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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9159791" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were still escorting five human surveyors and four dwarven luggers in mapping out a cave system that may include a passageway through the Underdark to the other side of the Lortmil Mountains</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard talking in an unknown language (Undercommon) coming ahead, had their human/dwarven charges remain where they were while the 5 PCs checked it out</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Super-buffed up before the potential impending fight</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw five derro cooking meat over cooling lava floes, but quickly surmised there were a lot more around a corner they couldn't see</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sent the shield guardian to block off one forward passageway, while the paladin blocked another and the archer aimed down the third passageway</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the sorcerer cast haste on the group, then had the druid move up, see the ten additional derro, and cast a transmute rock to mud spell on the ceiling above 13 of the assembled 15, bringing it down upon them and covering them in gloppy mud and rocks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kept getting pelted by sound burst spells from various derro each round, which damaged most of the heroes but kept stunning my sorcerer (who, as he was the one wearing the shield guardian's control amulet, effectively "stunned" the shield guardian as well because he couldn't give it follow-on instructions)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew a bunch of derro with the archer's arrows, the (frequently invisible) halfling's sneak attacks with her short sword, a bat swarm summoned by the druid, and the paladin's holy flaming burst longsword, and noted the derro leader was a lot tougher than the others (and was immune to fire and had spell resistance the others didn't)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw a mind flayer advance from the back, so had the druid cast a spike stones spell all around the area</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When the sorcerer finally managed to spend a round not stunned, he stepped up to cast a spell on the mind flayer and got caught in a readied-action mind blast (even more potential stunning!), but fortunately made his Will save (so not stunned), got past the mind flayer's spell resistance (natural 20, no less!), and shot him with a maximized scorching ray spell that fried him dead in one shot (well, two, actually - he gets two 4d6 rays, so 48 points of fire damage total)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brought the derro leader down enough that the intellect devourer finally crawled out of his body - only to have the paladin smite evil it to death</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scouted ahead and found an entire derro village just ahead, prompting the surveyors to finish this section of map and return back to Ghourmand Vale for a resupply run and to decide if they wanted to try to interact with a whole village of derro or find a way to sneak past them (possibly via the nearby Underdark river)....a decision for the next session.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made it back to Ghourmand Vale and leveled up to 10th level.</li> </ul>I run the sorcerer PC, so after I'd buffed everyone at the start of combat, I succumbed to sound burst after sound burst - each of which stunned me for 1 round - until I finally got my moment of glory for the night in one-shotting the mind flayer.Johnathan</blockquote>

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