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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9162709" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned the spellsword was an inheritor in his wizard trainer's estate and needed to be in Port Duralia in one week's time for the reading of the will</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made it to the city in six days, spent the night in an inn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned the spellsword had inherited his wizard trainer's estate, on the following conditions:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That he and any associates he wished to bring along would follow in her footsteps to the continent of Talonia to return her body to Port Duralia for burial</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That her goblin butler Borlick would retain his position and act as her executor in the running of the estate for the duration while the spellsword fetches her remains</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That the spellsword was allowed to take any possessions from her house that he deemed necessary to bring during the trip to fetch her remains</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">She also left a list of suggestions of what the PCs might want to bring with them to Talonia</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went to the estate to check out the house and all but the two bards ended up in the library while Borlick went to the kitchen to fetch refreshments</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were mistaken for intruders by the senile grandfather plaque who had been in the family for four generations now, and who activated the library's various defenses</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had to fight off the library's defenses: four caryatid columns, a dire tiger figurine of wondrous of wondrous power, and a glasspane horror</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All managed to turn invisible in one way or the other:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Half-orc cleric/paladin: ring of invisibility</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Human fighter/wizard/spellsword: greater invisibility spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dwarf cleric: ethereal jaunt spell (she proceeded to explore the rest of the house ethereally)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Elf sorcerer and pseudodragon familiar: mislead spell</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They sealed off one caryatid column with a wall of force, the others stood down once there were no visible intruders, the dire tiger and glasspane horror were killed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Borlick and the two bards finally made it to the back of the house and the goblin butler tried to talk the grandfather down, but at that point the spellsword (blinded by the glasspane horror) had cast a silence spell that prevented him from hearing anything</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally had the pseudodragon telepathically tell the spellsword to dismiss the silence spell so the goblin butler could shut down the grandfather plaque</li> </ul>So now they're figuring what all they want to bring to Talonia in a week or so.  The halfling barge (pulled by two baleen whales) is due into the port in two days.  We'll have two more adventures in the city of Port Duralia in the meantime, then three at sea (it'll be a two-month voyage), and then the rest of the campaign will be hunting down the wizard trainer's body; her message to her spellsword apprentice hinted that when they find her body, they'd likely discover why she was in Talonia looking for the Forbidden Lands, and she hoped they might pick up where she left off once they get her home and buried.Johnathan</blockquote>

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