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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9051653" data-attributes="member: 508">In last night's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were asked to put a stop to a bunch of bandit raids that were taking out farms several hours away from the Vale (five farms attacked in a week)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figured out all of the farms were within an hour or two of an old abandoned watch station</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Upon reaching the watch station, we sent our elven druid (wildshaped into an eagle) and my PC's grackle familiar to scout the place out; they found nobody on watch but my familiar heard some voices within the interior rooms are was able to point our where they were concentrated</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the druid land by the gate and revert to elven form so she could open it and let us inside</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found one room with a lone hobgoblin, but he called for reinforcements before we could kill him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought six more hobgoblins in the next room, which was made easier once the druid cast a stone spikes spell that pretty much prevented them from moving</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought an invisible barghest and two hobgoblin sergeants that had been attracted by the sounds of battle with the hobgoblin warriors, killing them off without too much trouble</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went down to the lower level, where we killed a vampire spawn that had been an ally before being turned undead; we killed him, then followed his mist form to his coffin (he'd been part of an earlier group trying to take out the bandits)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Killed" a dead body waiting to rise as another vampire spawn, then our paladin sensed evil behind an iron maiden</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had our halfling rogue figure out how to open the secret door behind the iron maiden, only to have nine wolves enter via the opened passageway (it turns out it was a true vampire in the form of a wolf and eight summoned wolves)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Concentrated fire on the vampire and turned him to mist, then followed him to his coffin, where we cut off his head, looted what we wanted from his body (a magic ring, magic armor, and magic sword), then set fire to the coffins</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Let the summoned wolves skedaddle, as they weren't inherently evil</li> </ul>It ended up being a long session for a Wednesday night; we start playing around 6:30 PM and try to end around 9:00 PM, but this one went a bit past 10:00 PM.Johnathan</blockquote>

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