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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7418835" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER12  NEW TEAM ENTERS THE HIDDENSEGMENT 207”RAIDERS OF A FRUIT TREE” 05/06/18RHAAN 2, 1000   LATER AFTERNOON INSIDE THE HIDDENTwenty minutes later, further down the river Payne spots something rising out of the forest.  Something very large and off white.  He also sees something between them and this object.   A tree that looks out of place (it’s the first they have seen) and an ogre is picking at its fruit.Given no reason to, he attacks the ogre.  At this point he sees the group of gnolls that were directing the giant-kin.  Oops.  Oh well.The gnolls were hidden by large and tall shards of glass.  They move around it and find the main group flatfooted but at a distance.  They attack with their bows raining arrows onto the unsuspecting group. Paniced by the surprise, Xena releases a spell of confusion.   It has no affect on them.  (incredibly all passed) Dan hurries up to attack them but by using the shards for cover.  Khiss holds back.  He really doesn’t like these wet environments.   Xena asks if he wants to run on water.  “At what cost?”“Fine-  drown you little twirp.” And she casts Confusion once more but at a different spot.   Many suddenly stop and babble including the Ogre.  A few gnolls defy her attempts to disrupt them.  One, a cleric of The Mockery, calls up a spiritual weapon to attack the flying armored “man”.Dodging the floating weapon of faith, the warlock further attacks the ogre whom is nearly defenseless.  Dan , charging on the water’s surface,  begins to take down babbling gnolls ones by one.   A better skilled fighter holds back the barbarian.   This ranger switches from bow to sword as the barbarian moves in.   The barbarian drives him into the glass.   Pushing and driving the gnoll back and forth on the glass, the leather armor begins to slice apart.   The cleric is about to attack him with a spell from behind but the tiefling follower of The Fury strikes first.  A hold spell stops her in her tracks.  Unlike her, Xena moves up to attack in melee.  With her rapier she attacks the gnoll priestess but after the first strike her will to survive overcomes the spell.   But the gnoll sees what is happening as the ogre falls from repeated elderitch blasts from the flying warlock.She decides to flee.   With her magical kama having faded away, Payne easily now concentrates on her.  The last three gnolls go down quickly.After looting the bodies for whatever they happened to have they then heal and patch themselves up.After the warlock mentions the white hillside ahead of them along the river, they head to it.Though late in the day, they head for it.    Finally reaching it, it is more like a large white mound made of a course sand-paper like shell.  They circle it but find no entrance.   Birds of many sizes fly and circle the mound.  Deciding to look into the birds, the goblin easily begins to climb it.   The others follow.As the sun begins to set, they find an opening near the top.  Large bird dropping and an occasional feather doesn’t seem to worry the adventurers.   They peer into the sheer darkness and find a room with two exits.Time to camp.</blockquote>

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