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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 1573357" data-attributes="member: 18635">Session 7:Session 7:  Wherein with the strange tree dead, the party can approach the hole at its base leading down into the ground.  Before we do, however, we hear a noise in the woods behind us.  Out steps a human, he carries two weapons and his oriental features strike the party as familiar.  “Are you Wai Dinns comrades in arms?, I am his brother.  Fai Dinn.  I offer you my services”.   We accept Fai into the fold and approach the tree… We descend into the hole.  We come out into a corridor with a T-junction.  We spy a lot of Ratmen.  Fai launches himself at them and strikes one down with his first blow.  Xog casts divine favor on Fai, Tim moves forward and looks to his god cyrrollalee and casts his Family Domain spell, and Celene Dazes one of the Ratmen.  It looks like a promising start until one of the Ratman casts a spell on Fai.  That spell was a charm person..it worked!..  Celene is hit by magic missiles.  Fai aggressively turns on Tim, hitting the halfling. “Attacking us already?” quips Tim.  Lannet tries to arrow a Ratman but misses.  Tim attempts to hold person Fai but he shakes off the magic.  Celene hits a ratman with arrow fire.  The Ratmen fire a volley of arrows at us but they mostly miss.  One of the Ratmen mages attempts to charm Tim, Tim shrugs off the spell.  Fai turns his attentions on Xog but misses him with his Katana & Wakizashi.  Xog hits Fai choosing to try to subdue the fighter.  Tim swings his trusty morningstar at a Ratman and crits.  Killing the vermin.  Celene continues arrowing successfully, but fire is returned by the Ratmen and she is arrowed down (-3hp).  Fai again strikes Tim.  Lannet slays one of our foes and Tim heals Celene, who, a bit shaken, misses her target with her next arrows.  Poor Xog stands with his back to the wall and gets swarmed by Ratmen. One of the mages successfully touches Xog and he is suddenly paralyzed.  He also STINKS! (ghoul touch).  Fai launches a attacked at the bard Celene, she is hurt bad, but still on her feet (0hp!).  Tim attempts to cast cause fear, but in a panic fumbles the spell.  Celene retreats behind us, and the Ratmen advance.   Fai attempts to strike Lannet but Lannet dodges his blows.  Lannet attempts to hit a Ratman but misses.  Tim gets to Celene and heals her again.  Feeling a lot better she arrows a Ratman mage.  Fai hits Lannet once but it does little damage to the rogue.  Xog suddenly feels movement in his limbs, he is free!, he strikes at a Ratman next to him, but misses.  Tim also fails to hit a Ratman.  Xog is again “touched” by one of the mages but saves against another ghoul touch.  He is however, hit by another of the Ratmen.  Fai continues his assault on Lannet.  Tim casts shield other on Lannet.  Fai smacks Lannet down (-1hp).  Xog strikes and kills a Ratman.  Tim and Celene both assault a Ratman and kill it.  Fai moves to attack Xog and hits the dwarf.  Tim and Celene attempt to hit Fai but miss.  Fai returns the compliment by missing them both back!.  Xog heals up Lannet.  Who starts throwing daggers at our adversaries.  Fai hits Tim and knocks him down.  Xog slays another ratman.  Celene arrows Fai but misses the warrior, who steps forward and swings at Xog and Celene, luckily he misses.  Celene drops her crossbow and pulls out her longsword.  Fai once again knocks down Lannet before Xog strikes down Wai’s brother.  Celene gets to Tim and staunches his wounds.   Xog manages to stabalize Lannet with a small cure.     More Ratmen come from the T-junction, with only Celene and Xog conscious they decide to retreat.  Xog and Celene drag Tim, Fai & Lannet outside and quickly put them on the mules.  Xog manages to quickly cast another heal on Fai, bringing him to consciousness and not under the influence of the Ratmen.  We ride off, the Ratmen scramble out of the hole and fire a volley of arrows as we ride into the distance, one hits the unconscious Celene.     The party find a safe place to camp and rest the night.  Xog cures Tim, who, when he awakes, marches over to Fai and slaps him round the face… “I’ll accept that” says Fai.  Celene breaks up the tension in the camp by doing her “Washing Machine trick”.  We place stuff in a bag and it comes out clean! (presdigitation).  Fai cleans his weapon of (the partys) blood.  Tim cooks dinner and Lannet remarks “I wanna go back anyway and get my magic dagger which I threw”, “and I left my crossbow” replies Celene.     We decide to have a couple of days rest and then we return to the “Ratmen Tree”.  We approach cautiously spying two Ratmen on guard outside the tree.  Tim and Celene cast buffs and Lannet sneaks forward first, followed by Xog and Fai.  From their vantage point and making the most of surprise.. Fai, Lannet and Xog launch missiles at the two unaware guards.  All the missiles miss!..  The ratmen scream for their comrades below Fai strikes a pose and charges at the ratmen destroying one instantly.  Xog arrows the other to death.   We descend into the hole and are again attacked.  Celene sends in a summoned fire beetle and manages to daze a caster.  Seeing how successful it was last time, the casters again try to charm Fai.  This time they fail.  Tim fires off a sound burst spell, he kills Celene’s beetle but also stuns four ratmen.  We all move in.  One of the Ratmen casters manages to charm Fai, but he couldn’t command him to attack us.  Instead Fai just walks off round the corner saying to his new friend “ill get dinner”.   Xog fires with arrows and Tim summons a celestial dog onto one of the casters.  The dog dosen’t last long as it is magic missiled, as is Lannet.     Fai Dinn has pressing matters to attend to, his friend, the guy with whiskers, has asked him to get him his dinner.  Now, where is the kitchen.  Gotta be around here somewhere.  Ahh, heres a room, ah theres more whiskered guys.. there casting a spell on me>?, (in the room is two other casters, they attempt to also charm Fai into attacking his comrades, but he resists this suggestion so they get him to stay here).  Ok they want me to stay here, ill do that then.  Thinks Fai.  The ratmen leave the room to assist their comrades in attacking these human/dwarf/halfling scum who have invaded their home.    Tim seeing the ratmen onslaught and expecting a lot of arrows fired at him, casts entropy shield on himself.  Lannet misses one and so does Celene and Xog with their arrows.  “Help” shouts Lannet as he is struck by the Leader Ratman. Tim uses his family domain and Celene breaks into song.  One of the Ratmen gets a good strike in on Xog, but the sturdy dwarf hardly registers the blow.     Back in the other room, Fai is waiting.  Suddenly a Ratman enters the room and fires magic missiles at him.  Wounded, but not now charmed, Fai strikes at his foe.     Xog fells a ratman, but Tim, Lannet and Celene miss their targets.  Sensing confidence is low, Celene sings louder.  Tim is touched by one of the mages and is paralyzed.  He begins to exude a horrid stench.  So bad that some of the Ratmen are affected by it.  Celene arrows one down.    Fai and the mage exchange blows, Fai is hurt bad (1hp) but replies by critical hitting the mage.  The mage however, downs Fai on his next hit.  Leaving him to bleed, the mage goes out to join the battle in the corridor.     Lannet’s hits the Leader Ratman but barely scrapes it.  Celene causes great damage with an arrow.  Lannet is drained of some of his lifeforce (vampiric touch), Xog steps in quick and heals him.  Lannet and Xog are also sickened at Tim’s stench but they manage to hit the Leader Ratman.  Lannet getting the killing blow.  Celene is fighting a ratman, when Xog charges over and kills it, the party breathe a sigh of relief at being victorious.  We go find Fai.  We find him bleeding in a room.  Xog, calling on the healing powers of his lord and master Berronar Truesilver, heals up Fai and Lannet and we find loot!: Swimming potion, potion of cure moderate wounds, golden yellow topaz (we recon worth about 500gp), wand, a staff with a inset eye and a scroll we cant read.      We decide to head out, as we are going we meet somebody.  A man, who is a ranger named Herl.  He asks us if we found a staff (with inset eye), we tell him we did.  He asks for it, stating it is his friend Grethrame’s who is a goodly witch who lives north of the ruined keep.  Irallion had gave her the staff and she was in love with him.  She had been cast out of fairhill by Shandil for casting magic.  We agree to give him the staff.     mmm.. the plot deepens… The party travel back to Fairhill and train in their abilities.  Tim being trained in the ways of the Rogue by Lannet.</blockquote>

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