one big wholesome moment between a student and master with a great amount of respect between both characters.  So Merrimus agreed to let the Warlock pc to join him in his main studies later in the day to continue the discussion, but that it's probably best that everybody get some food to eat. Merrimus leaves the room. The Warlock pc then proceeds to follow him out the closed door that leads out of the library.Upon doing so, the Warlock pc found himself in an absolute blackness and "falling" down into a deep abyss.I play up the resulting moment and visuals up to the hilt: Alien language that sounded distant and keeps on growing louder and LOUDER as the Warlock pc just keeps spiraling downward and downward and how the absolute chaos of madness is drilling through his skull. My buddy is just staring at me flabbergasted as his look continues to go "uh......whhhhaaat" as I go on describing everything. Finally, the Warlock pc stops "falling" and finds himself standing before a Black Pyramid, which layed upon a Sea of Diamonds as a truly unearthly/bizarre Pink/Purple alien sky is above this alien scene. And then, right before the end of it all, the Red Eye of the Black Pyramid opened and stared at the Warlock pc.It is at this point, he woke up from his dream as the character had fallen asleep/tranced during his turn on watch at the duo's campsite.I then tell the Warlock player, this has not been the first time this dream/vision has happened to him. As a Halloween "treat" and a result of the dream, the Warlock pc gained the UA Arcanist feat. The Ranger pc, as his Halloween "treat" got the Dual Wielder feat since his fighting style is two weapon fighting. modified it a bit by allow it to give a +1 to Dex while swapping out the last part of the feat with the last part of the Revenant Blade feat.On the car ride home afterwards, my buddy(Warlock pc) just couldn't stop talking about how much it was such a curveball from the left field and how he loved absolutely every minute of it. And that he can't wait to see how this whole Black Pyramid turns out.Editor's Note: my buddy is playing as a Great Old One Warlock.The rest of the session afterwards was standard fare: They reported an investigation result back to the Marshal, they got gold (650 and 670 after splitting and a bonus roll) and some exposition on what will be happening next from there. Both pcs also gained the use of the Adventuring Company concepts/submechanic from the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem 3pp setting and both players just loved that. Four points total were gained due to the events of the prior session before.Next session is probably downtime and gold spending with rping until the week is up: that's when the group skill challenge event will happen.</blockquote>

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