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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9707875" data-attributes="member: 508">In last night's (final) "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figured out the cubic gate they'd been holding on to was not only a lich's phylactery, but that the lich's soul had already left it as it remanifested a new undead body</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figured it must have been the lich that they'd seen reforming a couple dozen adventures ago (and which had been slain by the half-elf paladin), in the chateau of a devil disguised as a human</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the human sorcerer teleport everyone to a clump of trees within eyesight of the former chateau (which they'd destroyed with an earthquake spell the last time they'd been there), and saw the ruined chateau had been removed and the stone wall around the place was gone (as were all of the outbuildings), leaving only the lich's tower</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sent the sorcerer's grackle familiar to do a flyby reconnaissance mission, reporting back five human mercenary guards all around the tower</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf druid cast elemental swarm, summoning 5 Large, 1 Huge, and 1 Greater Earth Elementals</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the spellcasters buff everyone up, then sent the elementals earth gliding, with instructions for the Large elementals to engage the five guards, while the Greater and Huge elementals smashed their way up through the worked stone floor of the tower - which was the sorcerer's signal to teleport all but the paladin and his celestial pegasus over to the front of the tower</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed a sixth fighter inside the tower who was menacing what looked at first to be a bloodied human woman, but who soon proved to be a vampire when she assumed gaseous form and started drifting over to the hidden stairs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Opened the secret door (they knew about it from the last time they'd been there), went down the stairs, and entered the temple below ground</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dealt with a forbiddance spell effect inside the temple and engaged the lich in battle, while the sorcerer put the vampire inside a maze spell as a stopgap measure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the lich (the two biggest elementals were of great help here) with a combination of spells and the paladin's magic longsword (he made the final blow that killed the lich)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Surrounded the vampire's exit point from the maze spell, and took her out with sunburst spells and readied attacks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the Greater Earth Elemental destroy the cubic gate phylactery with its massive fists</li> </ul>This was the end of the campaign, by mutual agreement.  Next Wednesday, my son Logan takes over the DMing reins once again for his new campaign ("The Middle of Elsewhere"), but my nephew Harry has opted not to join us due to him going off to college in the fall.Johnathan</blockquote>

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