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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5388303" data-attributes="member: 60965">Tonight session started with a handy recap.  Here's roughly what happened last session:Shalara, a noblewoman with a Mul bodyguard named Rock, hired us to escort her to her brother's estate along the trade road we were set to head down now that we had no desire to ply the Sea of Silt in spite of having a sand skiff.The group was waylaid by a giant wanting a toll and getting death instead.  Notably during the fight, Shalara revealed herself as an arcane caster and wasn't promptly murdered by the group.The group then reached South Ledopolis, a city-state working on building a massive bridge to span the Estuary (local branch of the Silt Sea).  The two previous attempts to build the bridge were foiled by the hill giants in the Island of Ledo.  Locals requested that the group negotiate with the giants and the group, after a brief cost-benefit analysis, said nay due to being cursed by a lich and wanted to keep a move on.End recap.Tonight's session:We left South Ledopolis along the trade road for a couple days before spotting the front of a (relatively) minor sandstorm, reaching an empty outpost right before the storm hit.  Ducking into the largest tent we saw, we found it overturned, the bodies in there apparently - and strangely - drowned by silt.As the storm built up outside, suddenly our tent collapsed and we began to suffocate in silt, everyone but Jinn taking a bunch of damage and being slowed.We pulled our way out of the tent, finding our vision limited to 5 squares.  The storm itself began manifesting, tearing into Eberk(29(!) damage and immobilized).  We attacked the thickest portion of it, finding - to no big surprise - our weapons had little effect on it(pretty sure it was insubstantial).After a couple rounds of using up most of our heals keeping Eberk alive, it condensed in next to Thoon in the back of the group as well.  Rock, the mul bodyguard (NPC, not player) finally came out to help us during round 3, right after Jin bloodied it with one of the party's few burst/blasts (which seemed far more effective than our regular attack).The first manifestation died trying to shift, triggering Viper's Strike's rider from Kyden(OA on shift) delivered via Rock and augmented by Jin's Ardent OA-boosting aura.  The second replied by dropping Thoon and bringing a 3rd manifestation in to beat on Jinn.Kyden used Fearless Rescue to keep Thoon from going down and the fight raged on.  A 4th manifestation showed up behind Kyden, at which point the party was getting pretty worried.  Thoon was dropped, and the 2nd manifestation was dropped shortly after via the same method as the first, just made a bit more exciting by Rock rolling a 1, breaking her fullblade for a re-roll, and critting.Eberk finished off the third with an AP Daily + an Augment 1.  The last manifestation dissipated into the fading storm.Resources used: Kyden(1 surge, 1 daily), Jinn(4 surges, 2 dailies), Thoon(4 surges), Eberk(6 surges, 1 daily).The outpost was found to be abandoned, so after some cursory looting, the group continued on to Balic.  Two days later (-Thoon's player, +a visiting high-school buddy playing a Mul Fighter named Marok and his girlfriend playing an Elven Rogue named Athena) we neared Balic.We saw two dozen Balic guards surrounding said Mul and Elf, hassling them.  The group unloaded from our skiff and the Balic officer in charge of the men ordered we present all of our weapons and equipment for search.  One look at Shalara's fearful expression and weapons were drawn.This was essentially an introductory fight since Marok's player had only played 4e once and his girlfriend was new to roleplaying entirely.The fight was pretty straight-forward.  A dozen minion Artillery archers, four Soldier swordsmen, and an officer leader Controller with some psychic powers. Jinn got taken town by the leader(again brought up by Kyden's Fearless Rescue), but otherwise, no one even went bloodied.  Half the archers ended up fleeing, Athena killed the last Soldier that tried to escape, and we took two of the last prisoner to sell as slaves.A day later, we arrived at Shalara's brother-in-law Ermak's estate, a small walled compound with kradlu's, erdlus, and rows, a fountain, well, and rows of olive trees.We settled down for dinner with Ermak. We found out he and his sister were members of something called the Veiled Alliance, also called the Preservers.  We also ended up telling him about Uralek the "ancient undead defiler" that had enchanted us.He proposed we go for the Scroll of Bodak, except bring it to the Veiled Alliance instead of Uralek.  We made general travel plans(-> Balic -> Samarah -> Bodak) and rested, ready to head out the next day.Session end.</blockquote>

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