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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9251952" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session ("You and What Army?"), the PCs:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saw a tyrannosaurus running up a hill at them, followed shortly by a triceratops, which was odd ("Why is a plant-eater chasing a meat-eater?")</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The half-orc cleric/paladin had his cloud-horse fly up 100 feet, and saw half a dozen or more horse-sized ants approaching at the bottom of the hill, plus a bunch of something else causing the grass to move about; he could have sworn he saw a humanoid figure there as well, but when he looked again he was gone</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf sorcerer cast a <em>wall of force</em> to separate them from the tyrannosaurus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the dwarf cleric (the only one on the other side of the <em>wall of force</em> by the tyrannosaur) try to cast <em>hold monster</em> on the tyrannosaur when it went for her bonehead mount, but the spell failed and the mount was bitten and mouth-grappled, spilling the dwarf to the ground</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc cast <em>freedom of movement</em> to let the bonehead escape the tyrannosaur's mouth (at the cost of 2d6 points of falling damage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off the advancing army ant swarms and giant army ant soldiers for a while (mostly using the sorcerer's <em>cone of cold</em> spells and a <em>prismatic spray</em> spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had an allip pop up out of the ground, whose babbling paralyzed the sorcerer's bonehead mount; the allip was slain by the half-orc who cast a healing spell at it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tossed the bonehead into the extradimensional lamp, then had to do it again when another mount got paralyzed by another allip (this one got slain within a lucky <em>cone of cold</em> spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fled the oncoming ants, following their halfling guide who led them to a rope bridge over a river they could cross</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Made it across the bridge (slaying a bunch of giant ants and ant swarms behind them, as well as a third allip) and cut the ropes, only to see the ants start building a bridge using their own bodies, causing the PCs to flee to a branch of the river some miles away that would be too wide for the ants to cross</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had to fight off 2 dimetrodons at the river's edge, only to be attacked by five ichthyosaurs once their bonehead mounts entered the river</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought off the ichthyosaurs long enough for everyone to get across</li> </ul><p>The allips were jungle drow who had been slain by being eaten alive by the marauding ants swarms; the horror of the attack being enough to cause their horrified spirits to become allips; I just wanted a cool reason for allips to hang out with the ants, since their babble attack caused those who fail their saves to remain immobilized for a few rounds, a nice wrinkle for the PCs to have to worry about with dozens of approaching army ant swarms.</p><p></p><p>I played the usual various "Music from the Hearts of Space" episodes as background music, but once the ants first arrived on the scene I put that music on hold and played "Ants Invasion" by Adam Ant, then returned to the normal music once it was over.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 9251952, member: 508"] In today's "Dreams of Erthe" session ("You and What Army?"), the PCs: [LIST] [*]Saw a tyrannosaurus running up a hill at them, followed shortly by a triceratops, which was odd ("Why is a plant-eater chasing a meat-eater?") [*]The half-orc cleric/paladin had his cloud-horse fly up 100 feet, and saw half a dozen or more horse-sized ants approaching at the bottom of the hill, plus a bunch of something else causing the grass to move about; he could have sworn he saw a humanoid figure there as well, but when he looked again he was gone [*]Had the elf sorcerer cast a [i]wall of force[/i] to separate them from the tyrannosaurus [*]Had the dwarf cleric (the only one on the other side of the [i]wall of force[/i] by the tyrannosaur) try to cast [i]hold monster[/i] on the tyrannosaur when it went for her bonehead mount, but the spell failed and the mount was bitten and mouth-grappled, spilling the dwarf to the ground [*]Had the half-orc cast [i]freedom of movement[/i] to let the bonehead escape the tyrannosaur's mouth (at the cost of 2d6 points of falling damage) [*]Fought off the advancing army ant swarms and giant army ant soldiers for a while (mostly using the sorcerer's [i]cone of cold[/i] spells and a [i]prismatic spray[/i] spell) [*]Had an allip pop up out of the ground, whose babbling paralyzed the sorcerer's bonehead mount; the allip was slain by the half-orc who cast a healing spell at it [*]Tossed the bonehead into the extradimensional lamp, then had to do it again when another mount got paralyzed by another allip (this one got slain within a lucky [i]cone of cold[/i] spell) [*]Fled the oncoming ants, following their halfling guide who led them to a rope bridge over a river they could cross [*]Made it across the bridge (slaying a bunch of giant ants and ant swarms behind them, as well as a third allip) and cut the ropes, only to see the ants start building a bridge using their own bodies, causing the PCs to flee to a branch of the river some miles away that would be too wide for the ants to cross [*]Had to fight off 2 dimetrodons at the river's edge, only to be attacked by five ichthyosaurs once their bonehead mounts entered the river [*]Fought off the ichthyosaurs long enough for everyone to get across [/LIST] The allips were jungle drow who had been slain by being eaten alive by the marauding ants swarms; the horror of the attack being enough to cause their horrified spirits to become allips; I just wanted a cool reason for allips to hang out with the ants, since their babble attack caused those who fail their saves to remain immobilized for a few rounds, a nice wrinkle for the PCs to have to worry about with dozens of approaching army ant swarms. I played the usual various "Music from the Hearts of Space" episodes as background music, but once the ants first arrived on the scene I put that music on hold and played "Ants Invasion" by Adam Ant, then returned to the normal music once it was over. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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