Episode 19: Everything goes wrong

In the previous tale we had defeated the portal sorcerer on the material plane, but quickly realized he had returned to the nightmare world. So, our heroes headed there too. The more powerful nightmare creatures have to be defeated on both planes to truly be destroyed. So off we went to the nightmare world to deal with the portal sorcerer.

In the dream/nightmare world our characters are as follows:

Fizzledorp is a Gnome Paladin riding a silver dragon

Thonk is a Orc Barbarian-Mage (as in he rages and legit does magic)

Malek is a super strong never misses version of his Tiefling Magus self

Lutor is also a super strong version of his Asterion Cleric self

Vohn is literally a dragon with a grenade launcher

Meghan is a fire elemental

When we arrive in the dream world we find it is very dark, but that doesn't last long as a large gelatinous mass arrives. It's not a slow slug of a gelatinous cube at all though. This thing has aerobic tricks and some other challenging powers. When Thonk got near to the cube he started "feeling funny" (weaker). It also shoots off little clingons that attach to us. And those clingons almost did us in.

We wade into battle like we usually do and start attacking the aerobic gelatinous cube, which is when we discover the weakness effect, and then it shoots off a clingon that attaches to Meghan. So she promptly turns to do damage to the party. Yep, the clingon controls the person it's attached to. Luckily she was near Malek and he quickly realized what was going on so he killed the clingon on Meghan, returning her to normal.

Unfortunately, the next to get controlled was Malek. And this is when things really went off the rails, because Thonk thought he had to run around and try to save everyone, rather than use his "powerful magic" against the big bad guy. We lost focus on the big bad guy almost entirely for a whole round.

We were able to clear Malek of infestation fairly quickly, but the next one that got got was Vohn. And that's when it got really bad. Vohn in the dream world does a lot of area of effect damage with that grenade launcher. Over the course of two rounds he managed to take out Fizzledorp and Lutor while Thonk was dangling from him via "mage hand".

Vohn then took out Thonk. The only thing that wound up stopping Vohn was Meghan's fire, which also took out the weird gelatinous cube bad guy, ending this dream sequence, returning us to the real world.

Luckily we were all still alive, though we were fairly beat up from the fight with the portal sorcerer plus the acid worm PLUS the original fight with the drow mage and two minions. Yeah that was all one game-day. Since we were locked in a room with no doors we decided to take a nice rest here.

More next time!