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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9080307" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rode into the small desert village of Sandhill, where they got nasty looks directed at Scarlie, their half-orc wagon driver.  (Wakuren, the half-orc cleric/paladin PC was wearing a magic cloak that gave him the appearance of a human.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found the person who'd been stuck in her dreams for two weeks, and freed her in one of the easiest dream sequences ever.  (Dwarf cleric cast a hold person spell on the orc raider, elf sorcerer cast a lightning bolt on him, human bard/rogue charged and sneak attacked - orc raider dead, cowering teenage human girl dreamer saved from dream.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out four young women, ages 17-25, had gone missing in the past four weeks and interviewed their families, finding out there had been no ransom demands - the women just walked out one day and were never seen again.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stayed overnight in the village's sole inn as a reward for successfully awakening the dreamer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out another young woman (a half-elf) had gone missing the next morning, and had been spotted walking alone out into the desert.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Followed her tracks on foot for several hours (leaving the half-orc wagon driver behind with the animals, and borrowing the magic cloak from the half-orc PC), catching up to her just as she stood before the cave opening to a lair of a desert orc tribe, pulling an arrow from a quiver on her back and loading it into her longbow (neither of which the dwarf drunkard who'd seen her leave had mentioned her as having), taking aim at one of three orcs guarding the three entrances to the tribe's lair.  She was remarkably accurate with her shots.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off a vulture that dove down at the girl, and then they tried calling out to her by name but she ignored them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cast a black tentacles spell at the front entrance and a spike stones spell at the eastern entrance, then headed to the western entrance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wakuren got shot at by the half-elf archer girl whenever he was the closest "orc."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quickly figured out the half-elf was being possessed by a ghost (although the human spellsword held out the belief that she was somehow being possessed by the longbow she was using).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up slaying three dozen orcs - barbarians, fighters, rangers, and warriors, with a druid shamaness and a high-level barbarian tribal leader.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the powerslug that escaped from the leader's body after he'd been slain.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-elf finally recognize Wakuren, asking if he'd been raised in Port Duralia.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the full story: the ghost was Gizelle, a former human ranger and part of the militia charged with keeping the village safe from orc raiders; two dozen years ago (Wakuren is 23 years old), her team had been overpowered and she'd been taken as a captive, only escaping after several months - at which point she was pregnant with the future PC.  She slunk off to Port Duralia to visit a cousin, who convinced her to bring the baby to term and leave him at the church of Cal to be raised (which she did).  She then gathered up a new band and continued hunting down orc raiders, until she was captured again and this time killed, after which she returned as a ghost and started taking over convenient bodies of young women to continue her quest for vengeance.  With the original tribe finally slain (with the PCs' help), she was finally able to move on.</li> </ul>And then the PCs leveled up to 12th, with the elf sorcerer choosing the Improved Familiar feat and taking on a pseudodragon familiar.Johnathan</blockquote>

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