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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 1789573" data-attributes="member: 2072">Last week my undersea PbP campaign, "Beneath the Pinnacles of  Azor'alq" returned from a lengthy hiatus.   After an encounter at a site of unspeakable evil, where a mass sacrifice was made to honor a fiendish sea hag lich, as she embraced the rites of the demi-lich, and a sea hag rose from the dead as a blood magus, the party awakened as if from a dream. They discovered that their benefactor Xaetra, a neutrally-aligned spectral hag who now inhabits a metal construct, had saved their souls from evil, but at a cost. Three years had passed, their souls entrapped within mystic gems while their bodies, recently reformed from ash, had aged but six months.    This week, the party learns what can happen, when bodies ages six months. One PC, a tiefling mermaid, is now expecting twins. The father of the unborn siblings, a human who has grafts and a symbiont from the extinct subrace of fish hags (a creation of the kaorti), discovered that he too carries a child, for fish hags are parthenogenetic. A fourth child, the mechanatrix daughter of the iron hag, nears it's birth from within an emerald hourglass, while the fifth child, the asura offspring of the spectral hag before her untimely demise at the hands of her sea hag granddaughter (now the blood magus), was recovered after being stolen by a bonehag (new type of hag inspired by Peg-a-Lanterns) body snatcher (hag PrC that can "steal" the unborn, among other abilities) has aged three years and now appears as a young woman.   The party learned of a demiplane or pocket dimension known as Dream Lake. Created by Xaetra to hold her own mobile fortress, the Nighthouse, Dream Lake may serve as a timely nursery for the impending infants.   One PC, the oceanid (offspring of a salt hag and triton) granddaughter of the spectral hag (salt hags being the children of night hags and sea elves) has learned that there is a traitor amongst the party members.   The party also discovered that the artifact they had been questing for, the Talisman of Al'Akbar, was given to the Thousand Immortals, paladins of Azor'alq, in exchange for purging the soul gems of the taint of evil. Xaetra had hoped to use the artifacts of Al'Akbar to regain her mortality.   Now they find themselves in Hagstone Chapel, a sunken shard of the isle of Almat, which once was suspended upon the pinnacles. Now wedged between three of the pillars, Hagstone Chapel features a deep circular chasm spanning the depth of its mass. The hole is the home of the Wyrding Witch, an elemental water weird.</blockquote>

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