Post by David on Jul 31, 2017 18:09:37 GMT -5
The heroes (Viktor, Pacha, Kohana, Lohaheel, Garlok with Boomika, Kuur, Anya the Unruly, and Lee the Furry) are picked up by Baron Moorak Drake (Garlok's dad) and brought to Dragondale where they all join the prince's family in celebrating his birthday. After Midsummers, the group continues back to Klarr where they head back to the caverns. There, the rangers see that another group has entered the caverns and slaughtered the gnolls for them. The group returns to where the undead were and are soon battling for their lives against eight ghouls and eight shadows. Without a cleric who can turn or a mage's blasting spells, the heroes are quickly in a life-and-death struggle against the undead. Pacha and Viktor spend most of the battle paralyzed and Kohana would have been eaten were it not for Garlok's familiar, Boomika. The heroes barely manage to survive and fall back to Hommlet where they rest and are healed by Jaroo the druid.
The group then returns to the limestone caves to finish off the threat to the woodland communities. They encounter and slaughter four fire priests and then continue on to find the main shrine to the Elder Elemental God, complete with fire skeletons, sacrificial fire pit and two powerful clerics, one of which has a one-eyed pyrolisk on his shoulder! The heroes manage to take out most of the undead fairly quickly and even drop the lesser priest before his summoned efreeti can join the fray! But the pyrolisk and his cleric buddy are quick a problem -- Pacha is forced out of combat twice by the flaming attacks of the two and Viktor, Kohana, Kuur, Lee, and Anya all get very seriously burned. Kohana, however, manages to land a solid blow on the priest, stunning him. The heroes very quickly take him out and then slaughter the fire-starting chicken.
A few speak with dead spells from Lohaheel reveal that this entire endeavor was an act on the part of the Fire Temple to gain strength vis-a-vis the Water Temple with the "stretch goal" of taking out Klarr, an obvious impediment if the Temple of Elemental Evil ever plans on going back into business...
The group then returns to the limestone caves to finish off the threat to the woodland communities. They encounter and slaughter four fire priests and then continue on to find the main shrine to the Elder Elemental God, complete with fire skeletons, sacrificial fire pit and two powerful clerics, one of which has a one-eyed pyrolisk on his shoulder! The heroes manage to take out most of the undead fairly quickly and even drop the lesser priest before his summoned efreeti can join the fray! But the pyrolisk and his cleric buddy are quick a problem -- Pacha is forced out of combat twice by the flaming attacks of the two and Viktor, Kohana, Kuur, Lee, and Anya all get very seriously burned. Kohana, however, manages to land a solid blow on the priest, stunning him. The heroes very quickly take him out and then slaughter the fire-starting chicken.
A few speak with dead spells from Lohaheel reveal that this entire endeavor was an act on the part of the Fire Temple to gain strength vis-a-vis the Water Temple with the "stretch goal" of taking out Klarr, an obvious impediment if the Temple of Elemental Evil ever plans on going back into business...