Post by David on Jul 1, 2010 12:50:21 GMT -5
After hearing a bolt of lightning strike the ground, Lowdog and Torr head back to the group and leave Yavin to continue chasing the Queen's cat familiar.
Meanwhile, Idky runs off toward the globe of darkness, barely alive after being hit by the shaman's call lightning. 'Beaver, now invisible thanks to his potion, comes back down the building and pursues Idky. Stephan follows him in gaseous form as well as he's able.
As Lowdog, Torr and Zayüß arrive, Aine tells them what happened, and they start looking for 'Beaver. Concerned, Torr calls for Yavin to return. The cleric of Celestian flies back and casts a spell to locate 'Beaver and Idky. Yavin finds that the shaman's alignment is changing, but manages to locate him. Lowdog and Torr rush him but 'Beaver casts hold monster on all three, catching only Torr, but the spell also turns 'Beaver visible. Yavin mind thrusts Beaver, stopping him in his tracks and Lowdog rushes to subdue.
Meantime, Idky cast cure critical wounds on himself from within the safety of the magical darkness.
Beaver drops lightning on Yavin, but it basically parts around the telepathic cleric. Yavin strikes back, forcing the shaman into mental combat with a mind thrust.
Except for Idky, the rest of the party moves in to help with dealing with the now-rogue shaman.
Thanks to Yavin's mental assault, 'Beaver's short term memory is partially cleared and he tries to call lightning on Yavin again, having forgotten he already did it. Naturally, nothing happens, but Stephan notices that 'Beaver is speaking Ninevehn when he casts spells.
Yavin continues to mind thrust while Lowdog pummels the shaman. Yavin asks Zayüß to get Torr out of there -- he's paralyzed and thus a liability and a target in the combat.
'Beaver drops his spear and pulls his dagger, fighting back. Lowdog notices that Beaver is talking like a woman. He offers not to kill them if they all walk away. This is when Zayüß gallops up and starts riverdancing on 'Beaver, knocking him unconscious. Lowdog pulls Zayüß off the downed shaman and the man and horse seem to have an exchange. Stephan rematerializes.
Stephan explains what happened when he zapped Idky. Yavin takes off 'Beaver's gloves, his lion cloak and hummingbird token, and Lowdog ties him up. Stephan gags the shaman as well.
Yavin goes back to searching for the cat. He sees Sidra flying above the city on a large magical carpet along with another figure. Idky too sees the scene and starts airwalking over to where they took down 'Beaver.
Thanks to his spells, Yavin notices and flies over to the familiar. Meantime, Lowdog leaps onto Zayüß to charge to support the cleric. Lillith sees the cleric coming and crouches down to cast a spell; an angel of death appears and charges at Yavin!
Yavin flies through everything, getting hit by death and some shadows, but grabs the cat with both hands. The death hits him again as he flies back to the group.
Idky sees Aurora disappear after sipping a potion. Sidra screams in frustration.
Yavin flies by Zayüß' feet, inviting him to do his riverdance...! Lowdog engages the death as Yavin flies past -- having already killed one death today, another cannot appear. Zayüß drops the cat and continues to stomp it. The cat springs back, though, as if huge quantities of life force were being poured into it.
Yavin zig zags back to keep the death within Lowdog's reach. Meanwhile, Sidra starts zooming over to the fray.
Aine casts cure wounds off Idky's scroll on Jean-Louis while Idky also casts aid off a scroll on him.
Sidra casts spasm on Zayüß afflicting the warhorse, but it manages to take the cat down again. Then Jean-Louis shoots Sidra and misses.
Yavin turns to attack the death and Lowdog kills it. Idky casts cure light wounds on Yavin, who is near death himself...
Lillith, amazingly, stands up again, and a 10-foot high wall of bones appears in between the group and the cat. Zayüß continues stomping the cat, hitting it critically, crushing its ribs despite the debilitating effects of the spasm.
Idky airwalks up to look over the wall of bones. He drops a globe of darkness in between Sidra and her familiar. Meanwhile, Yavin flies up to engage Sidra in melee, preventing the witch-lich-queen-necromancer from any further spell-casting. Lillith tries to bail, but Zayüß is able to catch it
Sidra pulls out a wand and tries to stab Yavin, but misses. Idky rushes over to help out Yavin, with his club. Zayüß drops the cat again. Good horsey!
Lowdog leaps up to a building a runs over toward Sidra. Sidra gives more health to her cat and reveals her lich form. No one cares, being either powerful enough to see her true form or unable to make line of sight (Jean-Louis).
Sidra hits Yavin with her wand, turning him to stone. Lowdog jumps down onto the cat and misses. Idky, enraged, airwalks below Sidra's carpet, grabs it and starts shaking, but it does little as she can levitate.
Jean-Louis shoots at Sidra thrice but hits Idky once instead. Sidra steps off her carpet and casts disrupt life, but it catches no one. Her cat bolts.
Jean-Louis shoots her, but the bullets bounce off the lich. Idky vainly tries to attack Sidra with his club. Aine runs around the block to get around the wall of bones. Lowdog leaps onto Sidra's carpet, attacks and misses.
Sidra tells her carpet to dump Lowdog on the wall of bones (ouch) and floats above the combat. She then misses Idky with her wand (phew!).
Lowdog attempts to slash through the wall of bones. Idky attempts to knock the wand out of Sidra's hand but misses.
Aine rounds a corner and sees the cat and Zayüß run by, both moving at half speed due to their injuries. She casts forget on the cat but it has no effect.
Sidra says "This isn't over boys," and she speeds off on her carpet, scooping up her familiar and flying off.
Idky walks down to weep over Yavin's petrified body. Everyone regroups and eventually Torr shakes the hold spell.
Idky triages 'Beaver, learning the shaman is unconscious but alive. Meanwhile, Lowdog uses Idky's club to knock down the wall of bones. The totemic warrior and paladin then set up harness for Zayüß to drag Yavin's petrified-but-lighten-loaded body.
'Beaver comes conscious, and Idky knocks him unconscious. The group moves Yavin into a building. Torr uses 'Beaver's pearl to calm the local weather. Everyone inside a building, Idky and Dresher notice someone outside. It's the princess Aurora, who rejoins the group -- in the confusion of the earlier melee, the teenager managed to quaff the potion the heroes had given her. In gaseous form, she slid off the carpet and floated to the scene of the battle.
The party strips 'Beaver naked and looks through his stuff. The group discusses taking the train back toward Pommeville to get back to the gate to help their friends. As they discuss, the nine shadows who were turned earlier return and attack. Aurora goes down under shadow attack. Idky heals the princess and bring her back up.
The group finds a storage room and set up watches while they sleep. 'Beaver came conscious during the night, but Idky knocks him back out. The poor shaman will have MANY lumps in the morning.
When the group awakens the next day they question Beaver, learning he believes all clerics need to be put down. The party discusses going back to Luxor to see if the bound deva, Elvi, can help out.
Idky charms the shaman and starts to question him. He finds out that 'Beaver thinks he's Elsabeth, the witch who started the war with the clerics centuries ago. Idky confronts the shaman with the delusion, but 'Beaver goes crazy and somehow breaks the charm. Three more attempts to charm him fail.
The group moves to board a train and encounter three gargoyles.
Lowdog, Aurora, and Stephen quickly dispatch them and board the train. The group heads to Luxor, moving down a few ghouls and skeletons along the way...
After four and a half hours, everyone feels nauseous, as they blaze through the blighted area. Nine shadows board and Torr turns them. Later, seven more came on, Torr turns five and they fight the rest.
The heroes arrive at the outskirts of Luxor after 13 hours
Status:
Maedhros: SLAIN and now a shadow somewhere in Louisville...RIP
'Beaver: 1 of 71
Lowdog: 91 (full), cast detect magic, IN VIOLATION OF HIS QUEST
Stephan: 31 of 34
Aine: 17 of 21, cast charm person
Dresher: 9 of 10
Torr: 55 of 82
Zayüß: 36 of 42
Idky: 37 of 62, cast CLWx2 and charm x5 and dispel and CSWx3 and CCW, IN VIOLATION OF HIS QUEST
Yavin 5 of 49, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, jump, fly, cast CLW, invis to ux2, locate. d.good and lightenload, flamebl, 17 of 1 PSP (+23 still) but A STATUE NOW
Jean-Louis: 26 of 39
Aurora: 15 of 19, cast magic missile
Meanwhile, Idky runs off toward the globe of darkness, barely alive after being hit by the shaman's call lightning. 'Beaver, now invisible thanks to his potion, comes back down the building and pursues Idky. Stephan follows him in gaseous form as well as he's able.
As Lowdog, Torr and Zayüß arrive, Aine tells them what happened, and they start looking for 'Beaver. Concerned, Torr calls for Yavin to return. The cleric of Celestian flies back and casts a spell to locate 'Beaver and Idky. Yavin finds that the shaman's alignment is changing, but manages to locate him. Lowdog and Torr rush him but 'Beaver casts hold monster on all three, catching only Torr, but the spell also turns 'Beaver visible. Yavin mind thrusts Beaver, stopping him in his tracks and Lowdog rushes to subdue.
Meantime, Idky cast cure critical wounds on himself from within the safety of the magical darkness.
Beaver drops lightning on Yavin, but it basically parts around the telepathic cleric. Yavin strikes back, forcing the shaman into mental combat with a mind thrust.
Except for Idky, the rest of the party moves in to help with dealing with the now-rogue shaman.
Thanks to Yavin's mental assault, 'Beaver's short term memory is partially cleared and he tries to call lightning on Yavin again, having forgotten he already did it. Naturally, nothing happens, but Stephan notices that 'Beaver is speaking Ninevehn when he casts spells.
Yavin continues to mind thrust while Lowdog pummels the shaman. Yavin asks Zayüß to get Torr out of there -- he's paralyzed and thus a liability and a target in the combat.
'Beaver drops his spear and pulls his dagger, fighting back. Lowdog notices that Beaver is talking like a woman. He offers not to kill them if they all walk away. This is when Zayüß gallops up and starts riverdancing on 'Beaver, knocking him unconscious. Lowdog pulls Zayüß off the downed shaman and the man and horse seem to have an exchange. Stephan rematerializes.
Stephan explains what happened when he zapped Idky. Yavin takes off 'Beaver's gloves, his lion cloak and hummingbird token, and Lowdog ties him up. Stephan gags the shaman as well.
Yavin goes back to searching for the cat. He sees Sidra flying above the city on a large magical carpet along with another figure. Idky too sees the scene and starts airwalking over to where they took down 'Beaver.
Thanks to his spells, Yavin notices and flies over to the familiar. Meantime, Lowdog leaps onto Zayüß to charge to support the cleric. Lillith sees the cleric coming and crouches down to cast a spell; an angel of death appears and charges at Yavin!
Yavin flies through everything, getting hit by death and some shadows, but grabs the cat with both hands. The death hits him again as he flies back to the group.
Idky sees Aurora disappear after sipping a potion. Sidra screams in frustration.
Yavin flies by Zayüß' feet, inviting him to do his riverdance...! Lowdog engages the death as Yavin flies past -- having already killed one death today, another cannot appear. Zayüß drops the cat and continues to stomp it. The cat springs back, though, as if huge quantities of life force were being poured into it.
Yavin zig zags back to keep the death within Lowdog's reach. Meanwhile, Sidra starts zooming over to the fray.
Aine casts cure wounds off Idky's scroll on Jean-Louis while Idky also casts aid off a scroll on him.
Sidra casts spasm on Zayüß afflicting the warhorse, but it manages to take the cat down again. Then Jean-Louis shoots Sidra and misses.
Yavin turns to attack the death and Lowdog kills it. Idky casts cure light wounds on Yavin, who is near death himself...
Lillith, amazingly, stands up again, and a 10-foot high wall of bones appears in between the group and the cat. Zayüß continues stomping the cat, hitting it critically, crushing its ribs despite the debilitating effects of the spasm.
Idky airwalks up to look over the wall of bones. He drops a globe of darkness in between Sidra and her familiar. Meanwhile, Yavin flies up to engage Sidra in melee, preventing the witch-lich-queen-necromancer from any further spell-casting. Lillith tries to bail, but Zayüß is able to catch it
Sidra pulls out a wand and tries to stab Yavin, but misses. Idky rushes over to help out Yavin, with his club. Zayüß drops the cat again. Good horsey!
Lowdog leaps up to a building a runs over toward Sidra. Sidra gives more health to her cat and reveals her lich form. No one cares, being either powerful enough to see her true form or unable to make line of sight (Jean-Louis).
Sidra hits Yavin with her wand, turning him to stone. Lowdog jumps down onto the cat and misses. Idky, enraged, airwalks below Sidra's carpet, grabs it and starts shaking, but it does little as she can levitate.
Jean-Louis shoots at Sidra thrice but hits Idky once instead. Sidra steps off her carpet and casts disrupt life, but it catches no one. Her cat bolts.
Jean-Louis shoots her, but the bullets bounce off the lich. Idky vainly tries to attack Sidra with his club. Aine runs around the block to get around the wall of bones. Lowdog leaps onto Sidra's carpet, attacks and misses.
Sidra tells her carpet to dump Lowdog on the wall of bones (ouch) and floats above the combat. She then misses Idky with her wand (phew!).
Lowdog attempts to slash through the wall of bones. Idky attempts to knock the wand out of Sidra's hand but misses.
Aine rounds a corner and sees the cat and Zayüß run by, both moving at half speed due to their injuries. She casts forget on the cat but it has no effect.
Sidra says "This isn't over boys," and she speeds off on her carpet, scooping up her familiar and flying off.
Idky walks down to weep over Yavin's petrified body. Everyone regroups and eventually Torr shakes the hold spell.
Idky triages 'Beaver, learning the shaman is unconscious but alive. Meanwhile, Lowdog uses Idky's club to knock down the wall of bones. The totemic warrior and paladin then set up harness for Zayüß to drag Yavin's petrified-but-lighten-loaded body.
'Beaver comes conscious, and Idky knocks him unconscious. The group moves Yavin into a building. Torr uses 'Beaver's pearl to calm the local weather. Everyone inside a building, Idky and Dresher notice someone outside. It's the princess Aurora, who rejoins the group -- in the confusion of the earlier melee, the teenager managed to quaff the potion the heroes had given her. In gaseous form, she slid off the carpet and floated to the scene of the battle.
The party strips 'Beaver naked and looks through his stuff. The group discusses taking the train back toward Pommeville to get back to the gate to help their friends. As they discuss, the nine shadows who were turned earlier return and attack. Aurora goes down under shadow attack. Idky heals the princess and bring her back up.
The group finds a storage room and set up watches while they sleep. 'Beaver came conscious during the night, but Idky knocks him back out. The poor shaman will have MANY lumps in the morning.
When the group awakens the next day they question Beaver, learning he believes all clerics need to be put down. The party discusses going back to Luxor to see if the bound deva, Elvi, can help out.
Idky charms the shaman and starts to question him. He finds out that 'Beaver thinks he's Elsabeth, the witch who started the war with the clerics centuries ago. Idky confronts the shaman with the delusion, but 'Beaver goes crazy and somehow breaks the charm. Three more attempts to charm him fail.
The group moves to board a train and encounter three gargoyles.
Lowdog, Aurora, and Stephen quickly dispatch them and board the train. The group heads to Luxor, moving down a few ghouls and skeletons along the way...
After four and a half hours, everyone feels nauseous, as they blaze through the blighted area. Nine shadows board and Torr turns them. Later, seven more came on, Torr turns five and they fight the rest.
The heroes arrive at the outskirts of Luxor after 13 hours
Status:
Maedhros: SLAIN and now a shadow somewhere in Louisville...RIP
'Beaver: 1 of 71
Lowdog: 91 (full), cast detect magic, IN VIOLATION OF HIS QUEST
Stephan: 31 of 34
Aine: 17 of 21, cast charm person
Dresher: 9 of 10
Torr: 55 of 82
Zayüß: 36 of 42
Idky: 37 of 62, cast CLWx2 and charm x5 and dispel and CSWx3 and CCW, IN VIOLATION OF HIS QUEST
Yavin 5 of 49, down to 7 STR, with LL and Aura, jump, fly, cast CLW, invis to ux2, locate. d.good and lightenload, flamebl, 17 of 1 PSP (+23 still) but A STATUE NOW
Jean-Louis: 26 of 39
Aurora: 15 of 19, cast magic missile
