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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9108645" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session (we were two days later than normal this week) the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were hired by a dwarven miner to take out a band of trolls that had eaten some of the surveyors who were plotting out the entrance to a new mine shaft that would eventually hook up to the main silver mine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were asked by the famous visiting author (think Agatha Christie, if she wrote adventure novels for young adults) from the previous adventure if she could tag along as an observer (we said "Yes" - my PC is a huge fan of her works)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Prepped four "troll grenades" - four bonfires were built up, and my sorcerer cast a shrink item spell on each, giving them a clothlike form; each bonfire cloth was then rolled up and inserted into a separate flask of oil; all four "troll grenades" were given to the halfling rogue PC</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rode to the troll valley and found its cave (it was about an hour away)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Prepped combat spells as usual, and had the 60-year-old author drink down a potion of gaseous form so she'd be pretty much immune to harm, but could still observe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entered the troll caverns, and managed to take down all four trolls inside through judicious use of stone spikes, scorching rays, a flame strike spell, flaming arrows, and the four troll grenades - none of the PCs took a point of damage from the trolls, who failed to close before being shot down at range</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Exited the caverns in a hurry, when my sorcerer's grackle familiar started panicking (my PC felt it over the empathic link), due to an approaching behir who had been dining upon trolls when hungry (we slew all four trolls in the caverns, but there had been bedding for six)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the behir with an ice storm, a flurry of flaming arrows, and capped it off with another scorching ray spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got paid by the dwarven miners (who tried to undercut the price we'd agreed upon, with no success)</li> </ul>The behir didn't even get to attack us; it spent its movement getting out of the ice storm field of effect and was readying a breath weapon zap the following round, but it was dead before its second round of action ever arrived.  And three of us finally earned enough for the items we'd been saving for: a holy enhancement to the paladin's +1 flaming burst longsword; a bracelet of invisibility for the halfling rogue (who already has two magic rings and has no desire to wear a hand of glory around her neck); and a lesser metamagic rod of maximize spell for my sorcerer.Johnathan</blockquote>

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