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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9137639" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hunted down the next dream coma victim in the middle of the Broadleaf Forest, determining the location was this one particular oak tree.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered a secret door in the tree, but couldn't figure out how to open it without destroying it (which they didn't want to do, as they were anticipating a nymph or dryad stuck in the dream coma)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc cleric-paladin cast gaseous form on himself and slip through a crack in the door, then check out the interior, which was the home of a female gnome</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Decided to perform the dream-waking ritual inside their extradimensional lamp, after the half-orc placed the gnome inside the lamp and then went to go open the front door for the others so they could also enter the lamp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Survived an acorn bombardment from the squirrels in the tree branches above as they tried defending their gnome friend's home</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Performed the dream ritual, entered the gnome's dream, to find another guardian kaiju (Megalon) there to fight them off</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Transformed into their spirit kaiju forms, fought and killed Megalon, only to have another one pop up as the dream reset upon his death</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found a hidden door in the back of the dream, and entered it to find the gnome having a tea party with Princess Caroline Devlin and her boon companion Mr. Toad</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explained to the gnome about the dream victims, causing her to announce she knew the other four who the PCs had been unable to awaken</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allowed Princess Caroline, a dreamwalker herself with the ability to cross over into others' dreams, to take them to the dreamscape of an elf they'd been unable to months rescue earlier</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explained the situation to the elf, who opened contact with the other three (dwarf miner, human bard, human paladin) who were still stuck in their dreams</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Determined the five were spread out around the continent, forming a five-pointed star with the Dream Gate (which the PCs had used to physically enter the Dreamlands in the previous adventure) in its exact center, and that the Nightmare King had set things into motion to allow him to step through into the Mortal Plane with a physical form</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf explain to them (after swearing them to secrecy) that the five dreamers were all dragons in humanoid form, and that dragons habitually communicate among themselves using the Dragonmind, a voluntary telepathic network that taps into the Dreamlands, when they're sleeping for years at a time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got a panicked message from their moogle dreamwalking instructor Mogo that the Queen of Dreams' throne room had been sealed off by a greyish mist they couldn't penetrate, and that whatever scheme the Nightmare King was likely being put into effect</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the gnome (a young adult silver dragon) tell them how to get to the scroll of teleport in her treasure room so they could teleport to the Dream Gate and try to stop the Nightmare King from entering the Mortal Realm and taking it over</li> </ul>So the whole adventure was a setup for the next session, which will be the final fight with the Nightmare King on the physical plane.  (The PCs killed him once in the Dreamlands, but as a dream figment he just remanifested.)  This was the session where the last 59 adventures, and the reasons behind why what was happening with the dream comas, was all explained.  The players are all looking forward to the final showdown, but I still have a few surprises left to drop on them, and then the next 40 adventures will take a significantly different turn.Johnathan</blockquote>

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