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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evilhalfling" data-source="post: 1834177" data-attributes="member: 16991">End of CampaignThe party obtained advice from an oracle to place the exact day their enemies would be the weakest.  They attacked the Kaorti Cyst, retreating in and out of an antimagic shell, to the irritation of the high level wizard and sorcerer, who were taking care of the cyst while the leader was away. The monk was nearly killed by devils, but the druid cranked out 7 summoned animals, The dwarven paladin thrust the Sword of Normality into a gateway into the far realm, which broke the gateway and destroyed the +2 far realm bane,intelligent weapon.  He was saved by his squire, an undead halfling psion, furfilling the 1/2lings attonment quest and releaseing him into true death.  The blast destroyed the cyst, but the PCs were still protected by the Antimagic shell.  They D-Doored out just in time to face the last surviving kaorti - their former human mentor.  The paladins celestial warhorse which had arrived at the begining of the session charged him and struck him down as he tried to obliterated the stunned adventures.  The cyst was a sphere burried underground, and left a lovely crater.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> They retreated to a tower which they had cleared earlier, and regrouped, studying the records they had taken from the cyst.  They used The Book of Names (earlier quest artifact)to imprison the Kaorti leader.  This places a 15th lvl kaorti sorcerer out of the current game, but he will be a considerable threat to be recovered in a latter age <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They mastered the tower, and it has become a shrine to the elven godess of travel and planar gates.  The tower no longer prevents teleporting out, but is still easy to teleport into, redirecting all such movement to a central chamber.The Eyes of the King - part of a set of magic items were recoverd from the towers mechanism, bringing the total of set items to 4 of 13. They discoverd the origin of these Kaorti - a vanished collage of magic, and apprentices of the crafter of the quest items they had spent much of the game compeating  with kaorti and a high priestess, discussed below.They also found that the kaorti second sorcerer was assinated by a the archvillain of a previous game, at the behest of the high priestess of secrets- a LE powerbroker, still avenging the death of her son (a former PC) In wrap up a very good story ending, drawing threads from near the begining of the campaign and using up 2 quest items obtained earlier.  The party had lost 5 PCs and 2 NPC allies fighting these kaortri before this game.  It left both a mysterious crater and imprisoned evil Lord.  Unfortunatly the enemies did not provide strong enough opposition <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> , and only one PC came near death.  most of the others were barely scatched.  An 8 month RT campaign that led from 3rd-12th level in 3 yrs game time.  Now another DM takes over, while I take a long break.</blockquote>

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