Post by David on Jul 14, 2014 18:18:38 GMT -5
The party (Idky, Maedhros, Yavin, Artec, Hamish, Katya, Kinsa with Dagaru, Gilean, Moonleaf, Borlon with Nebra, Remort, and Twyll) regroups and collects loot from the drow bodies. Then three ogres, 14 huge spiders, and six large spiders move to attack the party. Borlon blasts an ogre with eye of fire. Yavin mesmerizes most of the spiders, keeping them from joining the fight for now. Artec and Twyll start shooting monsters. The rest surround Artec to absorb incoming creatures. They finish them off quickly without anyone (except Maedhros) getting so much as a scratch.
After checking for loot on the ogres, Katya checks that the portal is still locked (it is), and the party goes in pursuit of the fleeing drow. Moonleaf (who had assumed wolf form to track) determines that there are also four ghasts with the drow. Unfortunately, Artec doesn’t agree with the trail Moonleaf found. The party decides to go with Artec’s trail.
The trail leads them into a temple and to some dead troglodytes and a couple of trog statues (the beholder, maybe?). Artec peeks around the passage and gets blasted by three rays from the beholder. Fortunately, nothing affects him. He calls out a warning and starts shooting. Then six ghasts (two looking VERY fresh) show up. Half the party gets faerie fired (Artec only intermittently so, because he’s in the line of sight of the beholder). Behind the ghasts are the three drow. One of them throws down a figurine, which becomes a crystalline spider. Maedhros turns the ghasts. Hamish charges the beholder, while Borlon teleports into the drow and pulls out his light stone. Nebra runs to join her high priest and starts attacking the crystalline spider. Most of the rest of the party go to help out with the drow and spider.
One of the drow throws down a small hourglass. The effect goes off, and the entire party (including two of the three drow) gets caught in a time stop. One of the drow is spared the effects, and he shoots poisoned darts at Borlon. The crystalline spider is also unaffected and attacks Yavin. Then the cleric of Celestian's ring of attenuation causes Yavin to thaw out of the time stop effect almost immediately. Soon, the effect starts to wear off on the rest of the party as well.
Another drow traps Borlon inside a bead of force. The other priestess starts attacking Idky with a snake-headed flail (a queen’s scourge). Twyll comes up and breaks her leg. Borlon attempts to psychic crush a drow, but his prison prevents even psionic energy from escaping. Artec starts directing arrow fire at the drow priestess, knocking her to the ground. Hamish moves to engage the spider with Yavin. Remort mind thrusts the other drow priestess who moved up to defend the fallen high priestess. Borlon teleports out of his prison and psychic crushes the male drow, causing his head to explode.
That’s when Artec decides to cast magic missile at the drow priestess. He triggers a magical surge, which causes his missiles to circle around and continuously strike him. The high priestess grabs her amulet and turns into a shadow. Meanwhile, Idky starts to succumb to the scourge’s paralytic poison. Hamish brings her down.
Maedhros and Katya start harvesting components from the beholder: teeth, vitreous humor from the main eye, eyestalks, brain, pieces of shell.
They loot the bodies and head back to Old Neeshfall. Borlon speaks with dead with the high priestess. She reveals that they need a “cerulean sign” to help fix the seal. She believes one can be found on the Plane of Shadow.
Eeps: 3343 each plus 5000 mission accomplished (not Twyll)
After checking for loot on the ogres, Katya checks that the portal is still locked (it is), and the party goes in pursuit of the fleeing drow. Moonleaf (who had assumed wolf form to track) determines that there are also four ghasts with the drow. Unfortunately, Artec doesn’t agree with the trail Moonleaf found. The party decides to go with Artec’s trail.
The trail leads them into a temple and to some dead troglodytes and a couple of trog statues (the beholder, maybe?). Artec peeks around the passage and gets blasted by three rays from the beholder. Fortunately, nothing affects him. He calls out a warning and starts shooting. Then six ghasts (two looking VERY fresh) show up. Half the party gets faerie fired (Artec only intermittently so, because he’s in the line of sight of the beholder). Behind the ghasts are the three drow. One of them throws down a figurine, which becomes a crystalline spider. Maedhros turns the ghasts. Hamish charges the beholder, while Borlon teleports into the drow and pulls out his light stone. Nebra runs to join her high priest and starts attacking the crystalline spider. Most of the rest of the party go to help out with the drow and spider.
One of the drow throws down a small hourglass. The effect goes off, and the entire party (including two of the three drow) gets caught in a time stop. One of the drow is spared the effects, and he shoots poisoned darts at Borlon. The crystalline spider is also unaffected and attacks Yavin. Then the cleric of Celestian's ring of attenuation causes Yavin to thaw out of the time stop effect almost immediately. Soon, the effect starts to wear off on the rest of the party as well.
Another drow traps Borlon inside a bead of force. The other priestess starts attacking Idky with a snake-headed flail (a queen’s scourge). Twyll comes up and breaks her leg. Borlon attempts to psychic crush a drow, but his prison prevents even psionic energy from escaping. Artec starts directing arrow fire at the drow priestess, knocking her to the ground. Hamish moves to engage the spider with Yavin. Remort mind thrusts the other drow priestess who moved up to defend the fallen high priestess. Borlon teleports out of his prison and psychic crushes the male drow, causing his head to explode.
That’s when Artec decides to cast magic missile at the drow priestess. He triggers a magical surge, which causes his missiles to circle around and continuously strike him. The high priestess grabs her amulet and turns into a shadow. Meanwhile, Idky starts to succumb to the scourge’s paralytic poison. Hamish brings her down.
Maedhros and Katya start harvesting components from the beholder: teeth, vitreous humor from the main eye, eyestalks, brain, pieces of shell.
They loot the bodies and head back to Old Neeshfall. Borlon speaks with dead with the high priestess. She reveals that they need a “cerulean sign” to help fix the seal. She believes one can be found on the Plane of Shadow.
Eeps: 3343 each plus 5000 mission accomplished (not Twyll)