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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9480682" data-attributes="member: 508">We did two short adventures in today's "Dreams of Erthe" game session.  In the first adventure, "Fear the Reaper," the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were traveling down the road when they were met by a small group of drow merchants and their three giant spider cart-pullers, all fleeing for their lives</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered they were panicked by an approaching shinigami, who they knew from a recent dream of possible events in their immediate future was likely seeking the PCs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tried getting the shinigami to talk instead of fighting it, but it seemed determined to slay them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought it off (the spellsword surviving two destruction spells thrown his way), eventually slaying it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Upon its destruction, time stopped for all but the five PCs, and the Emissary of Akari (God of Death and Undeath in this campaign) approached, telling them Akari sought them as his mortal representatives on Erthe (the gods cannot directly interfere in mortal affairs, but they can have representatives attempting to do their will), in a matter that could affect everyone on the planet</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned from the Emissary that there were hidden enemies in the Forbidden Lands (where the PCs were already heading) who have used divination magic to determine there's a force headed their way from the east that could be their doom (they don't know it yet but it is in fact the PCs), and they were responsible for the attempt at sealing off western part of the continent from the eastern part of the continent (the PCs had a run in an earlier adventure where a cyclops and his two monstrous centipedes tried to do just that), as well as sending out shinigamis to seek out any potential threats headed their way</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Akari doesn't need them to do anything they wouldn't already be doing - heading into the Forbidden Lands - but he wants them to do so as his representatives<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The spellsword and sorcerer agreed at once</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The cleric and cleric/paladin (of the Gods of Protection/Stone and Air/Healing, respectively) balked a bit at being the representatives of a different god than the ones they worshiped, so the Emissary slew them, sent their souls to their respective afterlives, where they were assured by the representatives of their own faiths that serving as Akari's mortal representatives would not alter their standing in their own churches, at which point they were true resurrected by the Emissary and they agreed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The bard/rogue absolutely refused</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Emissary branded all but the bard/rogue with the mark of Akari on their foreheads (which immediately became invisible), brought the shinigami back to its full power, informed it these five were not the ones it sought for its masters, and sent it on its way with no memory of having encountered the five PCs</li> </ul>My nephew deciding not to have his bard/rogue be one of Akari's mortal representatives will have some interesting repercussions in a few of the adventures to follow, but it was his choice.Johnathan</blockquote>

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