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Message: <blockquote data-quote="not-so-newguy" data-source="post: 9034171" data-attributes="member: 6786140">The group officially hates my pink D20.  I feel it's sort of a campaign milestone when players designate a specific DM's die for fear & loathing.[ATTACH]286492[/ATTACH]Session RecapThere And Back Again And There Again[spoiler][ATTACH=full]286493[/ATTACH][The Dazagr Ami region is a conglomerate of villages south west of Iruk. This region includes Huary Village. The Pit is near Huary.]Encounter 1 Back in Iruk 1xpEni the Cleric and Termis the Warrior returned to the large city of Iruk along with the freed prisoners of Palimdybis (Lester the Cleric, T. Wiggums the Dwarf, Todd Sweeney the Thief, Mizz Cleo the Wizard, Wiblo the Halfling, and Iris the Thief). The group met up with Orn the Warrior who previously was visiting with family. Orn also brought along his friend Iron the Warrior.The party stocked up on arms, armor, and equipment. The nefarious Cult of Palimdybis was the main topic of discussion in the city of Iruk. Some merchants were starting to refuse travel to the Dazagr Ami area in fear of being kidnapped by Grey Robes. Apparently, word of the party's exploits preceded their return. Despite the party being nearly wiped out, the survivors and new members of the party had gained some reknown. Eni and Termis being the most recognized.An offer:Bezad Abboud found the party at the Hairy Locust. The party was enjoying this respite with a hookah and Mutaz's potent hot brews. Bezad's second cousin's wife's niece was kidnapped by Grey Robes. Upon her return, he offered that estate near Thaduk village that the party had cleared out a couple of months ago. The manor still needed extensive repairs; but the party members could potentially stop sleeping in cheap inns, abandoned buildings, their mom's basement, etc.It took the party 5 days to return there again and thus Eni had fulfilled his promise to return to  Huary within 2 weeks. The mayor gifted a potion of healing (1d6 hp) to the party.Encounter 2 Revisiting the 1st Level 1xpThe party was soon traveling along the stairway carved along the interior of the Pit. They came across the first stone door along the stairway and opened it. It was a small shrine and behind the alter was a formerly concealed portal with the door ajar. The party recalled that Foddir the Elf (RIP) had used the passageways. They also recalled the traps he triggered and coming out a bloody mess while sneaking down those passageways. So they moved on.Next they came upon a cave opening and recalled that this was cavern of Basilisks that should now be dead. They explored the cavern again and found an exit where the cavern narrowed to a corridor of shaped stone. They came upon the giant Tentacle Elevator. Mizz Cleo used the Control Tentacle scroll. The tentacle moved the party down a shaft. It's worth noting that the shaft's interior wall had many different dark passages. The party arrived at the slave pit mill stone area.Encounter 3 Revisiting the Scene of the Crime3xpLester, T Wiggums, Mizz Cleo, Todd, Wiblo, and Iris all had flashbacks as the tentacle lowered to the Giant Mill Stone level where they were all formerly chained as slaves about two weeks ago. The traumatic experience may have scarred them, but it's also why most of them jumped to first level. The Mill Stone lay dormant as there was no team of slaves pushing the contraption to make it go. The familiar sound of red robes giving muffled instruction to grey robes could be heard to the north.The gang decided to pull the same star wars shenanigans as before, except they were all grey robes and no yellow robes this time. They decided to lead with two warriors, who are not skilled in disguise, instead of using the two highly skilled thieves. This gave them a 1 in 10 chance to pull off the disguise from roughly 30 feet away. They failed. Roll for initiative!Eni invoked the wrath of Cthulhu on the red robes and one of them fled back into the cavern, then Iron skewered another red robe with a javelin. Iris chased down the fleeing red robe hoping for a good back stab opportunity. Mizz Cleo melted some grey robes with an acidic cloud in an explosion of ass. (They rolled a 3 on manifestation for Choking Cloud and we have regressed to 12 year olds.) Iron was surprised by the octo-mass popping out of a Grey Robes chest. It dropped him on a crit. He was healed by the potion from Eni.Iris tracked down the red robe only to stumble upon toan. A ten foot tall, many tentacled beast with a beak. The party mopped up the last of the cultists and the toan.[Not a Toan, but the closest pic I could find][ATTACH]286494[/ATTACH]Encounter 4Things go sideways ¯\(ツ)/¯1xpThe party hopped on the Tentacle Elevator again and lowered down to the next level. The Tentacle stopped at a lit corridor. The party followed it single file. They came upon a four-way intersection and decided to continue straight. The passage narrowed a bit and became a little confining. T Wiggums was nicked by a swinging blade trap. They eventually came upon a shrine. They crawled out of statue of Palimdybis in order to enter. On the other side of the room was an engraved altar and on that alter were four buttons.T Wiggums, who led the party, pressed a random button before anyone else could react. Iron and Mizz Cleo, who closely followed behind, were lucky enough to note exactly which button he pressed.Mizz Cleo and Todd Sweeney pressed the same button as T Wiggums. They both disappeared. Iron decided to lie. He told Lester a different button. So Lester pressed it and disappeared. Iron followed Lester in pressing the same button as himIris, Wiblo, Eni, Termis, and Orn stayed behind.Encounter 5 Teleported to the Toan2xp T Wiggums, Mizz Cleo, Todd Sweeney onlyT Wiggums, Mizz Cleo, and Todd Sweeney transported to the same room within seconds of each other. They came upon a toan that was about to feed a human female who was chained to a wall. The party defeated the toan. The human turned out to be Wuzra the Ropemaker. This was the potential acolyte of Ildavir mentioned in the "Palimdybis Strikes Back!" recap. [She's now Alex's character since Lester is dead. She'll stay 0 level and will level-up after the adventure. She can choose any of the 4 classes]Encounter 6Teleported to the Yellow Robe0xpLester transported to a different room. Iron transported there 30 seconds later. Stuff happened and they're dead now.Total Experience Points after this session...Wiggums/Cleo/Todd 7xpIris/Wiblo/Orn 5xpEni/Termis  98xp[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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