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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9047952" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were asked by a pair of hobgoblin samurai working directly for the King to look into rumors of a planned upcoming hobgoblin miner uprising or assassination attempt on the King's life</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were "given a tour" of the iron mines as a reason for them to be there and looking into things</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the way, heard cries for help from inside the hobgoblin women's encampment and found a pair of human guards attempting to force themselves on an unwilling hobgoblin girl</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attacked the two guards and subdued them but stopped short of killing them, and turned them over to the castle guard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explored the mines as part of the "tour," only with the human bard/rogue PC wearing a borrowed ring of invisibility, scout's headband that granted him darkvision, and with a tongues spell active so he could understand what the hobgoblins were saying</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the four visible PCs ask the off-duty hobgoblin miners about conditions in the mine, specifically so the invisible PC could eavesdrop on their conversations after the visible PCs left (but they were mostly asking each other if they'd checked out the female dwarf PC, as the hobgoblins miners and human guards are all male and the miners don't get a chance to see women very often - they were arguing over whether she was a dwarf or an elf, having never seen either before)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out the miners often hit veins of useless "drunge crystals" along with the iron ore, which are thrown away into a nearby magma pool</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered a partially lame hobgoblin miner named Burkin tosses the drunge crystals into the magma, but is secretly feeding them to a pair of magma worms who love the stuff but can't detect it when it's mixed in with iron (the half-orc cleric/paladin PC spying on him saw him take a crystal from an iron wheelbarrow and only then were the magma worms able to detect it, and also overheard him telling the worms that tomorrow was "the big day")</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figured out that Burkin was likely planning on getting a bunch of drunge crystals near the King the next day, but couldn't figure out how (a search of the mines revealed nothing, and he wouldn't talk)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Decided they'd best take out the magma worms, and did so by dumping a pile of drunge crystals down a mine tunnel to draw the worms out where the PCs/hobgoblin samurai could take them out</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Interrogated Burkin in his dreams by pretending to be the magma worms and getting the plot out of him in that manner, learning that the accomplices would see to it the worms were led to the King in the gardens the following day; they also learned there were just the two magma worms in the area</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Informed the King about the probable assassination attempt in the garden the next day, and jointly decided to let it play out since the worms had both already been slain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Accompanied the King and his entourage to the gardens the next day, where a quartet of hobgoblin women (secretly monks - they'd been training themselves unobtrusively) "presented" a special gift to the King, bringing out an iron chest and dumping the contents at his feet before leaping back, and then being completely surprised when no magma worms came to devour the drunge crystals and the King</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were arrested for conspiracy (along with Burkin)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the King had the decapitated bodies of the two human guards who had been abusing the female hobgoblins and threatening them with death if they spoke up dragged in and added to the compost heap</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were granted permission to leave the castle and go about their dream-waking missions, with a reminder that they might serve the Queen of Dreams in the Dreamlands but they were under the King's authority here in the Mortal Realm</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were also presented with 2,000 gp each for having successfully awakening the King's little sister (in the previous adventure session), as well as a magic item that can restore lost mental ability scores</li> </ul>Of course, the orb of mental renewal bears the Royal crest upon it and will make it easier for the King's wizard to scry upon the PCs if they're ever needed again, but I haven't mentioned that bit to the players....Johnathan</blockquote>

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