Post by David on Aug 26, 2010 13:58:52 GMT -5
The party splits up: Torr, Lowdog, 'Beaver, Stephan set off to track the princess while Idky (accompanied by Aine & Yavin) casts commune with nature to find out about where she is and some other info about the general area. Yavin telepathically links into 'Beaver and thru him, Idky passes on the information. After the first group finds the princess they then regroup.
Torr rushes back to the town (once Idky tells him about the shadows there) to attract the shadows and destroys them, and does a little practice turning in the process. Now more shadows in town.
Montrose suggests the group go to the settlement of 'Beaver's people to bed down after they heal up. They bed down in the little 'village' of five Lakota.
That night, Lowdog feels like he's being watched but pulling out his scimitar seems to block the feeling. He informs everyone they were being scried.
In the night, Lowdog gets a dream about what to do next: He is reminded that the gates are all connected in a network. They would be in violation of Blackrobe's quest if they didn't pursue getting blood for talisman. Yavin also gets a precognitive dream: He sees that they had filled in three holes of the amulet and they were on another world. He was excited to be there. The heroes figure out they probably need to go through the gate seven or eight times, getting lifeblood on each world.
Aurora continues to insist that someone teach her read magic so she can be more useful in combat, getting quite mad. The group discusses what move to make next. 'Beaver consults Gorma-Sar about how to get Maedhros back from being a shadow, although the dead necromancer basically repeats what he'd said before.
The party then travels overland toward Chateauenfer. They encounter five ghouls, which Torr destroys with a flick of his holy sword (via turning). Again the party feels that they are being scried. Torr dispels the effect with his holy sword. A few minutes later, Ichi shows up with the mage, Treblo; it turns out he was the one scrying them. He explains that he brought Ichi through, because the gate at Tovag Baragu had opened into a netherworld and there was no more contact with the party for more than a week.
'Beaver gladly returns the amulet to Ichi -- THIS WAS NEVER DONE IN GAME!
Lowdog gets a legend lore on one of his scimitars, finds out it is intelligent and evil, though asleep right now. Treblo does some other "business" with the party, including passing out stoneskin spells. Treblo casts another spell which reveals that they are in an alternate universe, and Charn doesn't overlay Oerth's reality.
The heroes decide to have Treblo teleport them to their train in Chateauenfer so he can preserve Maedhros and carry him back to Oerth to take care of him after the quest. Unfortunately, the mage cannot cast another teleport without error until the morning, so he agrees to hike with the party until the morning.
As they sleep that night, while Aurora and Beaver are on watch, the group is attacked by ghouls. Unfortunately, Aurora had picked that moment to relieve herself and thus isn't there as the undead show up or combat is joined. And 'Beaver didn't see a thing...! A gunner ghoul unloads his entire clip into Lowdog, with four shells remaining in the totemic warrior's body. 'Beaver casts hold monster, but forgets it has no effect on undead...! Meanwhile, Aine's leg gets shredded. Lowdog gets shot full of lead and Yavin, Idky, Ichi, 'Beaver also get attacked.
Beaver jumps onto the gunner, but gets critically hit by his ghoul. The shaman's intestines start spilling out and he collapses from the near-mortal wound. Lowdog is severely concussed, his chest is shattered and he's bleeding while his leg is broken. There's no hope of the totemic warrior getting up, much less rejoining the fight. Torr manages to wake up but is a bit dazed and can do nothing yet. Unlike his master, Zayüß snaps alert instantly and starts riverdancing on the gunner, dropping the ghoul. Yavin wakes up, but can take no action. Idky also wakes and clubs his ghoul. Ichi snaps to his feet and starts attacking his foes.
Each ghoul continues to attack its opponent, one reorienting on Zayüß. Ichi drops his ghoul and runs to help Aine, removing her ghoul. He then helps out Idky, dropping his ghoul. ICHI'S BACK!!
Stephan helps out Yavin, but misses. Aurora, who just came back from taking a dump, returns and magic missiles a ghoul out of existence. Idky rushes over to cure critical wounds on 'Beaver. The shaman then recovers and in turn casts max cure critical wounds on Lowdog.
After healing and going back to sleep, the party has another encounter. Idky and Stephan hear a howling wind. Idky starts casting protection from evil 10'. The invisible stalker scoops up Aine and zooms off into the desert night while a familiar female voice speaks in Ninevan.
Stephan casts grease on Aine, and the stalker drops her. Aine faerie fires the monster and the heroes quickly dispatch it.
Eeps: 534 each
In the morning, with the aid of Yavin (moment) and Idky (choose future), Stephan correctly casts read magic with a single arm, gaining access to all of Maedhros' spell books, including the Book of Mitu...
Aurora impatiently demands to learn the spell so she too can use her magics...!
Torr rushes back to the town (once Idky tells him about the shadows there) to attract the shadows and destroys them, and does a little practice turning in the process. Now more shadows in town.
Montrose suggests the group go to the settlement of 'Beaver's people to bed down after they heal up. They bed down in the little 'village' of five Lakota.
That night, Lowdog feels like he's being watched but pulling out his scimitar seems to block the feeling. He informs everyone they were being scried.
In the night, Lowdog gets a dream about what to do next: He is reminded that the gates are all connected in a network. They would be in violation of Blackrobe's quest if they didn't pursue getting blood for talisman. Yavin also gets a precognitive dream: He sees that they had filled in three holes of the amulet and they were on another world. He was excited to be there. The heroes figure out they probably need to go through the gate seven or eight times, getting lifeblood on each world.
Aurora continues to insist that someone teach her read magic so she can be more useful in combat, getting quite mad. The group discusses what move to make next. 'Beaver consults Gorma-Sar about how to get Maedhros back from being a shadow, although the dead necromancer basically repeats what he'd said before.
The party then travels overland toward Chateauenfer. They encounter five ghouls, which Torr destroys with a flick of his holy sword (via turning). Again the party feels that they are being scried. Torr dispels the effect with his holy sword. A few minutes later, Ichi shows up with the mage, Treblo; it turns out he was the one scrying them. He explains that he brought Ichi through, because the gate at Tovag Baragu had opened into a netherworld and there was no more contact with the party for more than a week.
'Beaver gladly returns the amulet to Ichi -- THIS WAS NEVER DONE IN GAME!
Lowdog gets a legend lore on one of his scimitars, finds out it is intelligent and evil, though asleep right now. Treblo does some other "business" with the party, including passing out stoneskin spells. Treblo casts another spell which reveals that they are in an alternate universe, and Charn doesn't overlay Oerth's reality.
The heroes decide to have Treblo teleport them to their train in Chateauenfer so he can preserve Maedhros and carry him back to Oerth to take care of him after the quest. Unfortunately, the mage cannot cast another teleport without error until the morning, so he agrees to hike with the party until the morning.
As they sleep that night, while Aurora and Beaver are on watch, the group is attacked by ghouls. Unfortunately, Aurora had picked that moment to relieve herself and thus isn't there as the undead show up or combat is joined. And 'Beaver didn't see a thing...! A gunner ghoul unloads his entire clip into Lowdog, with four shells remaining in the totemic warrior's body. 'Beaver casts hold monster, but forgets it has no effect on undead...! Meanwhile, Aine's leg gets shredded. Lowdog gets shot full of lead and Yavin, Idky, Ichi, 'Beaver also get attacked.
Beaver jumps onto the gunner, but gets critically hit by his ghoul. The shaman's intestines start spilling out and he collapses from the near-mortal wound. Lowdog is severely concussed, his chest is shattered and he's bleeding while his leg is broken. There's no hope of the totemic warrior getting up, much less rejoining the fight. Torr manages to wake up but is a bit dazed and can do nothing yet. Unlike his master, Zayüß snaps alert instantly and starts riverdancing on the gunner, dropping the ghoul. Yavin wakes up, but can take no action. Idky also wakes and clubs his ghoul. Ichi snaps to his feet and starts attacking his foes.
Each ghoul continues to attack its opponent, one reorienting on Zayüß. Ichi drops his ghoul and runs to help Aine, removing her ghoul. He then helps out Idky, dropping his ghoul. ICHI'S BACK!!
Stephan helps out Yavin, but misses. Aurora, who just came back from taking a dump, returns and magic missiles a ghoul out of existence. Idky rushes over to cure critical wounds on 'Beaver. The shaman then recovers and in turn casts max cure critical wounds on Lowdog.
After healing and going back to sleep, the party has another encounter. Idky and Stephan hear a howling wind. Idky starts casting protection from evil 10'. The invisible stalker scoops up Aine and zooms off into the desert night while a familiar female voice speaks in Ninevan.
Stephan casts grease on Aine, and the stalker drops her. Aine faerie fires the monster and the heroes quickly dispatch it.
Eeps: 534 each
In the morning, with the aid of Yavin (moment) and Idky (choose future), Stephan correctly casts read magic with a single arm, gaining access to all of Maedhros' spell books, including the Book of Mitu...
Aurora impatiently demands to learn the spell so she too can use her magics...!
