Post by David on Jan 19, 2015 15:58:06 GMT -5
The heroes (Taarna, Saanau, Aeronne, Brock, Cymoril, Glenn, and Boodan) continue to defend the town of Bloodstone from the Bandit Army and their giant and undead allies. Saanau's detect invisibility allows her to see the invisible, hasted assassins moving up on Aeronne, so she first uses an ice storm to cause him to slip as well as deny the giants LOS to throw boulders and follows it up with a fumble, effectively taking the assassin out of the fight. This buys the paladin time to finish off his wights as well as save Brock from his foes. Another band of hasted wights comes running in but a fireball from the elven wizardess incinerates all but one! Another ice storm seriously limits the enemy's path to attack and forces the giants to come closer. They are rewarded with first a triad of shooting stars, the explosions from which vaporize the fumbled assassin and kill one stone giant and one hill giant, nearly killing two more as well. A ball lightning takes out one more. With Aeronne's huge sword, the remaining giants on the north side of town die quickly.
Brock, meanwhile, has retreated with Cymoril to the gatehouse where one of her potions of healing restore the champion of Wee Jas to consciousness. Joining them are Taarna, Glenn, and Boodan. That's when giant boulders pulverize the structure and send the lot tumbling to the ground. Only two of the guardsmen in the building are not crushed or trapped, though all the heroes but Brock avoid any serious injury. The remaining four giants approach and things look really bad...so Taarna invokes her wish and asks for Rhom to appear. The warsmith charges, shielding Taarna. The remaining giants see the "hammer dude" is finally on the battlefield and orient on him. Rhom takes out two giants before a volley of boulders seriously wounds him. He then uses the downed jotuns as cover, switches to Hrolstov, his hammer of thunderbolts, and kills all the rest of the giants, save the stone giant.
Taarna, meanwhile, notes that the graveyard hill is again wreathed in demonfire with the priest at the top. She carefully sneaks up on him and grabs him mid-ritual. The demonfire burns her despite her fire resistance, but thanks to her potion of fire giant strength, she tosses the cleric of Orcus off the top of the hill. That's when eight invisible shadows appear and drop Taarna...
In town, Aeronne take out the rest of the zombies while Cymoril drives off the shadows (DM's bad!). The champion then slaughters nine of the remaining goblins while the paladin destroys the shadows with his sword. Saanau gives some support, even using a potion of destruction, but she is barely on her feet at all. Their efforts, however, pay off and the Bloodstone is safe from the invaders.
At this point, the remaining assassin decides the while he MIGHT be able to backstab Rhom, unless he kills the warsmith, he is dead. The risk is not worth it, so he flees, leaving the (surprisingly wounded) warsmith to trade missile fire with the last stone giant. Rhom's magical shield and armor handle the jotun's boulders but he cannot say the same about Night-Splitter, Rhom's hammer of lightning bolts. Rhom then heads after Taarna, seeing two demons thrashing Cameron. The warsmith hits each twice, dropping them but NOT sending them back to the Abyss. The cleric of Orcus flamestrikes Rhom, who retaliates with Night-Splitter. A hold person also (amazingly) fails, prompting Rhom to throw his hammer again and charge, invoking his gift of berserking. The cleric doesn't remain standing long...
The heroes regroup and save the wounded. Aeronne manages to save both Glenn and Brock (now 1st level!) who Cameron saves with a pair of death's door spells. Rhom chains up the cleric and then takes time to mash the demons' bodies (sending them back to the Abyss!) as well as the heads of all the giants. Taarna, now restored by Cameron's acolyte, Abazul, leads the group to confer with both Stephen the bar-keep and Baroness Christina. The heroes then take the cleric to the dungeons.
The heroes rest the night and (along with the Baroness) use healing magics in the morning. They head to the dungeons where they question the cleric of Iuz...AFTER Rhom cuts out the man's tongue and, with one of Brock's aid spells, shatters his right hand. Saanau wrinkles her nose at the Viking's barbarism, using an ESP to (amazingly) successfully probe the cleric's mind. The heroes learn that the forces against them are nearly depleated -- one the grandfather of assassins and the mage remain as well as a few lesser assassins and stone giants. Unfortunately, the cleric sent his dwarven vampire after Alaric, the cleric of Lendor...!
Aeronne, Cymoril, and Rhom head to the Abby of St. Sollus. They find Cameron and Abazul are fine, but Alaric and Zomos have both been turned! The heroes move to destroy the undead, but the dwarven vampire charms Rhom who then slays Abazul. He also seriously wounds Aeronne before Cameron holds him. The paladin and champion manage to force all three vampires gaseous and use their detection abilities to track the undead back to their resting place, where, with a little help, they manage to destroy the undead once and for all.
After healing up a little more, Saanau teleports part of the party to Portown, where they confer with Sage and Shang after the High-Priestess heals them. The group then teleports to Klarr for more supplies and healing, before finally returning (momentarily with Esmerelda) back to Bloodstone. Meanwhile, in town, all is quiet and the heroes gets some much-needed rest. For his part, Glenn puts his experience to work and drills the remaining men-at-arms in coordinated fighting, in case another attack comes...
Status:
Saanau: 65 (full), 5gbs, SS, cast d.magic / esp / itemx3 / SS / TPx2
Aeronne: 43 of 75, lay and CLW
Brock: full, 8gbs, -1 lvl perm, CLWx4 / aid
Taarna: 56 of 92, 8 gbs
Glenn: 56 of 67, 8gbs, used spear and ring
Boodan: 41 of 73, 8gbs
Rhom: 81 (full)
Brock, meanwhile, has retreated with Cymoril to the gatehouse where one of her potions of healing restore the champion of Wee Jas to consciousness. Joining them are Taarna, Glenn, and Boodan. That's when giant boulders pulverize the structure and send the lot tumbling to the ground. Only two of the guardsmen in the building are not crushed or trapped, though all the heroes but Brock avoid any serious injury. The remaining four giants approach and things look really bad...so Taarna invokes her wish and asks for Rhom to appear. The warsmith charges, shielding Taarna. The remaining giants see the "hammer dude" is finally on the battlefield and orient on him. Rhom takes out two giants before a volley of boulders seriously wounds him. He then uses the downed jotuns as cover, switches to Hrolstov, his hammer of thunderbolts, and kills all the rest of the giants, save the stone giant.
Taarna, meanwhile, notes that the graveyard hill is again wreathed in demonfire with the priest at the top. She carefully sneaks up on him and grabs him mid-ritual. The demonfire burns her despite her fire resistance, but thanks to her potion of fire giant strength, she tosses the cleric of Orcus off the top of the hill. That's when eight invisible shadows appear and drop Taarna...
In town, Aeronne take out the rest of the zombies while Cymoril drives off the shadows (DM's bad!). The champion then slaughters nine of the remaining goblins while the paladin destroys the shadows with his sword. Saanau gives some support, even using a potion of destruction, but she is barely on her feet at all. Their efforts, however, pay off and the Bloodstone is safe from the invaders.
At this point, the remaining assassin decides the while he MIGHT be able to backstab Rhom, unless he kills the warsmith, he is dead. The risk is not worth it, so he flees, leaving the (surprisingly wounded) warsmith to trade missile fire with the last stone giant. Rhom's magical shield and armor handle the jotun's boulders but he cannot say the same about Night-Splitter, Rhom's hammer of lightning bolts. Rhom then heads after Taarna, seeing two demons thrashing Cameron. The warsmith hits each twice, dropping them but NOT sending them back to the Abyss. The cleric of Orcus flamestrikes Rhom, who retaliates with Night-Splitter. A hold person also (amazingly) fails, prompting Rhom to throw his hammer again and charge, invoking his gift of berserking. The cleric doesn't remain standing long...
The heroes regroup and save the wounded. Aeronne manages to save both Glenn and Brock (now 1st level!) who Cameron saves with a pair of death's door spells. Rhom chains up the cleric and then takes time to mash the demons' bodies (sending them back to the Abyss!) as well as the heads of all the giants. Taarna, now restored by Cameron's acolyte, Abazul, leads the group to confer with both Stephen the bar-keep and Baroness Christina. The heroes then take the cleric to the dungeons.
The heroes rest the night and (along with the Baroness) use healing magics in the morning. They head to the dungeons where they question the cleric of Iuz...AFTER Rhom cuts out the man's tongue and, with one of Brock's aid spells, shatters his right hand. Saanau wrinkles her nose at the Viking's barbarism, using an ESP to (amazingly) successfully probe the cleric's mind. The heroes learn that the forces against them are nearly depleated -- one the grandfather of assassins and the mage remain as well as a few lesser assassins and stone giants. Unfortunately, the cleric sent his dwarven vampire after Alaric, the cleric of Lendor...!
Aeronne, Cymoril, and Rhom head to the Abby of St. Sollus. They find Cameron and Abazul are fine, but Alaric and Zomos have both been turned! The heroes move to destroy the undead, but the dwarven vampire charms Rhom who then slays Abazul. He also seriously wounds Aeronne before Cameron holds him. The paladin and champion manage to force all three vampires gaseous and use their detection abilities to track the undead back to their resting place, where, with a little help, they manage to destroy the undead once and for all.
After healing up a little more, Saanau teleports part of the party to Portown, where they confer with Sage and Shang after the High-Priestess heals them. The group then teleports to Klarr for more supplies and healing, before finally returning (momentarily with Esmerelda) back to Bloodstone. Meanwhile, in town, all is quiet and the heroes gets some much-needed rest. For his part, Glenn puts his experience to work and drills the remaining men-at-arms in coordinated fighting, in case another attack comes...
Status:
Saanau: 65 (full), 5gbs, SS, cast d.magic / esp / itemx3 / SS / TPx2
Aeronne: 43 of 75, lay and CLW
Brock: full, 8gbs, -1 lvl perm, CLWx4 / aid
Taarna: 56 of 92, 8 gbs
Glenn: 56 of 67, 8gbs, used spear and ring
Boodan: 41 of 73, 8gbs
Rhom: 81 (full)
