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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9189500" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were shopping in the marketplace when the half-orc cleric/paladin was asked by a young man if his name was Wakuren and if so if he'd bless his sword for an upcoming tournament</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were then ambushed by a band of four bounty hunters after Wakuren admitted that was his name and after he said a few words over the man's sword</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Used a black tentacles spell to hold fast the elf ranger sniping from the rooftops, then used calm emotions and greater command spells to get the two human rogues and the human fighter to drop their weapons and quit attacking them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were then accosted by six paladins and two clerics of the half-orc's church, demanding that he surrender to them as he'd been accused of murder of a cleric who had tormented Wakuren during their training, and who had originally been presented the magic shield that Wakuren had been spotted carrying throughout the town</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out there was a 10,000 gp bounty on Wakuren's head</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Surrendered to the clerics and paladins and went to the church temple, where Wakuren was put on trial for murder (his accusers were the slain cleric's parents)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explained the circumstances (the original shield bearer had been slain by a yellow musk creeper early in the campaign, Wakuren had defeated the yellow musk zombie the cleric had become, and has carried the shield since), only to have the grieving mother object that Wakuren must know a way to get around the zone of truth and detect lies spells being used in the courtroom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the judge (temple head cleric) cast a commune spell and asked questions resulting in a clear finding of not guilty for Wakuren, at which point the mother cast a summon monster VII spell that brought a fiendish girallon in the courtroom trying to kill Wakuren</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off the fiendish girallon and saved the judge's life after he was almost killed by a cone of cold spell cast by the mother</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up banishing the girallon and accidentally killing the mother when the chain lightning spell did just a little too much damage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rejoiced as Wakuren was cleared of all charges and a public announcement was made showing he was a cleric and paladin of good standing in the temple (a point that had been up in the air since he had been kicked out before his graduation ceremony)</li> </ul>We're about to have the PCs embark on a voyage across the ocean to another continent (filled with dinosaurs!), so this adventure was a way to tie up the loose end of Wakuren's status in his church before he left his home continent, possibly for good.Johnathan</blockquote>

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