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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9356999" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned there were five dragons who couldn't be contacted through the Dragonmind (the voluntary telepathic network used by dragons when they sleep for months/years/decades, allowing them to stay in contact with others of their kind as they plot and scheme)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were told (by the Council running the Dreamlands) that in each case, when the moogles examined the dreams of the five sleeping dragons (one of each of the chromatic species), there was an overly-large hypnalis viper basking in the dream and taking on the properties of the dragon in whose dream they were squatting</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to rid the five dreams of their half-dragon hypnalis vipers, under the belief that slaying them would allow the sleeping dragons access to the Dragonmind once again</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went in one by one to each dreamscape, taking on the white, red, green, blue, and black half-dragons in that order, five against one each time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After each viper was slain, sure enough, that allowed the dragon to return to its "normal" dreaming and got it back into the Dragonmind (which was good, because that way the other dragons could talk the dragons out of attacking the dreamwalker PCs it "suddenly" found invading its dreams)</li> </ul>So, five short encounters with creatures the PCs had never fought before.  These advanced hypnalis vipers were tough; several times I almost "killed" a PC (which would have resulted in that PC being thrown out of the Dreamlands and waking up in the Mortal World in a cold sweat), and there was a lot of draconic breath weapons and catching PCs in coils and constricting them going on in the dreamscapes.  (In each case, the dragon's dreamscape was a representation of its lair on the Mortal Plane.)  As a result, there was no treasure this time through, and the next adventure will have the PCs tracking down where these five advanced hypnalis vipers came from, considering the Nightmare King who controlled the "normal" ones has long since been slain.Johnathan</blockquote>

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