Post by David on Jul 11, 2013 13:40:49 GMT -5
Klarr is slowly returning to normal. The damage of the previous assault has been repaired and the bugbear are making amends laboring around the village. Then, suddenly, a new group of bugbear arrive and attack. A few of the earlier bugbear depart with these raiders. A party of heroes goes after this new group of attackers. Only Nikolai returns...Klarr's champions were ambushed on route and while they slew many monsters, all the rest were overwhelmed. Esmerelda, the Green Witch, immediately gathers capable adventurers to form a rescue party...
In addition to Nikolai, answering the call are Mei Long, Rhiannon, Callabron, Namuhni, and Alyssana. Viktor tries to accompany them, but his Nana, the witch, will hear none of it. Nikolai leads the party to the site of the battle. Shortly outside of town, however, Viktor shows up with Billi, the family's cooshee in tow. The young half-orc points out that he knows these woods very well, Billi even better, and that while not a skilled warrior, the group could use his help in rescuing his older brother and sister. Viktor promises Rhiannon to stay out of combat.
Callabron tracks and finds the trail. Between him and the cooshee, they follow the trail back to the bugbear lair, another set of caves. A wounded bugbear appears from the woods and attacks Viktor. The iron can’t bite rune from his sister, Rhiannon, saves his life, but the young half-orc is stunned out of his gourd.
Two other creatures move through the brush to join the fight. Callabron casts entangle, catching one of them. Arriving is a creature that looks like a cross between a millipede and a lizard with lightning arcing between its teeth. The cooshee stuns the bugbear. The new creature attacks Viktor.
The cooshee stuns the millipede thing. Rhiannon moves to defend her brother. Unfortunately, her luck rune fails her and becomes bad luck the whole day. Mei Long slaughters the bugbear and the millipede. After healing up, they search the bugbear and find:
18 cp
14 sp
6 gp
They move into the cave, after Callabron casts light so they can see. As Rhiannon argues with Namuhni, they attract attention; four gnolls sneak up on the group. As Namuhni charges to meet the creatures, he trips a rope, and rust-colored dust settles on him while the party farther back has a net dropped on them, catching Callabron, Viktor, and Rhiannon. Namuhni, Mei Long, and Billi engage the gnolls. The rear of the party starts trying to cut through the rope net.
Before they finish releasing everyone from the rope, four of the millipede-lizard things creep up and attack. Namuhni is bitten and takes damage from an electrical discharge. Another milliped-lizard thing damages Nikolai as he’s helping with the net. Luckily, however, the heroes finish off the remaining beasties fairly quickly.
The heroes move deeper into the cave. They come into a large room with five bugbear waiting for them. The hairy humanoids seem to be very prepared for visitors, including two using freshly-poisoned weapons. They charge the party, but Mei Long, who is the only one not surprised, keeps the party at the entrance of the room. Namuhni and Mei Long get poisoned. One of the bugbear is wearing a heart-shaped talisman, which appears to be healing him. Kallabron casts sap at the bugbears, catching three of them. Mei Long gets taken out. Rhiannon pushes the bugbear back, and Billi rushes up. Alyssana trades places with Namuhni so he can tend to himself and Mei Long. Billi takes out the next to last bugbear, and they are able to swarm the last one. Alyssana kills the last bugbear.
Alyssana plunders the bugbears and finds?
Flask (poison)
13 cp
10 sp
8 gp
12 cp
15 sp
4 gp
17 cp
13 sp
8 gp
Heart-shaped talisman
One third of the coins are drow, one third grey dwarven, and one third human
Billi picks up the scent after the battle and leads the rescue party down the correct passage at the far end of the chamber. He leads them into another chamber containing a giant troll and three gnolls with bows. Behind them is a boulder embedded in the far wall. Rhiannon, Billi, and Mei Long charge. Alyssana, Viktor, Nikolai, and Namuhni shoot arrows. Mei Long stuns the troll with a ki strike and then drops it. Rhiannon and Billi continue to attack it to keep it down. Billi helps out Alyssana to kill the gnoll.
Billi wants to go behind the boulder. So Namunhi, Mei Long, and Alyssana attempt to move the boulder. Alyssana hurts herself extremely badly in the process, slipping a disc. She can barely move. Namuhni also hurts himself, but not too badly, when Rhiannon joins in. Between Rhiannon, Mei Long, and Viktor, however, they move the boulder. On the other side is a bugbear, who charges. Mei Long drops him.
Billi wants to continue on, but Alyssana and Kallabron leave. The elven thief simply cannot walk without intense pain and can barely hobble. The rest of the party continues and enters a large chamber guarded by five bugbear. The heroes make short work of them. The continue through another large chamber, down a passageway that leads to an antechamber. Beyond that, they hear a couple of bugbears arguing. They come upon a large male and two female bugbears arguing over the fate of Kristoph, Meagan, and Sherrif Dor, the party the group was sent to save. The bugbears charge.
Mei Long gets stunned in the attack, but she takes out the big male. The other fighters finish off the females and are able to free the party. On the way out, they encounter two young bugbear and slaughter the pair after one nearly kills Rhiannon with a lucky club strike. The rescuers hurry out, because they hear more bugbear coming.
When they get to the mouth of the cave, the millipede thing is waiting for them. They shoot it, and Rhiannon and Billi attack. They take it out and are able to safely leave.
Eeps: 701 each
Mission accomplished (only those who remained till the end): 300 each
Back in town at the Displacer, the heroes meet with Esmerelda. The Green Witch starts to scold Viktor for running off, but hears how the young half-orc fared and apologizes to him. "I'm sorry I made you a coal-chewer," the Norsk grandmother offers, " in the future, I will stand by your right to get involved and tell your mother it's past time to let you be a man." She then thanks Mei Long profusely for user his magical potion to heal her grandchildren. Esmerelda then heals Alyssana of most of her spinal trauma, admitting that it will take the healing magics of "that GreeK" to completely restore her. The Green Witch also magically examines the three magical items the heroes brought back. An augury says that the pulsing ruby heart (1200gp) will only bring weal. The battle axe has runes that the witch speaks, suddenly to find the weapon appearing in her hand. Finally, the poisoned sword also turns out to be magical, with a detailed handle of two angels holding up the blade.
In addition to Nikolai, answering the call are Mei Long, Rhiannon, Callabron, Namuhni, and Alyssana. Viktor tries to accompany them, but his Nana, the witch, will hear none of it. Nikolai leads the party to the site of the battle. Shortly outside of town, however, Viktor shows up with Billi, the family's cooshee in tow. The young half-orc points out that he knows these woods very well, Billi even better, and that while not a skilled warrior, the group could use his help in rescuing his older brother and sister. Viktor promises Rhiannon to stay out of combat.
Callabron tracks and finds the trail. Between him and the cooshee, they follow the trail back to the bugbear lair, another set of caves. A wounded bugbear appears from the woods and attacks Viktor. The iron can’t bite rune from his sister, Rhiannon, saves his life, but the young half-orc is stunned out of his gourd.
Two other creatures move through the brush to join the fight. Callabron casts entangle, catching one of them. Arriving is a creature that looks like a cross between a millipede and a lizard with lightning arcing between its teeth. The cooshee stuns the bugbear. The new creature attacks Viktor.
The cooshee stuns the millipede thing. Rhiannon moves to defend her brother. Unfortunately, her luck rune fails her and becomes bad luck the whole day. Mei Long slaughters the bugbear and the millipede. After healing up, they search the bugbear and find:
18 cp
14 sp
6 gp
They move into the cave, after Callabron casts light so they can see. As Rhiannon argues with Namuhni, they attract attention; four gnolls sneak up on the group. As Namuhni charges to meet the creatures, he trips a rope, and rust-colored dust settles on him while the party farther back has a net dropped on them, catching Callabron, Viktor, and Rhiannon. Namuhni, Mei Long, and Billi engage the gnolls. The rear of the party starts trying to cut through the rope net.
Before they finish releasing everyone from the rope, four of the millipede-lizard things creep up and attack. Namuhni is bitten and takes damage from an electrical discharge. Another milliped-lizard thing damages Nikolai as he’s helping with the net. Luckily, however, the heroes finish off the remaining beasties fairly quickly.
The heroes move deeper into the cave. They come into a large room with five bugbear waiting for them. The hairy humanoids seem to be very prepared for visitors, including two using freshly-poisoned weapons. They charge the party, but Mei Long, who is the only one not surprised, keeps the party at the entrance of the room. Namuhni and Mei Long get poisoned. One of the bugbear is wearing a heart-shaped talisman, which appears to be healing him. Kallabron casts sap at the bugbears, catching three of them. Mei Long gets taken out. Rhiannon pushes the bugbear back, and Billi rushes up. Alyssana trades places with Namuhni so he can tend to himself and Mei Long. Billi takes out the next to last bugbear, and they are able to swarm the last one. Alyssana kills the last bugbear.
Alyssana plunders the bugbears and finds?
Flask (poison)
13 cp
10 sp
8 gp
12 cp
15 sp
4 gp
17 cp
13 sp
8 gp
Heart-shaped talisman
One third of the coins are drow, one third grey dwarven, and one third human
Billi picks up the scent after the battle and leads the rescue party down the correct passage at the far end of the chamber. He leads them into another chamber containing a giant troll and three gnolls with bows. Behind them is a boulder embedded in the far wall. Rhiannon, Billi, and Mei Long charge. Alyssana, Viktor, Nikolai, and Namuhni shoot arrows. Mei Long stuns the troll with a ki strike and then drops it. Rhiannon and Billi continue to attack it to keep it down. Billi helps out Alyssana to kill the gnoll.
Billi wants to go behind the boulder. So Namunhi, Mei Long, and Alyssana attempt to move the boulder. Alyssana hurts herself extremely badly in the process, slipping a disc. She can barely move. Namuhni also hurts himself, but not too badly, when Rhiannon joins in. Between Rhiannon, Mei Long, and Viktor, however, they move the boulder. On the other side is a bugbear, who charges. Mei Long drops him.
Billi wants to continue on, but Alyssana and Kallabron leave. The elven thief simply cannot walk without intense pain and can barely hobble. The rest of the party continues and enters a large chamber guarded by five bugbear. The heroes make short work of them. The continue through another large chamber, down a passageway that leads to an antechamber. Beyond that, they hear a couple of bugbears arguing. They come upon a large male and two female bugbears arguing over the fate of Kristoph, Meagan, and Sherrif Dor, the party the group was sent to save. The bugbears charge.
Mei Long gets stunned in the attack, but she takes out the big male. The other fighters finish off the females and are able to free the party. On the way out, they encounter two young bugbear and slaughter the pair after one nearly kills Rhiannon with a lucky club strike. The rescuers hurry out, because they hear more bugbear coming.
When they get to the mouth of the cave, the millipede thing is waiting for them. They shoot it, and Rhiannon and Billi attack. They take it out and are able to safely leave.
Eeps: 701 each
Mission accomplished (only those who remained till the end): 300 each
Back in town at the Displacer, the heroes meet with Esmerelda. The Green Witch starts to scold Viktor for running off, but hears how the young half-orc fared and apologizes to him. "I'm sorry I made you a coal-chewer," the Norsk grandmother offers, " in the future, I will stand by your right to get involved and tell your mother it's past time to let you be a man." She then thanks Mei Long profusely for user his magical potion to heal her grandchildren. Esmerelda then heals Alyssana of most of her spinal trauma, admitting that it will take the healing magics of "that GreeK" to completely restore her. The Green Witch also magically examines the three magical items the heroes brought back. An augury says that the pulsing ruby heart (1200gp) will only bring weal. The battle axe has runes that the witch speaks, suddenly to find the weapon appearing in her hand. Finally, the poisoned sword also turns out to be magical, with a detailed handle of two angels holding up the blade.