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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9566195" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to aid a spider familiar in finding and possibly rescuing her master, after the empathic link between them was severed three days ago, and is now phasing in and out as if trying to reestablish itself</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the backstory: the drow wizard was in love with a nobleman's daughter, but he was of mere common blood and her father and brothers forbade her from seeing him; the last the spider familiar saw of him, he was going to meet with her anyway</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc cleric/paladin use his robe of blending to impersonate the spider's master (she helped him fine-tune the magical disguise), with the intention of letting word get out that the wizard was still out and about</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went to the estate where the daughter and her family lived, rang the bell at the gate, and was told by the drow butler he was not allowed onto the grounds, per the father's wishes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hung around after the butler left, only to have the father and a drow cleric come rushing out of the house, whereupon the cleric tried rebuking the half-orc (still disguised as the common-blood drow wizard)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Caught the drow up in a black tentacles spell (cast by the invisible elf sorcerer), which the half-orc threatened would drag them to Hell if they didn't bring the "ghost" back to his body</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Followed the drow back into the house (with most of the other PCs invisible), only to have the cleric cast a heal spell on the half-orc in an attempt to "kill" the "ghost" with positive energy, and when that didn't work, the father tried stabbing the half-orc with his rapier - at which point the ruse was up, and full-fledged battle was on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ended up blinding and deafening the father with a holy word spell cast by the half-orc, while the cleric was slain by the invisible human bard/rogue who ran him in with his rapier</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went further into the manor - specifically, the open gardens in the center of the building, complete with a hedge maze, where the two drow brothers were fighting off phase spiders</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Joined in the fight, noticing new phase spiders entering the gardens each round, and a ghostly figure seemingly directing them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Determined the ghost was indeed the spider's slain wizard master (which explained why the half-orc's ruse worked so well outside) and agreed to help him get vengeance on his killers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the two sons, and allowed the ghost to slay the father with a chain lightning spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brought the ghost to the daughter, who was aghast to learn her father and brothers had slain her lover; she agreed to pay for a resurrection spell bringing the slain wizard back to life, and is now in charge of the family's business (she opted not to resurrect her family members)</li> </ul>It was a fun time; I was amazed when the players figured the wizard was probably dead and trying to come back to life and decided to have the half-orc impersonate the slain wizard, as it was 100% believable to the killers (they had hired the cleric to come into the manor to take care of the ghost who was starting to manifest in the gardens where they had killed him and buried his body).Johnathan</blockquote>

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