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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9146101" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's session of "Dreams of Erthe," the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Teleported to the Dream Gate in the middle of the Centralia Desert, to find thousands of vipers (5 viper swarms) sunning themselves in the general area</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Buffed themselves up a bit, expecting the Nightmare King to show up in mortal form at any moment</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw the Dream Gate open and the Nightmare King step forth into the Mortal World - but then he reached behind him and helped the Queen of Dreams (for whom the PCs have been working for the past 60 adventures) step into the world and told her the way has been opened, just like they planned</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the Queen of Dreams demand that they kneel before their new rulers in the Mortal World, as this was just the first world that would fall under their eventual rule</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Refused to take a knee (except the dwarven priestess, who explained she was genuflecting to the Queen but not the King, thinking he had somehow mentally manipulated her, which irritated the Queen of Dreams to no end)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Started spreading out so they could attack from all sides (and not be bunched up for area of attack spells), only to infuriate the Queen further, and watched as she spread her hands in an arc and caused the dreamstones embedded in their special gear to shut off, taking with it the extra powers she had imbued in them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up fighting the Nightmare King in his flaming centaurian-nightmare form, as well as a bunch of creatures summoned by the Queen of Dreams through her +5 dreamstaff (zoogs, wild moogles, and nightgaunts), as well as sleepwalking orc barbarians and human commoners she had called forth upon arriving in the Mortal World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found themselves mostly safe from the summoned creatures thanks to several protection from evil and magic circle against evil spells (although the dwarf priestess ended up taking on a trio of wild moogles - think winged panthers - on her own)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally killed the Nightmare King, causing the Queen of Dreams to recoil at the realization that these "perfect" human bodies (18s in all stats, maximum hit points) could be permanently slain on the Mortal Plane, and she tried returning through the Dream Gate - only to be faced by Mr. Toad (in a battle helmet) and their six moogle guides, wielding pikes and keeping her there on the Mortal Plane, forcing her to resort to physical attacks with her dreamstaff</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eventually killed the Queen of Dreams on the Mortal Plane, to see her blow away into dust as the Nightmare King had done</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entered the Dreamlands to confer with the moogles, who told them the King and Queen had apparently been working together all this time, although the moogles hadn't known about it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned that while the moogles could dream another Queen of Dreams into existence, they had jointly decided to allow Princess Caroline and the Council of Dragons - the minds of every dragon currently asleep and dreaming - to run the Dreamlands for a while and see how that works out</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were told to await payment in a few days to compensate them for the lost powers on their signature weapons and items, since the dragons had no way (yet!) to replicate those powers the Queen had imbued them with</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were met up a few days later by Wangle Turdblossom of the Gnomish Consortium, who turned over a total of 200,000 gp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were informed by the Council of Dragons (under a promise not to reveal this to the outside world) that there were no longer any living gnomes on the surface of Erthe; any gnomes they've met up with were secretly dragons wearing a gnomish form</li> </ul>And that brings the first major arc to a close in this 100-adventiure campaign.  The next game session will set the second (and final) arc into play, eventually sending them to an entirely different continent.Johnathan</blockquote>

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