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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9628809" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Waited in their halfling guide's inn room (hiding out after having slain the mummy lord rulers last adventure) while the half-orc cleric/paladin snuck out in disguise as a full-blooded drow (via robe of blending) and bought an ioun stone granting him a +2 to his Intelligence, only to have him spot a drow woman/male drow vampire encounter on a balcony; he used an air walk spell to interrupt them, showed the vampire his mark of the God of Death and Undeath, and asked for confirmation on the directions to the Forbidden Lands (which the vampire willing gave him)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Said farewell to their halfling guide and the human bard/rogue's girlfriend the next morning and set out due north from the drow city into the barren desert, riding in or on their wood colossus (except for the human fighter/wizard/spellsword/eldritch knight, who rode ahead on a phantom steed)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Encountered the two Colossal monstrous scorpions they'd seen in a dream vision on day three in the desert, and slew them without too much trouble</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Encountered a saguaro sentinel (humanoid cactus creature) and a sand golem on day four, and took out the former with a horrid wilting spell (after which it was pretty easy picking) and the latter by repeated pummeling from the wood colossus, a summoned Huge fire elemental, and a summoned elder earth elemental</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with the sphinx colossus they'd been told was the entrance to the Forbidden Lands on day five, and each PC answered a separate riddle successfully</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entered the sphinx colossus's mouth (they had to leave the wood colossus behind, with instructions to fight off anyone else trying to enter it other than any of the five PCs), encountered a pitch-black room filled with combined solid fog/mind fog spell effects, and made it through with each of the 5 PCs making their Will save to prevent their minds from being read by the lich waiting for them at the far end (after answering a sixth riddle shared between all five)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with the lich (who, upon seeing the marks of the God of Death and Undeath on four of their foreheads, muttered, "Mother will be surprised...."), who asked them why they wished to enter the Forbidden Lands, and then ushered them through a door that led them into the said Forbidden Lands</li> </ul>My son Logan's a bit bummed that he can't bring his half-orc's wood colossus into the Forbidden Lands with him, but it's just too big.Johnathan</blockquote>

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