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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 224261" data-attributes="member: 259">Great to see someone's reading it, Clint, and thanks for the compliments!Okay, here's the illithid's plan:-It was summoned to this world by a bunch of sorcerers who got in way over their heads.  The illithid comes from a world in which memories are raw power; by eating brains, it can absorb the memories of its victims.  Sad thing is, in the illithid's home dimension, intelligent beings are terribly rare (other than illithids), and so new brains are very valuable.And suddenly, it's been summoned into a city of thousands of fresh victims.  Yum!The illithid's ultimate goal is to transport the entire population of the town back to its home dimension.  In order to do that, it's sent out a call to yet other cultists, via the Blessed's contacts.These other cultists -- comprising all the evil clerics and rogues who show up in the second part of the adventure -- have the knowhow, but not the resources, to open a gate between dimensions  They plan to doublecross the illithid, by opening a gate to their own evil god's dimension; however, the illithid is aware of their doublecrossing plans, and is able to subert any gate that gets made.  At any rate, here's the illithid's plan:-Cause a ruckus at the festival, during which he sneaks into the Baron's manor and takes over the baron.-Have the evil clerics take over the temple of Pelor in town, pretending to be Pelor clerics themselves (IIRC, the Pelor temple is the one with the gate in it -- whichever one has the hellmouth is the one they take over).  To this end, I made the evil clerics have the trickery domain.-Have bad stuff start happening in town.-Have the charmed baron declare martial law.-Open the dimensional gate in the Pelor temple.-Once everything starts getting REALLY bad, have the evil clerics, pretending to be the now-outlawed clerics of Pelor, put up flyers around town announcing that the Temple of Pelor was becoming a headquarters of resistance against the scary Baron.-Have one of the demons cloak the hellmouth with a major image.-Construct surreptitious means to bar all doors to the temple from the outside.-Announce a time for all the townspeople to come to the Temple to discuss these plans.-When everyone comes to the temple, bar the doors (preventing escape) and herd the townspeople, using the barghest's fear effects, suggestions, and similar magics, through the portal and into the illithid's home dimension.  Buffet for the illithids, coming right up!Next:  the Blessed's Journal (assuming i can find my copy of it)Daniel</blockquote>

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