WARNING: SPOILERS FOR COLISEUM MORPHEUON AND THE RABBIT HOLE FOLLOW.
Last night we had our third session. This time, since the PC's have been pretty well established in the area, we started with another round of the competition--"Capture the Mast." I mixed it up a little bit and used the Gray Feathers as the opponents. The PC's defeated them, in part by destroying their mast, and through an epic battle of strength between the minotaur and my party's fighter. When they learned that the Feathers were not evil, however, the PC's helped restore their mast so that they scored as many points as they could.
After this came an aside inspired by the "Setting the Captives Free" storyline and material from my d20-pirates-themed blog. The PC's had been given an oneirobound slave, whom they freed; she asked them to help her find a slaver castle from which the slavers, denizens of Leng, were based. This entailed a voyage by sea, on the party's gnome-crewed cog The Traveling Dream, and a battle with a kraken. During that fight the slavers' ship came about and tried to board the dream, but the PC's counter-boarded it and took control. They left the cog to patrol in search of the island where the slavers' castle can be found, not realizing that the captive denizens can plane shift away to warn their friends. Their intent was to use word of recall to return to the ship and then attack the slavers' castle between their next arena battles, so they're in for a surprise when they return.
Back in the arena, the PC's faced the "Into the Fire" test. They handled the less powerful minions, but grew suspicious through their interactions with the fake dragon. I played up the fact that the Khan seemed to delight in their confusion, and the paladin is already suggesting that the PC's should try to challenge him directly. They defeated the dragon, even though they were shocked to see that it was a gold one. At this point the players are bumping the characters up to 17th level, with the intention of returning to the Traveling Dream to start our next session.
One question: Does anybody know where I can find information about pit-fiend-bound creatures? The PC's are talking about trying to free/redeem the gold dragon if it's possible to do so.
-Nate
