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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4538865" data-attributes="member: 386">Two updates, this time.Two weeks ago the PCs embarked on a quest from the Mages of Saruun to destroy the Temple of Torog somewhere in the Cisterns.  (Luckily the PCs had a map, even if it was tatooed on the stinking flesh of a troglodyte.)  Orontar asked the PCs to infiltrate into the temple, open up a Linked Portal, and then the Mages would clean up.We started with an encounter featuring swarms of worms, beetles, and a carrion crawler guarding a well that led into the cisterns.  Swarms of worms and beetles were flooding into the chamber from hollow carved columns.  The PCs figured out that this crazy bug fest was being caused from a sacred circle of Torog, which they wiped out.The PCs cleaned up, then headed down into the Cisterns.I ran a skill challenge as the PCs followed the map deep into the cisterns.  They avoided some encounters, fought off a giant water snake (like the thing that grabbed Luke in the Death Star's garbage compactor), and finally reached the gates to the troglodyte warren.Creative use of cantrips caused most of the guards to flee, and the PCs fought their way in.After not much time the PCs found themselves trapped in a room with hundreds of angry troglodytes coming after them.  The Wizard was busy using the Linked Portal - though not in the temple, like the Mages asked.I was using minions - way too high level minions, too, big mistake!  There was a standoff between the PCs in their little chamber and the trogs on the other side, caused by the Warlock's Armour of Agathas.  Finally, the Wizard opened the Linked Portal, and Orontar and his men jumped through."What the hell is this?  Where's the temple?"  Orontar says."On the other side of that horde of troglodytes.""Screw this.  We wanted the portal open in the temple.  You guys messed up."  He jumps back and the portal closes.  Only a few human guards made it through.  (So far it had been too easy for the PCs, so I upped the difficulty.)The PCs escaped through the hot air heating system in the troglodyte warren (old minotaur baths) and we ran another skill challenge.  I allowed them to take an extended rest, which was probably not a good idea.  The PCs were hunted but they made it into the temple.The final encounter saw the PCs clean up pretty handily, with a loss of healing surges but only the warlord went down once.  When they destroyed the altar, the temple began to crumble, and they escaped through a back tunnel.</blockquote>

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