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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8999453" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with Wangle Turdblossom, one of ten gnomes who run a "Hidden Market" where one can purchase magic items for sale (and a few of the PCs took him up on his offer)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to listen to the 10 gnomes' proposal: they can open a teleportation circle to the treasure cave of a slain red dragon, but the dragon's got magical protection that will slay any gnome stepping into the area, so they want to send the PCs in their stead, then split the hoard 15 ways (10 shares for the 10 gnomes, 5 for the 5 PCs)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to the proposal and the splitting of the treasure, and then bargained to be able to keep two-thirds of any magic items on the bodies of the four slain adventurers who slew the dragon (and were slain in turn by him)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stepped into the cave, refused to touch the pile of coins and gems stored there (and a good thing too, for it had been protected with a spell that would have animated the treasure into a coin hydra had they done so), and anchored a rope so they could climb down into the cave below with the slain red dragon and four dead adventurers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc paladin/cleric cast a dispel magic spell on the treasure pile and he rolled a natural "20", making the coins/gems/jewelry nonmagical and safe to gather up</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Started stripping magic items from the adventurers when sure enough, the dragon started lurching to (un)life</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were amazed that the undead red dragon ignored them and started chewing off the flesh of its own left forelimb</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attacked the undead red dragon with spells and summoned monsters, only to have it ignore them and continue eating away its own flesh</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw four lizardfolk fighters and a lizardfolk cleric approach from a cave higher up and farther away</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off the lizardfolk while the undead dragon continued eating its own flesh</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally glommed on to the fact the lizardfolk cleric's ruby necklace was the phylactery of a slain dracolich they revered, and it was reanimating the red dragon corpse so it could be "reborn" in that body</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the dragon, the lizardfolk fighters, and finally the lizardfolk cleric, preventing the reanimation of the red dragon corpse as a dracolich</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sundered the phylactery to shards, preventing the dracolich's reanimation ever</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Returned to the gnomes and split the treasure up as agreed upon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Headed back out on the road to the next dream victim, after peeking into his dream: a humanoid owl is being surrounded by humanoid versions of a rabbit, hedgehog, weasel, ferret, squirrel, otter, and mouse, all wielding melee weapons and eager for the owlkin's blood (they don't realize it yet, but the dreamer is the owl familiar of a wizard)</li> </ul>Johnathan</blockquote>

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