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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9173342" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Returned to the cavern they'd been mapping underneath the Lortmil Mountains, overlooking a stone keep and several clay huts around it, inhabited by derro</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Did their normal pre-combat buff spells</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the druid (wildshaped into a dire bat and still able to cast spells due to the Natural Spell feat) fly over by the seven huts on the floor level and cast a transmute rock to mud spell on the cavern ceiling 100 feet directly above them, crushing them instantly, while the sorcerer used dimension door to teleport everyone else onto the roof of the keep</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Positioned themselves in front of the double doors into the keep and readied actions for when the sorcerer cast shrink item onto one of the doors, turning it into a piece of cloth which he whisked away</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw two mind flayers and a derro sorcerer inside</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the dire bat druid cast a wall of thorns spell that imprisoned the two mind flayers and the derro where they were, then pummeled them with a summon swarm (spiders) spell (later followed by a giant vermin spell that increased the size of two spiders to Large), a maximized magic missile, a sneak attack by an invisible halfling, long-reach attacks from a shield guardian, and a flame strike spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the meantime, resisted about half a dozen illithid mind blasts, as well as a sound burst, charm monster (wasted on a paladin with protection from evil on him that made him immune), mass reduce person (which shrunk our half-elf paladin to halfling size), and slow (which hit the paladin, but just undid his haste effect)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the shield guardian remove the halfling from the field of battle once she'd been mind blasted</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the final foe (the derro sorcerer) with a smite evil charge attack from our 3-foot-tall paladin</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rescued a bunch of svirfneblin in a pen outside the keep</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoided a nearby gelatinous cube and black pudding in a cave and then slew them at range</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Searched the keep, found chests of coins, gems valued at 1,660 gp and some arcane scrolls</li> </ul>We'll be camping out overnight in the keep, which will be turned over to the dwarven miner helping to fund this Underdark exploration/mapping expedition.  There's a nearby river that provides an exit from this cavern in the direction we're going, and the dwarves brought a couple of folding boats for that very reason, so next session we might be having a water-based adventure.Johnathan</blockquote>

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