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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9867314" data-attributes="member: 508">In yesterday's "Down to Erthe" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Learned there were mongrelfolk gathering in the sewers, being trained as thieves by an unauthorized new guild</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went into the sewers to check it out, wherein the human monk almost immediately ran afoul of a crocodile, and had to be rescued by the party's mongrelfolk adept and his rat familiar</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered two human rogues giving combat training to five mongrelfolk, the latter of which were wielding wooden practice swords</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Snuck up on the group, only to spy what looked like a swaying cobra in the mist around the filthy water pouring out of a major pipe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered (the hard way) the "swaying cobra" was one of the tentacles of an otyugh, who served the illicit guild as hired muscle</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attacked the two human rogues, only to have the five mongrelfolk fall back, with one of them opening a door and releasing a dire rat, with another dire rat running further into the makeshift guild's complex of rooms (he was fetching reinforcements from the barracks)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watched as the first dire rat went running into the sewer water, only to swim across it and rise up on the other side (by the snow fox hengeyokai wu jen) as a wererat in hybrid form; she had to back away and take him out with spells before he bit her</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the changeling rogue PC get grappled by the otyugh while the guild reinforcements exited through the door: two more human rogues, the human rogue guildmaster, and the second dire rat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the human rogues and the "dire rats" (mongrelfolk wererats, willingly bitten to become "smoothskins" - creatures whose features all matched), while the changeling rogue PC had to finish off the otyugh under the sewer water after being dragged down below the surface</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the mongrelfolk rogue trainees and guildmaster, who turned out to be the natural wererat responsible for luring in the mongrelfolk for a chance to become afflicted wererats, but got the last mongrelfolk to point them to the location where there were three more mongrelfolk who had "completed the ritual"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Went to the holding cells where the three bitten mongrelfolk were in cells for their own protection (until after their first lycanthropic transformation), where there was a young human woman telling her fortune with a deck of cards watching over them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Soon learned the "young human woman" was a green hag under a disguise self spell, and took her out after a tough battle (during which she used her invisibility, ghost sound, and weakness abilities to good effect)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the helpless momgrelfolk in the cells and retraced their steps to the fledgling guild's treasure hoard (which had been being protected by the otyugh), where they cleaned them out</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Returned to their boardinghouse headquarters and took well-needed showers</li> </ul>It's worth noting all three male PCs/NPCs ended up in the fetid sewer water, whereas the two female PCs managed to stay dry during the entire adventure.  (The wu jen even used a prestidigitation spell to keep her kimono clean while in the sewers.)Johnathan</blockquote>

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