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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 7825252" data-attributes="member: 277">Dungeon of The Mad Mage Session 24Runestone CavernsLick the LichDay 41-46Season 9 4 hours played. Gp 800. Renown is your tier. Downtime 0. If you played in session 23 with same pc gain a level and 1,600 GP and 20 downtime days.CORRECTION. Next week, Level 21 is still Tier 3. CORRECTION.4 candy cornPC Killed 13 Monster Killed 809 Villains Captured 14 Villains Escaped 28Story Award Runestone Fragment recovered. Mirt The Moneylender owes you a favor.Magic Items Amulet of proof against Detection and location, Bead of Force, Portable Hole, Ring of X-ray vision, Potion of Mind reading, Potion of superior healing, Potion of Force Resistance, Potion of Lightning resistance, boots of false tracks, Orb of direction.I had an average group of 5. Rich wizard with mind blank. Drews Sorcerer. Aukan Barbarian. Nox Wizard. Boulder cleric wizard.The group is surprised as the tunnels leading to the level narrows to just five feet by eight feet. Aukan steps on a death glyph and the group is no longer surprised.  The groups go forward at the first intersection finding a huge stone golem bashing to pieces a sculpture of Halaster forging an item.  Rick talks to the golem which replies, “H man bad. You like H man.”Rick, “Halaster is bad man. Smash it again. Do you want to join us rock man?”Stone Golem, “No have rocks in head. You mean to me feelings go away.” The golem turns and starts smashing again. Aukan has the group follow the south passageway. They come to a huge chasm which has a cloak of darkness about 100 feet down.Aukan, “I think we should drop something down to see how far it goes.”Rick, “I don’t think so. It makes go down two or three levels.”Stone Golem, “Throw things down. Good idea!” The golem makes a grabbing motion to Aukan. “Stay still” Aukan ducks under the arms of the golem.Rick,” How did he sneak up on us?”Dm,” Because I wanted him too.”Aukan ducks behind Rick.  Rick “Not cool man” And he is grabbed into huge arms of the golem.Stone Golem, “I will hug him, and squeeze him. And got airborne with him. Standing in the door jump master. “Stone Golem, “Germinoma Airborne leads the way!” He jumps. Rick, “Misty Step. Misty Step. “The stone golem disappears into the darkness. After more than a few seconds, “ow!” Rick picks up the bead of force the golem dropped.The group goes south and meets some Myconid, Myconid Sprout, who are taking in the peacefulness of the mushroom forest. Rick makes friends with them. Myconid warns the of the stone giants and stone fly men and rewards them potions to do so. Rick ask about the lich and then describes a lich.Myconid, “Non stone. Slightly fleshly thing go south. Jump laughing cavern. Slightly fleshy thing smelling of mold is south most cavern.” The laughing cavern turns out to be just another Halaster gag. Boulder has asked I don’t talk about the ten-foot-long by 1-foot pepperoni log he ate.The group enters a cavern full of small mushrooms, stalactites and stalagmites. Exploring the cavern, they hear some voices coming from a northern tunnel. They enter the tunnel and Aukan is yelled at in dwarven from a group of Duergar. Aukan does on response fast enough. Spells are slung. More spells are slung. Aukan gets turned into a t-rex.Gorka Tharn, “WHO DISTRUBES A MUMMY LORD REST. IS ANYONE LISTENING. IF YOU MAKE ME GET UP, I GOING TO KILL SOMEONE.” The mummy lord merges from his stalactite bed. Totally unnoticed. He attacks. And is laid back to rest with his mummy buddies in under three rounds. The group loot the mummies and go east.The group laughs as the enter a medium size cavern. Three gargoyles to the north and three gargoyles to the south. They got this. The Barbarian goes south, spells are cast. Some gargoyles go down. Some stone golems step out the stone and smash people. They got this. Nox goes down.  The still go this. Boulder near goes down. Ok they finally got this.(Ok a PC is down. Normally they retreat and I take a break while we advance the calendar by five days. But a lich is on the floor. So Nox uses his faction favor card from 08-00 Once in Waterdeep. I since I been trying to keep the last few levels complete in one sit down session give the group an offer. They can explore normally and this is going to two sessions. Or miss a magic item, I shift things around and they start near the boss fight. They choose boss fight.)Nox is on bed rest for four days and group finally on day 46 in a super huge cavern. Halaster, “hey what you doing here Rick. OH RICK. The lich is lair is just behind that door. SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE! Oh, sorry I think you wanted to get surprise on the lich. Here has an extra gargoyle to fight.” Initiative is rolled and the rolls will stay for the rest of the night.Drew cast some type of gate thingy and the party gates to the door. (grumble grumble gripe gripe). Aukan kicks in the door. The group mostly enters. (I had drawn the liches tower and numbered room).Chip, “Hi! I am Chip.”Dale, “I am Dale.”Chip and Dale, “And we the rescue rangers. We here to rescue your blood from your neck Rick” Dale puts Rick into a head lock and Dale bites Rick neck and starts to drain him.Chip and Dale, “DM our food will not stay still. And this sunlight is a pain.”DM,” Shut it. They casting good spells. Two people are outside the tower. And I rolling with disadvantage on everything. And waste two Nat 20s. Grumble Gripe.”The vampires Chip and Dale were put down and the party crowd into the first room. Aukan kicks open the dining room door. The only strange thing other than the table being set for two for a seven-course meal is the ice staff. Rick greedily grabs the ice staff. (Hey Rick don’t get handsy with the Lich’s staff).  The staff cast cone of cold as a reaction. (And I roll initiative and start at the top.)  Boulder goes first and on his second time around shatters the ice staff.  (Small discussion of me restarting initiative so it was agreed we just go in initiative order.)Rick opens the door and walks into Ezzat. “WHAT” says the group! “What?” said the dm.Ezzat, “Power word Kill!” Rick counter spelled with a Nat 20.  Lich did have lair and legendary actions. Chip and Dale show up again to smack Drew down to zero. (Forget the lair action but it does 52 points). More spells and counter spells. Aukan grabs the Ezzat in an armlock. Drew rolls a Nat 20 on her death save she is back up. More spell casting. More spamming of Disrupt Life and 52-point lair action. More counter spelling of the lich’s spell. More saving of Drew.  In the end Drew was dead. (Grumble gripe taking three or more tries). Boulder was TKO.  The Trollskull Manor people have a new bar staff, Ipses the pseudodragon.(Yes, this was the boss fight. The gloves came off and I was trying to legally kill the group. I was calling for hit point checks every round so the lich could target the weak.)Note the player running Rick is still using his player knowledge because he has finished the book in homebrew. But since he allowed another player to pick directions and used a light touch this week, it did not bother me as much.</blockquote>

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