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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erucsbo" data-source="post: 5029979" data-attributes="member: 40110">And we are doneAfter 4 years and 4 months the party has left the World's Largest Dungeon.Players were well and truly sick and tired of being stuck there and in retrospect it might have been better to have them escape much sooner and use some of the sections as stand-alone adventures.After retreating from the giants wth 2 dead characters I forced the pace.In the distance they heard a trumpet sound, the bard identifying it as the Trumpet Archon from the Garrison in G.Then the earthquakes started.(The Garrison had finished its cleanup of the WLD and the NPCs had assisted in hitting activating the Final Solution in the Tomb.The Elves had heard the 3rd pronouncement from the tree and could leave through the rift in the ceiling.)The roof started collapsing so the party took shelter within an extra-dimensional space (I allowed this as it was artifact level magic and they were on the periphery of the WLD and the protections were being dismantled.20 minutes inside the sanctuary saw both the dead cleric and dead eldritch knight resurrected and on leaving the caves had collapsed down to unstable crawlways and passages.They made their way north and I had a rift open up to the eastern cavern (I wanted them to get to the Titan and if they had gone the normal way then it would have been exit and that's all folks).Encountering a wall of ice in front of them (within which they could see the titan) they retreated to the extradimensional space and had a blade barrier operate for 12 rounds chipping away at the ice until enough damage had been done to free the titan.He polymorphed down to medium size and they headed west to an encounter with Jardarir, who was trapped under lots of rock.He had cast Divine Might to increase his size to get out.The party went on the offensive and cast acid fog, cloudkill etc while Barcellus used Fire Storm.A dispel magic by Jardarir failed to get rid of the acid fog and the party eventually dropped him.Barcellus accompanied them to the exit and they saw the destruction of the WLD from above as the elves could be spied in the distance emerging high in the mountains, a beam of light showing where the garrison celestials were escaping and huge rifts filled with lava showed that the river of lava had expanded and was now filling out the rest of the dungeon.Word reached them that the drow and driders had the option of escaping back via the source of the river of lava before it expanded.The residents of the Pyrefaust were not fussed with the lava expansion and could now move away since the roof had collapsed.Regions B, C, D, F and L were not explored by the party and thus didn't need to explained.Barcellus would deal with any Frost Giants that managed to escape before going back to find the body of his brother. I am now taking a break from DMing and will enjoy being a player again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I'd like to thank the posters on this thread for all the help you have provided over the years and I'll try and stick my head in from time to time to "pay it forward".</blockquote>

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