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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9761972" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Middle of Elsewhere" campaign session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were briefed by the town elders that Elsewhere was on Avernus, the first level of Hell; that one of the traits of Avernus is that fireballs randomly drop down from the sky (although that hasn't happened to Elsewhere for the week or so it's been on the Hellish plane; and that some of the southern scout teams have discovered there's a zone, several days to the south, where the "invisible protective dome" shielding a 1,000-mile radius of Avernus from this phenomena (inside which Elsewhere happens to be) suddenly stops</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were further briefed that the fiendish hobgoblin camp the PCs had learned about days earlier had been checked out by another scout team, who had found it destroyed (likely by the barbed devil in charge of it and a dozen or so other camps in a fit after learning his hell hound pets had gotten loose and had been killed)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were directed to go forth to another of the barbed devil's camps and learn what they could about the dome protecting the huge swath of land from random fireballs, as Elsewhere's leadership would like to learn how to replicate the effect in their town so they'd have that protection no matter which plane they ended up on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were given a phony token showing them to be Emissaries of Bel, the Arch-Devil Lord of Avernus (on the assumption a barbed devil was low enough down the Hellish totem pole to not know any better, and that went double for his minions)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Traveled a month or so to get to the camp in question, only to find out it was staffed by fiendish humans and currently under attack by fiendish orcs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jumped into battle, aiding the five fiendish human warriors against the six attacking fiendish orcs (four warriors, two warlocks)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had my fiendish human cleric brandish the token of Bel and command the orcs and humans to stand down and line up for inspection (and that's when they learned the orcs weren't Hell fiends allied with the devils, they were Abyssal fiends allied with the demons - the buggers didn't even speak Infernal!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought alongside the fiendish humans, slaying the fiendish orcs - but not before two fiendish humans had been slain, three more knocked unconscious, and a one-armed babau teleported in to aid the orcs (too late!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ganged up on the one-armed babau, who still managed to give us a run for our money in a fight that took us as long to take him out as it did to slay the six orcs combined</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally killed the babau with a cold iron sword the celestial elf witch - pretty much out of spells at that point - had taken from the body of a slain fiendish human</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Revived the unconscious humans and queried them about the fireball-negating shield...</li> </ul>...and the DM informed us that will be the focus of the next adventure, so he'll answer our queries then.Fair enough.Johnathan</blockquote>

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