December 19, 2009: One Way or Another

== Dramatis Personae ==
* Mungo - shifter rogue 5 (Westerling/Brighton County)
* Vitrano - deva avenger 5 (Malringer)
* Bim - deva artificer 4 (Malringer?)
* River - shifter warden 5 (Westerling/Brighton County)
* Kava - dragonborn paladin 5 (Westerling)
* Kristof - human wizard 5 (Westerling/Regis Vale)
* Aria - warforged bard 5 (Westerling)
* Teodahr - elf ranger 5 (Westerling)
=== Closing the Rift ===
Kristof gets the drop on the gauth and its pets and bombs them from the back. River, Vitrano, and Kava engage the centipedes while those with ranged attacks use them from the passageway. Aria puts Stirring Shout (the Healing Pinata) on the gauth. Dimensional marauders begin oozing from the rift starts and they try to snatch folks from the back and drag them into the chamber, trying to drag them back to the Far Realms. The gauth sprays eye rays around nearly putting Vitrano to sleep. Kristof and Aria use their Arcana skill to begin sealing the rift, even as the rift looks about ready to pop out something monstrous while the River and Kava work to clean up the centipedes, marauders, and eventually the gauth.
When the gauth is slain, a being that we can tell is a marut (but we don't know what variant) bursts from the floor, kills the remaining two marauders, and seals the rift. The marut explains that it was lured here and trapped. Its mission is to find rifts and close them.
It sort of hints as to how hard its job is, and there is only one of it around, and its bosses never respond to its requests for backup, and how lonely it is, and then it asks if we'd be willing to help. There is a rift sealing gadget it says it could give to someone who is sensitive to arcane energies. River points to Aria. Aria accepts. The marut bolts the gadget onto Aria and disappears.
We take a long rest and recover some gear from the previous party including some gold (560) and two magic items.
=== Its a Trap! ===
On the way back to Malring, we're attacked by a large gray dragon that looks remarkably like Caustrex. Only then do we remember that gray dragons like to let their prey escape only to hunt them down later. He's got a bunch of orc ninjas that come out of the walls dressed in pajamas smeared in rock dust (so they blend in). Kristof manages to snare Caustrex and most of the orcs for several rounds allowing us to regroup and deal with most of the underlings. 
(Session ends mid-fight)
== Experience ==
Closing the rift: Standard encounter 10%
== Links ==
Previous Session: November 14, 2009 Hole in My Pocket
Next Session: December 27, 2009 Your'e Gonna Get Whats Comin'
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