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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9424662" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw a drow mother arguing with a pair of city guards; it appears her hot-headed son Derrok, in an attempt to show his worthiness as an adventurer, picked the lock to the tower of a dead-for-centuries drow wizard whose dungeons were said to contain hidden riches, although no one had been able to find them yet</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to pay the city "entry fee" to give the dungeon a try for themselves (entering Derrok as a member of their team, so he was retroactively "legal")</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found a hidden elevator on the lower level which brought them down to an even lower level, where they dispelled an area of magical deeper darkness and saw another overlapping circular room just beyond (kind of like a Venn diagram)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out there was no floor in the "overlapping" section between the two rooms, just a horizontal illusory wall spell </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sent the elf sorcerer's pseudodragon familiar down the shaft, where he found an unconscious Derrok lying in a heap at the bottom of the shaft</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Accidentally activated drow-version mirror images of the half-orc cleric/paladin, the human spellsword, and the dwarf cleric when they stepped in front of the mirror of opposition in the other room and their light sources allowed reflections to occur</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the mirror images flanked around the room, taking up defensive positions on the other side of the shaft</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found out there was a wall of force on the far side of the shaft across the rooms when the sorcerer's chain lightning and the spellsword's slow spells didn't make it past</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc cleric/paladin air walk down the shaft to heal Derrok, while the spellsword hammered in a piton and lowered a rope down there so the others could climb down as well</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the spellsword climb down, then the sorcerer, and then the bard/rogue leaped down the shaft for fun, slamming into the sorcerer, the spellsword, and Derrok - free damage for all!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Checked out the room beyond the sliding shaft, determined if you stepped foot in it, metal spheres would rain down on you from the ceiling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc cast a control winds spell blasting straight up, so when he touched the floor (curiosity got the better of him), the spheres hovered about a third of the way down from the ceiling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Noticed the spheres kept coming, and their accumulated weight kept pushing them lower and lower into the chamber, and they were starting to take on the shape of a triceratops</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Climbed back up to the room above, where the bard/rogue figured out the puzzle that shut down the wall of force</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had a flurry of readied spells from the mirror images cast at them (fire storm, thunder strike, fireball), which knocked out their NPC bard (the bard/rogue PC's girlfriend), the half-orc, and Derrok</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got them revived with a mass cure critical wounds spell cast by the dwarf cleric</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the mirror images, smashed the mirror, dealt with a bunch of spell disk constructs being sent into the room, and entered a puzzle room on the other side of a secret door</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figured out the puzzle (involving the names of 10 gods in the pantheon), which activated a set of secret stairs down further</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Healed up, went down the stairs, and found another Venn diagram set of overlapping circular rooms, the furthest of which was laden with tons of treasure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the dwarf cast detect magic, saw the floor was magic, and the spellsword deactivated the illusory wall spell on the floor, revealing a 30-foot-deep pit with an unmoving beholder at the bottom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On a hunch, had the spellsword cast a shroud of undeath spell on himself, then cross the wall of force floor (which had been just under the illusory wall), without activating the stasis guardian beholder, and he made it to the treasure room</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the dwarf cast a horizontal wall of stone over the wall of force, then everybody hustled into the treasure room and started scooping up loot into extradimensional storage while the sorcerer cast overlapping walls of force each round to keep the beholder busy (it had to disintegrate its way through the wall of stone, then antmagic ray its way through a new wall of force each round)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Piled everyone into their extradimensional lamp, which the dwarf cleric then picked up and used ethereal jaunt to exit the dungeon, where they split the loot with Derrok (whose mother immediately grounded him for life)</li> </ul>It was a fun session; I thought the players might like an old-fashioned "dungeon crawl" for a change of pace.Johnathan</blockquote>

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