Post by David on Apr 26, 2010 14:40:43 GMT -5
Squattingbeaver explains why the heroes (Maedhros, Torr, Idky, Squattingbeaver, Lowdog, Aine with Dresher, Stephan, and Yavin) used hold person on Aurora before Idky releases the spell on her. Unfortunately, he must cast her locket with the forbiddence spell downstairs. In response, Princess Aurora slugs Idky, but Torr interposes. The rightful ruler of Charn acts like a spoiled brat as Beaver tries to get information from her. She wonders how the group got so far without using guns. Finally, however, the heroes get the princess' reluctant consent to go along with them.
There are two secret doors in the room Aurora was held in, one with a magical trap and one without. Lowdog opens the secret door without the trap, and a clay golem attacks him. Behind are a bone golem and a flesh golem...! Torr rushes in to attack the flesh golem, as Lowdog gets an aid from Idky and Maedhros' magical golden mace (he needs a blunt weapon). Stephan and Beaver both call up a spirit prayer -- they need to coordinate their actions better, or at least pay attention...
Torr makes short work of the flesh golem, as the bone golem goes for Lowdog. Idky gives Stephan an aid and the magic club. Unable to really hurt the clay golem, Torr cowers behind is shield, or as others might call it, he parries. Meanwhile, Yavin manages to land a good hit on the bone golem with his spear. During battle, the princess orders Stephan to give her clothing.
'Beaver steps in to attack the bone golem which is right when the monster clobbers poor Yavin. The bone golem cackles, sending waves of horror and fear:
Idky gets paralyzed with fear and wets himself...
Stephan goes catatonic...
Aine gets paralyzed with fear and has some deep-seated psychological damage...
Aurora gets paralyzed with fear and screams herself hoars (Ray: "Good! That means she can't talk.")
Beaver casts remove fear on Idky, Stephan, and Aine. Stephan remains catatonic. Aine finds herself extremely paranoid of everything and especially anything that looks like a bone golem or even a skeleton.
Lowdog gets clobbered again by the clay golem--more unhealable wounds for the totemic warrior. Maedhros goes to check on the fallen Stephan, but realizes the assassin has had a heart attack. He is dead, killed by his fear.
Aine, in a paranoid panic, thinks the princess is out to get her and pushes her toward the monsters to serve as a shield. The paralyzed girl just tumbles over onto her face, breaking her nose and losing a point of CHR.
'Beaver grabs the club from Stephan's body.
Idky grabs Stephan's ring so he can see witch magic and starts looking at the three scrolls the party hasn't viewed yet. At roughly the same time, Lowdog kills the clay golem, although the monster manages to hit Torr once, giving the paladin also unhealable wounds...
Witch scroll: det magic, detect poison, aid, curse, cure crit wounds
Scroll: divination, spell immunity, restoration
Scroll: dancing lights, read magic, comprehend languages, identify, ESP, clairvoyance
After stowing the princess in the secret compartment and putting the dead Stephan up against the door, they dispel the magical trap and open the other secret door, revealing a one-person wide hallway leading up a spiral staircase.
At the top is the observation platform, with the rune stone guarded by:
27 skeletons
20 zombies
12 ghouls
7 dessicated bodies, look like unwrapped mummies wearing all sorts of religious items (3 w/ hand weapons, 4 w/ pistols)
1 spook
1 invisible djinni, 10-foot tall with dark red skin and w/ 4 muscled arms, face on back of head
6 invisible stalkers circling the building outside
The djinni goes gaseous and starts floating toward the group but gets stopped by Torr's aura. Lowdog steps up and gets swarmed by skeletons and ghouls. Torr turns and dusts seven skeletons. Yavin aids Torr. Maedhros dusts four skeletons
Lowdog and the spook start squaring off as three of the dessicated bodies move closer. Maedhros dusts nine skeletons. Lowdog gets critically shot in the head and gets seriously concussed and is stunned. Torr absorbs the attack from the ghoul that steps over the fallen totemic warrior. Torr then body checks the ghoul to knock it out of the way so he can reach Lowdog, but this unfortunately puts the paladin in the middle of the entryway, surrounded by undead!
Idky, who had luckily airwalked up to Lowdog, cast cure critical wounds on him, removing the critical hit. The djinni, frustrated by the protection from evil, materializes. Yavin, on cue, attempts to attack it psionically mind thrust the guardian genie, but fails.
Torr squares off against the spook and destroys it. With Lowdog now on his feet, the paladin and totemic warrior both move into the crystal-walled room.
Idky gets shot at and hit once as he airwalks back down. The djinni carves a rune in the air and sends it to attack Torr but the paladin absorbs the magic with the ioun stone set into his holy sword.
Aine faerie fires the djinni and Yavin mind thrusts it. Idky casts sundazzle, catching even the djinni, but some type of forcefield around one of the dessicated bodies deflects it off of four of them. The same force removes the faerie fire from some of the monsters as well.
Maedhros dusts two more zombies. Aine gives her potion of firebreath to her owl, Dresher. Lowdog gets shot again and hit twice. Torr gets hit by the guy with a two-handed sword, and one of the dead spirit priests with Beaver laughs and signals that it'll be okay -- the undead are using the Sword of Marduk on a paladin bearing the god's protection...!
The djinni casts sepia snake sigil again at Torr, which Torr reflects half back with his shield. Yavin successfully mind thrusts the djinni again. Maedhros destroys another six zombies -- most of the lesser undead are now gone.
Aine sends Dresher in to blast the room. The 80-foot gout of flame does tremendous damage to some ghouls and destroys the rest of the zombies. Beaver casts emotion at the djinni, but it is ineffective. The djinni, however, does reveal that he's frustrated and is only doing this because of Sidra's summoning spell.
Aine takes the potion of mass destruction from Beaver. The djinni throws an axe at Dresher, dropping her, right in front of Idky. Maedhros steps up and casts lightning bolt, destroying three ghouls and badly damaging a mummy. Aine drinks the potion of mass destruction. The djinni hurls a handaxe at Torr.
As Torr and Lowdog continue with their enemies, and Maedhros sets up for another lightning bolt, Aine lets loose with the mass destruction energy
Everyone sees rising from Aine's body a woman of green flame with flaming red hair that splits into dozens of other women and shoot out to assault the enemies. They also hear the faint sound of dozens of little voices calling out "chickenshit! chickenshit!" Her efforts result in massive damage to all but the djinni...
Lowdog gets hit by the shamshear, which also casts a cause critical wounds. Furthermore, the totemic warrior also gets shot twice. He's not doing too well. The djinni floats up over the front rank and attacks Torr, dealing tons of damage. Torr returns the favor.
Yavin attempts to cast cure serious on Torr from a scroll, but he misses and wastes the spell. 'Beaver steps up and successfully casts max cure serious on the paladin, saving him. Meanwhile, Maedhros quaffs his potion of mass destruction.
The djinni then drops Torr. Lowdog absorbs some gunfire. A ghoul attacks Torr as he goes down, and he starts getting dragged into the room.
Maedhros unleashes the mass destruction, clearing most of the remaining ghouls and damaging nearly everyone else. Beaver steps up to take out one of the mummies. Idky steps up to hedge off the djinni and cast cure serious wounds on Torr, bringing him up.
Lowdog starts getting swarmed, and the creature with the sword of Marduk attacks 'Beaver. Idky casts another sun dazzle and catches two enemies. The djinni resists it
Lowdog drops a sword and draws his knife of defense, putting it in full defense, as he attacks the djinni, bringing him to the brink of death.
Yavin successfully mind thrusts the djinni, taking it out before it can kill Lowdog. Unfortunately, Torr is not so luck and gets shot twice by a mummy, once in the head.
David L.: "He's wearing a helmet." Mark (thinking it was Yavin who got shot): "If anything, it's a special helmet."
Torr gets stunned out of his mind and drops to the the crystal floor helpless. Not a good day for the paladin. But the totemic warrior is not doing much better as he's near death and facing multiple foes, including a guardian genie!
Aine comes conscious. Lowdog finishes off the genie. Idky takes Beaver's opponent off him so he can max cure serious Lowdog
Yavin runs to attack the gunner mummy. The remaining ghoul attacks Torr. The gunner misses Yavin with the gun. Idky manages to hit his opponent.
Beaver runs into the room to catch Stephen's spirit, which is being sucked toward the runestone. The shaman draws the assassin's spirit back to safety. Lowdog takes out the sundazzled ghoul.
Yavin tries to distract the ghoul off of Torr. 'Beaver gets shot by the mummy.
Lowdog destroys one mummy and attacks the remaining one. Lowdog gets shot at again but his magical protections save the Flan warrior. Lowdog then finishes off the last gunner mummy. Just a ghoul and another mummy is left. Between Lowdog and Idky whittling away, the last mummy finally goes down.
Torr recovers after the fight and realizes he's deaf.
Status:
Idky: 31 of 59, 2 gb, 20 psi, cast CLWx5/find, aidx2, sunx2/dispelx3, invis/protE10'rx2, CSW/CCW
'Beaver: 50 of 70, 0 PSPs, 37 psi, bullet!, CLWx6, removex2/track, speak, d.invis/dispelx4, bonus!/warpaint, CSWx2, emotion/hold monster
Lowdog: 8 of 91 (111), bullet!, cast CLW
Stephan: dead
Aine: 21 (full), cast FFx2
Dresher: 7 of 10
Torr: 4 of 81 (89), 10 psi, power strikex2, cure, deaf
Maedhros: 38 (full), tenser's MMx3/d.invis/LB and anti,VLWx2/aidx3,findx3
Yavin: 21 of 42, 9 PSPs (including gems!), bullet!, CLWx5, FF/aid
Aurora: -1 CHR due to broken nose (a CLW will fix), yelling below to get out of secret room...!
There are two secret doors in the room Aurora was held in, one with a magical trap and one without. Lowdog opens the secret door without the trap, and a clay golem attacks him. Behind are a bone golem and a flesh golem...! Torr rushes in to attack the flesh golem, as Lowdog gets an aid from Idky and Maedhros' magical golden mace (he needs a blunt weapon). Stephan and Beaver both call up a spirit prayer -- they need to coordinate their actions better, or at least pay attention...
Torr makes short work of the flesh golem, as the bone golem goes for Lowdog. Idky gives Stephan an aid and the magic club. Unable to really hurt the clay golem, Torr cowers behind is shield, or as others might call it, he parries. Meanwhile, Yavin manages to land a good hit on the bone golem with his spear. During battle, the princess orders Stephan to give her clothing.
'Beaver steps in to attack the bone golem which is right when the monster clobbers poor Yavin. The bone golem cackles, sending waves of horror and fear:
Idky gets paralyzed with fear and wets himself...
Stephan goes catatonic...
Aine gets paralyzed with fear and has some deep-seated psychological damage...
Aurora gets paralyzed with fear and screams herself hoars (Ray: "Good! That means she can't talk.")
Beaver casts remove fear on Idky, Stephan, and Aine. Stephan remains catatonic. Aine finds herself extremely paranoid of everything and especially anything that looks like a bone golem or even a skeleton.
Lowdog gets clobbered again by the clay golem--more unhealable wounds for the totemic warrior. Maedhros goes to check on the fallen Stephan, but realizes the assassin has had a heart attack. He is dead, killed by his fear.
Aine, in a paranoid panic, thinks the princess is out to get her and pushes her toward the monsters to serve as a shield. The paralyzed girl just tumbles over onto her face, breaking her nose and losing a point of CHR.
'Beaver grabs the club from Stephan's body.
Idky grabs Stephan's ring so he can see witch magic and starts looking at the three scrolls the party hasn't viewed yet. At roughly the same time, Lowdog kills the clay golem, although the monster manages to hit Torr once, giving the paladin also unhealable wounds...
Witch scroll: det magic, detect poison, aid, curse, cure crit wounds
Scroll: divination, spell immunity, restoration
Scroll: dancing lights, read magic, comprehend languages, identify, ESP, clairvoyance
After stowing the princess in the secret compartment and putting the dead Stephan up against the door, they dispel the magical trap and open the other secret door, revealing a one-person wide hallway leading up a spiral staircase.
At the top is the observation platform, with the rune stone guarded by:
27 skeletons
20 zombies
12 ghouls
7 dessicated bodies, look like unwrapped mummies wearing all sorts of religious items (3 w/ hand weapons, 4 w/ pistols)
1 spook
1 invisible djinni, 10-foot tall with dark red skin and w/ 4 muscled arms, face on back of head
6 invisible stalkers circling the building outside
The djinni goes gaseous and starts floating toward the group but gets stopped by Torr's aura. Lowdog steps up and gets swarmed by skeletons and ghouls. Torr turns and dusts seven skeletons. Yavin aids Torr. Maedhros dusts four skeletons
Lowdog and the spook start squaring off as three of the dessicated bodies move closer. Maedhros dusts nine skeletons. Lowdog gets critically shot in the head and gets seriously concussed and is stunned. Torr absorbs the attack from the ghoul that steps over the fallen totemic warrior. Torr then body checks the ghoul to knock it out of the way so he can reach Lowdog, but this unfortunately puts the paladin in the middle of the entryway, surrounded by undead!
Idky, who had luckily airwalked up to Lowdog, cast cure critical wounds on him, removing the critical hit. The djinni, frustrated by the protection from evil, materializes. Yavin, on cue, attempts to attack it psionically mind thrust the guardian genie, but fails.
Torr squares off against the spook and destroys it. With Lowdog now on his feet, the paladin and totemic warrior both move into the crystal-walled room.
Idky gets shot at and hit once as he airwalks back down. The djinni carves a rune in the air and sends it to attack Torr but the paladin absorbs the magic with the ioun stone set into his holy sword.
Aine faerie fires the djinni and Yavin mind thrusts it. Idky casts sundazzle, catching even the djinni, but some type of forcefield around one of the dessicated bodies deflects it off of four of them. The same force removes the faerie fire from some of the monsters as well.
Maedhros dusts two more zombies. Aine gives her potion of firebreath to her owl, Dresher. Lowdog gets shot again and hit twice. Torr gets hit by the guy with a two-handed sword, and one of the dead spirit priests with Beaver laughs and signals that it'll be okay -- the undead are using the Sword of Marduk on a paladin bearing the god's protection...!
The djinni casts sepia snake sigil again at Torr, which Torr reflects half back with his shield. Yavin successfully mind thrusts the djinni again. Maedhros destroys another six zombies -- most of the lesser undead are now gone.
Aine sends Dresher in to blast the room. The 80-foot gout of flame does tremendous damage to some ghouls and destroys the rest of the zombies. Beaver casts emotion at the djinni, but it is ineffective. The djinni, however, does reveal that he's frustrated and is only doing this because of Sidra's summoning spell.
Aine takes the potion of mass destruction from Beaver. The djinni throws an axe at Dresher, dropping her, right in front of Idky. Maedhros steps up and casts lightning bolt, destroying three ghouls and badly damaging a mummy. Aine drinks the potion of mass destruction. The djinni hurls a handaxe at Torr.
As Torr and Lowdog continue with their enemies, and Maedhros sets up for another lightning bolt, Aine lets loose with the mass destruction energy
Everyone sees rising from Aine's body a woman of green flame with flaming red hair that splits into dozens of other women and shoot out to assault the enemies. They also hear the faint sound of dozens of little voices calling out "chickenshit! chickenshit!" Her efforts result in massive damage to all but the djinni...
Lowdog gets hit by the shamshear, which also casts a cause critical wounds. Furthermore, the totemic warrior also gets shot twice. He's not doing too well. The djinni floats up over the front rank and attacks Torr, dealing tons of damage. Torr returns the favor.
Yavin attempts to cast cure serious on Torr from a scroll, but he misses and wastes the spell. 'Beaver steps up and successfully casts max cure serious on the paladin, saving him. Meanwhile, Maedhros quaffs his potion of mass destruction.
The djinni then drops Torr. Lowdog absorbs some gunfire. A ghoul attacks Torr as he goes down, and he starts getting dragged into the room.
Maedhros unleashes the mass destruction, clearing most of the remaining ghouls and damaging nearly everyone else. Beaver steps up to take out one of the mummies. Idky steps up to hedge off the djinni and cast cure serious wounds on Torr, bringing him up.
Lowdog starts getting swarmed, and the creature with the sword of Marduk attacks 'Beaver. Idky casts another sun dazzle and catches two enemies. The djinni resists it
Lowdog drops a sword and draws his knife of defense, putting it in full defense, as he attacks the djinni, bringing him to the brink of death.
Yavin successfully mind thrusts the djinni, taking it out before it can kill Lowdog. Unfortunately, Torr is not so luck and gets shot twice by a mummy, once in the head.
David L.: "He's wearing a helmet." Mark (thinking it was Yavin who got shot): "If anything, it's a special helmet."
Torr gets stunned out of his mind and drops to the the crystal floor helpless. Not a good day for the paladin. But the totemic warrior is not doing much better as he's near death and facing multiple foes, including a guardian genie!
Aine comes conscious. Lowdog finishes off the genie. Idky takes Beaver's opponent off him so he can max cure serious Lowdog
Yavin runs to attack the gunner mummy. The remaining ghoul attacks Torr. The gunner misses Yavin with the gun. Idky manages to hit his opponent.
Beaver runs into the room to catch Stephen's spirit, which is being sucked toward the runestone. The shaman draws the assassin's spirit back to safety. Lowdog takes out the sundazzled ghoul.
Yavin tries to distract the ghoul off of Torr. 'Beaver gets shot by the mummy.
Lowdog destroys one mummy and attacks the remaining one. Lowdog gets shot at again but his magical protections save the Flan warrior. Lowdog then finishes off the last gunner mummy. Just a ghoul and another mummy is left. Between Lowdog and Idky whittling away, the last mummy finally goes down.
Torr recovers after the fight and realizes he's deaf.
Status:
Idky: 31 of 59, 2 gb, 20 psi, cast CLWx5/find, aidx2, sunx2/dispelx3, invis/protE10'rx2, CSW/CCW
'Beaver: 50 of 70, 0 PSPs, 37 psi, bullet!, CLWx6, removex2/track, speak, d.invis/dispelx4, bonus!/warpaint, CSWx2, emotion/hold monster
Lowdog: 8 of 91 (111), bullet!, cast CLW
Stephan: dead
Aine: 21 (full), cast FFx2
Dresher: 7 of 10
Torr: 4 of 81 (89), 10 psi, power strikex2, cure, deaf
Maedhros: 38 (full), tenser's MMx3/d.invis/LB and anti,VLWx2/aidx3,findx3
Yavin: 21 of 42, 9 PSPs (including gems!), bullet!, CLWx5, FF/aid
Aurora: -1 CHR due to broken nose (a CLW will fix), yelling below to get out of secret room...!