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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9448695" data-attributes="member: 508">During today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met with a wistful drow woman who missed her daughter, who'd just been hired on as a personal assistant to Lord Djuduran Gambrosini, one of the richest and most powerful drow in the city; she's worried that those who go to work for Lord Gambrosini on his island are never seen again</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Flew to his private island in the middle of the lake (with the half-orc cleric/paladin invisible, air walking, and holding the extradimensional lamp in which the other PCs were hiding - good thing, too, because they all bypassed the four gargoyles that way)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Snuck into the manor via the half-orc's gaseous form spell, after which they all climbed out of the lamp and started exploring</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made a lot of noise slaying Small and Medium monstrous spiders and rat swarms, which had infested a closed-off part of the manor, which brought the goliath butler to go check on them; the pseudodragon put him to sleep with its venom and the PCs tucked him back into bed, hoping any memories he might have when he awoke would be attributed to a strange dream</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ran into three drow housemaids, determined they weren't evil (nor were they under a charm/domination effect), and let them be; they told him the four new hires were "downstairs" with Lord Gambrosini</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went downstairs, through two air-sealed doors, and discovered the four new hires performing (singing to flute accompaniment) for Lord Gambrosini in the entertainment hall (which was much larger than it needed to be)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got into it with Lord Gambrosini, hid the drow women in an obscuring mist spell effect and attacked the Lord with a spell effect that fizzled off his fairly high spell resistance</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as Lord Gambrosini turned into a thrice-crowned king (three-headed gorynych dragon variant from Pathfinder that was obviously patterned after Godzilla's foe Ghidorah; I used a Ghidorah figure to represent him in his dragon form)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had a bunch of PCs move in to attack, only for him to use his triple electricity+force breath weapon against them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Boxed him into a corner with an east-to-west wall of stone and a north-to-south prismatic wall</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Explored the rest of the downstairs level, where the dwarf earth cleric turned the Huge air elemental, the human spellsword and human rogue/bard opened the vault and slew the Gargantuan crab guardian, while the elf sorcerer (the only one who could cast through his prismatic wall) tried no less than six times to tag Lord Gambrosini with a prismatic spray spell, failing to overcome spell resistance 4 times, hitting him once with electricity (to which he was immune), and hitting him once with a poison effect (which caused a little bit of Constitution damage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally used a control winds spell (there was a gap at the top of the prismatic wall spell through which the air walking half-orc could cast) to push the Lord (who had returned to drow form to negotiate after all his attempts to dispel the magic walls had failed) through the prismatic wall, finally killing him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Raided his vault, returned the four recent young drow women hires to their families</li> </ul>The players were convinced they were up against a vampire: he only came out at night (but then he's a drow), there were often flying creatures seen around his manor house at twilight (those were his gargoyles), there were tons of rats about for summoning in the sealed off section of the manor, and the recent hires had seemed dazed after having been chosen (they were under the effects of a lesser geas spell, but the players were convinced that they'd been dominated).  The look on the dwarf cleric's player's face was priceless when her high turn undead rolls did absolutely nothing against Lord Gambrosini was priceless!And at the end of the session, everyone leveled up to 17th level.  We now have only 20 more adventure sessions to go in this campaign.Johnathan</blockquote>

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