Post by David on Jan 19, 2009 15:58:42 GMT -5
Desperate to escape the Interdicted Temple and too wounded to survive another encounter the surviving heroes, Dion, Daj, Pepper, Cliffy, and Alec, chose to try the ring of wishes, after much debate. Dajamira wished for her friends Gor and Zylvanar to appear. The lizard man and drow druids materialized, but so too did a roiling purple cloud above Zuggytmoy's throne. Daj explained the situation and Gamoth's two former apprentices began stone shaping a narrow tunnel out of the Temple. Meanwhile, Daj called to Cliffy in another room and ambushed him -- using a strike to the back of the head to take him out and obtain his bag of holding.
The cloud continued to build and the heroes loaded Cliffy and Alec into the bag while Daj reduced first Pepper then Zyl. Just as six gray oozes slid from beneath a secret door on the far side of the massive audience hall, Dion and Daj quaffed his potion of gaseous form, Pepper ran down the 'shaped tunnel, followed by Gor in the shape of a monkey and Zylvanar. The oozes nearly cought the drow, but as he emerged, Gor resealed the Temple, trapping the slimes.
The group emerge from the Temple into the woods and meet up with six wolves which Gor convinces to aid the party. The heroes rest the majority of the day after healing up, although Gor's giant serpent, Cyrus, had to enwrap Cliffy to keep the elf-turned-barbarian from attacking Zylvanar the druidic drow. In the evening, Gor tried to scry Mikhail and Sky, but failed. The group then turned toward Klarr, arriving three days later on the 11th.
In Klarr, the heroes spoke with Stephanos and Jasmine. The cleric of Apollo removed the curse on Cliffy, restoring him to an elven mage/thief. The heroes then used the pair of wishes to return Alec and Cliffy to their original bodies. What's more the group got Treblo to transport Helga to a transmuter who restored her to her flesh-and-blood state. In town, a woodsman named Ryan also offered to join the group.
The following morning, a resconsituted party (Dion, Daj, Pepper, Cliffy, Alec, Helga, Gor [with Cyrus], and Ryan) start walking back to the Temple, while Zyl remained disguised in Klarr as a regular half-elf. The trip passed without incident and on the 15th the party slipped back into the dungeons.
At first, the party's plan was to re-enter the Interdicted Temple where they'd left, but Gor could not bear the sight of the silvery runes and fled. Cliffy, using his map-making skill, determined a spot above the audience hall and Gor began to stone shape a new entry, but it would take all his spells for two days to form even a small entrance some 30' above the floor. Thus the heroes began the plan, but afterward decided to finish sacking the first level.
The party returned to the Earth Temple where they befriended an 8' tall hairy creature that called itself Umpleby, but the party started to call Hairy. The creature communicated that there was treasure in the Earth Temple, but it was guarded by stone monsters. The heroes entered with Helga using herself as bait. The party battled four xorn, noting that more humans had been sacrificed in the spot. Pepper's spectral force of a pair of ogres distracted the monsters a little, but it was Cliffy's magic missiles which were most damaging of all spells...and Daj's slow gave the heroes the edge they needed to survive!
Hairy was confused as to precisely where the treasure was, but after two hours of digging, the group started to uncover some sacrifices burried in the earth. Dion, meanwhile, began to once again sanctify the spot. Ryan stood next to the priest, on guard atop the pyramid. As the first two loads of treasure came out of the ground, five ghouls ambled into the room, which the heroes quickly slaughtered. Over two hours later, Dion finished the spell and the group continued.
They tried to give Hairy his loot and get rid of him, but the hairy monster continued to follow the party, occasionally pointing out small caches in the chambers that followed.
After talking it over, Daj chose to use her detect invisibility to find various secret doors while Helga used a find traps to keep the group safe. With Harry suggestions, the group find the secret EXIT from the personal rooms of the Earth Temple's two priests. After slaughtering both, the group continues on and quickly kills two fighters in charge. Afterward, then mow through a pair of guardrooms with little Pepper proving to be decidedly leathal!
The group explore more hallways and come to another series of guardrooms. They kill 11 of 12 schlubs and four experienced warriors, even though the leader tried (and miserably FAILED) to throw a javelin of lightning in their midsts! A single unskilled warrior fled, but the heroes paused to tend their wounds before pursuing the coward...all while Gor was questioning the now-charmed, former javelin-hurler...
Status:
Alec: 17 of 21, 4gbs
Dion: 28 of 45, 2 gbs, cast know align and tongues
Pepper: full (32), cast spectral force
Helga: 37 of 54, 1gb, cast CLWx3, findx2
Ryan: full (16)
Cliffy: 26 of 35, 4 gbs, armor spell DOWN, cast MMx3, MI, web
Daj: 32 of 38, 5 gbs, MMx2, DI, slow
Gor: 35 of 42, 1 gb, FFx2, DMx2, CLW, Charm, stonex3
Cyrus: full (31)
"charmee": 15 of 30 -- 4th lvl fighter
The cloud continued to build and the heroes loaded Cliffy and Alec into the bag while Daj reduced first Pepper then Zyl. Just as six gray oozes slid from beneath a secret door on the far side of the massive audience hall, Dion and Daj quaffed his potion of gaseous form, Pepper ran down the 'shaped tunnel, followed by Gor in the shape of a monkey and Zylvanar. The oozes nearly cought the drow, but as he emerged, Gor resealed the Temple, trapping the slimes.
The group emerge from the Temple into the woods and meet up with six wolves which Gor convinces to aid the party. The heroes rest the majority of the day after healing up, although Gor's giant serpent, Cyrus, had to enwrap Cliffy to keep the elf-turned-barbarian from attacking Zylvanar the druidic drow. In the evening, Gor tried to scry Mikhail and Sky, but failed. The group then turned toward Klarr, arriving three days later on the 11th.
In Klarr, the heroes spoke with Stephanos and Jasmine. The cleric of Apollo removed the curse on Cliffy, restoring him to an elven mage/thief. The heroes then used the pair of wishes to return Alec and Cliffy to their original bodies. What's more the group got Treblo to transport Helga to a transmuter who restored her to her flesh-and-blood state. In town, a woodsman named Ryan also offered to join the group.
The following morning, a resconsituted party (Dion, Daj, Pepper, Cliffy, Alec, Helga, Gor [with Cyrus], and Ryan) start walking back to the Temple, while Zyl remained disguised in Klarr as a regular half-elf. The trip passed without incident and on the 15th the party slipped back into the dungeons.
At first, the party's plan was to re-enter the Interdicted Temple where they'd left, but Gor could not bear the sight of the silvery runes and fled. Cliffy, using his map-making skill, determined a spot above the audience hall and Gor began to stone shape a new entry, but it would take all his spells for two days to form even a small entrance some 30' above the floor. Thus the heroes began the plan, but afterward decided to finish sacking the first level.
The party returned to the Earth Temple where they befriended an 8' tall hairy creature that called itself Umpleby, but the party started to call Hairy. The creature communicated that there was treasure in the Earth Temple, but it was guarded by stone monsters. The heroes entered with Helga using herself as bait. The party battled four xorn, noting that more humans had been sacrificed in the spot. Pepper's spectral force of a pair of ogres distracted the monsters a little, but it was Cliffy's magic missiles which were most damaging of all spells...and Daj's slow gave the heroes the edge they needed to survive!
Hairy was confused as to precisely where the treasure was, but after two hours of digging, the group started to uncover some sacrifices burried in the earth. Dion, meanwhile, began to once again sanctify the spot. Ryan stood next to the priest, on guard atop the pyramid. As the first two loads of treasure came out of the ground, five ghouls ambled into the room, which the heroes quickly slaughtered. Over two hours later, Dion finished the spell and the group continued.
They tried to give Hairy his loot and get rid of him, but the hairy monster continued to follow the party, occasionally pointing out small caches in the chambers that followed.
After talking it over, Daj chose to use her detect invisibility to find various secret doors while Helga used a find traps to keep the group safe. With Harry suggestions, the group find the secret EXIT from the personal rooms of the Earth Temple's two priests. After slaughtering both, the group continues on and quickly kills two fighters in charge. Afterward, then mow through a pair of guardrooms with little Pepper proving to be decidedly leathal!
The group explore more hallways and come to another series of guardrooms. They kill 11 of 12 schlubs and four experienced warriors, even though the leader tried (and miserably FAILED) to throw a javelin of lightning in their midsts! A single unskilled warrior fled, but the heroes paused to tend their wounds before pursuing the coward...all while Gor was questioning the now-charmed, former javelin-hurler...
Status:
Alec: 17 of 21, 4gbs
Dion: 28 of 45, 2 gbs, cast know align and tongues
Pepper: full (32), cast spectral force
Helga: 37 of 54, 1gb, cast CLWx3, findx2
Ryan: full (16)
Cliffy: 26 of 35, 4 gbs, armor spell DOWN, cast MMx3, MI, web
Daj: 32 of 38, 5 gbs, MMx2, DI, slow
Gor: 35 of 42, 1 gb, FFx2, DMx2, CLW, Charm, stonex3
Cyrus: full (31)
"charmee": 15 of 30 -- 4th lvl fighter
