Post by David on Jul 10, 2008 14:43:08 GMT -5
The heroes (Ichi, Torr, Maedhros, Kyron and Dart, Idky, and Wooden Thighs) descended into the basement of the old church. There they spied the fresh remains of a previous group of four heroes as well as some turned skeletons and zombies. The heroes made very short work of the undead and searched the remains. Wooden Thighs, a skilled hunter, was perplexed as the bodies appeared to have been killed within a few hours, and yet the signs of battle were at least a month old...
There were a series of doors out of the room, including a set of double-doors with a dimly glowing rune on it. Maedhros closed his eyes and touched the sigil, only to be seriously hurt by a powerful electrical discharge. While the party was tending to the half-elven priest, Idky, on watch, spied a strange ghoul stalking the heroes from behind. The undead had a huge barrel on its back and charged the hapless (and still badly wounded) cleric of Fharlanghn. The ghoul nearly killed Idky before Woody leapt to the rescue. A single hit from the werepuma, however, also jarred the barrel and triggered a huge and powerful explosion; the Flan lycanthrope was seriously wounded while Idky was literally blown into mid-sized chunks. Ichi made a point of collecting a large piece of the cleric's remains.
The warded door was also wizard locked so Torr and Kyron had to break it to pieces using their magic weapons. Just as the heroes got through, four shadows and twelve skeletons attack, but are easily beaten. The group searches the room, Woody setting off a couple of glyphs. The heroes find some treasure and a number of secret doors after which they continue to explore the complex. The group meet another ghoul with a barrel on his back and while Maedhros fails to turn it, Torr's invocation to Bahamut does the job. Once it's fleed, the paladin and ranger try to destroy the monster using ranged weapons (and fail, miserably!), so Torr chooses to "protect his friends" and go head-to-head against the ghoul by himself, finishing it off away from the party (and taking very minor damage only, thanks to his armor, ring, and aid spell).
Montrose showed up to give the party some good-cherries as well as share the status of things in Pommeville. The heroes finish searching the upper complex and then descend the secret staircase. The heroes come out into a large room with a glyph on the far door. Woody triggers the glyph and is badly hurt by another electrical discharge followed by a pair of magic mouths which start shouting a warning that "intruders are here!". This was AFTER Maedhros tried to dispel magic -- clearly it didn't work.
Suddenly, first two and then a total of four ghoul-gun'ners arrive. Torr turns them and Woody gives chase, trusting to his lycanthropic invulnerability to destroy them. Kyron and Torr come to the Flan werepuma's rescue after the thunder of the "bent wands" ends and the heroes triumph over the undead magnificently. Torr pockets two of the spent "rods" for his friend, Saanau.
Finally, the heroes go through the door after Maedhros uses his chime of opening to disrupt the wizard lock on it. Inside, the party is greeted by 12 more skeletons, a pair of (juju) zombies, and a strange wispy, immaterial undead creature, a spook. All of these are guarding the rune stone, floating 12 feet off the ground and surrounded by a constellation of whirling gemstones. Woody leaps at the spook while Maedhros and Torr turn all but one skeleton. Kyron destroys this last skeletal undead with the magic hammer he's borrowing and Ichi attacks a zombie. Woody trashes the spook and the spare zombie attacks Kyron. The heroes are off to a great start! Within only 30 second, the spook is nearly destroyed, Torr has joined the werepuma, Kyron has nearly finished off his zombie, and Ichi and Maedhros are dealing with the last one. That's when the spook touches Woody, draining him of FIVE levels in a single hit...!
Somewhat restored by the stolen life-energy, the spook battles on. Kyron finishes his foe and joins Torr and the flailing Flan warrior. Torr scores a hit against the spook, but is drained of three levels himself for his efforts. Ichi joins the others against the spook after the undead drains Woody of two MORE levels, forcing the werepuma to flee combat, although this time it's because of the Flan warrior's attack -- his resistance to necromancy has failed! Kyron is also drained of three levels and the spook is looking quite well. Kyron quaffs the potion of super-heroism the party found early, while Torr and Ichi keep the spook busy. The ranger smashes the spook and Woody, now in human form and using magic weapons, finishes the undead creature off.
In a flash of light, Torr, Woody, and Kyron regain their lost levels, dropping the first two (Kyron's potion effectively made him MORE powerful, so was unaffected by the sudden shock of regaining the lost life-energy). The young ranger turned and toss the magic hammer at the rune stone, shattering it. The two stone chunks and 25 formerly-orbiting gemstones rained down on the party.
Next Ichi and Kyron destroyed the last of the undead and then the group finished searching the last of the basement. Unfortunately, neither Torr nor Woody seems able to act coherently and the party is badly damaged, so they must decide their next move...
Maedhros: 25 of 30, eaten 5gcs, used self-heal, MU 1st x3, all clerical
Woody: 15 of 55, eaten an apple, three changes, -1 str, -3 int, -2 wis, -3 chr, -1 per (no ears) -- stunned out of his gourd
Kyron: 41+12 of 64, eaten 6gcs, temporarily 8th lvl
Dart: full (16), eaten 6 gcs
Ichi: 23 of 41
Torr: 27 of 55, eaten 6gcs -- stunned out of his gourd
By the way, in addition to the 12,074xps already received, you get another 3600xps as Mission Accomplished bonus...
There were a series of doors out of the room, including a set of double-doors with a dimly glowing rune on it. Maedhros closed his eyes and touched the sigil, only to be seriously hurt by a powerful electrical discharge. While the party was tending to the half-elven priest, Idky, on watch, spied a strange ghoul stalking the heroes from behind. The undead had a huge barrel on its back and charged the hapless (and still badly wounded) cleric of Fharlanghn. The ghoul nearly killed Idky before Woody leapt to the rescue. A single hit from the werepuma, however, also jarred the barrel and triggered a huge and powerful explosion; the Flan lycanthrope was seriously wounded while Idky was literally blown into mid-sized chunks. Ichi made a point of collecting a large piece of the cleric's remains.
The warded door was also wizard locked so Torr and Kyron had to break it to pieces using their magic weapons. Just as the heroes got through, four shadows and twelve skeletons attack, but are easily beaten. The group searches the room, Woody setting off a couple of glyphs. The heroes find some treasure and a number of secret doors after which they continue to explore the complex. The group meet another ghoul with a barrel on his back and while Maedhros fails to turn it, Torr's invocation to Bahamut does the job. Once it's fleed, the paladin and ranger try to destroy the monster using ranged weapons (and fail, miserably!), so Torr chooses to "protect his friends" and go head-to-head against the ghoul by himself, finishing it off away from the party (and taking very minor damage only, thanks to his armor, ring, and aid spell).
Montrose showed up to give the party some good-cherries as well as share the status of things in Pommeville. The heroes finish searching the upper complex and then descend the secret staircase. The heroes come out into a large room with a glyph on the far door. Woody triggers the glyph and is badly hurt by another electrical discharge followed by a pair of magic mouths which start shouting a warning that "intruders are here!". This was AFTER Maedhros tried to dispel magic -- clearly it didn't work.
Suddenly, first two and then a total of four ghoul-gun'ners arrive. Torr turns them and Woody gives chase, trusting to his lycanthropic invulnerability to destroy them. Kyron and Torr come to the Flan werepuma's rescue after the thunder of the "bent wands" ends and the heroes triumph over the undead magnificently. Torr pockets two of the spent "rods" for his friend, Saanau.
Finally, the heroes go through the door after Maedhros uses his chime of opening to disrupt the wizard lock on it. Inside, the party is greeted by 12 more skeletons, a pair of (juju) zombies, and a strange wispy, immaterial undead creature, a spook. All of these are guarding the rune stone, floating 12 feet off the ground and surrounded by a constellation of whirling gemstones. Woody leaps at the spook while Maedhros and Torr turn all but one skeleton. Kyron destroys this last skeletal undead with the magic hammer he's borrowing and Ichi attacks a zombie. Woody trashes the spook and the spare zombie attacks Kyron. The heroes are off to a great start! Within only 30 second, the spook is nearly destroyed, Torr has joined the werepuma, Kyron has nearly finished off his zombie, and Ichi and Maedhros are dealing with the last one. That's when the spook touches Woody, draining him of FIVE levels in a single hit...!
Somewhat restored by the stolen life-energy, the spook battles on. Kyron finishes his foe and joins Torr and the flailing Flan warrior. Torr scores a hit against the spook, but is drained of three levels himself for his efforts. Ichi joins the others against the spook after the undead drains Woody of two MORE levels, forcing the werepuma to flee combat, although this time it's because of the Flan warrior's attack -- his resistance to necromancy has failed! Kyron is also drained of three levels and the spook is looking quite well. Kyron quaffs the potion of super-heroism the party found early, while Torr and Ichi keep the spook busy. The ranger smashes the spook and Woody, now in human form and using magic weapons, finishes the undead creature off.
In a flash of light, Torr, Woody, and Kyron regain their lost levels, dropping the first two (Kyron's potion effectively made him MORE powerful, so was unaffected by the sudden shock of regaining the lost life-energy). The young ranger turned and toss the magic hammer at the rune stone, shattering it. The two stone chunks and 25 formerly-orbiting gemstones rained down on the party.
Next Ichi and Kyron destroyed the last of the undead and then the group finished searching the last of the basement. Unfortunately, neither Torr nor Woody seems able to act coherently and the party is badly damaged, so they must decide their next move...
Maedhros: 25 of 30, eaten 5gcs, used self-heal, MU 1st x3, all clerical
Woody: 15 of 55, eaten an apple, three changes, -1 str, -3 int, -2 wis, -3 chr, -1 per (no ears) -- stunned out of his gourd
Kyron: 41+12 of 64, eaten 6gcs, temporarily 8th lvl
Dart: full (16), eaten 6 gcs
Ichi: 23 of 41
Torr: 27 of 55, eaten 6gcs -- stunned out of his gourd
By the way, in addition to the 12,074xps already received, you get another 3600xps as Mission Accomplished bonus...
