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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9462744" data-attributes="member: 508">In last night's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned of an army of orcs and ogres led by a half-orc barbarian, ravaging from the southeast</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were hired to take out the half-orc barbarian leader and his command staff (two ogre mages and a half-orc cleric) and return the ring of the Pomarj, an artifact that allowed him to summon armies three times a year</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were loaned a guide who knew the layout of the small hamlet they'd likely be staying at that evening, who could "pilot" our thieves' coil (a teleporting rope device)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Teleported to the forest just outside the hamlet two hours after they'd likely all gone to sleep, so we'd only be dealing with sentries</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cast prep spells (to include a veil spell making us look like orcs and the paladin's celestial pegasus look like an ogre mage) and started moving in</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had our invisible halfling rogue start slitting the throats of sleeping ogres while my sorcerer's grackle familiar flew around looking in windows of the largest building in town (which, sure enough, was where the half-orc leader was sleeping, being guarded over by an ogre mage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as one of the three ogre guards on duties left his post to chase after the paladin and his pegasus after they flew by overhead (no Listen or Spot checks, he just automatically saw them, apparently), calling out to them and not getting a reply (as we didn't speak Giant; this after I specifically pointed out we'd need to remain hidden and not interact with the orcs/ogres, as none of us spoke their languages); my sorcerer shut him up with a flesh to stone spell that turned him into a statue</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had our elven druid, wildshaped into an eagle, cast a transmute metal to wood spell that made the leader's armor and favored weapon unusable</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-elf paladin and elf archer take out the other two sentries on duty</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the druid cast a fire storm spell that burned the spaces of a lot of the smaller buildings and the ogres sleeping therein</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Caught the half-orc leader and ogre mage guard in a wall of thorns spell, pinning them in place and allowing my sorcerer to cast a cone of cold spell that slew the ogre mage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the half-orc cleric and three remaining ogres with a bead from a necklace of fireballs and a delayed fireball spell (hold the delay)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the archer kill the leader with a called shot to the eye</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought and killed the second ogre mage after it cast a cone of cold spell on the paladin and my sorcerer; the paladin took him out with a smite evil confirmed crit and two other sword strikes that did a combined 117 points of damage in one round (making my nephew, who runs the paladin, very happy indeed)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Grabbed up a bunch of loot and skedaddled out of there, leaving the orcs and ogres nearby to fight among themselves when they awoke the next day</li> </ul>The DM gave the enemies a ton of high-powered weapons and armor, which we're now distributing among ourselves and selling what we don't want for ridiculous amounts of gold.  (My sorcerer can now afford that robe of the archmagi he's been looking to buy.)Johnathan</blockquote>

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