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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9640724" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Started the Crystal Cave adventure from QftIS last night.  First 2 hours were spent exploring the city of Sybar mingling with the locals for rumors about the waring families, eventually day drinking at the Ocean's Draw tavern, getting warned off their quest by another adventuring group who just returned from Echo Cave in defeat, listing to a bard sing sea shanties with clues to how to get past the guardian of the cave (an addition to the adventure by me), the fighter successfully cutting the purse of a noble in the packed bar as he went to bed, a bar brawl breaking out when said noble realized his bag of gems was missing, the other three party members hillariously failing to get out of the middle of the fight (played for laughs, no real initative or dangerous stakes), the rogue successfully wooing the elf mage of the defeated adventuring group in the middle of the fight, and her deciding to dimension door the two of them up to her room, our ranger then getting his purse snatched by the halfling rogue of the adventuring group, only to realize it when he got to his room, then returning with the other 2 members of our group to find the halfling, discovering them across the road, our wizard webbing up the other party, and the rogue ruefully returning the stolen purse.  Our rogue then successfully walk of shame stealthed back into the party's room for the night.After break, the party finally went to the Govenor's mansion to get the deets on the quest and headed out, running into 3 Aridni (nasty little CR 5 fey creatures from Tome of Beasts) who they failed to apply the lessons from the bard to avoid fighting) and had a tough fight that nearly went sideways.  Afterwards they found a clue that the other adventuring party bargained their way past this fight. Ended the session with them just an hour or so walk to the cave and the guardian there (a CR 9 Dryad).  We'll see if they learned their lesson from the Aridni in the next session and make their way into the cave!</blockquote>

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