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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8832500" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session (the adventure was called "Pregnant Pause"), the PCs successfully awoke a pregnant woman from the dream coma she'd been in for two months (so despite being eight months pregnant when she fell asleep, she's actually been pregnant for 10 months - the dream comas induce a sort of magical stasis in the victim so time doesn't pass for them, and they require no food or water, etc.).  However, the local cleric (whom the PCs met on the way to the farmhouse where the woman had been sleeping) had roused the able-bodied men in the farming village and led them to the farmhouse, claiming the fact she was still pregnant after 10 months meant she was carrying a demon-baby, and furthermore claimed the PCs were demons in disguise come to ensure the demonspawn's successful birth.  As a result, the five PCs were up against about two dozen commoners (farmers), two rogues, four lower-level clerics, two low-level druids, and the 8th-level cleric who was leading the mob.Fortunately, the half-orc cleric/paladin was able to determine none of the mob was evil and the human bard managed to fascinate the 8th-level cleric and one of the rogues, taking them out of the picture immediately.  But, forewarned that the farmers they were up against were merely misled, not actively evil, the PCs managed to fight them off using nonlethal methods (other than killing one of the eagle animal companions of the druids, who had been attacking the bard).  Even when a quasit showed up and tried reinforcing the claims that the PCs were all evil, they managed to prove otherwise (by slaying the quasit, stopping a cleric with a tanglefoot bag despite having lethal methods at hand, and eventually planting a suggestion on the cleric leader to announce that he had been wrong and for everyone to stand down).  They managed to free him from the domination effect he'd been under; it turns out a cerebrilith had been summoned to the Material Plane and escaped control of the wizard who had summoned it, and now it and the quasit that had come along for the ride were free to cause as much mischief as they could.  They ended up fighting the cerebrilith in the mausoleum at the town's temple, taking him down at the very last moment before he teleported away.  (He was literally down to 1 hp and was about to escape, only one of the two PCs within range for an Attack of Opportunity managed to connect before it could flee.)Johnathan</blockquote>

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