Post by David on Aug 24, 2015 15:33:01 GMT -5
The heroes (Taarna, Brock, Esmerelda with Drusilla, Cymoril with Tarjar, Tolus, Moonlight, and Kahan) return to the Temple of Wee Jas to heal up and sleep. Their wounds, however, are beyond Sage and Allyrion's ability to handle plus they bring several defeated foes in tow, so Brand teleports to Klarr and returns with Jasmine, the White Witch of Klarr, and Mikhail the druid. While the young man psionically heals the party's injuries, Jasmine uses a kiss of slavery on the priestess of Wee Jas, learning quite a bit about their plan. The heroes head to bed with the plan to seek out the Obelisk of Lendor on the edge of the magic school, Ars Magika, in the morning.
Around 4am, Kahan wakens the party. He has had another vision -- the Scarlet Brotherhood party has nearly completed their mission and there is no time to wait! Esmerelda uses an esp on the priestess of Wee Jas to find the location and then combines a probability control with a dimensional fold to bring the heroes there instantly. The group decides to bring Mikhail along to befriend and take care of the Brotherhood's giant riding lizards, the gwahasti. While outside, Taarna notes the signs of a huge battle as well as nearly a dozen skulks nearby. The humanoids flee immediately when discovered and the heroes enter the obelisk...
The inside of the Obelisk seems larger than the outside and the heroes feel an unnatural chill run down their spine. The marble has the quality of reminding the viewer of the night sky, complete with stars. Partway down the entry hall, the group encounters a gargoyle, Jonesy, who asks for a drink. Taarna obliges and the gargoyle proceeds to give the heroes some idea of what's in store for them.
They reach a long room with six doors on either wall and a painted door on the far end. Once the heroes enter, the door which they used also becomes a painting... The doors here are brass, copper, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum on one side and wood, amber, coral, shell, scale, and bone on the other. Thanks to the prophesy, the heroes know they need to deal with ten of the doors.
The first one summons nine black abashai. The second door summons eight green abashai. Then seven red abashai. Next are six hordlings of Hades followed by five night hags. After are four hydrodaemons and three glabrezu. The heroes continue and battle two nalfeshnee and then a single molydeus before finally battling a black (death) slaad that uses both an unholy word (croak) and a symbol of stunning. After more than an hour, the heroes all finally recover and continue into a room with a chess board.
Taarna is the black queen and Esmerelda the black king. Brock and Kahan are the bishops while Tarjar and Cymoril are the knights. Finally, Tolus and Moonlight are the rooks...
Status:
Moonlight: 81 of 98, PROT FIRE & WARPAINT, cast ALL / CLW, spx4, sun / ALL / warpaint, perfect / / Water to Dust
Kahan: 34 of 43, 0 of 56 PSPs, PROT FIRE, RESIST COLD, PROT LIGHT, cast CLWx3, RC / RF, SPx2, lesser restore / prot fire, speak with dead
Brock: 32 of 65, JUMP and NPP, cast CLWx2 / jump, find / ALL / ALL / ALL
Tolus: 41 of 56, 4 gbs
Taarna: 66 of 96, used Rhom's torc, WARPAINT
Esmerelda: 47 (full), WARPAINT, cast CW / hold, ESP, momentx2 / MIx2 / prob, dim fold /
__Drusilla: 19 (full), WARPAINT
Cymoril: 59 of 77, LAY, RC, RF
__Tarjar: 55 of 101
Eeps were 128,563 xps EACH!!!
Around 4am, Kahan wakens the party. He has had another vision -- the Scarlet Brotherhood party has nearly completed their mission and there is no time to wait! Esmerelda uses an esp on the priestess of Wee Jas to find the location and then combines a probability control with a dimensional fold to bring the heroes there instantly. The group decides to bring Mikhail along to befriend and take care of the Brotherhood's giant riding lizards, the gwahasti. While outside, Taarna notes the signs of a huge battle as well as nearly a dozen skulks nearby. The humanoids flee immediately when discovered and the heroes enter the obelisk...
The inside of the Obelisk seems larger than the outside and the heroes feel an unnatural chill run down their spine. The marble has the quality of reminding the viewer of the night sky, complete with stars. Partway down the entry hall, the group encounters a gargoyle, Jonesy, who asks for a drink. Taarna obliges and the gargoyle proceeds to give the heroes some idea of what's in store for them.
They reach a long room with six doors on either wall and a painted door on the far end. Once the heroes enter, the door which they used also becomes a painting... The doors here are brass, copper, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum on one side and wood, amber, coral, shell, scale, and bone on the other. Thanks to the prophesy, the heroes know they need to deal with ten of the doors.
The first one summons nine black abashai. The second door summons eight green abashai. Then seven red abashai. Next are six hordlings of Hades followed by five night hags. After are four hydrodaemons and three glabrezu. The heroes continue and battle two nalfeshnee and then a single molydeus before finally battling a black (death) slaad that uses both an unholy word (croak) and a symbol of stunning. After more than an hour, the heroes all finally recover and continue into a room with a chess board.
Taarna is the black queen and Esmerelda the black king. Brock and Kahan are the bishops while Tarjar and Cymoril are the knights. Finally, Tolus and Moonlight are the rooks...
Status:
Moonlight: 81 of 98, PROT FIRE & WARPAINT, cast ALL / CLW, spx4, sun / ALL / warpaint, perfect / / Water to Dust
Kahan: 34 of 43, 0 of 56 PSPs, PROT FIRE, RESIST COLD, PROT LIGHT, cast CLWx3, RC / RF, SPx2, lesser restore / prot fire, speak with dead
Brock: 32 of 65, JUMP and NPP, cast CLWx2 / jump, find / ALL / ALL / ALL
Tolus: 41 of 56, 4 gbs
Taarna: 66 of 96, used Rhom's torc, WARPAINT
Esmerelda: 47 (full), WARPAINT, cast CW / hold, ESP, momentx2 / MIx2 / prob, dim fold /
__Drusilla: 19 (full), WARPAINT
Cymoril: 59 of 77, LAY, RC, RF
__Tarjar: 55 of 101
Eeps were 128,563 xps EACH!!!
