Post by David on May 12, 2016 2:15:22 GMT -5
The party (Aeronne, Harbinder, Aris, Adama, Ichi, and P'Tal) rest in their room in Rel Astra. The group uses the time to question their charmed "guest," Talia, one of the senior gild members. After nightfall, Talia guides the heroes to a sewer entrance where they set about looking for the entrance to the REAL Thieves' Guild. Things quickly go badly...
Within only a few minutes, Talia is lost and the party is ambushed by five trolls using four giant crocodiles as "hounds"! Talia nearly dies on the spot and it's only due to amazing luck that Adama didn't get savaged. Somehow, Aris gets the drop on the monsters and has the time to invoke a fire breath which incinerates nearly everything above the water-line...only one troll is left along with two crocs which the Scarlet Sorcerer couldn't catch in the spell. Aeronne and Ichi move to help out cleric of Esclepius while Harbinder saves the informant. The heroes quickly get things back in hand only to have more than a dozen gargoyles blind-side P'Tal, taking him out. That's when the wight attacked, leading a wave of ghouls and ghasts. The party is caught in a three-way battle. Aeronne and Adama pivot, turning a swath of undead while Ichi keeps the rest from reaching the paladin and cleric. Harbinder punches her way to P'Tal as Aris unleashes his final fire shurikens and mystic missiles. Quite a lot of work just to stay alive...
The heroes heal their wounds and continue on, having revived both P'Tal and Talia. They reach a check point and Talia tries to bluff past it -- unfortunately, the guards seem to have some idea what the party looks like AND that they kidnapped Talia. The three guards slip into the dark and sound and alarm. Adama sleeps one but the other two must be put down. Then the heroes face the beholder coming from the other direction -- clearly released by the thieves. Ichi, Harbinder, and Aeronne brace to ambush the creature which explodes on contact...nice use of a gas spore! It's a shame Ichi invoked his speed power...
The party reaches the final check point and again things go poorly -- as if this guard post wouldn't know the same thing the first two did? Aris unleashes a fire breath to remove a huge horde of ghouls and ghasts with Ichi acting as back-up. That leaves Aeronne to deal with the three backstabbers...though the paladin proves luckier than clever. Finally, the heroes reach the main entrance to the hidden guild. Aris uses a scroll of hypnotic pattern to take out five of the six guards within and Ichi easily handles the rest. There is a tense moment when Harbinder threatens to abandon the party if they continue killing captives (particularly ARIS). The heroes release Talia, who then kills the remaining thieves anyway before skulking off.
The group carefully makes its way through the inner working of the hidden guild until coming to another guard post. Ichi and Harbinder take out the defenders without sounding an alarm. They open the door beyond to find...
Status:
P'Tal: 24 of 35, 35psi
Adama: 44 of 54, 7psi, 1/2 lay cast CLWx2, dark / find, charmx2, sleep, aid / d.door, starshine / prot E 10'r, CSW
Aeronne: 65 of 75, 21psi, cast CLW
Harbinder: 19 of 38, 6psi, 70 of 121 PSPs
Aris: 42 (full), 9psi, dmg Ki, one first / x / x / one fourth / x
Ichi: 42 of 57, SPD
Running eeps total is 39,085 divided 6.5 ways (Talia gets a half share up to this point)
Within only a few minutes, Talia is lost and the party is ambushed by five trolls using four giant crocodiles as "hounds"! Talia nearly dies on the spot and it's only due to amazing luck that Adama didn't get savaged. Somehow, Aris gets the drop on the monsters and has the time to invoke a fire breath which incinerates nearly everything above the water-line...only one troll is left along with two crocs which the Scarlet Sorcerer couldn't catch in the spell. Aeronne and Ichi move to help out cleric of Esclepius while Harbinder saves the informant. The heroes quickly get things back in hand only to have more than a dozen gargoyles blind-side P'Tal, taking him out. That's when the wight attacked, leading a wave of ghouls and ghasts. The party is caught in a three-way battle. Aeronne and Adama pivot, turning a swath of undead while Ichi keeps the rest from reaching the paladin and cleric. Harbinder punches her way to P'Tal as Aris unleashes his final fire shurikens and mystic missiles. Quite a lot of work just to stay alive...
The heroes heal their wounds and continue on, having revived both P'Tal and Talia. They reach a check point and Talia tries to bluff past it -- unfortunately, the guards seem to have some idea what the party looks like AND that they kidnapped Talia. The three guards slip into the dark and sound and alarm. Adama sleeps one but the other two must be put down. Then the heroes face the beholder coming from the other direction -- clearly released by the thieves. Ichi, Harbinder, and Aeronne brace to ambush the creature which explodes on contact...nice use of a gas spore! It's a shame Ichi invoked his speed power...
The party reaches the final check point and again things go poorly -- as if this guard post wouldn't know the same thing the first two did? Aris unleashes a fire breath to remove a huge horde of ghouls and ghasts with Ichi acting as back-up. That leaves Aeronne to deal with the three backstabbers...though the paladin proves luckier than clever. Finally, the heroes reach the main entrance to the hidden guild. Aris uses a scroll of hypnotic pattern to take out five of the six guards within and Ichi easily handles the rest. There is a tense moment when Harbinder threatens to abandon the party if they continue killing captives (particularly ARIS). The heroes release Talia, who then kills the remaining thieves anyway before skulking off.
The group carefully makes its way through the inner working of the hidden guild until coming to another guard post. Ichi and Harbinder take out the defenders without sounding an alarm. They open the door beyond to find...
Status:
P'Tal: 24 of 35, 35psi
Adama: 44 of 54, 7psi, 1/2 lay cast CLWx2, dark / find, charmx2, sleep, aid / d.door, starshine / prot E 10'r, CSW
Aeronne: 65 of 75, 21psi, cast CLW
Harbinder: 19 of 38, 6psi, 70 of 121 PSPs
Aris: 42 (full), 9psi, dmg Ki, one first / x / x / one fourth / x
Ichi: 42 of 57, SPD
Running eeps total is 39,085 divided 6.5 ways (Talia gets a half share up to this point)