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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7457073" data-attributes="member: 6920268">We start with a revelation about the past of ManuelDeep in the heart of the brooding draconic architecture of Seobrigga a Goblin family departs one of the first magic lantern shows to make it to the capital of the newly civilized nation of Ber the parents are among the new class of industrialist setting up in newly stable Ber with help from optimistic financiers from Risur or Danor. This family accidentally take a wrong turn into a street claimed by the territorial Gnolls and are attacked , the parents killed and their money stolen , leaving only their son Manuel to be raised by an aged family retainer who uses the last of the family fortune to move to Ber, taking only Roger the young Manuels pet Dire Bat to remind him of home.....Then we move on to the Ziggurat. The team began by attacking the thoughforms in the pit trap room they mostly dispatched them with ranged combat although Ulvaar and Manuel did enter the room they rapidly saw through the illusion however in the course of this combat Ulvaar, El Kevin and Manuel all managed to go mad from the effects of Distance disease.Ulvaar started to misjudge distances in stressful situation effectively moving at half pace in all combats , this would be problematical later.El Kevin started to think his well earned draconic apotheosis was at hand and began to loudly discuss how he would develop new draconic powers and start to use them.Manuel began to think of himself even more as Bat Manuel and start to act the part of the brooding hero, he may also write or commision penny dreadfuls about Bat Manuel, it is not certain even curing the insanity will entirely reverse this as the player finds it so amusing.Moving forward they found the seal room and managed to prevent Bat Manuel from rushing in although he did shoot one of the rainbow serpent statues to see what it did. The rest decided all the dead bodies meant this room should be investigated last. Moving through the Ziggurat they found and investigated all the other rooms including locating the Mavisha Zigurat. During this time they all have visions.Ulvaar saw himself standing atop a floating island in a storm with another Ziggurat behind him with which he felt a strange kinship El Kevin saw himself standing on top a mountain feeling the wind on his vast wings (this one is entirely down to his insanity)Manuel I believe saw himself skulking through the shadows of Seobrigga looking for someoneNevla saw  a dark metal room inside a building with a strange eladrin woman whom she felt she knew but did not recognise (Kasavarina)They avoided the rainbow room working out that the archeologists had gone to a lot of trouble to go around it and I am not so keen on puzzles that I felt the need to push them into visiting it. Although I did give Manuel the vision of the ancients although is his version one of the Ancients was a goblin.Finally they entered the seal room , and rapidly saw that the seal here was false , they had been wondering what the second team of specialists had taken , and now they knew they had taken the real seal. At this point the flood started and the dead arose, they fled retreating the way they knew fortunatly they had advanced grenades which did slashing damage allowing them to take down most of the Mummies although they took a fair amount of damage particularly as their tank Ulvaar was moving very slowly and his lightning axe did nothing to the mummies. El Kevin triggerred a fire trap as his draconic powers made him immune (they did not) and the rest of the party was not happy either. Finally the wizard mummy gave them a nasty shock using magic missile to badly injure the ranged combatants of the party before they all broke out of the Ziggurat .They retreated up the Zigguarate when the Voice of Rot emerged and rapidly agreed to track down the escapee for it, they only asked one question while El Kevin maintained a  rigid posture of saluting. This clarified they were looking for a spirit which had escaped and they immediately leaped to the conclusion that Xambria was possessed although they think she may be in control some of the time. Next session they return to Flint to try and track her down</blockquote>

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