Tof-240228-eric

We prepare to engage the enemies
- Ell casts Pass Without Trace on all of us, and we're able to sneak into position
  - Drex sets the dragon free, but it doesn't want to fight
    - That's understandable
      - I sneak up to a cultist and get ready
We initiate the fight with surprise on our side
- Drex casts Bless on me
  - Ell casts Spike Growth to keep too many friends from joining the party at once
    - We kill two, and I move over to the other side of the room
      - We manage to kill the ones there too, I have to chase one down
        
        I notice that they're trying to summon something, and it appears the magic is tied to the life force of one of the leaders
        
        If we kill him before stopping the ritual, it will make the summoning happen faster
I have Drex cast dispel magic on the summoning, which seems to work
- We manage to finish off the last one before the summoning is complete
There's a dog in one of the cages that looks like it has some kind of disease
- I try using Lay on Hands, but it only seems to make the dog afraid of me and doesn't cure its disease
  - It seems to be undead, and is somehow being tortured by the creatures digging into its flesh
    - It apparently has the same runes as the Displacer Beasts, which keep the animals from teleporting
The others find a person in one of the cages, who looks like he might have been skinned alive
- He's actually alive
  - We try to get him out, and he says that the cult is trying to do something to destroy “the cities,” says they're going to “disappear, like taking a bite out of something”
    - He has no more eyes, and just wants to die
      - He says this creature eats reality, it eats souls, it eats at your mind when you see it

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