Charn -- 617/6/21 aka Nov 4th, 2010

[David]

Gorma-Sar asks ‘Beaver about their bargain to release him. The shaman attempts to dispel magic to free the necromancer’s spirit, but the spell fails. The two speak briefly with Gorma-Sar sharing the idea to use vampire blood to form the bloodstone for this world. Treblo itemizes the Ichi statue to carry him along till he can cast stone to flesh on the monk. The SkyMage also casts fly on Stephan so he can move around despite his severed foot. The heroes (Idky, Torr, Ichi, Squattingbeaver, Lowdog, Stephan, Aine, and Treblo) then gather up some wooden stakes in preparation for the vampire fight

Treblo teleports them to the village outside Calvados, where ‘Beaver tests out his new mind power with Yavin to find out what it is. Yavin wonders what he’s doing with an attack mode—id insinuation. Idky then naps everyone, Treblo and Idky restore Ichi, and they buff up before the cleric lighten loads everyone so the mage can cast teleport without error to bring the whole party to Sidra’s palace, specifically where the captured women are being held.

The heroes appear in the midst of ghouls and vampires—in the dark! No one can see and Torr's magical sword's light goes out -- canceled by the standing continual darkness. Stephan lights up his fire robe, providing some light and Ichi starts attacking ghouls, destroying one. All but one of the remaining ghouls are hedged by Torr’s aura but the vampires start attacking. Aine gets stunned by a vampire and crumples

Ichi clears out two more ghouls. Treblo magic missiles a vampire, dropping her. Stephan attempts to stake the vampire but misses. Lowdog spikes her and gets her blood on his sword for the amulet as ‘Beaver jumps away from his vampire to get to Idky’s ghoul. Unfortunately, he gets hit in the back on the way. Idky breaks away to get to Lowdog and the vampire's "life" blood.

Aine’s vampire grabs her and starts draining the hapless witch while another vampire attacks Lowdog from behind. This time, Idky holds steady to receive the blood from the totemic warrior's blade. Stephan casts grease on Aine, but the vampire's grip on the witch is too strong. Dresher transfers hit points to her mistress while Torr dusts four ghouls. Treblo magic missiles the vampire on Aine, and she drops just as the witch regains consciousness (but not quite her wits). Ichi jumps to defend Lowdog and also takes on a second one as well. One vampire goes down, and the other suffers a broken arm. Nice! Unfortunately, Idky doesn’t hold still enough for the blood to go into the right hole on the amulet

Ichi continues attacking vampires, unintentionally turning one gaseous. Torr manages to turn one ghoul—‘Beaver’s. Treblo magic missiles Torr’s vampire, but splits his missiles between her and a door lock. The vampire goes down just as Aine’s vampire gets back up.

Stephan steps up to defend Aine’s body, dropping the vampire again. ‘Beaver casts max cure serious on Aine while Idky now gets the first bloodstone, thanks to Lowdog. Torr dusts the remaining ghouls

Lowdog casts detect invisibility and announces the locations of the gaseous vampires. Idky blanket faerie fires them all as Aine casts control vapor to bring one into a bottle.

Now, coming down the hallway are three ghouls and eight (three fresh) vampires. Torr dusts the three ghouls and turns the vampires. Aine, meanwhile, collects the vaporous form of another vampire

‘Beaver starts kicking cell doors open to release the prisoners. There are 24 women here and ‘Beaver instructs them to move to the back of the room. Idky casts two lighten loads on the women to prep them for Treblo's teleport. Idky notices that the blood is starting to solidify, so they have to rush off after the vampires while the SkyMage teleports away with a dozen of the women. Stephan stays behind to protect the remaining women and casts detect invisibility.

As the heroes enter the room the vampires are in, the door opens and five more vampires come through. One casts lightning bolt down the hallway. Aine goes down, and Dresher gets vaporized...!

Lowdog, Ichi, ‘Beaver (lion form), and Torr rush in to attack.
Stephan pours a healing potion into Aine’s mouth, but she doesn't respond. One unengaged vampire reaches to the heavens and invokes some unknown power.

Torr's blows turns one vampire gaseous and the paladin moves forward and engages ‘Beaver’s vampire. Aine, unfortunately, suffers a horrible shock from the death of her familiar and dies.

‘Beaver's vampire stuns the shaman in lion form. Ichi’s vampire presses a jewel on her necklace and becomes five (mirror image) while Idky rushes in and attacks ‘Beaver’s vampire with his torch. Lowdog slashes another to gas and also takes on ‘Beaver’s vampire. The paladin similarly sends another straight to gaseous form. The poor monk, meanwhile, misses on all his swings against the mirror imaged vampire. Stephan helps out by magic missiling three of Ichi’s vampire’s illusions, removing them.

Ichi manages to land a blow on the real vampire, messing her up. Torr helps out Ichi, taking out the remaining illusion and also sends the vampire gaseous. Stephan magic missiles a vampire, dropping her down. Lowdog spikes her and cuts off her head and Idky receives the blood in the amulet.

The next room looks like an audience chamber and Torr starts following the gaseous vampires. Once he knows where they are, Idky faerie fires them all for a moment.

16 ghouls charge Torr, and he dusts 13 of them before the gang arrives. During the melee, one ghoul burns itself to death on Stephan’s fire cloak.

In the next room, there are coffins all over. Torr saw where they went and stake them all and get their blood. At five vampires, the bloodstone looks full, a fact the ghost of Gorma-Sar confirms. Gorma-Sar also tells ‘Beaver that the turned vampires are spawn who are about to become free-willed with their masters slain.

‘Beaver checks on Aine and realizes she’s dead and brings her body over to the rest of the group. Meanwhile, Treblo has come and gone with the last group of women, so all of the victims are now safe.

‘Beaver sets Gorma-Sar’s bones by the vampires, and Treblo casts disintegrate on them all. Gorma-Sar is finally released to his afterlife and only one vampire survives the spell. Torr immediately turns it back and ‘Beaver jumps it. Lowdog sends it to gas, and Beaver kills it with his special dagger.

Treasure:
Fine silver chain 70 gp
Aquamarine 500 gp
Woven tapestry
Silk & velvet mantle
Bone statue of lion 70 gp
Black pearl 600 gp
White pearl* 80 gp necromantic
Emerald 1000 gp
404 gp (4 witch)
Belt of protection +1*
Ring of protection +1*
Dust* (illusion)
Minor relic (silver and gold necklace with emerald “eye”)* very powerful (necro, slight div, decent abjur)
Silver circlet w/Alexandrite 500 gp
Golden brazier 250 gp

‘Beaver casts commune with greater spirit to speak with the spirit of the palace:
It is the first throne by the newcomers.
It is a city of the dead.
The relic is the eye of Ishtar, a powerful relic from the first humans: gives power over living and dead, a powerful ward vs. unlife (vs. Ishtar’s sister); can cure injury the unloving can cause; as long as the wearer serves the ancient gods, it is safe to wear.

The palace spirit offends the shaman, so he cuts off the communion. The palace spirit sends in ghouls, which Torr starts to vaporize. Treblo doesn't want to hang around, so he teleports them all back to Calvados.

Eeps (vampires, ghouls, save women): 18,475 each
1st bloodstone: 2000 each

Beaver fire scries Turquoise Rain and works out a deal with the mage so Treblo can teleport to her and bring her to Calvados.

Mission Accomplished!

The Bloodstone of Charn is formed.
Sidra has been destroyed.
Several of Charn's cities have been cleared of (most) undead.
Aurora now rules (with fairness) a mixed community of refugees in Calvados.
It's time for the heroes to head on to the next world, Etheria...!

That is, after Treblo brings Stephan back to Oerth to have his arm and foot regenerated and possible help change the party make-up. And there's still treasure to divide...please post below so we can do it online BEFORE the next game...

After more than two SOLID years of Charn every week with the first trip to Charn six months before and original game starting a year before that, it's time to move on...!

[aaronthecow]

Howdy, not to be a downer, but... I don't think disintegrate works that way:

This spell causes matter to vanish. It affects even matter (or energy) of a magical nature, such as Bigby’s forceful hand, but not a globe of invulnerability or an anti-magic shell. Disintegration is instantaneous, and its effects are permanent. Any single creature can be affected, even undead. Nonliving matter, up to a 10’ x 10’
x 10’cube,can be obliterated by the spell. The spell creates a thin, green ray that causes physical material touched to glow and vanish, leaving traces of fine dust, Creatures that successfully save vs. spell have avoided the ray (material items have resisted the magic) and are not affected. Only the first creature or object struck can be affected.
The material components are a lodestone and a pinch of dust.

Unless you rule that undead count as nonliving matter, but it does say any creature, including undead. If this spell let you target everyone in a 10 by 10 cube, it would be way too sick.

[Artec]

I believe Treblo was first in the pick. I think 23

[David]

Aaron, you are amazing. Yeah, I do recall now that it works differently in Dnd than TnT. Treblo is my only Dnd mage with the spell and I should have been MUCH more careful. That said, given the power of the party, I'll let it stand. Treblo had the spells to vape three of the vampires AND Gorma-Sar. And you guys clearly could destroy the rest pretty easily...

[David]

Treblo takes the white pearl

(he identifies it and it turns out to be a pearl of foul rotting! 8-( )

[David]

Torr takes the 1000gp emerald

[iroxinping]

Its not up there but I'll point out that Stephan took the relic since only he and torr can use it.

Also beaver is going to make a foot for stephan since he had all those fancy craft skills. So I need about 3k more to get my arm back. I have a extra rion stone (worth 5k), ichi gave me a 6k statuette thingy...i have some jewelry worth almost 3k. So I guess 2.5k more and I'll have an arm again. And a wooden foot.

[aaronthecow]

No problem, I only knew about it because Varsuvius always uses it in OotS

[David]

Hey David, just an FYI, but it takes people YEARS to learn to walk on prosthetic limbs. And it's never as good as the real thing. You might want to SERIOUSLY consider getting both your foot and your hand regenerated when you have the chance. Magic items are usually worth LOTS of cash and someone in the party should probably be up to lend you some.

Right now, just to give you some game perspective, your dex and move would be (at best) half normal with a wooden foot AND you can pretty much forget climb walls and things like that.

Just trying to help...

[Artec]

hey who is next on the pick list

[Van]

Sorry guys. I've been slacking. Here's the pick order:

1. Treblo
2. Torr
3. Idky
4. Lowdog
5. 'Beaver
6. Ichi

I've created a spreadsheet with all the treasure to divide.

I'll include the screen shot of the current spreadsheet on here periodically as we pick items so we can keep track of what's left.

That having been said, Idky would like the ring of protection. I've indicated Treblo's, Torr's, and Idky's picks already, and here's the current screen shot . . .




Next picks: Lowdog, then 'Beaver, then Ichi . . .

[Artec]

Lowdog takes the +1 belt of protection, I remember it being a belt

[Artec]

if beaver does not take it Ichi will take the black pearl,if he does ichi will take the aquamarine

[Van]

Okay, here's the latest . . .



'Beaver's turn. I'll update Ichi's as soon as we see what the 'Beav selects.

[Eric]

Dust....