Post by David on Nov 4, 2010 2:41:24 GMT -5
Just as the party (Idky, Torr, Ichi, Squattingbeaver, Lowdog, Stephan, Aine, and Treblo) hears muffled screaming from 'Beaver and Lowdog’s direction, Torr stumbles in, looking torn up and asking for healing.
Meantime, 'Beaver and Lowdog manage to shrug off the mummy’s fear effect and start running back to the group. Lowdog orders his eagle to fly away and starts leaping backward to buy the shaman time to flee. Unfortunately, the mummies overtake him. Two run past the totemic warrior after 'Beaver.
The group sees the mummies coming and Idky shouts a warning, so Torr moves to turn them as 'Beaver and Idky cast cure spells on the shredded paladin. Unfortunately, Torr gives in to the fear and gets paralyzed with fright, so he doesn’t turn mummies. Luckily, Ichi runs up to intercept the two incoming.
Treblo casts chain lightning at the group on Lowdog, as Lowdog leaps away to safety. Well sort of. The lightning smokes the five mummies and then heads toward Lowdog. He narrowly escapes as the bolt heads to the two mummies on Ichi and then to Ichi, who also narrowly evades it once but not the second time.
Treblo casts lightning bolt at the two remaining mummies, smoking one. As Ichi attacks the final mummy, Treblo wonders aloud why he attacks with his hands because of the danger of mummy rot. Lowdog kills the last mummy.
Treasure:
Scorpion talisman -- Idky
Lion talisman -- Treblo
Ape talisman (damaged by lightning -3) -- Aurora
Bull talisman -- Lowdog
Torr recovers from his fright and lays hands on Lowdog and Ichi to cure the mummy rot. Cure lights from Beaver indicate it worked.
The group moves back up to the next floor to camp out and hold their position while the women rest. They keep on watch for intruders.
'Beaver manages to convince Torr to stay inside with the group rather than head back out to destroy undead (and attract more)
A conversation between Treblo and 'Beaver results in the wizard agreeing to teleport them to the safety of Pommeville and from there teleporting to check out the magical treasure trove he recently learned of from the spirits.
That’s when 3 shadows enter the room. As they make their way up to the group, Beaver and Lowdog attack with missile weapons as Treblo shock bolts one. The shadows get in an attack on Aurora before Torr notices and vapes them.
'Beaver turns into a beaver and Idky into a duck to reduce the weight Treblo has to teleport, and then they port off to Pommeville.
From Pommeville, 'Beaver turns into a lion and Treblo teleports him, Ichi and Torr with him to the magical treasure trove and then come back.
Lowdog, who goes outside to look around, notices some commotion up on Deer Leap Hill. It looks like a line of goblins have been coming through the portal. He runs back to tell the group.
That night, Beaver dream messages Montrose: meet us at the wizard tower first thing in the morning.
Lowdog dreams of where the kidnapped women are: a couple dozen left in the basement of Sidra’s palace. Some had been drained by the vampires.
Mummy eeps: 6044 each
Montrose meets them in the morning at the wizard tower. He explains the goblins just showed up the night before. They’re now raping the woodlands, chopping down the trees and bringing them through the gate. They found the party’s stash of money. There were no ‘big’ ones (giants) with them. They’re acting like ants, taking everything in their path.
The heroes formulate a plan to attack the goblins and scare them back through the portal. The plan involves Treblo summoning an invisible stalker to kill running goblins and charming a couple to make them be the ‘witnesses’ to report back to the other side of the portal.
As the goblins start getting attacked, many fall to their feet begging for mercy. Beaver and Idky cast tongues to talk to them. A blonde gobliness approaches and tells them to stop. They’ve captured one of our rulers, and they will put her to death if we don’t stop. Princess Isadora's friend, Goldwing.
A conversation between the gobliness and Beaver ends up with her turning invisible and running off back toward the gate. The stalker squashes a number of them as they run off.
A two-headed giant steps through the portal asking to parlay with them. They want the food, or they will kill Goldwing. No amount of explaining gets it through his heads that they don’t know who Goldwing or Isadora are. The giant finally gets that it’s a different world. He says “This is Eternia?” And then he excitedly runs back through the portal.
They wait around to see if they come back through. Meantime, Treblo dispels his stalker.
Three goblins in royal regalia step through the gate. They say “If this is Eternia, we require the . . . “ Beaver steps up and attacks, and Torr and Lowdog kill two of them. Beaver wounds his and tells it to return through the portal. Lowdog throws one of the dead bodies through the portal.
'Beaver attempts to project into the goblin’s head telepathically but instead makes it go insane for about 40 seconds. He does it again and the goblin goes catatonic for a short time. Worried, Beaver then just enters his mind with ESP to read his mind.
He gets an image of what it’s like on his world. Very pitiful, and they basically live on the castoff land that the half-elven valkyries force them into.
They eventually agree with the prince for him to go get his father so 'Beaver can heal him. They arrange for the prince to come back through when the king is on the other side of the portal.
Idky is wearing the ESP medallion and finds out that there are some invisible assassins posted nearby in case things go awry. Beaver announces it when Idky whispers it to him, and tells everyone to put up detect invisible (which he actually does).
Stepping through the gate, the temp drops at least 20 degrees, blustery, and freezing. Idky casts control temperature 10’.
The king approaches, and Beaver finds himself under telepathic intrusion. The king attempts to read his mind, but Beaver blocks it.
With ESP medallion on, Idky determines the king will honor the bargain. Aine bullet blinks him three times and Beaver cures his disease.
The king wants to do business with them but they just release the prince and go back through the portal.
Treblo casts a wall of force in front of the portal.
Aine reads a cursed scroll, which turns her into a medusa. 'Beaver turns into a horse, Lowdog into an aarakokra, Torr into a unicorn, Ichi into a gnoll.
Idky gets turned to stone by the medusa, as do 'Beaver and Ichi.
Treblo casts remove curse on Aine, turning her back to human form and then on Lowdog and Torr. The mage also restores 'Beaver to flesh and blood, so only Ichi is still a statue.
Given that part of the party is still stone, the heroes discuss their next move -- if they don't act, more women could die at the vampire's hands, but the heroes' STATUS:
Idky: 62 (full), cast CLW / aidx4, light, sun / choosex2, prayer / prot E 10'r, free actx2, CSW / CCW
Lowdog: 117 (Full), cast all spells and found an eagle friend (needs a name, Ray!)
Stephan: 34 (full), missing right foot, cast MMx3, grease / webx2
Aine: 1 of 21, cast FF, too weak to act
Dresher: 10 (full)
Torr: 61 of 90, cast CLW, -2 STR and -1 DEX
Ichi: 48 of 67, healed self, -3 STR and -4 DEX
Treblo: 60 (full), cast MM, d magic / web / FB LB fly haste / WW stone // TPw/o
Aurora: 1 of 28
'Beaver: 71 (full), cast CLWx4 / all 2nd / invis to spiritisx2 cloudx2 / war, CSWx2 / CCW / spiritx2, raisex2, ALL maxes, humming
Meantime, 'Beaver and Lowdog manage to shrug off the mummy’s fear effect and start running back to the group. Lowdog orders his eagle to fly away and starts leaping backward to buy the shaman time to flee. Unfortunately, the mummies overtake him. Two run past the totemic warrior after 'Beaver.
The group sees the mummies coming and Idky shouts a warning, so Torr moves to turn them as 'Beaver and Idky cast cure spells on the shredded paladin. Unfortunately, Torr gives in to the fear and gets paralyzed with fright, so he doesn’t turn mummies. Luckily, Ichi runs up to intercept the two incoming.
Treblo casts chain lightning at the group on Lowdog, as Lowdog leaps away to safety. Well sort of. The lightning smokes the five mummies and then heads toward Lowdog. He narrowly escapes as the bolt heads to the two mummies on Ichi and then to Ichi, who also narrowly evades it once but not the second time.
Treblo casts lightning bolt at the two remaining mummies, smoking one. As Ichi attacks the final mummy, Treblo wonders aloud why he attacks with his hands because of the danger of mummy rot. Lowdog kills the last mummy.
Treasure:
Scorpion talisman -- Idky
Lion talisman -- Treblo
Ape talisman (damaged by lightning -3) -- Aurora
Bull talisman -- Lowdog
Torr recovers from his fright and lays hands on Lowdog and Ichi to cure the mummy rot. Cure lights from Beaver indicate it worked.
The group moves back up to the next floor to camp out and hold their position while the women rest. They keep on watch for intruders.
'Beaver manages to convince Torr to stay inside with the group rather than head back out to destroy undead (and attract more)
A conversation between Treblo and 'Beaver results in the wizard agreeing to teleport them to the safety of Pommeville and from there teleporting to check out the magical treasure trove he recently learned of from the spirits.
That’s when 3 shadows enter the room. As they make their way up to the group, Beaver and Lowdog attack with missile weapons as Treblo shock bolts one. The shadows get in an attack on Aurora before Torr notices and vapes them.
'Beaver turns into a beaver and Idky into a duck to reduce the weight Treblo has to teleport, and then they port off to Pommeville.
From Pommeville, 'Beaver turns into a lion and Treblo teleports him, Ichi and Torr with him to the magical treasure trove and then come back.
Lowdog, who goes outside to look around, notices some commotion up on Deer Leap Hill. It looks like a line of goblins have been coming through the portal. He runs back to tell the group.
That night, Beaver dream messages Montrose: meet us at the wizard tower first thing in the morning.
Lowdog dreams of where the kidnapped women are: a couple dozen left in the basement of Sidra’s palace. Some had been drained by the vampires.
Mummy eeps: 6044 each
Montrose meets them in the morning at the wizard tower. He explains the goblins just showed up the night before. They’re now raping the woodlands, chopping down the trees and bringing them through the gate. They found the party’s stash of money. There were no ‘big’ ones (giants) with them. They’re acting like ants, taking everything in their path.
The heroes formulate a plan to attack the goblins and scare them back through the portal. The plan involves Treblo summoning an invisible stalker to kill running goblins and charming a couple to make them be the ‘witnesses’ to report back to the other side of the portal.
As the goblins start getting attacked, many fall to their feet begging for mercy. Beaver and Idky cast tongues to talk to them. A blonde gobliness approaches and tells them to stop. They’ve captured one of our rulers, and they will put her to death if we don’t stop. Princess Isadora's friend, Goldwing.
A conversation between the gobliness and Beaver ends up with her turning invisible and running off back toward the gate. The stalker squashes a number of them as they run off.
A two-headed giant steps through the portal asking to parlay with them. They want the food, or they will kill Goldwing. No amount of explaining gets it through his heads that they don’t know who Goldwing or Isadora are. The giant finally gets that it’s a different world. He says “This is Eternia?” And then he excitedly runs back through the portal.
They wait around to see if they come back through. Meantime, Treblo dispels his stalker.
Three goblins in royal regalia step through the gate. They say “If this is Eternia, we require the . . . “ Beaver steps up and attacks, and Torr and Lowdog kill two of them. Beaver wounds his and tells it to return through the portal. Lowdog throws one of the dead bodies through the portal.
'Beaver attempts to project into the goblin’s head telepathically but instead makes it go insane for about 40 seconds. He does it again and the goblin goes catatonic for a short time. Worried, Beaver then just enters his mind with ESP to read his mind.
He gets an image of what it’s like on his world. Very pitiful, and they basically live on the castoff land that the half-elven valkyries force them into.
They eventually agree with the prince for him to go get his father so 'Beaver can heal him. They arrange for the prince to come back through when the king is on the other side of the portal.
Idky is wearing the ESP medallion and finds out that there are some invisible assassins posted nearby in case things go awry. Beaver announces it when Idky whispers it to him, and tells everyone to put up detect invisible (which he actually does).
Stepping through the gate, the temp drops at least 20 degrees, blustery, and freezing. Idky casts control temperature 10’.
The king approaches, and Beaver finds himself under telepathic intrusion. The king attempts to read his mind, but Beaver blocks it.
With ESP medallion on, Idky determines the king will honor the bargain. Aine bullet blinks him three times and Beaver cures his disease.
The king wants to do business with them but they just release the prince and go back through the portal.
Treblo casts a wall of force in front of the portal.
Aine reads a cursed scroll, which turns her into a medusa. 'Beaver turns into a horse, Lowdog into an aarakokra, Torr into a unicorn, Ichi into a gnoll.
Idky gets turned to stone by the medusa, as do 'Beaver and Ichi.
Treblo casts remove curse on Aine, turning her back to human form and then on Lowdog and Torr. The mage also restores 'Beaver to flesh and blood, so only Ichi is still a statue.
Given that part of the party is still stone, the heroes discuss their next move -- if they don't act, more women could die at the vampire's hands, but the heroes' STATUS:
Idky: 62 (full), cast CLW / aidx4, light, sun / choosex2, prayer / prot E 10'r, free actx2, CSW / CCW
Lowdog: 117 (Full), cast all spells and found an eagle friend (needs a name, Ray!)
Stephan: 34 (full), missing right foot, cast MMx3, grease / webx2
Aine: 1 of 21, cast FF, too weak to act
Dresher: 10 (full)
Torr: 61 of 90, cast CLW, -2 STR and -1 DEX
Ichi: 48 of 67, healed self, -3 STR and -4 DEX
Treblo: 60 (full), cast MM, d magic / web / FB LB fly haste / WW stone // TPw/o
Aurora: 1 of 28
'Beaver: 71 (full), cast CLWx4 / all 2nd / invis to spiritisx2 cloudx2 / war, CSWx2 / CCW / spiritx2, raisex2, ALL maxes, humming