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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LarryD" data-source="post: 6873047" data-attributes="member: 6804963">DM'd PotA Saturday night. Big battle at Feathergale Spire. [background] Party decided to infiltrate Air Cult, and had won the trust of Thurl Merroska. To prove their worthiness, he instructed them to sneak into Sacred Stone Monastery and return with the head of Hellenrae. They did. Miraculously (lots of crits, good stealth rolls, etc). Thurl tells them to wait 3 days in Red Larch and he will send for them, after he takes the head to the Air Cult temple and makes the case to have the party fully admitted into the Air Cult.Play started after those 3 days. Party was ambushed by Earth Cult as they made their way to Feathergale, and they see the tower being attacked by the Earth Cult. Big time reprisal. They barely survive the surprise bulette/burrowshark attack outside the tower. They fight their way to the pinnacle (two separate encounters), where Thurl is battling 3 monks and a Stonemelder. Party helps out, and saves Thurl. But he's pissed, because the Air Cult leader had told him the party were spies sent by Order of the Gauntlet (which they were), so he was about to fight them, along with two surviving knights who were circling the tower on giant vultures.But.......just then, bulettes began tunnelling through the foundation of Feathergale Spire. Dexterity saving throws to keep balance. Thurl calls for one of the giant vultures to save him. 3 party members - pretty weakened by this time - decide to cut their losses and go back down the tower steps to escape and fight another day. One party member tries to intimidate Thurl, fails. He ends up two moves behind rest of party. I figured 6 rounds to get from pinnacle, down the steps, thru the main hall, and across the drawbridge to solid ground, with last 3 rounds dex ST at disadv. Party makes it without a single failure. 4th guy failed one ST, and he would have made it had he not also failed on the last round.So he's under tons of rock in the canyon beneath Feathergale Spire.</blockquote>

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