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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9175861" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with a noblewoman of their prior acquaintance, Lady Arabella Vulpina, who has a secret identity as "The Fox," a notorious sneak-thief/burglar who specializes in stealing from the well-to-do, and who leaves a calling card behind so everyone knows it's the Fox who stole their stuff</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned from her that there has been a string of missing noblemen over the past half-year or so, which has her own noble family concerned</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out she'd determined the missing noblemen always disappeared shortly after attending a party at Lord Hasperton's monthly party, and that there was another party scheduled for the following evening</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got hired by her to attend the party (a costume party, for which she - as the Fox - had stolen enough invitations to cover them), during which they were to snoop around and see if they could figure out what was going on and if Lord Hasperton was involved in the disappearances</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attended the costume gala, during which time each PC had to overcome a role-playing challenge in which they were accosted by a party-goer and had to bluff their way into appearing to be a member of the nobility (anyone getting caught would be expelled from the party with no way to get back in without an invitation, which were handed in upon first arriving)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard a thump from the other side of the door (leading to the library, which was off-limits to the party-goers), and made their way inside, to see an unconscious man on the floor and a man standing over him (both in different masks and costumes), two other people in identical masks and costumes as the first two, and six cultists dressed in dark robes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got in a fight in the library, which was almost immediately under the effects of a silence spell except for one corner, where Lord Hasperton (the masked figure standing over the unconscious Lord Cantrelli, a business rival) quickly stepped so he could cast spells while the PCs couldn't (he was a cleric of the God of Betrayal)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off three summoned bearded devils and the two doppelgangers in the employ of Lord Hasperton (they were to have gone back out to the party to make it seem as if the two lords were still out among the costume party), and killed the cultists (low-level adepts) with spells cast from outside the open library doorway, under cover of an obscuring mist spell that kept the party-goers from seeing what was going on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the doppelgangers and the devils, knocked out Lord Hasperton, sent him to a lengthy sleep via the pseudodragon's sleep venom, tied him up, and left him under the care of Lady Vulpina and Lord Cantrelli while they went down a secret passageway to see where the cultists had been planning to take their unconscious captive</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up fighting 10 grimlocks, 3 zygodacts, and 2 mind flayers, who had come up from the Underdark via a secret passageway to retrieve their monthly "offering," with which the mind flayers were repaid for advancing Lord Haspetron's and the cultists' power and knowledge</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed them off and were handsomely rewarded by Lord Cantrelli (who swore to bring Lord Hasperton's depredations to light), while the dwarf priestess PC cast a wall of stone spell to seal off the tunnel to the Underdark</li> </ul>The session took about 4 hours to play through, a bit longer than I had thought it would, but we had a good time.Johnathan</blockquote>

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