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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8910718" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rescued a dwarven woman from a dream of a minotaur hunting her in a shifting maze</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were asked to check on her husband (and her sister's husband), both miners who had been in the mines for over a week now</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were refused entry into the mines, and would have tried sneaking in if they hadn't spotted miners passing crystals over to living crystal scorpions who skittered up the cliff wall, who took them to a cave a mere 10 feet above the lava at the bottom of the cleft</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made it to the cave (via 4 PCs inside an extradimensional lamp carried by the 5th PC under a gaseous form spell) safely</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Split up, so the crystal dragon spying on them from above only got 3 PCs with its breath weapon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Used predominantly ranged touch spells to fight off the dragon, while 3 crysmals (the crystalline scorpions) skittered up from a back cave</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the dragon and pried an ioun stone from its forehead</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the psionic, floating brain (a "brainstorm") that emerged from the dragon's head (actually from the Ethereal Plane, but that's what it looked like to the PCs)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard a stone giant climbing down from above on a massive chain, so they sealed off the cave entrance with a wall of stone spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went to the back cave, to discover a massive crystal golem lying on its back, inert</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw seven more brainstorms enter the golem cave from the Ethereal Plane (releasing the miners they'd dominated in the levels above the PCs had bypassed by going straight to the lower cave)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed 6 of the 7 before the last one could enter the golem and animate it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the golem, but not after it had slain the half-orc cleric/paladin (first PC death this campaign!) and knocked out the dwarven cleric</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the remaining brainstorm that re-emerged from the golem once it had been destroyed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gathered up the crystal dragon's treasure, which almost was enough to have a true resurrection spell cast upon the half-orc later on (the 5 PCs split the cost to pay the remaining amount)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the full story from the stone giant and dwarf miners: they'd unearthed psionic crystals in their silver mine, a crystal "attuned" itself to the psionic crystal dragon's mind and created a brainstorm, which then copied itself in the brains of seven dwarven miners, and then forced the remaining miners to continuously unearth more of the psionic crystals so the crysmals (brought from the Elemental Plane of Earth by the dragon) could assemble a crystal golem for the brainstorm hivemind to inhabit</li> </ul>Johnathan</blockquote>

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