Post by David on Jun 19, 2014 12:35:49 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Maedhros, Yavin, Artec, Hamish, Katya, Kinsa with Dagaru, Gilean, Moonleaf, and Borlon) continue to fight to reach the gate.
Using his spare bow, Artec clears off the rest of the spiders and Idky finishes off the downed hezrou, then taking Artec’s bow back to him. While the party finishes off the trolls, Idky slings continual light stones down the road to light the way through the darkness. They see about a dozen dark elves, several other creatures, what appears to be a trog king in the distance. Then five large spiders start scurrying toward them. The light also reveals a shadow trying to sneak up on the party. Hamish meets the charge as Artec starts shooting spiders and the creatures in the distance. One of the creatures is a githyanki, which Artec takes out with two arrows.
Yavin activates his fly ability and asks Borlon for light stones. Artec shoots an arrow with a continual light stone down past Idky’s stones. Unfortunately, it doesn’t dispel the darkness. Twelve huge spiders start scurrying up. Moonleaf scares off one. Meantime, Yavin flies Borlon’s light stones up into the darkness canopy and creates a “hole” in the cloud, letting sunlight in. He then pulls out his swords to start ripping up the burlap forming the canopy.
Then seven giant spiders, three ghouls, and a salamander move in toward the party. Meantime, Yavin tears open the canopy, allowing daylight through. He drops Borlon light stones as he goes. Then three more giant spiders and a trog king show up. A volley of magic missiles slams into Idky from the darkness. The party continues hacking through the incoming monsters.
By now, Yavin has ripped the canopy farther down toward the gate. He gets struck by a lightning bolt from the darkness. Coalescing behind Idky is a yochlol, which attacks him. Dagaru senses something evil circling Artec’s protection from evil, which he and Kinsa have taken refuge in. Another yochlol materializes near Borlon and Gilean. The party easily finishes off the yochlols. A lightning bolt arcs out of the darkness toward Maedhros, but half of it arcs away and also hits a spider, killing it. Then a dark elf (yochlol) coalesces behind Artec and dominates him. It forces Artec to start shooting at Hamish. He critically hits him in the leg. Kinsa notices and grabs his bow, while Dagaru flies into his face, trying to keep him from shooting. Idky and Hamish run over to try to handle it. Moonleaf scares off other spiders.
The yochlol disappears, while still dominating Artec. A tussle erupts as Kinsa, Hamish, and Idky try to take out Artec. Meanwhile, Yavin rips the canopy at the side, sending drow running away screaming. Maedhros manages to get off a detect invisibility spell and sees the gaseous yochlol trying to follow around the Artec combat. He tries to guide Moonleaf over to it. Borlon finally notices what’s happening with Artec and attempts to contact his mind psionically but isn’t able to get in.
Meanwhile, the rest of the party is dealing with the trog king and remaining giant spider. It drops Katiya. Moonleaf runs over to try to scare off the trog king. Meanwhile eleven huge spiders show up. Kinsa defends Borlon’s back from the trog king. Hamish knocks out Artec. Finally, the party finishes off the trog king and the last giant spider. Kinsa sleeps five of the incoming huge spiders. Moonleaf scares off five of the rest.
Idky cures Hamish’s leg crit, and Hamish tries to attack the gaseous yochlol but can’t seem to connect. Instead, it ego whips Hamish, and he staggers backward in fear. The yochlol coalesces behind Idky, who notices and smack her with his demon-slaying club.
At this point, the entire canopy opens up, letting daylight pour into the entire area. Drow run screaming in terror everywhere. The yochlol knocks Idky unconscious and then stuns herself. Moonleaf runs up to attack it, while Borlon mind thrusts it. Yavin flies back to rejoin the party. Gilean attempts to engage the yochlol while Moonleaf is there and gets caught by her fear aura. He runs and cowers behind Artec’s fallen form.
The yochlol then dominates Maedhros and forces him to cast a lightning bolt at Moonleaf. Fortunately, he miscasts. The bolt arcs around before hitting her as a less powerful spell. The yochlol then fades gaseous again. Borlon engages her psionically. Yavin arrives and brings Katiya up with cure light wounds. Hamish shakes his fear and attempts to attack the yochlol. Moonleaf faerie fires the yochlol. Yavin attacks the bitch and kills it.
The party regroups and heals. Fortunately, the sunlight keeps the creatures away, but the dragons by the gate are patrolling and roaring.
The party formulates a plan to get Katiya to the gate so she can lock it. Yavin flies Artec to the top of a pyramid to provide cover fire if needed. Borlon and Katiya each take half a potion of polymorph and become drow so they can pass the golems and dragons. Before going through, the baby drow decides that he doesn’t want to go through the gate. He would rather stay on Torsh. Borlon agrees, and they proceed with the plan. They get past the golems.
Meanwhile, two bugbears move to investigate Yavin and Artec. Artec kills them with arrow fire. Then one of the dragons runs toward them. Artec shoots it dead. The other then goes airborne to investigate, flying at them at full speed. Artec shoots that one out of the air, but it does a wing-assisted crash and melee attacks. It damages Artec, but Yavin mind thrusts it, allowing Artec to finish it off.
That allows Katiya and Borlon to approach the gate, and Katiya locks it down completely. They now know that no one can pass through the gate. There was red mist in the gate at the time. Borlon secures a promise from Moonleaf to help complete the mission, and uses that to "bend the rules" in order to resurrect her. The cleric of Ra then teleports them everyone back to Old Neeshfall. They take the drow baby, the comatose drow priestess, and the unconscious male drow mage along with them.
That night, Katiya and Borlon regain some of their mental memories that they lost from the youthening effect. They get more information from their prisoners.
Borlon and Maedhros pass through the portal to the sahuagin portal and Borlon turns into a yuan-ti abomination with a serpent head and Maedhros turns into a taagar.
Eeps: 7379 each + 5000 mission accomplished each for locking the gate.
Using his spare bow, Artec clears off the rest of the spiders and Idky finishes off the downed hezrou, then taking Artec’s bow back to him. While the party finishes off the trolls, Idky slings continual light stones down the road to light the way through the darkness. They see about a dozen dark elves, several other creatures, what appears to be a trog king in the distance. Then five large spiders start scurrying toward them. The light also reveals a shadow trying to sneak up on the party. Hamish meets the charge as Artec starts shooting spiders and the creatures in the distance. One of the creatures is a githyanki, which Artec takes out with two arrows.
Yavin activates his fly ability and asks Borlon for light stones. Artec shoots an arrow with a continual light stone down past Idky’s stones. Unfortunately, it doesn’t dispel the darkness. Twelve huge spiders start scurrying up. Moonleaf scares off one. Meantime, Yavin flies Borlon’s light stones up into the darkness canopy and creates a “hole” in the cloud, letting sunlight in. He then pulls out his swords to start ripping up the burlap forming the canopy.
Then seven giant spiders, three ghouls, and a salamander move in toward the party. Meantime, Yavin tears open the canopy, allowing daylight through. He drops Borlon light stones as he goes. Then three more giant spiders and a trog king show up. A volley of magic missiles slams into Idky from the darkness. The party continues hacking through the incoming monsters.
By now, Yavin has ripped the canopy farther down toward the gate. He gets struck by a lightning bolt from the darkness. Coalescing behind Idky is a yochlol, which attacks him. Dagaru senses something evil circling Artec’s protection from evil, which he and Kinsa have taken refuge in. Another yochlol materializes near Borlon and Gilean. The party easily finishes off the yochlols. A lightning bolt arcs out of the darkness toward Maedhros, but half of it arcs away and also hits a spider, killing it. Then a dark elf (yochlol) coalesces behind Artec and dominates him. It forces Artec to start shooting at Hamish. He critically hits him in the leg. Kinsa notices and grabs his bow, while Dagaru flies into his face, trying to keep him from shooting. Idky and Hamish run over to try to handle it. Moonleaf scares off other spiders.
The yochlol disappears, while still dominating Artec. A tussle erupts as Kinsa, Hamish, and Idky try to take out Artec. Meanwhile, Yavin rips the canopy at the side, sending drow running away screaming. Maedhros manages to get off a detect invisibility spell and sees the gaseous yochlol trying to follow around the Artec combat. He tries to guide Moonleaf over to it. Borlon finally notices what’s happening with Artec and attempts to contact his mind psionically but isn’t able to get in.
Meanwhile, the rest of the party is dealing with the trog king and remaining giant spider. It drops Katiya. Moonleaf runs over to try to scare off the trog king. Meanwhile eleven huge spiders show up. Kinsa defends Borlon’s back from the trog king. Hamish knocks out Artec. Finally, the party finishes off the trog king and the last giant spider. Kinsa sleeps five of the incoming huge spiders. Moonleaf scares off five of the rest.
Idky cures Hamish’s leg crit, and Hamish tries to attack the gaseous yochlol but can’t seem to connect. Instead, it ego whips Hamish, and he staggers backward in fear. The yochlol coalesces behind Idky, who notices and smack her with his demon-slaying club.
At this point, the entire canopy opens up, letting daylight pour into the entire area. Drow run screaming in terror everywhere. The yochlol knocks Idky unconscious and then stuns herself. Moonleaf runs up to attack it, while Borlon mind thrusts it. Yavin flies back to rejoin the party. Gilean attempts to engage the yochlol while Moonleaf is there and gets caught by her fear aura. He runs and cowers behind Artec’s fallen form.
The yochlol then dominates Maedhros and forces him to cast a lightning bolt at Moonleaf. Fortunately, he miscasts. The bolt arcs around before hitting her as a less powerful spell. The yochlol then fades gaseous again. Borlon engages her psionically. Yavin arrives and brings Katiya up with cure light wounds. Hamish shakes his fear and attempts to attack the yochlol. Moonleaf faerie fires the yochlol. Yavin attacks the bitch and kills it.
The party regroups and heals. Fortunately, the sunlight keeps the creatures away, but the dragons by the gate are patrolling and roaring.
The party formulates a plan to get Katiya to the gate so she can lock it. Yavin flies Artec to the top of a pyramid to provide cover fire if needed. Borlon and Katiya each take half a potion of polymorph and become drow so they can pass the golems and dragons. Before going through, the baby drow decides that he doesn’t want to go through the gate. He would rather stay on Torsh. Borlon agrees, and they proceed with the plan. They get past the golems.
Meanwhile, two bugbears move to investigate Yavin and Artec. Artec kills them with arrow fire. Then one of the dragons runs toward them. Artec shoots it dead. The other then goes airborne to investigate, flying at them at full speed. Artec shoots that one out of the air, but it does a wing-assisted crash and melee attacks. It damages Artec, but Yavin mind thrusts it, allowing Artec to finish it off.
That allows Katiya and Borlon to approach the gate, and Katiya locks it down completely. They now know that no one can pass through the gate. There was red mist in the gate at the time. Borlon secures a promise from Moonleaf to help complete the mission, and uses that to "bend the rules" in order to resurrect her. The cleric of Ra then teleports them everyone back to Old Neeshfall. They take the drow baby, the comatose drow priestess, and the unconscious male drow mage along with them.
That night, Katiya and Borlon regain some of their mental memories that they lost from the youthening effect. They get more information from their prisoners.
Borlon and Maedhros pass through the portal to the sahuagin portal and Borlon turns into a yuan-ti abomination with a serpent head and Maedhros turns into a taagar.
Eeps: 7379 each + 5000 mission accomplished each for locking the gate.