Post by David on Jan 29, 2007 16:58:40 GMT -5
After returning the alchemical ingredients they had recovered, the heroes (Pigñolé, Ziyi, Torr, Verna, Cindari, and Marc) asked Faleen (and Miranda) to use the Damselfly to transport the party to the ruins of Mithros' castle on Mount Shalkar. The six hour trip there was uneventful, but shortly after arriving on the island, the heroes were ambushed by a pair of chimera. The party killed both monsters with minimal effort, although the event certainly scared Zippo!
The party quickly followed the game trail from the shore to the ruins. There, they found a 30' diameter "well" dropping away into the heart of the island. Everyone but Verna grouped up and levitated down, heading to the second level per Faeleen's suggestion. En route, the group first passed three wraiths and then landed amid eight wights! One wraith floated up to get Verna (only to be turned), but the other two joined the wights and attacked the party!
The fight was close, with Pigñolé losing three levels (one permanently), Cindari losing two, and Ziyi and Marc each losing one. Ultimately, however, the heroes triumphed. Verna joined near the end of the combat, after using her half potion of polymorph. Strangely, a raven followed her down.
Verna asked Torr to air-walk and fetch her equipment. As the young paladin did so, the group heard some noises and three mummies showed up. Cindari and Marc were paralyzed with fright, leaving Ziyi and Verna to do all the fighting. Unfortunately, once the monsters reached the group, Pigñolé too succumbed to the fear. Marc was mashed to the ground and both Ziyi and Verna were having trouble. Pigñolé unleashed the spark shower of his ring and (while he hurt his friends worse) managed to do more harm to the mummies than all the combat combined! Torr returned and with Cindari's added help, the party managed to finally destroy the undead.
Clearly not in any shape to continue, what with Marc and Verna suffering mummy-rot and most of the party level-drained, Torr gave Ziyi his last half potion of polymorph. The fighter/acrobat then became a drake and flew to the surface, where she transformed into a giant eagle and caught up with Faeleen's spell-jammer. The drow turned the craft around and picked up the party, who rested two days back in Grandel.
Finally, the heroes made another attempt to get home via Fantasia. They reached the "well" and second level without incident, but started hearing some sort of noise. Before they could really deal with it, two, then three ogre magi showed up. The monsters dished a bit of damage and used their abilities to fly, turn invisible, go gaseous, invoke darkness, and evoke a cone of cold to good effect, but were all ultimately slain.
The next move...?
The party quickly followed the game trail from the shore to the ruins. There, they found a 30' diameter "well" dropping away into the heart of the island. Everyone but Verna grouped up and levitated down, heading to the second level per Faeleen's suggestion. En route, the group first passed three wraiths and then landed amid eight wights! One wraith floated up to get Verna (only to be turned), but the other two joined the wights and attacked the party!
The fight was close, with Pigñolé losing three levels (one permanently), Cindari losing two, and Ziyi and Marc each losing one. Ultimately, however, the heroes triumphed. Verna joined near the end of the combat, after using her half potion of polymorph. Strangely, a raven followed her down.
Verna asked Torr to air-walk and fetch her equipment. As the young paladin did so, the group heard some noises and three mummies showed up. Cindari and Marc were paralyzed with fright, leaving Ziyi and Verna to do all the fighting. Unfortunately, once the monsters reached the group, Pigñolé too succumbed to the fear. Marc was mashed to the ground and both Ziyi and Verna were having trouble. Pigñolé unleashed the spark shower of his ring and (while he hurt his friends worse) managed to do more harm to the mummies than all the combat combined! Torr returned and with Cindari's added help, the party managed to finally destroy the undead.
Clearly not in any shape to continue, what with Marc and Verna suffering mummy-rot and most of the party level-drained, Torr gave Ziyi his last half potion of polymorph. The fighter/acrobat then became a drake and flew to the surface, where she transformed into a giant eagle and caught up with Faeleen's spell-jammer. The drow turned the craft around and picked up the party, who rested two days back in Grandel.
Finally, the heroes made another attempt to get home via Fantasia. They reached the "well" and second level without incident, but started hearing some sort of noise. Before they could really deal with it, two, then three ogre magi showed up. The monsters dished a bit of damage and used their abilities to fly, turn invisible, go gaseous, invoke darkness, and evoke a cone of cold to good effect, but were all ultimately slain.
The next move...?
Or things like "Control Vapor"