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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 6609039" data-attributes="member: 6588">Intrepid Adventures of Legend or Hobo Murderers on the Loose (a pogre storyhour)Episode 21Death that Comes Up to Your Knee***** SPOILER ALERT *****The next few episodes will contain parts of the adventure Princes of the Apocalypse. I will include a spoiler alert such as this one at the head of each episode containing material from the published adventure. I am only stealing bits and pieces from the adventure and no inference as to the flow of the actual product should be made from the depiction herein.*****Gideon felt the burly guards’ hands baring down on him as they tried to hold his head steady and pry open his jaw. As Gideon clenched his jaw like a toddler refusing cooked peas, he wriggled one hand free from its leather tether. The halfling managed to free his free arm at the dagger-wielding guard and gain a moment of surprise. Gideon quickly scrambled to loose his remaining limbs and wrenched free from the guards’ grips.*note one*Gideon had only one thought and that was to escape. It turns out a motivated peck is tougher to catch than a greased pig. The monk used all of his skills to flee. The heavily armed guards could not keep pace, but Qarbo’s monk minions kept harassing Gideon. Once Gideon had cleared enough distance where he could face the monks without risking combat with the guards he turned on them and managed to slay both pursuing monks.A bedraggled Gideon stumbled into the party’s camp. Osbourne rushed up to give the monk a shoulder to lean on and guided him to a seat.“Are you being pursued?” Brodek asked.“Yes, I think so,” Gideon replied.“What happened?” Freja asked.“They weren’t fooled,” Gideon replied.Osbourne tended to Gideon’s wounds while the pair of dwarfs stood guard for possible pursuers. A few hours passed and it was clear none were coming.As the morning light broke Osbourne cooked breakfast and asked generally, “What now?”“We go back,” Brodek replied.“And do what?”“Kill them all,” Brodek replied grimly.*****DM Note: As is typical of my story hours, real life has got me by the short hairs in terms of leisure time. So I am going to give a massive catch-up and get a fresh start. Here’s the short version then: The group cleared out the monastery and found a passage into a massive evil temple complex. They largely cleared out a section of dirt worshippers, including a gorgon and captured a powerful magic weapon. They have been rejoined by the peck Cabo and have continued on into another quarter of the deep dungeon.This, then is where the tale will pick up following our next session a week from Wednesday. Accompanied by many poor photos shot by yours truly.*note one* - There were loud complaints that I had permitted Gideon’s player to make a DEX save followed by a STR save to get an arm loose and then another DEX save to get the rest of his limbs free. Had he failed ONE of those checks - Gideon’s tongue would have been removed. The other players were cheering for the bad guys the entire time and a situation that might have been tense at many tables was filled with jibes and laughing at Gideon’s player. THAT is the kind of table I have in this campaign!</blockquote>

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