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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9382496" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entered a halfling monastery to gain entry to the cliffside tunnels that lead to the upper surface of a continental tectonic plate shift (100 foot difference - it's what sets the eastern part of the continent - filled with dinosaurs - apart from the more civilized surface drow cities of the western part); the monastery sits on a slab of stone 40 feet above the lower ground</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While there (during which time their pachycephalosaurus mounts were lifted up by an elevator platform, one by one, a process which took a fair bit of time), there was "another message" - the words "WHY DID YOU RUN FROM ME?" appeared in blood in Halfling script on the wall of the women's bathroom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Talked to the Abbott and learned there had been 2 previous messages: "YOU CANNOT ESCAPE" and "YOU WILL BE MINE" in the last few days; each had been found in an area close to the female monks' cells</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Talked to the various monks and learned three had joined their ranks in the last two months, two men and a woman, all of whom entered the monastery solo</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Talked the newest female monk and learned she had fled her tribe after being promised in marriage to a brute of a halfling from a violent tribe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pretty much figured out the "brute of a halfling" had been slain while trying to find his promised bride and was manifesting as a ghost; this was proven to be the case when he walked through the wall of the dining area they were in, having finally tracked her down on foot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought the ghost, throwing a dimensional anchor on him to keep him from getting away, separating him from the female monk with a wall of force, and then getting the female monk to explain to him how she'd never agree to be his wife, wanted nothing to do with him, and would rather kill herself than be given over to him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the ghost, confident that he wouldn't rejuvenate now that he knew there was no chance of ever getting his "intended" to love him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were given access to the switchback tunnels leading to the upper surface, the official "crossing over point" between dinosaur jungles and surface drow civilization</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got to the last section of upward-sloping tunnel only to have a boulder rolled down at them (which the dwarf cleric "melted" to harmlessness with a soften earth and stone spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went up to attack the cyclops, only to find out he had a pet Gargantuan fiendish monstrous centipede named "Tiny"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed Tiny fairly quickly, then popped out to the surface to fight the cyclops, where they found out Tiny had a larger (Colossal) counterpart, Biggie</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eventually killed both Biggie and the cyclops, but not before three PCs and a pseudodragon familiar were all rescued seconds from dying by hastily-applied healing spells</li> </ul>The common supposition among the players  is that whatever killed the woman whose body the PCs are traveling the continent to fetch has somehow learned there are others willing to pick up where she left off (she was searching for "The Forbidden Lands") and is trying to seal off all access points to the western half of the continent to keep them away.Johnathan</blockquote>

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