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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DestroyYouAlot" data-source="post: 3089178" data-attributes="member: 36618">Well, we're all still alive.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Of course, we've only been through a total of three monster encounters, all with single baddies that were too busy trying to eat the paladin to worry about little ol' me, but we survived a potential TPK trap to boot.  The monsters were a manticore, an ettin, and a minotaur, and the death trap was an flooding elevator room that came within a round of drowning both the halfling and the paladin.  (The bag of holding came in mighty handy in that particular jam, I managed to save the halfling's riding dog from drowning - although I'm not sure I'll ever get the wet dog smell out of my belongings.)  I took Magesmiley's advice and swapped the mage armor spell for enlarge and command for another bless at the earliest opportunity, both of which came in immediately handy.  But the MVS (Most Valuable Spell) of the sessions was definitely good'ol alarm - one of the most useful and under-valued spells in the book.  We had "cleared out" an ettin's lair, and found a passage behind it that led to a labyrinth complete with minotaur.  However, once we'd mapped that out, offed the bullman, and declared it monster-free, we still had nagging evidence (in the form of giant bird-like tracks outside the lair) that we weren't done.  There was no way to watch the lair without being seen ourselves, so I burned off an alarm scroll centered on the entrance and we retired to our comfy campsite.  Less then an hour later, we were able to track something (we don't know what, exactly) to a previously-undiscovered secret door leading to the aforementioned death trap, and more tunnels (to be continued)...</blockquote>

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