Post by David on Jun 10, 2014 17:30:08 GMT -5
After Yavin psi heals some of the party (Idky, Maedhros, Yavin, Artec, Katya, Hamish, Gilean, Moonleaf, and Borlon), they decide to go scout out the remaining priest chambers. As they enter the large chamber, a huge throng of monsters enter: 15 huge spiders, 15 large, 4 giant, 19 trogs, 1 large trog (8’ tall), 4 giant lizards (with trog riders), 12 ogres, and 2 25-foot tall ogres.
The party prepares to take the charge: Hamish protects Borlon as he casts wall of fire, Idky casts prayer, Katya ducks behind the altar and prepares to casts a spell off a scroll, Moonleaf moves to guard the side doors into the room, Yavin casts aid on himself, and Gilean starts preparing to battle psionically. The wall of fire works beautifully, as it pops into existence right through the door they are pouring into. It kills, stuns, and/or badly damages a lot of the monsters.
A drider from beyond the doorway attempts to cast slow at the party, but the wild magic effect prevents it from taking effect. Artec and Idky start firing arrows and sling stones, while Hamish and Yavin form a fighting line.
A troglodyte riding a giant lizard starts crawling along the wall past the fighting line, leading two more lizards. The lead lizard gets feared as it attempts to pass Moonleaf and flees with its rider. The others follow. The huge, large, and giant spiders start to swarm the party. Maedhros senses a wild magic surge as someone attempts to dispel the wall of fire. Instead of dispelling it, though, it moves it 27 feet to one side up against the one wall of the chamber, revealing a hezrou that was trying to sneak up to the battle hidden in the fire. The hezrou now tries to teke Artec by his bow, as he’s just knocked an arrow. Artec trick shots off the ceiling and kills the demon.
Hamish calls for Moonleaf to come “give me a hug” and then succumbs to some as-yet unknown spell. Idky targets the remaining giant ogre with a slingstone of slaying, shattering his shield and arm. Artec finishes him off with arrow fire. That allows Hamish and Yavin to fight back to back. Moonleaf runs up in an attempt to fear monsters off Hamish. She fears a spider, an ogre, and six of seven troglodytes. Gilean, now with strength and biofeedback up, runs up to assist the front-liners.
Then a horribly-burned drow steps into the room and casts fireball. He sets off wild magic surge, and the fireball explodes on him instead. Only magic resistance saves his hide. Then two Kinsas walk in and tell everyone to stop fighting and drop their weapons. Hamish is confused and drops his sword, but not his shield. Katya casts acid bolt at one of the succubi. Unfortunately, she sets off a surge. The bolt washes over her and burns off her skin. She then develops a twitch.
Artec kills the drow and starts shooting at the succubi. Idky runs toward the succubi and pulls out a stone, blanketing their area in darkness. Borlon casts eye of Ra. A fireball burst forth from his eye and kills an ogre.
The succubi call Hamish over to protect them from the “evil darkness-wielding creature” coming to attack them. He scoops up his sword and starts to move toward them. That leaves Yavin on his own. Then a drider enters the door by Artec, who yells out a warning. The drider casts fireball, catching Artec, Borlon, Maedhros, and Katya. However, the fireball causes Borlon’s time crystal to shatter, which sends him back in time until before the fireball was cast. So the Prophet of Ra uses the Rod of Ra to cast a sunray at the drider, interrupting the spell and melting off all of its drow items. Artec takes the opportunity to shoot him. The drider, now blinded decides to flee. Artec shoots him dead.
Idky “backstabs” the wounded succubus in the darkness, sending her straight to the Abyss. Fortunately, it was the one that had charmed Hamish, so he is now released. Unfortunately, Hamish gets swarmed by spiders. The other succubus teleports away. Katya runs back into the nap room.
Borlon casts charm person on a troglodyte. Moonleaf starts killing the other trogs. Borlon telepathically communicates with the trog and leads it away from battle. Artec shoots and kills off the giant lizards. The party finishes off the remaining monsters and Borlon interrogates the troglodyte.
The troglodyte says there a dozens of trogs and lots of spiders. The drow kid is in a room a couple minutes’ walk away. There is also a badly-wounded succubus with him.
About half the party decide to let the trog lead them to the room. Only the little boy is there. The succubus abandoned him. Borlon discovers that his mind is still adult, but he is a baby and can’t do anything. He is panicked. The drow have sent for help through the gate, but the party has overwhelmed them on this side. The gate is guarded by two young black dragons (they have two breath weapons: lightning and sonic). He is afraid that Lolth’s Hand will come through the gate to punish those who failed to defend her. The dragons recognize the high priestess by scent and her voice. If they knew the priestesses were dead, they would probably just decide to set up house here. This is a quadruple gate. One end appears in a cave on a floating mountain. One appears in the Underdark in a stone circle. One leads to a tundra world. And the final one goes to a barren wasteland.
The drow have invaded all those worlds and have footholds on the tundra. They have toeholds on the others.
He has the entire list of chronomancer spells on stone tablets plus various other K'thoi spells.
He knows nothing about the beholder but guesses it must have come through the gate, maybe from the floating mountain.
The artifact is something that the lizardmen got from the humans when they came to this world. It is on the other side of a glyph that Lolth told them not to mess with. It is in one of the basements, apparently intentionally buried. It started to cause problems with their magic about a month and a half ago. The seal is known as a Morganti elder sign, researched by the ancient elves and used to seal off creatures from the far realms. Yavin realizes that this thing started to cause the problem about the time the far realms creature entered this world back at the pyramid. It probably was trying to open the seal, and Lolth was trying to bolster the seal and prevent the creature on the other side from getting out.
The gate is close, down a couple levels. It’s guarded by two metal golems that will only allow a drow with a house insignia to pass.
The party contemplates what to do next: stick around to secure the gate before reinforcements come through or teleport back to Old Neeshfall and return when they’re all tanked up.
Eeps: 5619 each (except Remort & Kinsa)
Status:
Idky: 56 of 67, standing ACC HEAL, used BLESS bead, cast d.magic, remove, CLW / nap, aug, find, slowx2 / stone, dispel, prayer / / CCWx2 / healx2, NOW CURSED WITH YELLOW FINGERS TO THE ELBOWS
Hamish: 51 of 112, 18/00 STR
Artec: 34 of 68, 20psi, standing LL, -2 uses of orange goo
Remort: 17 of 37, 24 of ?? PSPs, standing LL, NOW FIVE YEARS OLD
Katya: 30 of 52, 8gbs, standing LL, cast nab / melf's / / acid bolt, NOW TWITCHING
Borlon: 26 of 51, 10psi, 23 of 116 PSPs +-20 PSPs (gray iouns), cast CLWx5 / silence, charm, hold / dispel, d.door, eye / less, CSWx2 / wall of firex2
Maedhros: 23 of 45, cast CLW / hold, sham, ONLY ARMS turned neon-yellow from elbows to fingertips, crackling aura of lightning, EYES blue-white, cold flesh, chilling breathe, FREAK, can eat ALL gbs
Moonleaf: 25 of 60, mammal/lizard/bird, cast FFx5, d.magicx2 / CLWx6 / pr fire / pr lit
Yavin: 27 of 56, 10psi, 62 of 114 PSPs, used FLY, standing LL and slow poison (two small and two medium with -1 dex), cast CLW / aid
Gilean: 10 of 60, 10psi, 47 of 61 PSPs, standing slow poison (two medium with -1 dex)
Kinsa: 42 (full), standing LL, EIGHTEEN YEARS YOUNGER
Dagaru: 15 (full)
The party prepares to take the charge: Hamish protects Borlon as he casts wall of fire, Idky casts prayer, Katya ducks behind the altar and prepares to casts a spell off a scroll, Moonleaf moves to guard the side doors into the room, Yavin casts aid on himself, and Gilean starts preparing to battle psionically. The wall of fire works beautifully, as it pops into existence right through the door they are pouring into. It kills, stuns, and/or badly damages a lot of the monsters.
A drider from beyond the doorway attempts to cast slow at the party, but the wild magic effect prevents it from taking effect. Artec and Idky start firing arrows and sling stones, while Hamish and Yavin form a fighting line.
A troglodyte riding a giant lizard starts crawling along the wall past the fighting line, leading two more lizards. The lead lizard gets feared as it attempts to pass Moonleaf and flees with its rider. The others follow. The huge, large, and giant spiders start to swarm the party. Maedhros senses a wild magic surge as someone attempts to dispel the wall of fire. Instead of dispelling it, though, it moves it 27 feet to one side up against the one wall of the chamber, revealing a hezrou that was trying to sneak up to the battle hidden in the fire. The hezrou now tries to teke Artec by his bow, as he’s just knocked an arrow. Artec trick shots off the ceiling and kills the demon.
Hamish calls for Moonleaf to come “give me a hug” and then succumbs to some as-yet unknown spell. Idky targets the remaining giant ogre with a slingstone of slaying, shattering his shield and arm. Artec finishes him off with arrow fire. That allows Hamish and Yavin to fight back to back. Moonleaf runs up in an attempt to fear monsters off Hamish. She fears a spider, an ogre, and six of seven troglodytes. Gilean, now with strength and biofeedback up, runs up to assist the front-liners.
Then a horribly-burned drow steps into the room and casts fireball. He sets off wild magic surge, and the fireball explodes on him instead. Only magic resistance saves his hide. Then two Kinsas walk in and tell everyone to stop fighting and drop their weapons. Hamish is confused and drops his sword, but not his shield. Katya casts acid bolt at one of the succubi. Unfortunately, she sets off a surge. The bolt washes over her and burns off her skin. She then develops a twitch.
Artec kills the drow and starts shooting at the succubi. Idky runs toward the succubi and pulls out a stone, blanketing their area in darkness. Borlon casts eye of Ra. A fireball burst forth from his eye and kills an ogre.
The succubi call Hamish over to protect them from the “evil darkness-wielding creature” coming to attack them. He scoops up his sword and starts to move toward them. That leaves Yavin on his own. Then a drider enters the door by Artec, who yells out a warning. The drider casts fireball, catching Artec, Borlon, Maedhros, and Katya. However, the fireball causes Borlon’s time crystal to shatter, which sends him back in time until before the fireball was cast. So the Prophet of Ra uses the Rod of Ra to cast a sunray at the drider, interrupting the spell and melting off all of its drow items. Artec takes the opportunity to shoot him. The drider, now blinded decides to flee. Artec shoots him dead.
Idky “backstabs” the wounded succubus in the darkness, sending her straight to the Abyss. Fortunately, it was the one that had charmed Hamish, so he is now released. Unfortunately, Hamish gets swarmed by spiders. The other succubus teleports away. Katya runs back into the nap room.
Borlon casts charm person on a troglodyte. Moonleaf starts killing the other trogs. Borlon telepathically communicates with the trog and leads it away from battle. Artec shoots and kills off the giant lizards. The party finishes off the remaining monsters and Borlon interrogates the troglodyte.
The troglodyte says there a dozens of trogs and lots of spiders. The drow kid is in a room a couple minutes’ walk away. There is also a badly-wounded succubus with him.
About half the party decide to let the trog lead them to the room. Only the little boy is there. The succubus abandoned him. Borlon discovers that his mind is still adult, but he is a baby and can’t do anything. He is panicked. The drow have sent for help through the gate, but the party has overwhelmed them on this side. The gate is guarded by two young black dragons (they have two breath weapons: lightning and sonic). He is afraid that Lolth’s Hand will come through the gate to punish those who failed to defend her. The dragons recognize the high priestess by scent and her voice. If they knew the priestesses were dead, they would probably just decide to set up house here. This is a quadruple gate. One end appears in a cave on a floating mountain. One appears in the Underdark in a stone circle. One leads to a tundra world. And the final one goes to a barren wasteland.
The drow have invaded all those worlds and have footholds on the tundra. They have toeholds on the others.
He has the entire list of chronomancer spells on stone tablets plus various other K'thoi spells.
He knows nothing about the beholder but guesses it must have come through the gate, maybe from the floating mountain.
The artifact is something that the lizardmen got from the humans when they came to this world. It is on the other side of a glyph that Lolth told them not to mess with. It is in one of the basements, apparently intentionally buried. It started to cause problems with their magic about a month and a half ago. The seal is known as a Morganti elder sign, researched by the ancient elves and used to seal off creatures from the far realms. Yavin realizes that this thing started to cause the problem about the time the far realms creature entered this world back at the pyramid. It probably was trying to open the seal, and Lolth was trying to bolster the seal and prevent the creature on the other side from getting out.
The gate is close, down a couple levels. It’s guarded by two metal golems that will only allow a drow with a house insignia to pass.
The party contemplates what to do next: stick around to secure the gate before reinforcements come through or teleport back to Old Neeshfall and return when they’re all tanked up.
Eeps: 5619 each (except Remort & Kinsa)
Status:
Idky: 56 of 67, standing ACC HEAL, used BLESS bead, cast d.magic, remove, CLW / nap, aug, find, slowx2 / stone, dispel, prayer / / CCWx2 / healx2, NOW CURSED WITH YELLOW FINGERS TO THE ELBOWS
Hamish: 51 of 112, 18/00 STR
Artec: 34 of 68, 20psi, standing LL, -2 uses of orange goo
Remort: 17 of 37, 24 of ?? PSPs, standing LL, NOW FIVE YEARS OLD
Katya: 30 of 52, 8gbs, standing LL, cast nab / melf's / / acid bolt, NOW TWITCHING
Borlon: 26 of 51, 10psi, 23 of 116 PSPs +-20 PSPs (gray iouns), cast CLWx5 / silence, charm, hold / dispel, d.door, eye / less, CSWx2 / wall of firex2
Maedhros: 23 of 45, cast CLW / hold, sham, ONLY ARMS turned neon-yellow from elbows to fingertips, crackling aura of lightning, EYES blue-white, cold flesh, chilling breathe, FREAK, can eat ALL gbs
Moonleaf: 25 of 60, mammal/lizard/bird, cast FFx5, d.magicx2 / CLWx6 / pr fire / pr lit
Yavin: 27 of 56, 10psi, 62 of 114 PSPs, used FLY, standing LL and slow poison (two small and two medium with -1 dex), cast CLW / aid
Gilean: 10 of 60, 10psi, 47 of 61 PSPs, standing slow poison (two medium with -1 dex)
Kinsa: 42 (full), standing LL, EIGHTEEN YEARS YOUNGER
Dagaru: 15 (full)