Post by naerdith on Sept 25, 2018 9:11:45 GMT -5
Players: Huginn the Mage, Farhad the Persian Ranger, Urthur the Hunter, Cal the Beast Master, Thera the Cleric of Athena, Galen the Jedi, Svalla the Warrior, and Arken the Warrior
The heroes regroup on Eon to heal up and plan how to proceed forward. The battle with the Minotaur King had wounded many of them. They decide to use the portal network and attack from within the temple instead of a frontal assault. The fireballs made Huginn nervous about attacking in the open. The party agrees, but before they can go, Andar shows up with two new people to assist in the assault. Arken is brought back as part of the price for a bow he had and Thera is brought in to bolster healing. The party that knows Thera greet her warmly, but Arken is met with flat stares including some annoyed muttering from Thera and glares at Andar.
The party goes back to the Tower of Illusion and moves back to Manaea. They meet no resistance on their way back to the portal and move through to the room that had minotaurs earlier. When they appear through the portal, there are several minotaurs and gnolls stationed in the room. Only half are actually on duty though as the rest are milling about. Thinking quickly, Huginn targets a lightning bolt that wipes out most of the gnolls and a few minotaurs. The rest of the party springs into action taking the minotaurs and the gnolls that are directly around the teleport pad. Arken maneuvers to take on a minotaur, but Thera moves in and kills it with one mighty blow, smirking at him as he failed to kill the gnoll he swung at. The battle moved pretty quickly and the heroes manage to bring everything down without much alarm raised. They loot the room and move down to check the one hallway out. While they do this, Huginn has Odindisa move up to the windows to verify they are in fact at the minotaur King's palace. He sees the wall of thorns and the crystal gateway and it is confirmed.
The party moves down the hall and chooses the double doors on the western wall. Inside are a lot of nursing gnoll mothers and their pups. Arken asks Huginn to clear a path with a lightning bolt and he does, frying about a third of them in an instant. Most of the party moves in to target the gnoll mothers while Arkan moves to kill the mothers and children. Cal, Urthur, Farhad, Svalla, and Galen are disgusted by the act. Thera tries to save some of them by moving them into a room some more gnoll mothers had come out of, but it has no affect while Arkan pushes her out of the way to slay them. Huginn doesn't participate, but stays to loot the rather nice room.
Meanwhile, guards come pouring out of the single doors and attacks the party waiting there, avoiding the slaughter of gnoll pups. They make quick work of them, but Cal's wolves go down in a bloody mess. The party moved forward to where the gnolls came from to see if there were more. Thera moves in and bandages the wolves and watches over them as Cal puts a potion of healing in both, bring both to a stable condition. She then moves out to kill the gnolls that hurt her wolves. There turns out to be three guard rooms full of gnolls that are taken down by the party quickly, keeping one alive to interrogate after he surrendered. Realizing the wolves fought to protect Cal and Cal was a noble female warrior, she psi heals each wolf just enough to save them and tells Cal that her wolves will live. The party heals up and Galen offers to watch over the prisoner and the wolves in one of the guard rooms while the party moves forward.
The next room is a large circular chamber with an oculus in the ceiling. It has been filled with a glass disc that is magnifying the sun's rays into a scorching beam of of light. It is currently burning a naked man tied to a post with three gnoll pups enjoying the view. The party moves in quickly. Thera blocks the other doors, Urther and Farhad grab the gnoll pups by the scruff, and Huginn pulls the man off the post. He is grateful and explains he is a cleric of Mitra. He also explains the Minotaur king was very upset that we had decimated his forces. His throne room was in the next room and he was training gnolls to be mages. Thera heals him up and Huginn walks the priest back up to his people, asking if he would be ok if Huginn took over the palace once it was cleared. The priest said it would be ok, but that there would need to be a lot of things cleared. Huginn returns to the party and they prepare to battle the Minotaur King.
The heroes regroup on Eon to heal up and plan how to proceed forward. The battle with the Minotaur King had wounded many of them. They decide to use the portal network and attack from within the temple instead of a frontal assault. The fireballs made Huginn nervous about attacking in the open. The party agrees, but before they can go, Andar shows up with two new people to assist in the assault. Arken is brought back as part of the price for a bow he had and Thera is brought in to bolster healing. The party that knows Thera greet her warmly, but Arken is met with flat stares including some annoyed muttering from Thera and glares at Andar.
The party goes back to the Tower of Illusion and moves back to Manaea. They meet no resistance on their way back to the portal and move through to the room that had minotaurs earlier. When they appear through the portal, there are several minotaurs and gnolls stationed in the room. Only half are actually on duty though as the rest are milling about. Thinking quickly, Huginn targets a lightning bolt that wipes out most of the gnolls and a few minotaurs. The rest of the party springs into action taking the minotaurs and the gnolls that are directly around the teleport pad. Arken maneuvers to take on a minotaur, but Thera moves in and kills it with one mighty blow, smirking at him as he failed to kill the gnoll he swung at. The battle moved pretty quickly and the heroes manage to bring everything down without much alarm raised. They loot the room and move down to check the one hallway out. While they do this, Huginn has Odindisa move up to the windows to verify they are in fact at the minotaur King's palace. He sees the wall of thorns and the crystal gateway and it is confirmed.
The party moves down the hall and chooses the double doors on the western wall. Inside are a lot of nursing gnoll mothers and their pups. Arken asks Huginn to clear a path with a lightning bolt and he does, frying about a third of them in an instant. Most of the party moves in to target the gnoll mothers while Arkan moves to kill the mothers and children. Cal, Urthur, Farhad, Svalla, and Galen are disgusted by the act. Thera tries to save some of them by moving them into a room some more gnoll mothers had come out of, but it has no affect while Arkan pushes her out of the way to slay them. Huginn doesn't participate, but stays to loot the rather nice room.
Meanwhile, guards come pouring out of the single doors and attacks the party waiting there, avoiding the slaughter of gnoll pups. They make quick work of them, but Cal's wolves go down in a bloody mess. The party moved forward to where the gnolls came from to see if there were more. Thera moves in and bandages the wolves and watches over them as Cal puts a potion of healing in both, bring both to a stable condition. She then moves out to kill the gnolls that hurt her wolves. There turns out to be three guard rooms full of gnolls that are taken down by the party quickly, keeping one alive to interrogate after he surrendered. Realizing the wolves fought to protect Cal and Cal was a noble female warrior, she psi heals each wolf just enough to save them and tells Cal that her wolves will live. The party heals up and Galen offers to watch over the prisoner and the wolves in one of the guard rooms while the party moves forward.
The next room is a large circular chamber with an oculus in the ceiling. It has been filled with a glass disc that is magnifying the sun's rays into a scorching beam of of light. It is currently burning a naked man tied to a post with three gnoll pups enjoying the view. The party moves in quickly. Thera blocks the other doors, Urther and Farhad grab the gnoll pups by the scruff, and Huginn pulls the man off the post. He is grateful and explains he is a cleric of Mitra. He also explains the Minotaur king was very upset that we had decimated his forces. His throne room was in the next room and he was training gnolls to be mages. Thera heals him up and Huginn walks the priest back up to his people, asking if he would be ok if Huginn took over the palace once it was cleared. The priest said it would be ok, but that there would need to be a lot of things cleared. Huginn returns to the party and they prepare to battle the Minotaur King.