Post by David on Mar 27, 2014 17:43:12 GMT -5
The party (Idky, Maedhros, Yavin, Artec, Katya, Hamish, Remort, Gilean, and Moonleaf) continues through the jungles of Torsh, hacking their way through the dense foliage with their magical swords. Moonleaf, who can pass without trace, walks ahead of the party. She finds the beholder’s path, littered with petrified and scorched spiders and scorpions, areas of no foliage. She comes to a clearing and decides to head back to the party. She calls back to the party, but three trolls jump out at her. She escapes and makes it back to the party. The trolls suddenly stop making noise, so Moonleaf heads back to spy on them. She finds them hiding, lying in wait. She returns to report.
Artec hits one of the trolls in the eye and they apparently run off. In spite of Idky’s taunting, the trolls don’t run out. So the party continues and enters the clearing. They spy strangely-shaped rocks in the middle of the clearing. Artec fires an arrow into one and it appears to be stone. As they get closer, they see they are petrified trolls that have been knocked over. Next to them are two dead trolls.
Remort starts scanning the area for the beholder. After a little while, he makes contact with a mind. The creature is hanging out with five ghouls. Three very upset trolls approach and make a report to him. He sees him pull out some pistol bows (he notices that the hands are chainmailed). He mentions something about “letting the slaves handle it.”
Artec picks up lots of troll tracks, ghouls, troglodytes, vrocks, and elves (drow?). There is a notable lack of saurian tracks in this area. They follow the fresh troll tracks. Forty-one troglodytes ambush the party from in between the overgrown areas to either side of the clearing. They get swarmed, so Idky pulls out his continual darkness stone.
Twelve more run out of overgrowth. Artec gets critically hit in the leg and is on the ground unable to move. Moonleaf entangles troglodytes on the tops of the buildings.
Thirteen trogs, three trolls, and five ghasts show up. Gilean ends up bumping into Moonleaf’s fear aura and starts screaming hysterically. Moonleaf starts clearing opponents off of Hamish with her fear aura. Maedhros starts turning the ghasts. Gilean and Hamish get held by a spell. The trolls run to attack Moonleaf but two get scared off. Idky moves over to cast cure serious wounds on Artec so he can walk. Artec then drinks his potion of fly.
Yavin mesmerizes some of the troglodytes off Gilean and Hamish. Remort tosses a light stone out to cancel Idky’s darkness. Now that she can see, Katya acid bolts one of the ghasts on Hamish. It destroys the ghast and kills three of the trogs. Artec shoots up in the air and starts shooting enemies. He kills the remaining ghast on Hamish. Idky airwalks to Hamish and casts free action on him, releasing him from ghast paralysis and the hold. Gilean gets critically hit in his leg by a troglodyte and falls to the ground.
Another hold person gets cast but doesn’t get anyone. That’s when four vrocks fly in. Idky and Artec hear a drow ordering them to kill them. He’s hiding in the shadows. Artec is about to shoot him, but three of the vrocks fly over to attack him in the air. Remort gets one of them with a mind thrust, so Artec is able to shoot one. Katya casts warrior to help out with fight.
Idky casts Heal on Hamish, and he runs off to help Moonleaf with the vrock and troll on her. Katya sends her warrior to help out with Moonleaf’s troll. Moonleaf takes the opportunity to bail and cast faerie fire on the troll. Hamish’s vrocks tekes Moonleaf into Hamish and starts beating him with her, hoping to get her fear aura to scare him off, but it doesn’t work.
Another vrock tekes Katya into Hamish. Moonleaf’s fear aura gets her, and she starts panicking. The drow flame strikes Yavin and Idky, nearly killing her minion. Yavin attempts to mesmerize the drow . . . unsuccessfully. Another vrock attempts to teke Artec’s bow. He lets him take it, then pulls out another bow and arrow from his cloak and shoots him. He then attempts to teke that bow from him as well.
The drow holds Remort. Then Idky runs up to the drow to engage him in melee. Artec flies down and grabs his magic bow. Katya, now dropped by the vrock, runs off between two of the buildings in fear. Yavin kills one of the grounded vrocks. A troglodyte breaks Maedhros left arm as he’s attempting to clear them off Gilean. The vrock on Hamish teleports away just before Hamish kills it. So do the remaining two. One says “We must warn her” as he teleports away.
The drow backs away from Idky and casts darkness. Yavin runs into the darkness to attack him. Hamish drops the troll. Idky and Yavin engages the drow in the darkness and kill him. They kill off the remaining ones. Maedhros uses his self-heal ability and is alerted to divine presences that are corrupting his healing power, and they are now aware of his presence as well.
Artec retrieves Katya, and Yavin casts remove fear. They decide to contact Borlon for a pickup back to Old Neeshfall. During the teleport, all of Maedhros’ clothing and gear appears without him. Borlon tries to scan for him but can’t find his mind. Then about 30 seconds later, Maedhros appears completely naked.
Artec hits one of the trolls in the eye and they apparently run off. In spite of Idky’s taunting, the trolls don’t run out. So the party continues and enters the clearing. They spy strangely-shaped rocks in the middle of the clearing. Artec fires an arrow into one and it appears to be stone. As they get closer, they see they are petrified trolls that have been knocked over. Next to them are two dead trolls.
Remort starts scanning the area for the beholder. After a little while, he makes contact with a mind. The creature is hanging out with five ghouls. Three very upset trolls approach and make a report to him. He sees him pull out some pistol bows (he notices that the hands are chainmailed). He mentions something about “letting the slaves handle it.”
Artec picks up lots of troll tracks, ghouls, troglodytes, vrocks, and elves (drow?). There is a notable lack of saurian tracks in this area. They follow the fresh troll tracks. Forty-one troglodytes ambush the party from in between the overgrown areas to either side of the clearing. They get swarmed, so Idky pulls out his continual darkness stone.
Twelve more run out of overgrowth. Artec gets critically hit in the leg and is on the ground unable to move. Moonleaf entangles troglodytes on the tops of the buildings.
Thirteen trogs, three trolls, and five ghasts show up. Gilean ends up bumping into Moonleaf’s fear aura and starts screaming hysterically. Moonleaf starts clearing opponents off of Hamish with her fear aura. Maedhros starts turning the ghasts. Gilean and Hamish get held by a spell. The trolls run to attack Moonleaf but two get scared off. Idky moves over to cast cure serious wounds on Artec so he can walk. Artec then drinks his potion of fly.
Yavin mesmerizes some of the troglodytes off Gilean and Hamish. Remort tosses a light stone out to cancel Idky’s darkness. Now that she can see, Katya acid bolts one of the ghasts on Hamish. It destroys the ghast and kills three of the trogs. Artec shoots up in the air and starts shooting enemies. He kills the remaining ghast on Hamish. Idky airwalks to Hamish and casts free action on him, releasing him from ghast paralysis and the hold. Gilean gets critically hit in his leg by a troglodyte and falls to the ground.
Another hold person gets cast but doesn’t get anyone. That’s when four vrocks fly in. Idky and Artec hear a drow ordering them to kill them. He’s hiding in the shadows. Artec is about to shoot him, but three of the vrocks fly over to attack him in the air. Remort gets one of them with a mind thrust, so Artec is able to shoot one. Katya casts warrior to help out with fight.
Idky casts Heal on Hamish, and he runs off to help Moonleaf with the vrock and troll on her. Katya sends her warrior to help out with Moonleaf’s troll. Moonleaf takes the opportunity to bail and cast faerie fire on the troll. Hamish’s vrocks tekes Moonleaf into Hamish and starts beating him with her, hoping to get her fear aura to scare him off, but it doesn’t work.
Another vrock tekes Katya into Hamish. Moonleaf’s fear aura gets her, and she starts panicking. The drow flame strikes Yavin and Idky, nearly killing her minion. Yavin attempts to mesmerize the drow . . . unsuccessfully. Another vrock attempts to teke Artec’s bow. He lets him take it, then pulls out another bow and arrow from his cloak and shoots him. He then attempts to teke that bow from him as well.
The drow holds Remort. Then Idky runs up to the drow to engage him in melee. Artec flies down and grabs his magic bow. Katya, now dropped by the vrock, runs off between two of the buildings in fear. Yavin kills one of the grounded vrocks. A troglodyte breaks Maedhros left arm as he’s attempting to clear them off Gilean. The vrock on Hamish teleports away just before Hamish kills it. So do the remaining two. One says “We must warn her” as he teleports away.
The drow backs away from Idky and casts darkness. Yavin runs into the darkness to attack him. Hamish drops the troll. Idky and Yavin engages the drow in the darkness and kill him. They kill off the remaining ones. Maedhros uses his self-heal ability and is alerted to divine presences that are corrupting his healing power, and they are now aware of his presence as well.
Artec retrieves Katya, and Yavin casts remove fear. They decide to contact Borlon for a pickup back to Old Neeshfall. During the teleport, all of Maedhros’ clothing and gear appears without him. Borlon tries to scan for him but can’t find his mind. Then about 30 seconds later, Maedhros appears completely naked.