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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8961826" data-attributes="member: 508">In last Wednesday's "Ghourmand Vale" campaign session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attended the naming ceremony of my PC's newborn nephew and niece, where my PC's father welcomed me back into the family and presented me with a minor ring of spell storing engraved with the family crest</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were asked to escort the daughter of the frost barbarian's leader back to their ancestral home, following several days behind the large group of barbarians we had rescued rescued from slavery</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got ambushed by a wyvern, which we cut down at range (with arrows and magic missiles) before it could close with us</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with the barbarian tribe, all bloodied from a recent fight with the orcs who had captured them into slavery; they had managed to slay the orcs but were driven back by a hill giant and his winter wolf allies</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went to go take down the giant and wolves, tracking them to a cave in a hill</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up inside a large cave with two tunnels leading deeper into the hill, and soon ended up trapped in the middle of a "Y" - a hill giant and a winter wolf in one direction, four more winter wolves in the other, and a Medium white dragon coming up behind us from the cave entrance</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kept the four winter wolves out of the fight for a bit when the elf archer shot an arrow (upon which had been wrapped the "clothlike" item resulting when my sorcerer cast a shrink item spell on a blazing bonfire), setting the bonfire in the middle of the corridor before the wolves </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took down the hill giant first with concentrated attacks from the archer shooting arrows, the sorcerer casting magic missiles and scorching rays, and the half-elf paladin trading blows with him with his flaming burst longsword, while the dragon was kept busy trying to find out who kept dropping boulders on its head (it was Ogilvy, my unseen servant, dropping pebbles which were actually boulders reduced in size by my shrink item spells)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Easily slew the lone winter wolf after the giant had been brought down (when the scorching rays became especially useful!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally dispatched the white dragon after it had used up its breath weapon for awhile, wasting it on my unseen servant and the PCs' mounts (the halfling's pony got dropped into the negatives, but we revived it in time)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the winter wolves trapped behind the bonfire with scorching rays and arrows dipped in oil, shot through the bonfire's flames - it was like shooting fish in a barrel!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had my sorcerer use shrink item spells on the white dragon's corpse, figuring we can probably sell it when we get back to civilization, and the coffers we found in the dragon's lair</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leveled up to 7th at the end of this adventure (so my magic missile spells now deal 4d4+4 damage - good, because I'm running out of charges on my 5d4+5 wand of magic missiles!)</li> </ul>Johnathan</blockquote>

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