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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeph" data-source="post: 484237" data-attributes="member: 6738">I told him he was dead. It's not like it was a secret or anything.The monstrous spiders were about 30 miles away from the pod prison/spawning pool. The spiders were scavaging for food in a trading post that had recently succumbed to the Puppetteers . . . and then the puppetteers fed (i.e., at their hosts brains), found new hosts, and left. The spiders were getting some easy food, the PCs were investigating. After 4 rounds (the first time one of the spiders took Wound Point Damage--I use VP/WP), the spiders retreated, knowing from instinct that they were outmatched. Then the players were ambushed by a squad of Yuan-Ti archers (the new hosts of some of the puppetteers) with poisoned arrows, who did not want the news of the incursion to get out. The PCs eventually succombed to the poison (Except for one, who had Fast Movement and Speed of Thought--the archers got him when he returned, trying to rescue the 2 captured PCs).They were taken to a canopy city of Yuan-Ti (all controlled by Puppetteers, the things had taken over the leadership . . . then the nobility . . . then everyone), with a 'research facility' in the center. The characters were suspended in seperate pods, 300 feet above the spawning pool at the center of the research facility. At the center of the pool (directly below the pods), was the psionic orb that enhanced the processes of the breeding pool. I had expected the characters to escape from the pods by going upwards, or accross, and to do so together. However, one of the PCs tricked a Yuan-Ti gaurd into bringing rope to bind him, then killing the gaurd. He then combined the rope with a some that he had woven out of the fiber of the pod, some that he had pickpocketed, some that the other concious PC had pickpocketed, and some that the other PC had woven out of their pod, to make a sizeable rope. It still came short by about 240 feet, but the PCs slashed the vines by which two of the vacant pods hung, and used that to finish the job. Then, one of them went down. To the sphere.Characters neer the sphere must make a will save or attract a bolt of psychic lightning. The PC failed, got shocked. Got a bit angry decided that the sphere would be better in multiple pieces. Not the greatest idea, as it turned out.Well, the paralyzed PC was doomed from then on out (before, they could have rested in their prisons until the paralyzed PC regained some of his str). The concious PC that had stayed in the prisons discovered a psychic suspension corridor, and being a monk, had enough Concentration ranks to operate it without falling strait thrugh 4/5 of the time. So, he raced down through the trees, the PC that blew up the sphere ran like hell away from a couple mutant yuan-ti superwarriors, and the paralyzed one . . . it just wasn't his day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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