Post by David on Jun 24, 2010 12:12:45 GMT -5
The heroes (Maedhros, Torr, Idky, Squattingbeaver, Lowdog, Aine with Dresher, Stephan, Yavin, and Jean-Louis plus Aurora) find themselves in a desperate battle for their lives against hordes of shadows and ghouls as well as the lich-queen, Sidra, herself!
Torr destroys some ghouls and manages to turn one shadow. Maedhros destroys three shadows but four seem to resist his turn attempt. Cluing into the behavior of the undead, Aurora jumps in front of Maedhros to shield him from the shadows, who carefully avoid her. Aine casts phantasmal force and thus two bugbears appear. The remaining horse (not Zayüß) gets swarmed but doesn't die...!
The shadows continue to attack and bring Jean-Louis near death. Aurora gets hit by a shadow and Sidra's black cat familiar seems to get hurt when that happens. Sidra casts disrupt life to rid herself of the newly-rematerialized Stephan. The assassin goes down as does Zayüß.
Eleven more ghouls arrive but Maedhros dusts nine of them. Aine sends her bugbears to help out Jean-Louis. Idky sets up a globe of darkness between Sidra and the rest of the battle to hopefully prevent her from casting damaging magic at the party. Meantime, Yavin gives his scrolls to Dresher to give to Aine.
The shadows finally take out the last horse and Aurora gets struck again by shadows.
Sidra leaps up onto the building and comes around in view of the melee. Idky engages Sidra, while Yavin casts flameblade and rushes to attack the lich-queen as well. Similarly, Lowdog leaps up onto the building and manages to land a serious blow to Sidra. Aine starts going through Yavin's scrolls Dresher gives her.
Another eleven ghouls showed up, which Maedhros promptly destroys. The rest of the shadows swarm Maedhros and Aurora. Despite her best efforts to protect him, the undead land four blows on the hapless half-elf...Maedhros goes down and turns into a shadow!
Sidra leaps to three buildings away with her familiar (Lillith) on her shoulder. She screams "This isn't over!" Lowdog manages to hit her as she leaps away, but Idky and Yavin miss. Fumbling, Idky actually ends up hitting Lowdog.
Eight ghouls show up. Lowdog jumps after Sidra, keeping up with the lich-queen. Aine uses Yavin's scroll to cast fireball at Sidra, blowing the cat off her shoulder, but Sidra catches Lillith. Unfortunately, given that the witch is unskilled in the spell, especially on moving targets, the fireball also catches Lowdog!
Torr turns a shadow and eight more ghouls show up. Idky runs over to check on the downed Stephan. Yavin flies over to prevent Sidra from getting on the magic carpet she pulled out.
The ghouls grab Aurora, and the rest of the shadows swarm Torr. Eleven more ghouls arrive and Torr is hit critically but stays on his feet. Jean-Louis gets dangerously near death.
Sidra leaps down to the ground and for some reason the shadows swarm her so that she's surrounded by a protective wall of undead (inadvertently saving Jean-Louis!)
Aine uses another scroll and casts web, catching Sidra and the latest eleven ghouls. Yavin ignites the webbing with his flameblade, burning the ghouls, shadows, and Sidra's familiar. (Mark: "That's one hot pussy.") Sidra, however, takes no damage. The cat falls off Sidra's shoulder in a bad state.
Torr dusts the ghouls holding Aurora, freeing the princess. Idky casts deaths door on Stephan. Lowdog finds the angel of death and rushes to attack it.
Three more ghouls show up . . . on Idky's side of the darkness.
Sidra hops on her carpet and flies off, but she doesn't manage to grab her familiar. A group of nine damage shadows stay with Lilith and form a wall around the familiar with their bodies. Two ghouls grab Aine and two grab Aurora.
Lowdog's latest attack spawns another death, just for him, while the original one continues to pursue 'Beaver. Torr dusts the two ghouls on the princess, freeing her. Idky brings Stephan up with a cure serious wounds spell. Aurora runs through the shadows toward Torr, trusting that the undead will not harm her. Unfortunately, the Maedhros-shadow moves to kill the princess. Yavin starts flying above and attacking ghouls with his flameblade
Maedhros-shadow brings Aurora down and immediately five ghouls run up and grab her. Aine starts getting dragged down the street
Sidra casts shatter bone at Torr, but it doesn't pierce his magic resistance. Idky gets swarmed by two ghouls, while one munches on Zayüß.
Jean-Louis kills both ghouls on Aine, who then heals him. Torr dusts three ghouls. When he comes up, Stephan is unfortunately still suffering from Sidra's spasm spell. Yavin casts invisibility to undead.
Maedhros-shadow climbs the wall to attack Lowdog. Sidra flies over to the ghouls and lets them put Aurora on her carpet with her. She then sends shadows to swarm those on the ground and at Torr's feet so he can't airwalk down. Jean-Louis gets hit by shadows again, further weakening him.
Idky yells to Torr that the ghouls are eating his horse. Lowdog fumbles while attacking Maedhros-shadow and the angel of death and stuns himself. Aine sends Dresher to distract Sidra. Idky casts cure critical wounds on Zayüß, bringing the warhorse up. Jean-Louis attacks with a dagger but it's not magical and passes through the shadows. Yavin tries to grab Aurora off the carpet but misses. Sidra zooms off...
Jean-Louis goes down under a swarm of shadows. Yavin tries to grab the cat but misses (butterfingers!). Idky leads the spasming Stephan through the globe of darkness to the edge of the other side and explains that shadows are on the other side. Torr turns but only Maedhros-shadow is affected. He airwalks down close enough to make himself a target, trying to draw the undead away from his allies.
Stephan calls up a spirit prayer. He notices that the cat is no longer glowing green. Idky airwalks over to Aine. Yavin goes to attack the shadows on Aine and takes one down.
Battling the angel of death, Lowdog is wearing down. 'Beaver transforms back to human form while ethereal. Aine attacks a shadow and misses. Torr turns two more shadows. Zayüß runs into the midst of everyone and makes noise. Idky goes to help out Yavin and Aine with shadows.
'Beaver's angel of death attacks and damages the shaman.
Idky takes out a wounded shadow. Torr turns but none flee. Lowdog slays his angel of death and 'Beaver returns to the prime material.
Another shadow hits Aine weakening the witch so badly that she can no longer fight.
Zayüß follows the fleeing cat familiar and leaves a trail for the group to follow later. Yavin flies off to follow the horse, as does Torr. Stephan takes out the last shadow. 'Beaver and Lowdog take out the final angel of death.
Meantime, the cat familiar has climbed a building. Yavin sees it and mind thrusts it. He misses, and the cat bolts. Beaver hands Lowdog a healing potion and goodberries and jumps off the building and feather falls down. Idky checks on Jean-Louis and calls 'Beaver over. Lowdog takes the potion of healing. Beaver casts death's door on Jean-Louis. Idky brings the gun-slinger up with a cure light wounds spell.
Torr lays hands on Zayüß. 'Beaver runs off to join the search for the cat. Yavin attempts to telepathically contact the cat and misses.
Within ten minutes, the cat has simply disappeared.
The heroes regroup. Aine and Jean-Louis are so weak they can barely stand and Zayüß must fetch the pair.
'Beaver casts tracking and Yavin casts locate animals to find it's still in the same building. 'Beaver does an ESP scan to find the cat's mind. Augmented by an aid from Yavin, he makes contact. Unfortunately, since Sidra has a mental link with the cat, 'Beaver also contacted the lich's mind and goes insane. He also gets a splitting headache. (The DM passes a note to Beaver's player to inform him the exact effect) Yavin, who also linked into him, manages to avoid the effect. Unfortunately, no one knows what's happened to the shaman. 'Beaver put up a mind blank (YES, NOT thought shield, despite what was said IN GAME) which ejects Yavin from his mind.
'Beaver gives a lame excuse and Yavin buys it. Yavin, Lowdog, Torr, and Zayüß then leave to pursue the familiar while 'Beaver starts casting call lightning. Yavin casts invisibility to undead on himself and heads into the building with Lowdog. He connects telepathically with Lowdog to coordinate their actions. Torr enters the building as well with his warhorse circling outside to make sure nothing escapes.
The cat leaps to the next building and Lowdog follows, as does Yavin. 'Beaver climbs to a neighboring building to get a better view. He sees the cat leaping from building to building
Torr whistles for his horse and follows Lowdog.
Beaver calls lightning on Idky, which stuns him and nearly kills the cleric of Fharlanghn. Stephan goes gaseous. 'Beaver casts hold person on Aine and Jean-Louis but the pair resist and run into a building.
Lowdog and Torr start heading back to check out what's going on with the rest of the party while Yavin maintains a sending connection with Lowdog and continues following the black cat.
'Beaver drinks a potion of invisibility. Stephan floats up gaseously to where Beaver is. Idky heals himself.
Status:
Maedhros: SLAIN and now a shadow somewhere in Louisville...RIP
'Beaver: 30 of 71, -2 STR, 15 PSPs, lion, huming, ether, cast speak with spiritsx2, hold, tracking and ddoorx2, call lightx2 and summon and CCW
Lowdog: 34 of 91, -2 STR, 8gbs, with LL and Aura, cast CLWx2
Stephan: 15 of 34, -1 STR, 8gbs, 6psi, with LL and Aura, cast present
Aine: 2 of 21, down to 3 STR, 8gbs, cast FFx5 and sleep,x and phantasmal
Dresher: 10 (full), with Protection from evil 10'r
Torr: 50 of 82, down to 8 STR, lay
Zayüß: 35 of 42, -1 STR
Idky: 11 of 59, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, cast CLWx3,dark and all 2nds and prayerx2, ddoorx2 and prot e10r, CSWx2 and CCW
Yavin 41 of 49, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, jump, fly, cast CLW, invis to ux2, locate and lightenload, flamebl, 17 of 89 PSPs (+30 still)
Jean-Louis: 1 of 39, down to 2 STR
Aurora: last seen at -1 of 15 and being carried off by Sidra on her magic carpet...
Eeps prior to Jean-Louis: 43,810 xps
Eeps since: 17,550 xps (18 shadows) plus whatever the heroes earn from the 109 ghouls and 14 (destroyed) shadows encountered plus 4500xp for driving off both Sidra and Lillith
Torr destroys some ghouls and manages to turn one shadow. Maedhros destroys three shadows but four seem to resist his turn attempt. Cluing into the behavior of the undead, Aurora jumps in front of Maedhros to shield him from the shadows, who carefully avoid her. Aine casts phantasmal force and thus two bugbears appear. The remaining horse (not Zayüß) gets swarmed but doesn't die...!
The shadows continue to attack and bring Jean-Louis near death. Aurora gets hit by a shadow and Sidra's black cat familiar seems to get hurt when that happens. Sidra casts disrupt life to rid herself of the newly-rematerialized Stephan. The assassin goes down as does Zayüß.
Eleven more ghouls arrive but Maedhros dusts nine of them. Aine sends her bugbears to help out Jean-Louis. Idky sets up a globe of darkness between Sidra and the rest of the battle to hopefully prevent her from casting damaging magic at the party. Meantime, Yavin gives his scrolls to Dresher to give to Aine.
The shadows finally take out the last horse and Aurora gets struck again by shadows.
Sidra leaps up onto the building and comes around in view of the melee. Idky engages Sidra, while Yavin casts flameblade and rushes to attack the lich-queen as well. Similarly, Lowdog leaps up onto the building and manages to land a serious blow to Sidra. Aine starts going through Yavin's scrolls Dresher gives her.
Another eleven ghouls showed up, which Maedhros promptly destroys. The rest of the shadows swarm Maedhros and Aurora. Despite her best efforts to protect him, the undead land four blows on the hapless half-elf...Maedhros goes down and turns into a shadow!
Sidra leaps to three buildings away with her familiar (Lillith) on her shoulder. She screams "This isn't over!" Lowdog manages to hit her as she leaps away, but Idky and Yavin miss. Fumbling, Idky actually ends up hitting Lowdog.
Eight ghouls show up. Lowdog jumps after Sidra, keeping up with the lich-queen. Aine uses Yavin's scroll to cast fireball at Sidra, blowing the cat off her shoulder, but Sidra catches Lillith. Unfortunately, given that the witch is unskilled in the spell, especially on moving targets, the fireball also catches Lowdog!
Torr turns a shadow and eight more ghouls show up. Idky runs over to check on the downed Stephan. Yavin flies over to prevent Sidra from getting on the magic carpet she pulled out.
The ghouls grab Aurora, and the rest of the shadows swarm Torr. Eleven more ghouls arrive and Torr is hit critically but stays on his feet. Jean-Louis gets dangerously near death.
Sidra leaps down to the ground and for some reason the shadows swarm her so that she's surrounded by a protective wall of undead (inadvertently saving Jean-Louis!)
Aine uses another scroll and casts web, catching Sidra and the latest eleven ghouls. Yavin ignites the webbing with his flameblade, burning the ghouls, shadows, and Sidra's familiar. (Mark: "That's one hot pussy.") Sidra, however, takes no damage. The cat falls off Sidra's shoulder in a bad state.
Torr dusts the ghouls holding Aurora, freeing the princess. Idky casts deaths door on Stephan. Lowdog finds the angel of death and rushes to attack it.
Three more ghouls show up . . . on Idky's side of the darkness.
Sidra hops on her carpet and flies off, but she doesn't manage to grab her familiar. A group of nine damage shadows stay with Lilith and form a wall around the familiar with their bodies. Two ghouls grab Aine and two grab Aurora.
Lowdog's latest attack spawns another death, just for him, while the original one continues to pursue 'Beaver. Torr dusts the two ghouls on the princess, freeing her. Idky brings Stephan up with a cure serious wounds spell. Aurora runs through the shadows toward Torr, trusting that the undead will not harm her. Unfortunately, the Maedhros-shadow moves to kill the princess. Yavin starts flying above and attacking ghouls with his flameblade
Maedhros-shadow brings Aurora down and immediately five ghouls run up and grab her. Aine starts getting dragged down the street
Sidra casts shatter bone at Torr, but it doesn't pierce his magic resistance. Idky gets swarmed by two ghouls, while one munches on Zayüß.
Jean-Louis kills both ghouls on Aine, who then heals him. Torr dusts three ghouls. When he comes up, Stephan is unfortunately still suffering from Sidra's spasm spell. Yavin casts invisibility to undead.
Maedhros-shadow climbs the wall to attack Lowdog. Sidra flies over to the ghouls and lets them put Aurora on her carpet with her. She then sends shadows to swarm those on the ground and at Torr's feet so he can't airwalk down. Jean-Louis gets hit by shadows again, further weakening him.
Idky yells to Torr that the ghouls are eating his horse. Lowdog fumbles while attacking Maedhros-shadow and the angel of death and stuns himself. Aine sends Dresher to distract Sidra. Idky casts cure critical wounds on Zayüß, bringing the warhorse up. Jean-Louis attacks with a dagger but it's not magical and passes through the shadows. Yavin tries to grab Aurora off the carpet but misses. Sidra zooms off...
Jean-Louis goes down under a swarm of shadows. Yavin tries to grab the cat but misses (butterfingers!). Idky leads the spasming Stephan through the globe of darkness to the edge of the other side and explains that shadows are on the other side. Torr turns but only Maedhros-shadow is affected. He airwalks down close enough to make himself a target, trying to draw the undead away from his allies.
Stephan calls up a spirit prayer. He notices that the cat is no longer glowing green. Idky airwalks over to Aine. Yavin goes to attack the shadows on Aine and takes one down.
Battling the angel of death, Lowdog is wearing down. 'Beaver transforms back to human form while ethereal. Aine attacks a shadow and misses. Torr turns two more shadows. Zayüß runs into the midst of everyone and makes noise. Idky goes to help out Yavin and Aine with shadows.
'Beaver's angel of death attacks and damages the shaman.
Idky takes out a wounded shadow. Torr turns but none flee. Lowdog slays his angel of death and 'Beaver returns to the prime material.
Another shadow hits Aine weakening the witch so badly that she can no longer fight.
Zayüß follows the fleeing cat familiar and leaves a trail for the group to follow later. Yavin flies off to follow the horse, as does Torr. Stephan takes out the last shadow. 'Beaver and Lowdog take out the final angel of death.
Meantime, the cat familiar has climbed a building. Yavin sees it and mind thrusts it. He misses, and the cat bolts. Beaver hands Lowdog a healing potion and goodberries and jumps off the building and feather falls down. Idky checks on Jean-Louis and calls 'Beaver over. Lowdog takes the potion of healing. Beaver casts death's door on Jean-Louis. Idky brings the gun-slinger up with a cure light wounds spell.
Torr lays hands on Zayüß. 'Beaver runs off to join the search for the cat. Yavin attempts to telepathically contact the cat and misses.
Within ten minutes, the cat has simply disappeared.
The heroes regroup. Aine and Jean-Louis are so weak they can barely stand and Zayüß must fetch the pair.
'Beaver casts tracking and Yavin casts locate animals to find it's still in the same building. 'Beaver does an ESP scan to find the cat's mind. Augmented by an aid from Yavin, he makes contact. Unfortunately, since Sidra has a mental link with the cat, 'Beaver also contacted the lich's mind and goes insane. He also gets a splitting headache. (The DM passes a note to Beaver's player to inform him the exact effect) Yavin, who also linked into him, manages to avoid the effect. Unfortunately, no one knows what's happened to the shaman. 'Beaver put up a mind blank (YES, NOT thought shield, despite what was said IN GAME) which ejects Yavin from his mind.
'Beaver gives a lame excuse and Yavin buys it. Yavin, Lowdog, Torr, and Zayüß then leave to pursue the familiar while 'Beaver starts casting call lightning. Yavin casts invisibility to undead on himself and heads into the building with Lowdog. He connects telepathically with Lowdog to coordinate their actions. Torr enters the building as well with his warhorse circling outside to make sure nothing escapes.
The cat leaps to the next building and Lowdog follows, as does Yavin. 'Beaver climbs to a neighboring building to get a better view. He sees the cat leaping from building to building
Torr whistles for his horse and follows Lowdog.
Beaver calls lightning on Idky, which stuns him and nearly kills the cleric of Fharlanghn. Stephan goes gaseous. 'Beaver casts hold person on Aine and Jean-Louis but the pair resist and run into a building.
Lowdog and Torr start heading back to check out what's going on with the rest of the party while Yavin maintains a sending connection with Lowdog and continues following the black cat.
'Beaver drinks a potion of invisibility. Stephan floats up gaseously to where Beaver is. Idky heals himself.
Status:
Maedhros: SLAIN and now a shadow somewhere in Louisville...RIP
'Beaver: 30 of 71, -2 STR, 15 PSPs, lion, huming, ether, cast speak with spiritsx2, hold, tracking and ddoorx2, call lightx2 and summon and CCW
Lowdog: 34 of 91, -2 STR, 8gbs, with LL and Aura, cast CLWx2
Stephan: 15 of 34, -1 STR, 8gbs, 6psi, with LL and Aura, cast present
Aine: 2 of 21, down to 3 STR, 8gbs, cast FFx5 and sleep,x and phantasmal
Dresher: 10 (full), with Protection from evil 10'r
Torr: 50 of 82, down to 8 STR, lay
Zayüß: 35 of 42, -1 STR
Idky: 11 of 59, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, cast CLWx3,dark and all 2nds and prayerx2, ddoorx2 and prot e10r, CSWx2 and CCW
Yavin 41 of 49, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, jump, fly, cast CLW, invis to ux2, locate and lightenload, flamebl, 17 of 89 PSPs (+30 still)
Jean-Louis: 1 of 39, down to 2 STR
Aurora: last seen at -1 of 15 and being carried off by Sidra on her magic carpet...
Eeps prior to Jean-Louis: 43,810 xps
Eeps since: 17,550 xps (18 shadows) plus whatever the heroes earn from the 109 ghouls and 14 (destroyed) shadows encountered plus 4500xp for driving off both Sidra and Lillith