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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8968631" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to check to make sure the sword of temptation was still in its hiding place, after the guardian (who didn't know exactly what it was she guarded) had determined someone got past the door she was never to enter herself, but had yet to come back out</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Read some hastily-scribbled notes taken from the home of the traitor who had kidnapped the Elven Queen last adventure and held her in the Abyss, with the sword of temptation as her ransom; the notes were the traitor's written half of a conversation with his familiar after he'd been struck mute (by one of the PCs) last adventure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arrived at the hidden location of the sword of temptation (the interior of a dryad's tree), only to find she'd subdued the traitor when he'd tried to follow the thief he'd hired to fetch the sword; as it granted wishes to the wielder, it was the quickest means by which he knew to restore his ability to speak</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered and captured the traitor's invisible quasit familiar, who had entered the tree interior with the PCs, unseen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were given a token identifying them as working on the Elven Queen's behalf</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entered the extradimensional interior past the door the dryad guarded, inside of which was a statue of a guardian naga in the middle of an octagonal room with seven doors, each with a picture of a different animal carved upon it (sloth, lion, peacock, snake, goat, pig, dragon)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explored the rooms, discovering each to be a trap based upon one of the seven deadly sins</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found the elven thief, invisible and in stasis, which they bound tightly in rope and returned to the dryad</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered the naga was not a statue after all but a "stasis guardian" and convinced it to let them downstairs, through the hollow pillar it was wrapped around</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went downstairs and met the Primary Guardian, a gynosphinx in charge of the whole extradimensional dungeon, who assured them the sword of temptation was still secure with her</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Returned upstairs, exited the dungeon, reported back to the Queen, and turned in the traitor and the thief</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got paid for their efforts</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Picked up a plot hook for the next adventure: a druid is two days late with his weekly report, and divinations reveal he's in a dreaming sleep from which he cannot awaken without help....</li> </ul>Johnathan</blockquote>

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