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I've updated the XP and loot postings.

Note that, other than Miko's sword, you have not looted the bodies of the fallen priests. Since some of your current spells are time-sensitive (notably the summon monster spells and fly spells) I figured you guys might try pressing on at once rather than pausing to loot. Or were you intending to strip bodies and try teleporting to town, and letting Karl fend for himself in the interim?

I'll post the tactical map of where you currently are in a bit. Note that you currently have two avenues of exploration: the secret passage Copper is in (which ends at two doors), and the vertical shaft leading up (which is currently choked 40-feet thick with webs, preventing any view of what might lie beyond them).

You also have yet to deal with the blue and black dragons at the entrance, and the bone devil and night hag are presumably somewhere about. There's always the possibility you may have missed secret passages elsewhere as well.

Tactical Map

Tactical Map

It would perhaps be helpful if you guys were to discuss your plans for what to do next here on the boards each week, before the next session. That way you can all be on the same page once you finish a battle (or to figure out how to escape from one).

In the case of your current predicament WRT leaving the Fane, the main problem is that you have five PCs in the group, but the scroll only will take Trellara plus three others, leaving someone behind. The risk of leaving someone behind isn't simply that they might get killed. Rather, they could get captured, interrogated, stripped of gear, charmed, dominated, and turned against the PCs. Do you really want Evil Karl ambushing the party with sneak attacks on your return visit?? These are only worst-case scenarios, but they are a potential threat.

Trellara's opinion, I gather, has been to wait until someone dies, whereupon they become an object, and hence she can transport everyone, and the one PC can get raised back in town. This gets everyone out, but someone would be losing a level, and with your current XP totals that could really hurt. Another potential issue is that by the time one PC drops, others might also drop before everyone can gather around Trel. (There's also the fact that if Trellara dies, no one's going anywhere by teleporting.)

A third option would have been leaving out the front of the Fane, killing the dragons or bypassing them somehow, and camping out in the wilderness. Before your current battle this might have been a feasible option (e.g., haste/inviso Karl, have him run while the others buy him time, then the others teleport away when Karl has made good his escape, unless they get lucky with the dragon). That might still be an option if you guys can get through the current battle. I'm not sure why the fighter types have been hanging back.

WRT the teleport out thing, I did propose one possibility last night. Trellara has a revivify spell on a scroll, which can raise one PCwithout level loss if cast within one round of death. She could give it to Donav, and he could stand by with it. Then someone could kill a fellow PC, Trellara could teleport you, and Donav could revive them. This would require a fair amount of teamwork on your part, and someone has to be willing to take the coup de grace. But it is an option!


As for being burnt out on the adventure...sorry Desty, not sure what to say on that. I'd like to think I've included a fair amount of variety throughout the game. Was there something in particular you were looking for that you have not seen?

If it seems like this last part has been going on forever, in part that's because we've missed a number of sessions here and there in the last few months for one reason or another. Had we not, the campaign would probably be done with by now. If you have any other suggestions though, I'm willing to listen.


BTW, another thing you guys might want to do is, assuming you DO make it back to Brindol, start thinking about how you'll be leveling your PCs, total up your loot, and figure what you're likely to sell and buy. The more of this you handle on the boards now, the less game time is wasted covering it during a session. You might also contemplate what you might yet face in further threats in the complex. Based on what you have encountered thus far, you should have a fairly good idea of the most likely kinds of creatures you may still encounter.

Well, you have to get to the leader first...and you can bet the lair's not set up so that you can just ignore all his minions and make a beeline for him.

Don't underestimate the erinyes, by the way. They are by no means pushovers. The bearded devils are more in the lines of cannon fodder.

The erinyes' tactics are pretty clear at this point--as Desty mentioned, there's no reason they can't use their meatheads to bottleneck the passage while they hit you with two unholy blights a round. The spells don't do incredible damage (only 5d8), but that quickly adds up over time, especially with two of them doing it, and their own minions immune to the effects. You guys also run the risk if you spread out of having someone getting charmed.

The only problem I see with Ken's strategy (wait until a PC drops from enemy action) is that by the time it happens, everyone else may be so weakened from unholy blights (likely including Trel and Donav, if you plan on keeping people in a square/box formation) that more than one character may fall, possibly even including one or both spellcasters. It's a risk to consider in your tactics.