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Friday Night Pathfinder: Wandering Around

The Shadowrunners started the week off with a full group in combat with a Bebelith.  Don the magnificent talked to the Bebilith and then called forth the Contract Devil in hopes that the Bebelith would find him more appetizing.  Instead, the Devil and Bebelith strike a contract, returning the Bebelith to its home place and ridding the party of the Contract Devil's possible future appearance.

In the room, the party found odds and ends junk.

During the start of the battle, Zirule, the cleric, was possessed by his diety, who has a major beef with Asmodeus for affecting his cleric through the foolish Gnome's wish.  Zirule's eyes glowed blue, his weapon glowed with blue flame, and he got stronger.  In the future, any encounters with serious evil alignment will probably call this diety power in Zirule.

The party went back from where they came.  They found a Vampire, and later a pair of glass golems.  They found a library full of books and scrolls.

Eventually they opened a rooms of 4 statues, each with jeweled eyes.  With the complete set appraised at 32000 gp, the rogue couldn't resist.  The rest of the party shut him in with the statues, and he remove the diamond eyes from the statue of Mystra, the only statue that seemed to have no aura of magic.

The rogue gained the two diamonds, but now has the curse / blessing that he is completely immune to all forms of magic until the curse is lifted.  This includes magical items, potions, and even healing spells.

The party moved on to a cavern where they encountered a Giant Anaconda.  River sliced and flambeed it quickly, crit-ing twice in a single round.  The tunnel leading out of the area was too long and too dangerous to attempt, so the party moved back to the cavern with the bebelith.  There they found a pair of caverns with dragon tracks back and forth and a third tunnel from which a seemingly familiar moaning was coming from.  The party moved towards the moaning.

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So the main character for the next sequence will be out for a couple of weeks, so the Friday night party has agreed to beta test Lilliput -- my 6 page RPG.  We shall see how it goes.

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