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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9676833" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session (our first since January!), the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arrived at the new potion shop of the evil gnome wizard we killed last session (and then reincarnated into a halfling because we were technically in the wrong), and agreed to deliver the potions ordered by El Brujo, the eldritch giant who had sent his grisgol to pick them up last adventure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were met in the new shop by Blorkane, an NPC wizard we've dealt with in the past (usually getting him out of scrapes of his own doing), who warned us El Brujo liked to steal items, so he volunteered to hold on to anything of ours we didn't actually need for the day-long trek to El Brujo's meeting place (where we'd be met by one of his construct creations); we turned him down and he left</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went in the back with the gnome, who packed up the potions we were to transport in a small chest, only to have Blorkane rush in and demand to know if we'd seen him lately, because that wasn't him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the full story: he'd been offered a butt-ton of money to allow someone to impersonate him for a week while he lounged around in a well-furnished room, but he eventually decided to escape and found out he'd been on the Ethereal Plane</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard Blorkane admit the impersonator would now try to kill him, didn't want to take him along on the trip for his own protection, and decided to have him cast rope trick twice a day (he's a 14th-level wizard) and stay in the extradimensional space until we returned for him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heard something crashing through the stone floor in the front room and prepared for combat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as a truly horrid umber hulk burrowed up through the stone floor in the back room, who got shot in the eye with a readied arrow from the elf archer and a readied chain lightning spell from my human sorcerer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-elf paladin charge the truly horrid umber hulk for some decent damage, and then had the halfling rogue (under a greater invisibility spell effect) sneak attack him from behind from the wall she'd been spider climbing on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as two more (normal-sized) umber hulks burrowed up through the stone floor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf druid send a sunbeam spell through all three umber hulks, blinding all three</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the truly horrid umber hulk when the sorcerer cast a maximized chain lightning spell through his metamagic rod, dealing pretty good damage to the other two as well</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the normal umber hulks, only to have the phony Blorkane (who'd snuck into the room invisibly) pop into view as he tried casting a spell on the gnome wizard (which failed; she made her save against the charm person spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the halfling run along the wall, leap at the fake Blorkane, and deal him massive sneak attack damage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf druid "bunnify" the fake Blorkane with a baleful polymorph spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the bunny with another maximized chain lightning spell, at which point the fake Blorkane reverted to his natural form: that of an ethereal doppelganger</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as a neogi popped out of one of the umber hulk tunnels, demanding that the real Blorkane be turned over to him as penalty for breaking the contract Blorkane signed with the ethereal doppleganger</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Determined the neogi was evil (per the paladin's detect evil sense), and slew it with an arrow from the elf archer</li> </ul>So next adventure we'll actually get around to delivering the potions to the eldritch giant El Brujo.  But Blorkane's not coming with us, because he's an idiot.  (After hiding him in the rope trick spell's extradimensional space - from which he could not be detected even by scrying - he popped his head out to say "Good job, fellows!" after we killed the umber hulks, when the invisible ethereal doppelganger trying to track him down to kill him was right there in the room with us.  Dumbass!)We leveled up to 17th at the end of this adventure, probably our last advancement since there are only two more adventures left in this campaign.Johnathan</blockquote>

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