Post by David on Aug 5, 2013 16:47:12 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Yavin, Athos, Artec, Katya, Sabrina, Ishmopah, Hamish, and Khepri) continue exploring the pyramid, having entered a beautifully-appointed room with two lizard man bodies in it.
Athos motions for the party to be quiet and that he is going to enter the room to check on the sleeping creatures. Yavin connects with him telepathically as he sneaks in inaudibly. Yavin casts another find traps and finds none. He also casts know alignment, and reveals that the creatures are lawful neutral. They decide to have Katiya try to nab a wand from one of the lizardmen. Athos sets up behind the other one to prepare to backstab, while Artec prepares to shoot and Hamish prepares to rush the nearer one.
Katiya casts nab and gets the wand. The lizardman awakes and speaks: “We are disturbed! Arise, Cipactonal! Oh yes, Oxomoco!” The other also awakes. Artec shoots and hits the farther one. It pivots with preternatural alacrity to face Athos, negating his backstab. Hamish, Ishmopah, and Yavin rush the nearer one, and Idky casts prayer. Another arrow from Artec gets deflected by the lizardman, even though he’s not even looking at him!
The one facing Athos (Cipactonal) attacks with every imaginable part of his body. He says “You fools! You have interrupted out long sleep! For this you must die!” The other (Oxomoco) lights into Yavin. Sabrina casts magic missile at C, and he looks really upset at that. He then goes down under arrow fire from Artec. O screams angrily upon seeing that C went down. Idky cracks her ribs and stuns her (what??!!). Artec takes her down with arrows. Athos ties her up and Yavin bandages her. He brings her conscious and then casts mind read to find out what she knows. She resists. They remove all of her items, in case that’s helping her. He finally gets into her mind repeatedly, but she ejects him. Through repeated attempts, he makes it into her mind and sees something in there that makes him scream in absolute terror. He reveals that the evil is the same thing that ended the Morganti empire on Oerth, something from another (not lower) plane.
They finally convince her to join them to help with their quest and try to rid the world of the evil. While still tied up, they place the jade tongues pendant on her and the entire party is able to question her about the dangers of the temple. The creature guarding the evil is the couatl who taught the witches about the evil from the Far Realms. She shares info about the dangers:
Many creatures from Nirvana (modrons)
Eye tyrant (beholder)
Magically and mechanically trapped passage
The guardian beast, a creature from another plane. Among other things, it has the power to kill anything it faces. She believes it is a creature spun from the fiber of Chaos.
Chamber of the second sun
Magical trap beyond
The land of the dead
They continue on to a massive room. Since the stone door is wizard locked, Idky stone shapes one door to rid it of its hinges. Hamish pushes the door down. Sabrina casts frostball into the room. It kills 17 modrons and 7 duodons. It stuns six duodons. It damages all of the tridrones. Only two of the quadrones are caught in the blast, and it doesn minimal damage to the pentadrone. Then Katiya casts Evard’s black tentacles, catching six of the creatures. Artec starts shooting.
Hamish and Ishmopah rush in to attack. As they get swarmed, the pentadrone breathes a jet of gas at Hamish, but he dodges. Meanwhile, Oxomoco calmly speaks a strange incantation and walks through the melee to the opposite door in order to wait for the battle to finish. Hamish finishes off the pentadrone. Katiya hits one with Melf’s acid arrow. They finish after a moderate battle.
The entire room is clean and polished to a shine. All the pebbles have been lined up and sorted by size and color. Among them are:
Dagger of turquoise
3 lumps of copper
Eeps before the lizardmen (includes Khepri): 584 each
Eeps since the lizardmen (not Khepri): 14,175 each
Status:
Idky: 59 of 65, 10psi, cast CLW x3 / aidx2 / prayerx2, stone / pr. Law 10'r and something I can't quite read!
Hamish: 73 of 87, 10 psi
Artec: 65 (full)
Yavin: 52 of 54, 11psi, 57 of 107 PSPs, cast / findx2, know, aid, mind read
Athos: 39 of 66
Khepri: 20 (full)
Ishmopah: 48 of 57, 20psi, beastx2, blinding strike, cast CLW
Sabrina: 27 (full), cast MM, read / / frost
Katya[/i]: 47 (full), cast nab / all 2nd / / evard's
Athos motions for the party to be quiet and that he is going to enter the room to check on the sleeping creatures. Yavin connects with him telepathically as he sneaks in inaudibly. Yavin casts another find traps and finds none. He also casts know alignment, and reveals that the creatures are lawful neutral. They decide to have Katiya try to nab a wand from one of the lizardmen. Athos sets up behind the other one to prepare to backstab, while Artec prepares to shoot and Hamish prepares to rush the nearer one.
Katiya casts nab and gets the wand. The lizardman awakes and speaks: “We are disturbed! Arise, Cipactonal! Oh yes, Oxomoco!” The other also awakes. Artec shoots and hits the farther one. It pivots with preternatural alacrity to face Athos, negating his backstab. Hamish, Ishmopah, and Yavin rush the nearer one, and Idky casts prayer. Another arrow from Artec gets deflected by the lizardman, even though he’s not even looking at him!
The one facing Athos (Cipactonal) attacks with every imaginable part of his body. He says “You fools! You have interrupted out long sleep! For this you must die!” The other (Oxomoco) lights into Yavin. Sabrina casts magic missile at C, and he looks really upset at that. He then goes down under arrow fire from Artec. O screams angrily upon seeing that C went down. Idky cracks her ribs and stuns her (what??!!). Artec takes her down with arrows. Athos ties her up and Yavin bandages her. He brings her conscious and then casts mind read to find out what she knows. She resists. They remove all of her items, in case that’s helping her. He finally gets into her mind repeatedly, but she ejects him. Through repeated attempts, he makes it into her mind and sees something in there that makes him scream in absolute terror. He reveals that the evil is the same thing that ended the Morganti empire on Oerth, something from another (not lower) plane.
They finally convince her to join them to help with their quest and try to rid the world of the evil. While still tied up, they place the jade tongues pendant on her and the entire party is able to question her about the dangers of the temple. The creature guarding the evil is the couatl who taught the witches about the evil from the Far Realms. She shares info about the dangers:
Many creatures from Nirvana (modrons)
Eye tyrant (beholder)
Magically and mechanically trapped passage
The guardian beast, a creature from another plane. Among other things, it has the power to kill anything it faces. She believes it is a creature spun from the fiber of Chaos.
Chamber of the second sun
Magical trap beyond
The land of the dead
They continue on to a massive room. Since the stone door is wizard locked, Idky stone shapes one door to rid it of its hinges. Hamish pushes the door down. Sabrina casts frostball into the room. It kills 17 modrons and 7 duodons. It stuns six duodons. It damages all of the tridrones. Only two of the quadrones are caught in the blast, and it doesn minimal damage to the pentadrone. Then Katiya casts Evard’s black tentacles, catching six of the creatures. Artec starts shooting.
Hamish and Ishmopah rush in to attack. As they get swarmed, the pentadrone breathes a jet of gas at Hamish, but he dodges. Meanwhile, Oxomoco calmly speaks a strange incantation and walks through the melee to the opposite door in order to wait for the battle to finish. Hamish finishes off the pentadrone. Katiya hits one with Melf’s acid arrow. They finish after a moderate battle.
The entire room is clean and polished to a shine. All the pebbles have been lined up and sorted by size and color. Among them are:
Dagger of turquoise
3 lumps of copper
Eeps before the lizardmen (includes Khepri): 584 each
Eeps since the lizardmen (not Khepri): 14,175 each
Status:
Idky: 59 of 65, 10psi, cast CLW x3 / aidx2 / prayerx2, stone / pr. Law 10'r and something I can't quite read!
Hamish: 73 of 87, 10 psi
Artec: 65 (full)
Yavin: 52 of 54, 11psi, 57 of 107 PSPs, cast / findx2, know, aid, mind read
Athos: 39 of 66
Khepri: 20 (full)
Ishmopah: 48 of 57, 20psi, beastx2, blinding strike, cast CLW
Sabrina: 27 (full), cast MM, read / / frost
Katya[/i]: 47 (full), cast nab / all 2nd / / evard's