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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9804032" data-attributes="member: 27780">4/5 people present. (The winged kobold has been left behind in Redeagle because his player has been forced to work on Sundays for the forseeable future, so as with the orc, he can be assumed to be off in Pharagos doing stuff to further the war effort, but in such a way that makes it easy for him to rejoin if his schedule should open up again.) The other players had all been busy shopping in the city of brass during downtime. The Githyanki used the Dome of Gates to make a quick trip to the Worldmeet Glade and come back with the attunement bonus from that. The sniper visited the Mosque of Smoke and tried to find out if the visions there could answer what was up with that gate under Needlespire and the dead world on the other side of it. In response, he got the cryptic response  "Every choice leads to a realm of endless possibilities, but some possibilities are so foul that they have been cast out. Yet even the strongest wall has a crack.", which does answer the question, if he can correctly decode what I'm hinting at. The binder was busiest of all, writing a full short story of how her character engaged in some serious gambling to eventually win a flying ship from a group of pirates and then deal with their attempts at violence in response. Only the priestess and drow didn't have anything special planned beyond just spending their money. Eventually, session time rolled around again, and all of them except the drow decided that they'd like to take a visit to the Circus of Pain, maybe participate in a game or two. They spent more than half an hour of real time going over the list of games in the book and asking further questions about the rules and potential rewards. (some of which I had to hurriedly make up the answers to as the rules in the book aren't that detailed.) Eventually they decided that since Brain Ball (dodgeball ..... to the death!) would involve the whole group, it would be more fun than one person competing and the rest watching from the sidelines. Of course they had to grease a few palms to sign up without becoming slaves and find a fifth party member, (an ogre mage also looking for a little easy glory by riding on the coattails of an obviously higher level party) but that wasn't a huge challenge with their skillset. They were matched up against a team of slaves that consisted of a human fighter, rogue & monk, a regular ogre and an efreeti. They won the toss and the priestess won initiative, so she got to throw the ball first, but due to the range penalty, it missed, leaving it open for the opposing side to grab it as they started to close. The ogre mage on their side became invisible first chance it had, planning to sneak around the sides and grab the ball at a suitable time to make a showy contribution. The efreeti on the other side used pyrotechnics to create a cloud of smoke, then also became invisible in a more subtle way once concealed. Not being very strong, our kobold sniper spent much of the match using his own lower level blasting spells as pyrotechnic effects, to hype up the crowd and hopefully catch the invisible people out. The monk proved to be the fastest and most adept at playing this game on the other side, bouncing the ball off the PC's and into the hands of of their rogue, but ultimately, the enemies were less skilled than the PC's. By the time the session reached it's end, the enemy fighter and ogre were down and the monk was looking decidedly shaky. The githyanki was using his telekinesis to grab the ball mid-air and disrupt their throws. The efreet had been hit by one of the sniper's blasts and decided to become visible again, throwing up a wall of fire to make the battlefield more complicated. The priestess and binder grew impatient with using only the ball to attack and tried a little fisticuffs to see what happened, which provoked a torrent of boos and thrown objects from the crowd. It's looking pretty certain that the PC's will win next time if they play fair, but if they continue to push the limits of the rules, who knows what kind of trouble they might get themselves into with the ringmaster. We'll see in a couple of weeks time, as I am once again being forced to work on Sunday as well.</blockquote>

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