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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4846528" data-attributes="member: 11821">My group finally made it into the Temple Dungeon proper last night.  Quick sblock for those who might be playing it...[sblock]They headed to the area with the pillared hall, harpies, and ghouls.  At first things weren't going so well - they had the party's beefy fighter and paladin stuck in the room, while the rest of the group was outside the portcullis.Fortunately, the Harpies' songs didn't take hold, and they were largely ineffective as a result.  So then, we came to the six ghouls... who couldn't get past the paladin's protection aura.  They got the portcullis up, the cleric turned all of them, and then they worked on slaughtering the hapless undead.  Not without a fight, though - the ghouls managed to paralyze the party's half-orc, and four more ghouls ran out of another nearby door... only to be blocked by the aura, themselves.Those ghouls ran off, and the party decided to trust in the paladin's holiness and camp out in that room for a bit, waiting an hour or so for the half-orc to get back up.  They smartly spiked the door the ghouls had retreated through....which was maybe fine in theory, until a pair of ghasts followed by the four ghouls from before exited from an unnoticed secret door and charged right up to the resting party.  They won initiative, and the two ghasts charged the paladin.  The first paralyzed him, and the second basically bull-rushed him and knocked the poor guy away from the rest of the party......which in turn exposed the party's cleric, now outside the circle of protection, along with one other PC.  The four ghouls, now with a clear path, attacked the two of them, sadly paralyzing the cleric, who could now only silently pray to Tritherion.Seeing the writing on the wall, the druid, magic-user, and ranger all ran, leaving the rest of the group to the ghouls' tender mercies, defended only by a charmed boar and a henchman.  Since the portcullis was down, they figured the secret door the ghasts came from would be a good escape route.  They spent a round or two working on getting the door from that room open, only to find ... that it looped back around to the door they'd spiked shut.They finally decided to help the rest of the party, who had been hanging on.  Because the paralyzed folks were in plate armor, I made a call that the ghouls and ghasts couldn't kill them instantly, but they'd been basically doing a lot of damage every round.  The cleric had already been killed, with four ghouls feasting greedily on his marrow.  The henchman and boar were still in the fight, but barely.  The paladin had 1 HP.So the druid threw a potted plant he'd been saving for this purpose into the mix, followed with an entangle spell.  It wrapped up almost everyone, living, dead, and undead alike.  The paladin was dropped to negatives, cured, and managed to live.  They were able to kill the ghasts and hid out in the paladin's circle while the ghouls continued to eat the cleric.  In a few more rounds, the half-orc fighter was back into the fray, and ghoul slaughter finally commenced.[/sblock]It was an insane and completely entertaining encounter, from start to finish.  One of my favorites, ever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-O</blockquote>

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