Post by David on Sept 29, 2015 15:00:51 GMT -5
The heroes (Ichi, Shang-Lung, klornap, Corona with Frost and Deadlock, Shayana, and Zylvanar with Nikaris) decide to attack the recently-constructed lair at the entrance to the mine valley. Ichi scouts the area from the skies using his flying broom and spies a 20' tall and equally wide splice in the rocky wall. The heroes trudge through the 2' deep snow to reach this cavern mouth and enter. They travel a hundred feet or so before Ichi's senses note an invisible dwarf waiting in ambush. The heroes battle and quickly defeat this creature that turns out to be a vampire. Unfortunately, before Corona can conjure a dust devil to suck him up, the party is confronted with more than a dozen ogres and a pack of worgs. Ichi and Corona split off to take the vampire's essence out of the caverns and above the cloud cover while the rest of the heroes slaughter these foes. After bandaging up, the group continues.
Next the heroes encounter a large chamber with a female centaur in the center of it, bound and gagged. All four of her legs are broken, yet she's forced to stand of these legs while two female dwarves dangle across her like saddle bags, their beards knotted together and their mouths and arms similarly bound. Bruenor charges in, only to trigger a tripwire and be caught in a huge net that pulls him to the ceiling of the cavern. That's when the twenty bugbear spring from the shadows and attack. The heroes mount an excellent offensive, but defenseless Bruenor is mal-treated as a bugbear piñata. Though the fight lasts less than a minute, by the time the heroes but the dwarf down, he's nearly dead. Shayana cuts the dwarves free (and ruins their beards!) while Zylvanar tends to the centaur. Shang-Lung uses some strange spell to take on part of the centaur's injuries, partially breaking his own bones to cure hers. With three legs nearly stable, the centaur can now stand with minimal pain and the heroes arm the two dwarves to protect themselves. There is no place to bring these victims to, so the heroes elect to continue, leaving a concussed Frost and a concerned Nikaris to help guard them.
The heroes next encounter a massive room full of goblins. A fireball takes out most of them and Ichi slaughters the goblin mage leading them, leaving a wounded Bruenor to smash a blood path through the survivors. There is another passage out of the cavern as well as a huge door. The heroes have no easy way to open the door, so Shang-Lung dimension doors one of the wooden doors off its hinges, revealing a dwarven-style dungeon complex beyond...
The party enters. Shayana casts a find traps and Ichi notes a concealed panel, behind which is an ogre in dwarven-made platemail, armed with a repeating heavy crossbow and barbed, ogre-sized spears. Amazingly, Shayana is not gunned down and the heroes make short work of this ogre warrior, preventing him from sounding an alarm. The group then decides to sound the alarm themselves and ambush what comes...
From one side, nine more ogres in platemail charge...more than half slamming into one of Shang-Lung's lightning bolts. Bruenor, Corona and Deadlock help clear the hall and Bruenor begins exploring -- running into a dozen ogresses. These creatures fall back to a room full of ogre teens, but prove just as capable fighters as a regular male ogre, albeit these amazon ogres are better equipped! The heroes manage to fairly quickly defeat these monsters, though Zylvanar is fairly soundly squashed in the process. The party learns that one of the ogre teens speaks orcish. Shang-Lung asks the ogres to all assemble in one corner of the room...where he burns them down without mercy using a burning hands spell. "It's not like we could or even should let an ogre live to hunt and kill another day..."
The party finds a final door along this main passage, protected by twin mechanical traps and with a large blood splat a drag-marks leading away. There is some sort of sign on the door, but no one in the party can read the runes. So, the group heads for the other door they skipped. Ichi shatters this and the group finds themselves in a splendid dwarven thrown room. As they enter, thirty bolts shoot into them from another ten ogres, armed with dwarven weapons and armor. Ichi immediately starts to slaughter the creatures. An invisible, flying dwarf comes at him, but the monk is ready for it. Klornap tries to turn the undead, but it only laughs. Ichi, however, takes the vampire out. Unfortunately, he is taken out himself by the ogres. Shang leaps to protect his fellow monk while Corona and Deadlock shore-up the party's front line. The bear is badly wounded and drops. Bruenor nearly joins him and Corona is seriously pounded as well. When the dust settles, all the ogres are dead and the vampire dwarf is nowhere to be found, though there are many doors out of the throne room...
Status:
Ichi: 9 of 57, SPD
Klornap: 32 of 37, cast blessx2, CLWx3
Corona: 16 of 39, 51 years old, cast FFx2, ECx4 / CLW, dust / / CSW
___Frost: 13 of 22, 8gbs, concussed (-2 to hit)
___Deadlock: -4 of 36, 6gbs, 1/2 move due to broken ribs, huge (-1 CHR) gash across chest
Shang-Lung: 33 of 56, cast everything but teleport
Bruenor: 17 of 73, 6gbs, cast armor / armor IIx2
Shayana: 35 of 42, cast / sun, find / hold animal
Zylvanar: +3 of 42, 4gbs, cast ECx4 / CLWx3, sun / hold animal and 34gbs left
___Nikaris: 35 of 43, 4gbs
Next the heroes encounter a large chamber with a female centaur in the center of it, bound and gagged. All four of her legs are broken, yet she's forced to stand of these legs while two female dwarves dangle across her like saddle bags, their beards knotted together and their mouths and arms similarly bound. Bruenor charges in, only to trigger a tripwire and be caught in a huge net that pulls him to the ceiling of the cavern. That's when the twenty bugbear spring from the shadows and attack. The heroes mount an excellent offensive, but defenseless Bruenor is mal-treated as a bugbear piñata. Though the fight lasts less than a minute, by the time the heroes but the dwarf down, he's nearly dead. Shayana cuts the dwarves free (and ruins their beards!) while Zylvanar tends to the centaur. Shang-Lung uses some strange spell to take on part of the centaur's injuries, partially breaking his own bones to cure hers. With three legs nearly stable, the centaur can now stand with minimal pain and the heroes arm the two dwarves to protect themselves. There is no place to bring these victims to, so the heroes elect to continue, leaving a concussed Frost and a concerned Nikaris to help guard them.
The heroes next encounter a massive room full of goblins. A fireball takes out most of them and Ichi slaughters the goblin mage leading them, leaving a wounded Bruenor to smash a blood path through the survivors. There is another passage out of the cavern as well as a huge door. The heroes have no easy way to open the door, so Shang-Lung dimension doors one of the wooden doors off its hinges, revealing a dwarven-style dungeon complex beyond...
The party enters. Shayana casts a find traps and Ichi notes a concealed panel, behind which is an ogre in dwarven-made platemail, armed with a repeating heavy crossbow and barbed, ogre-sized spears. Amazingly, Shayana is not gunned down and the heroes make short work of this ogre warrior, preventing him from sounding an alarm. The group then decides to sound the alarm themselves and ambush what comes...
From one side, nine more ogres in platemail charge...more than half slamming into one of Shang-Lung's lightning bolts. Bruenor, Corona and Deadlock help clear the hall and Bruenor begins exploring -- running into a dozen ogresses. These creatures fall back to a room full of ogre teens, but prove just as capable fighters as a regular male ogre, albeit these amazon ogres are better equipped! The heroes manage to fairly quickly defeat these monsters, though Zylvanar is fairly soundly squashed in the process. The party learns that one of the ogre teens speaks orcish. Shang-Lung asks the ogres to all assemble in one corner of the room...where he burns them down without mercy using a burning hands spell. "It's not like we could or even should let an ogre live to hunt and kill another day..."
The party finds a final door along this main passage, protected by twin mechanical traps and with a large blood splat a drag-marks leading away. There is some sort of sign on the door, but no one in the party can read the runes. So, the group heads for the other door they skipped. Ichi shatters this and the group finds themselves in a splendid dwarven thrown room. As they enter, thirty bolts shoot into them from another ten ogres, armed with dwarven weapons and armor. Ichi immediately starts to slaughter the creatures. An invisible, flying dwarf comes at him, but the monk is ready for it. Klornap tries to turn the undead, but it only laughs. Ichi, however, takes the vampire out. Unfortunately, he is taken out himself by the ogres. Shang leaps to protect his fellow monk while Corona and Deadlock shore-up the party's front line. The bear is badly wounded and drops. Bruenor nearly joins him and Corona is seriously pounded as well. When the dust settles, all the ogres are dead and the vampire dwarf is nowhere to be found, though there are many doors out of the throne room...
Status:
Ichi: 9 of 57, SPD
Klornap: 32 of 37, cast blessx2, CLWx3
Corona: 16 of 39, 51 years old, cast FFx2, ECx4 / CLW, dust / / CSW
___Frost: 13 of 22, 8gbs, concussed (-2 to hit)
___Deadlock: -4 of 36, 6gbs, 1/2 move due to broken ribs, huge (-1 CHR) gash across chest
Shang-Lung: 33 of 56, cast everything but teleport
Bruenor: 17 of 73, 6gbs, cast armor / armor IIx2
Shayana: 35 of 42, cast / sun, find / hold animal
Zylvanar: +3 of 42, 4gbs, cast ECx4 / CLWx3, sun / hold animal and 34gbs left
___Nikaris: 35 of 43, 4gbs