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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9663764" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned a drow wizard who had been commissioned to create a variant immovable rod for the Forbidden Lands had been slain and his items stolen, and the lich assigned as the PCs' mentor/guide had been assigned to track down the stolen rod</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Also learned (as an aside) that the stolen goods were now in Hell, and they were going there immediately</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plane shifted to Hell, in an antechamber, and were brought in to the throne of a pit fiend lord</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the lich tell what had happened, and got permission for the lich and the PCs to question the underling pit fiend the dead wizard had summoned right before being slain (the lich was sure to point out an underling pit fiend amassing magic items without his Lord's knowledge could be making a play for his throne....)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were given a gemstone from the pit fiend lord's bracelet, showing they were under his protection, and which would teleport them to the pit fiend they wished to interview, who was currently assigned watch duty at one of the Burning Rivers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Teleported to the Burning River, where 2 bearded devils and 2 barbed devils were kicking damned souls back into the lava when they tried to climb up onto the islets of rock, and saw the pit fiend and 4 erinyes devils on the other side of the Burning River</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the full story from the pit fiend: he'd been summoned to the Mortal World by a drow wizard who'd planned on using a planar binding spell to control the pit fiend, who escaped by mentally controlling the wizard's apprentice and getting her to step onto the summoning circle, allowing the pit fiend to escape and slay them both, ransacking the keep afterwards and taking the loot with him back to Hell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gaped in horror when the human spellsword PC offered to trade the stolen immovable rod for the lich's life, knowing devils hate undead who "escape" their Hellish fates - an act which caused the lich to turn the spellsword into a stone statue with a flesh to stone spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attacked the pit fiend since he didn't seem willing to hand the immovable rod over</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the dwarf cleric return the spellsword to flesh with a vial of stone salve, and then chew him out for his general stupidity</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the bearded devils with chain lightning spells, slaying one and causing the other to teleport away with 1 hp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got hit repeatedly by fireballs cast by the pit fiend, while the erinyes shot flaming arrows at the PCs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the barbed devils the hard way, with hand-to-hand combat which caused the PCs a fair bit of damage from the devils' numerous spines</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf sorcerer use polymorph any object on his pseudodragon familiar, turning him into a Large gold dragon, who slew an erinyes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out another erinyes with a blade barrier spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the half-orc cleric/paladin took a meteor swarm while air walking over the Burning River, and despite all four meteors striking him, walked away with only 11 hp of damage (due to stoneskin and a ring of fire protection) - that really put the fear into the pit fiend!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally slew the pit fiend when the dwarf cleric (who'd spent most of the adventure getting attacked by an ambush from an invisible hellcat and then eventually killing it with her warhammer) cast an implosion spell at the pit fiend, overcoming his spell resistance, and having him fail his save</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gathered up the stolen loot from the slain wizard and returned to the Forbidden Lands (with the spellsword having a black mark on his record due to the attempt to trade in the lich for the rod, which the lich did not appreciate in the least)</li> </ul>In the spellsword's defense, he figured the lich would just remanifest by his phylactery once slain, but he hadn't thought it out very well beyond that: the lich was their only means to return to the Material Plane, so his death would have left them stranded in Hell...and even if they did manage to escape back to the Material Plane, they'd have a hard time explaining to the undead of the Forbidden Lands why they came back without their lich guide....Four more adventures left in this campaign!  The next time we play (scheduled for 31 May), the adventure will take place in the Dreamlands, their last time there before they have to become undead themselves....Johnathan</blockquote>

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