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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9799086" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's (short) "Middle of Elsewhere" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were three days into a five-day trek across a forest-covered vertical gear of Mechanus, which connected to the horizontal gear on which the town of Elsewhere was currently parked</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were hailed by a group of four adventurers blocking the way ahead, calling out my PC's name in particular, asking if one of us was Avoroth Bleakborn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Answered with the standard, grumpy "Who wants to know?" and we were informed they had been sent to stop us from bringing a dangerous artifact back to Elsewhere (and we were, in fact, bringing an unknown something stored inside a coffin-sized forcecage that floated above the group and was being pulled by two of our four fiendish horses)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Engaged in a bit of back-and-forth banter, learning they were planar scout washouts who had been hired to stop us, at which point the celestial elf witch's owl familiar flew into range and warned her about an additional six archers hiding in the trees around us</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the human shadow druid start things off with an entangle spell that caught three archers and all four original ambushers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the witch take out two of the unentangled archers with a color spray spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the fiendish orc fighter kill the third and final unentangled archer by charging him on (fiendish) horseback and stabbing him with his falchion</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the original four ambushers (some sort of sorcerer, two axiomatic rogues, and a celestial fighter in full plate, all human) eventually escaped the entangle spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took them out one by one, although the witch took some magical crossbow damage and my PC got backstabbed by the female rogue</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the celestial fighter and the three entangled archers surrender when the others had all been slain and we'd taken minimal damage (it helps we all have DR 5/magic)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stripped the prisoners of their weapons, interrogated them (and found out they'd been hired by the powerful wizard who'd tried constructing some sort of device on Elsewhere's sole temple a couple of adventures back), and then killed them (and oddly enough, the lawful neutral celestial elf witch was okay with this - it was the lawful evil orc fighter who didn't like the idea of slaying foes who had surrendered, until my PC confided in him that they had all called him a big sissy-pants who likely wet his bed every night and definitely couldn't kill each of them with one blow)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made it successfully to Elsewhere two days later, where we learned we had been to the Factory where inevitables (specifically, kolyruts) were manufactured, and had had our memories wiped so we couldn't recall where the Factory was or what the manufacturing process entailed - this is forbidden knowledge for mortals - and we were bringing our kolyrut leader a new body so he could "download" his consciousness into it and send his old body back to the Factory, where his memories would be added to the sum total of inevitable knowledge</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got paid; each PC now had 5,500 gp to spend</li> </ul>And we're likely going to reach 5th level at the end of our next game session.Johnathan</blockquote>

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