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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9014955" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign session, in an adventure called "Hell on Erthe," the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw a house hidden away in the woods sealed inside a bluish-tinted force shield (a 100-foot-diameter hemisphere field of solid force, surrounded at six equidistant points by stone barriers)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with a 29-year-old wizard who looked to be in his late 60s, sleeping in a homemade shelter beside an oak tree just outside the force shield, who explained he'd activated a well of many worlds in his basement, opened a gate to Hell, and had to flee after he was unable to fight off all the devils who came pouring out of the well</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned he'd used up his last wish from a ring of three wishes to activate the barrier, even though he hadn't finished working out the design yet, and as a result it was being powered by his own life force, aging him at an advanced rate and forcing to him to remain nearby lest his distance from the force shield rendered it inoperable</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Awakened his owl familiar from a dream in which it was being attacked by seven different humanoid animals (otter, hedgehog, ferret, squirrel, mouse, rabbit, and weasel) in a forest clearing</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spread themselves at six equal points around the force shield's perimeter, while the wizard walked steadily farther away from it until it was weak enough to allow the PCs to enter; then, at a signal from his owl familiar, reversed course and returned to the barrier, sealing them inside so they could deal with whatever devils were inside the globe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought an invisible hellcat in the backyard, then a kocrachon devil and a chain devil (and an animated horse skeleton) in the wagon shed before heading inside</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought a pair of bearded devils in the kitchen, but one escaped to the library to get help from the two barbed devils there</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Focused fire on one of the two barbed devils until they managed to slay it, then brought the second one down enough it teleported downstairs to warn the amnizu devil about them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made a deal with the amnizu and the wounded barbed devil: if they returned through the well of many worlds, the PCs wouldn't kill them (a permanent death, as they hadn't been summoned but walked through a planar gate)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the two devils to agree, calling forth an imp and an erinyes (the only two other Hellish denizens on the Material Plane inside the force shield at the time) to return to Hell with them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rolled the well of many worlds back up, and then - at the owner's insistence - destroyed it before it could accidentally cause another such breach in the future</li> </ul>Sadly, the wizard's unnatural aging was permanent, all of his spellbooks had been destroyed by the barbed devils, and he had no way to complete the experimentation on getting his force shield to work without draining his own life force in the lifespan left him; he contented himself to a quiet life with his familiar in the few months or years left to him.Johnathan</blockquote>

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