====== Campaign X, Season 2, Episode 34 ======

===== Ghostly Antimagic =====

**Location:**  Rakoran Forests west of [[gaeleth:places:Rilan]]

**Date:** Dalan the 4th, 1335 Avard

**Characters:**  [[gaeleth:people:Chimes]], [[gaeleth:people:Hiko]], [[gaeleth:people:Toox]], [[gaeleth:people:Roland]]\\

Bullet Notes:\\
* Team continued along high road towards Lok Durass in chilly rains\\
* A split on the road was unmarked on the map, going up out of the valley\\
* The elven word for 'forest' was written in dwarven runes, indicating where the road went\\
* They found a dwarven 'guard shack' with an illusion of a ghost written in ancient arcane magics\\
* Chimes thought the single-door entrance was Lok Durass' entrance\\
* Inside they found well-reserved ruins for perhaps a dozen dwarves\\
* They were attacked by a ghost similar to the illusion before the first door was fully open\\
* The ghost frightened Cleo the gryphon off, and aged her poorly\\
* After they defeated the first ghost, they went in more cautiously\\
* In the small kitchen, Chimes found a conch shell prepped for music\\
* Hiko blew quietly on the conch shell, but they heard an answer\\
* They were attacked by ghosts, as were the mounts left in the foyer\\
* Some of the ghosts could siphon magic, absorbing it, growing stronger\\
* After a rough-and-tumble battle, they defeated all of the ghosts save one -- a magic eater\\
* They fled before the magic-eating ghost could free itself from //banishment// \\

====== Behind the Scenes ======

**Date:**  FEB2021

**DM's Notes:**  Caileb's starting to feel like I hate him -- antimagic zones, magic-eating ghosts, and then I neglected to inform him (despite a high knowledge roll by Chimes) that ghosts were immune to cold damage -- and he blew a 4th level //ice storm// on a pack of the ghosts.  Caileb muttered, "This is bullshit!"  After how I treated Hiko's use of illusions in the ice dragon encounters, I know he feels frustrated.  I just hope he can hang in there for the rewards.

This episode also saw the party wishing they had a full cleric with them -- for a moment.  All of them can do magical damage:  Chimes' bow does ungodly damage, Toox' fists and feet count as 'magical' attacks', Roland's sword does some serious smiting damage, and Hiko himself can do quite a bit of magical damage, too.  They're going to see more ghosts, and more illusions, and more... other things, as they get closer and closer to Lok Durass.

**Reference:** [[gaeleth:campaigns:campaign X:Campaign X]]\\
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**Next Episode:** [[gaeleth:campaigns:campaign_x:Xs2e35]]\\

==== Saige (Toox) ====

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==== Caileb (Hiko) ====

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==== Sualy (Chimes) ====

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==== Michael (Roland) ====

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