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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Three_Haligonians" data-source="post: 4063494" data-attributes="member: 19546">So here's what happened to me:I run an Epic Game - the PCs were on a quest to enter the Great Desert and find the 1st temple to the Sun God that was ever made (now long lost and buried in the sand).To get there, they all had to pass through a very dangerous portion of the desert, filled with salt rivers, unstable canyons, deadly dunes... and every other supernatural hazard from Sandstorm.They decide instead, to save resources and take the valley pass that goes through it. However, this pass is controlled - at the beginning is a desert camp that is run by an evil sphinx of no small power (advanced, with lots of Druid levels to make her an Epic challenge).So begins the parley - the Sphinx wants to charge them outrageous prices for passing though "her territory" and insists they buy food and water from her for the trip (as a druid, she didn't want them hunting or foraging in the area.. it would be disruptive).. of course, the price for supplies was equally high.They refuse, and after a bit of negotiation the Sphinx proposes "answer my three riddles and you can have passage and supplies free of charge". (It's a sphinx, in the desert.. you all saw that coming..). The party agrees, though they don't like it, and answer the first two riddles without too much trouble.Then the Sphinx pulls out her ace in the hole - she asks the third riddle in Druidic.None of the characters are Druids but one has the Epic feat polyglot and another has a permanent tongues spell so they both understand her just fine. Just to throw her trick back in her face, they answer in Druidic as well.The Sphinx asks, "oh... I didn't realize you were also children of nature.." and they reply "ha! we're not! shows what you know.."The sphinx replies "you know our secret language? for that you must die!" and attacks (this was all what I figured would happen.. and I am well prepared for the upcoming battle)The sorceress wins initiative over the Sphinx and casts Otto's Irresistible Dance2 rounds later the Sphinx was dead... never got a chance to do a thing - the party just surrounded her and killed her with all the AoOs.I still have the untouched sheet filled with her stats and spells... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> J from Three Haligonians</blockquote>

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