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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9437444" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were continuing their travels west across the continent of Talonia in search of the Forbidden Lands, when they found a group of six drow lumberjacks about to start combat with a forest dryad</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tried to intercede in the combat by having the dwarf cleric cast a calm emotions spell, but the drow all made their saves and so did the half-orc cleric/paladin PC, but his mount, an air element war horse, failed its save and became pacifistic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw a plant-based version of a pseudodragon get sent off for assistance, as the PCs quickly cast tongues spells to make themselves understood</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eventually got the two parties separated (with a wall of force, no less), but only after a giant eagle had been summoned, and the plant-pseudodragon returned with a nymph</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the two parties talking, the lumberjacks stating they'd been commissioned to chop down trees from this specific grove, while the dryad argued the city elders knew this grove was off limits; that was when the nymph realized this was likely a distraction and rushed back to her grove...only to find the last of her caesano bulbs dug up</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard the nymph's cries of anguish, left their NPC hirelings behind to keep the drow from cutting down any tress in the meantime, and went to go find out what was going on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard the nymph invoking a "vengeance of the forest" curse, which brought forth a zomok - basically, Swamp Thing if he were in the shape of a Gargantuan dragon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off the zomok while a few of the PCs tracked down who had stolen the caesano bulbs - it was a drow rogue, who'd hired the lumberjacks to act as a distraction</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up being their own worst enemies when the elf sorcerer managed to blind the zomok with a sunburst spell, but also blinded the human spellsword and killed both plant-infused pseudodragons that were companions to the dryad and nymph, then summoned a Huge air elemental to pound on the zomok, giving it a direction in which to aim its breath weapon, which ended up killing the dryad</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the drow rogue, used a greater dispel magic (and a lucky high die roll) to dismiss the zomok, and returned the stolen caesano bulbs, but it was too late - after having the last one dug up, the tenuous link to the positive energy plane which had allowed the bulbs grown in that grove (and that grove only) able to produce elixirs of heal was severed, never to be brought back</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Calmed down the nymph and promised to cast raise dead spell on the dryad and the two plant-infused pseudodragons the following day</li> </ul>It ended up being a short session, only about 3 hours, but blindness played a big role - my nephew's human bard/rogue ended up a victim to the nymph's blinding beauty effect after the drow rogue survived a blindness/deafness spell attack from the spellsword.  But as atonement for having summoned forth a zomok in a fit of rage, after the PCs had only been trying to help, the nymph gave them each an elixir of heal from her personal stock.Johnathan</blockquote>

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