Post by David on Oct 15, 2010 13:55:09 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Torr, Ichi, Squattingbeaver, Lowdog, Stephan, Aine, and Treblo) discuss their next moving, specifically how to get to Sidra and engage her. Treblo offers to teleport without error the party into the lich-witch's throne room, but will need some clue of the location. After Stephan explains the situation, Aurora agrees to let the Mage read her mind in order to get a picture of the chamber.
Lowdog dreams to see where Sidra's phylactery is: it’s the soul collector for the runestone network, located in a room above Sidra’s throne room.
Idky lighten loads the party and Treblo teleports without error them all to the room with phylactery, a tower with beautiful stained glass windows. In center of room, suspended above the floor of the throne room 20' below, is HUGE rhion gem with the same rune that all the runestones had on it. It’s glowing and Lowdog and Beaver feel the souls in the gem, about 45% of planet’s population (tens of thousands of souls) are trapped within...
Forming from the stone are four powerfully built, muscular beings with dark, pearlescent skin and huge, oversized pale eyes. The creatures each bear a battle axe. They burst into black flame. As the creatures look at the group, they all have a very bad feeling.
The party's appearance sets off a trap -- each living being is struck with a cause critical wounds. The aura of magic resistance from Torr’s magic sword saves Dresher, while everyone else is able to resist the effect.
Ichi attacks one of the creatures, wounding it. Treblo looks below, seeing: 26 shadows, a pale woman, a pale-skinned man, and two obsidian minotaurs.
One of the bodaks glares at Lowdog, nearly killing him. The same happens to Ichi and Torr nearly bites it too. Then three fantastic looking monsters made of stained glass step out of the stained glass windows. The two pale-skinned creatures below (vampires) jump up and attack hummingbird-Beaver and Treblo -- the Mage's stoneskin saves him from the first vampire hit.
Aurora starts shooting at the phylactery gem but misses. Ichi kills his bodak. Torr attacks the phylactery but fails to damage it. Aine casts faerie fire on the phylactery, but the rhion stone sucks up the magic. Idky engages Treblo’s vampire to free him to cast a spell. Stephan casts web at one of the glass monsters, but it’s ineffective. Treblo casts lightning bolt at the two bodaks by Lowdog, but neither fall.
Aine succumbs to a bodak’s gaze and her soul leaves her body immediately, effectively dead. Idky gets glared at but doesn’t succumb. The female vampire attempts to charm Beaver and fails. One of the glass monsters (yeti shape) goes for Ichi and misses him. Another glass monster (chimera shape) goes for Beaver. The djinni shaped glass monster moves toward Ichi.
Idky switches to attack the bodak, doing pitiful damage. Lowdog slays one of the bodaks. Stephan casts magic missile at Idky’s bodak. Ichi finds out that he can’t hit the glass monsters (at least +2), so he jumps over to take on the male vampire. Treblo magic missiles Ichi’s bodak (full volley), nearly finishing it. Torr misses the phylactery TWICE more. But Princess Aurora shoots the phylactery and shatters it!!! It releases tens of thousands of souls. This gives the shaman and totemic warrior ability to cast at twice their level! 'Beaver attacks the vampire
Ichi’s bodak glares at Aurora, who crumples dead. Stephan sees a HUGE green pulse come off of the teenager's body. Sidra’s having a very bad day. 'Beaver gets slashed by his glass monster. Another glass monster slices off Idky's left leg just below the cleric's crotch. Three shadows make it upstairs.
Treblo casts wizard’s wrath on Lowdog’s bodak, reducing it to a smoking mass of nothing, which releases Aine’s soul. Ichi starts attacking the male vampire, making it go straight to gaseous form. The monk then moves to attack the female vampire. Torr comes to take the glass monster off 'Beaver so that the shaman may save others. 'Beaver begins casting a spell to rebond Aine’s soul to her body and Lowdog leaps to attack Idky’s glass monster. Idky casts cure serious wounds on himself to stop the bleeding.
The remaining bodak tries to gaze at Beaver, who shrugs it off. Torr’s glass golem cuts off the paladin's right leg below the knee. Stephan’s glass golem cuts off his right foot. A brilliant blast of multi-colored light comes out of them:
Although interrupted, 'Beaver finishes rebonding Aine’s soul. Ichi jumps to attack the remaining shadow. Torr destroys 10 shadows with his turning. Lowdog manages to destroy one of the glass golems and leaps to another, also destroying it. Stephan goes gaseous. Idky pulls himself over to 'Beaver to cast cure critical wounds on him (healing a pitiful amount). Griping, Treblo moves to attack the last glass golem physically.
The rest of the shadows make it upstairs. Down below comes Sidra, screeching “What is the meaning of this?!” With her are four more vampires. More shadows pour in downstairs.
Aine, unfortunately, fails her system system shock and cannot take command of her body, truly dying. Ichi drinks potion of speed. Treblo levitates over the big hole and addresses Sidra: “Well, your Majesty, let’s rumble.” He casts fireball at her and her entourage. It takes out 15 shadows and her black cat familiar, Lilith. The vampires are now smoking but alive. Sidra herself seems resistant to the fireball and takes minimal damage. It's then that 'Beaver calls down the wrath of the heavens on Sidra and the vampires. Without her familiar to access her rhion stones, Sidra has no defense against the spell -- the spirits of her countless victims drag Sidra’s unliving soul to the Underworld and destroy the vampires...!
The remaining shadows upstairs attack the group. Beaver gets hit by a shadow but starts having problems moving and breathing. Torr, crippled on the floor, also gets hit and strength-drained.
Torr destroys ten shadows, leaving one left. 'Beaver casts max cure critical wounds on himself. Ichi attacks the last shadow but it's Stephan's magic missiles which finish the creature while Lowdog shatters the glass golem.
Sidra is defeated, and the spirits start departing. Before they depart, 'Beaver casts raise dead on Aine and Aurora, both are successful. Stephan knows that because of her death, Aurora is no longer allowed to rule...and yet, there is no one left to inherit the line...
Meanwhile, Torr and Ichi sense the vapor forms of the vampires fleeing into the bowels of the structure. But three party members (Idky, Stephan, and Torr) are missing limbs/legs. And the remains of Sidra lie in the chamber below, along with the two obsidian minotaur...
Idky: 54 of 62, missing 87% of left leg, cast CLW / aidx4, light, sun / choosex2, prayer / prot E 10'r, free actx2, CSW / CCW, mission accomplished bonus of 50k xps
Lowdog: 96 of 97, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps
Stephan: 21 of 34, missing right foot, cast MMx2 / web, mission accomplished bonus of 16k xps
Aine: 1 of 21, cast FF, too weak to act, mission accomplished bonus of 8k xps
Dresher: 10 (full)
Torr: 68 of 82, missing right leg below knee, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps
Ichi: 40 of 67, mission accomplished bonus of 31k xps
Treblo: 41 of 60, cast MM // FB LB / WW // TPw/o, mission accomplished bonus of 1k xps
Aurora: 1 of 28, mission accomplished bonus of 1k xps
'Beaver: 46 of 71, cast / hunt / invis to spiritisx2 / war, CSWx2 / CCW / spiritx2, raisex2, ALL maxes, humming, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps (plus gets to quest Aurora and Aine -- although it's only WORDS until he can do the spell...!)
General eeps are 15,889 xps each...and that's with the vampires NOT truly destroyed and the obsidian minotaurs untouched...and no other undead in the city taken care of...
Lowdog dreams to see where Sidra's phylactery is: it’s the soul collector for the runestone network, located in a room above Sidra’s throne room.
Idky lighten loads the party and Treblo teleports without error them all to the room with phylactery, a tower with beautiful stained glass windows. In center of room, suspended above the floor of the throne room 20' below, is HUGE rhion gem with the same rune that all the runestones had on it. It’s glowing and Lowdog and Beaver feel the souls in the gem, about 45% of planet’s population (tens of thousands of souls) are trapped within...
Forming from the stone are four powerfully built, muscular beings with dark, pearlescent skin and huge, oversized pale eyes. The creatures each bear a battle axe. They burst into black flame. As the creatures look at the group, they all have a very bad feeling.
The party's appearance sets off a trap -- each living being is struck with a cause critical wounds. The aura of magic resistance from Torr’s magic sword saves Dresher, while everyone else is able to resist the effect.
Ichi attacks one of the creatures, wounding it. Treblo looks below, seeing: 26 shadows, a pale woman, a pale-skinned man, and two obsidian minotaurs.
One of the bodaks glares at Lowdog, nearly killing him. The same happens to Ichi and Torr nearly bites it too. Then three fantastic looking monsters made of stained glass step out of the stained glass windows. The two pale-skinned creatures below (vampires) jump up and attack hummingbird-Beaver and Treblo -- the Mage's stoneskin saves him from the first vampire hit.
Aurora starts shooting at the phylactery gem but misses. Ichi kills his bodak. Torr attacks the phylactery but fails to damage it. Aine casts faerie fire on the phylactery, but the rhion stone sucks up the magic. Idky engages Treblo’s vampire to free him to cast a spell. Stephan casts web at one of the glass monsters, but it’s ineffective. Treblo casts lightning bolt at the two bodaks by Lowdog, but neither fall.
Aine succumbs to a bodak’s gaze and her soul leaves her body immediately, effectively dead. Idky gets glared at but doesn’t succumb. The female vampire attempts to charm Beaver and fails. One of the glass monsters (yeti shape) goes for Ichi and misses him. Another glass monster (chimera shape) goes for Beaver. The djinni shaped glass monster moves toward Ichi.
Idky switches to attack the bodak, doing pitiful damage. Lowdog slays one of the bodaks. Stephan casts magic missile at Idky’s bodak. Ichi finds out that he can’t hit the glass monsters (at least +2), so he jumps over to take on the male vampire. Treblo magic missiles Ichi’s bodak (full volley), nearly finishing it. Torr misses the phylactery TWICE more. But Princess Aurora shoots the phylactery and shatters it!!! It releases tens of thousands of souls. This gives the shaman and totemic warrior ability to cast at twice their level! 'Beaver attacks the vampire
Ichi’s bodak glares at Aurora, who crumples dead. Stephan sees a HUGE green pulse come off of the teenager's body. Sidra’s having a very bad day. 'Beaver gets slashed by his glass monster. Another glass monster slices off Idky's left leg just below the cleric's crotch. Three shadows make it upstairs.
Treblo casts wizard’s wrath on Lowdog’s bodak, reducing it to a smoking mass of nothing, which releases Aine’s soul. Ichi starts attacking the male vampire, making it go straight to gaseous form. The monk then moves to attack the female vampire. Torr comes to take the glass monster off 'Beaver so that the shaman may save others. 'Beaver begins casting a spell to rebond Aine’s soul to her body and Lowdog leaps to attack Idky’s glass monster. Idky casts cure serious wounds on himself to stop the bleeding.
The remaining bodak tries to gaze at Beaver, who shrugs it off. Torr’s glass golem cuts off the paladin's right leg below the knee. Stephan’s glass golem cuts off his right foot. A brilliant blast of multi-colored light comes out of them:
- Idky gets hit by a blue ray but he doesn’t get petrified
- Lowdog gets hit by a green ray and a violet ray, but he ends up taking no poison damage and doesn’t get sent to another plane
- Stephan (who closed his eyes) gets with a red ray and takes damage
- The beam coming for Dresher gets sucked up by Torr’s sword
- Torr gets hit by the blue ray but also doesn’t get petrified
- Ichi gets hit by a red ray and an indigo ray, and he takes damage
- Treblo gets hit by an orange ray and takes damage
- 'Beaver gets hit by an orange ray and a violet ray, so he takes damage, but Torr’s sword sucks up the violet ray
- The remaining vampire gets petrified by a
- The bodak gets hit by rays and is destroyed
- One of the shadows gets killed by a ray and another gets sent to another plane
Although interrupted, 'Beaver finishes rebonding Aine’s soul. Ichi jumps to attack the remaining shadow. Torr destroys 10 shadows with his turning. Lowdog manages to destroy one of the glass golems and leaps to another, also destroying it. Stephan goes gaseous. Idky pulls himself over to 'Beaver to cast cure critical wounds on him (healing a pitiful amount). Griping, Treblo moves to attack the last glass golem physically.
The rest of the shadows make it upstairs. Down below comes Sidra, screeching “What is the meaning of this?!” With her are four more vampires. More shadows pour in downstairs.
Aine, unfortunately, fails her system system shock and cannot take command of her body, truly dying. Ichi drinks potion of speed. Treblo levitates over the big hole and addresses Sidra: “Well, your Majesty, let’s rumble.” He casts fireball at her and her entourage. It takes out 15 shadows and her black cat familiar, Lilith. The vampires are now smoking but alive. Sidra herself seems resistant to the fireball and takes minimal damage. It's then that 'Beaver calls down the wrath of the heavens on Sidra and the vampires. Without her familiar to access her rhion stones, Sidra has no defense against the spell -- the spirits of her countless victims drag Sidra’s unliving soul to the Underworld and destroy the vampires...!
The remaining shadows upstairs attack the group. Beaver gets hit by a shadow but starts having problems moving and breathing. Torr, crippled on the floor, also gets hit and strength-drained.
Torr destroys ten shadows, leaving one left. 'Beaver casts max cure critical wounds on himself. Ichi attacks the last shadow but it's Stephan's magic missiles which finish the creature while Lowdog shatters the glass golem.
Sidra is defeated, and the spirits start departing. Before they depart, 'Beaver casts raise dead on Aine and Aurora, both are successful. Stephan knows that because of her death, Aurora is no longer allowed to rule...and yet, there is no one left to inherit the line...
Meanwhile, Torr and Ichi sense the vapor forms of the vampires fleeing into the bowels of the structure. But three party members (Idky, Stephan, and Torr) are missing limbs/legs. And the remains of Sidra lie in the chamber below, along with the two obsidian minotaur...
Idky: 54 of 62, missing 87% of left leg, cast CLW / aidx4, light, sun / choosex2, prayer / prot E 10'r, free actx2, CSW / CCW, mission accomplished bonus of 50k xps
Lowdog: 96 of 97, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps
Stephan: 21 of 34, missing right foot, cast MMx2 / web, mission accomplished bonus of 16k xps
Aine: 1 of 21, cast FF, too weak to act, mission accomplished bonus of 8k xps
Dresher: 10 (full)
Torr: 68 of 82, missing right leg below knee, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps
Ichi: 40 of 67, mission accomplished bonus of 31k xps
Treblo: 41 of 60, cast MM // FB LB / WW // TPw/o, mission accomplished bonus of 1k xps
Aurora: 1 of 28, mission accomplished bonus of 1k xps
'Beaver: 46 of 71, cast / hunt / invis to spiritisx2 / war, CSWx2 / CCW / spiritx2, raisex2, ALL maxes, humming, mission accomplished bonus of 40k xps (plus gets to quest Aurora and Aine -- although it's only WORDS until he can do the spell...!)
General eeps are 15,889 xps each...and that's with the vampires NOT truly destroyed and the obsidian minotaurs untouched...and no other undead in the city taken care of...
Can the spirits do that??