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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9797740" data-attributes="member: 27780">5 people present at the start, although the drow dropped out midway through. They resumed where they left off, rushing up the stairwell with the binder tanking a few rounds of lightning bolts before they reached the top. She couldn't shred the slaad responsible on the first round, because the spiral staircase stopped her from getting those charging bonuses, but the second let her annihilate it and one of the remaining human guards as well. Meanswhile the priestess stopped just below the landing and used her whip to disarm one of the guards through the gap in the stairwell's edge. She tried to trip another, but the dice were not with her that time. Meanwhile, the others all got into position behind the binder. After those couple of rounds of combat, the githyanki activated his planeshft power, taking them to somewhere in Bytopia well clear of any notable landmarks. Once there (and one check for wandering monsters later to make sure they didn't wind up blundering into a fight with some high power celestials) they used the enveloping pit to get back to Ruun-Khazai. There they commandeered the public baths in the dome to engage in the first part of the money laundering scheme, cleaning off beholder guts and doing just enough melting to remove the Redeagle branding from the bars & coins. They then had a lengthy debate about where to spend the money. Where was distant enough that they wouldn't have to worry about about the word getting back to Pharagos and rich enough that a bunch of high level adventurers suddenly dropping over a million gp wouldn't destabilise the economy? Sigil would be an obvious choice, but one of the other githyanki commanders had recently made the mistake of trying to move troops through there, resulting in them getting mazed and the lady of pain closing up all the direct gates between Sigil and Tu'narath, requiring another lengthy planar trip to get to a connection. Waterdeep was another obvious one, if maybe a bit too good-aligned for this group's tastes. Union was also floated, but they'd have the opposite problem there, of their money not going far enough in the hyperinflated epic level market of that place. In the end, they decided to head for the City of Brass (partly because the 2007 boxed set is relatively easy to access in my book collection so it was an easier setup than the others) reasoning that was the right combination of wealthy and shady that they'd have no trouble buying stuff there, although they might spend a bit more time in haggling than the other options. So after a rest to recover all their spells, they shifted off to the Plane of Molten Skies. Because the Sultan wants new arrivals to do the pilgrimage properly, this automatically made them appear right at the other end of the plane where the planes of air & earth meet, with the city itself 400 miles in the distance. (but still visible because the plane is flat and the city is huuuuuuge) But no-one said they had to walk all the way and since the priestess now has a nicely thematic flying carpet, that cut the journey down to 20 hours of two people at a time flying on it in shifts and the rest chilling in the enveloping pit. They did face three random encounters along the way: a duo of chimeras, passing through a pocket of negative energy and an elder air elemental annoyed by them invading its airspace, but these were all speedbumps resolved in a round or two. They then decided that although they could fly over the queue in the bazaar of beggars, they didn't want to attract too much official notice, so they landed and spent several more hours snaking through seeing the sights, exchanging some of their gold for lighter jewelery and feeling very thankful they don't have to pay the exorbitant prices for water around here. They did still have to pay a couple more "fees" though, first to fly the carpet over the bridge over the molten sea to the city itself and second the entry fee to the city, which they managed to haggle down by claiming to be on official business for the Lich-Queen, which is technically true even if she isn't personally aware of what all her minions are doing. Now they get to go shopping and sightseeing. Will they keep this trip as quick as possible, or will they get distracted by one of the many possible adventures contained within, which make up a whole other potential campaign that would level them up to being more than capable of taking on the lich-queen.</blockquote>

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