Post by David on Dec 13, 2010 16:31:06 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Torr with Zayüß, Yavin, Stephan with Peter, Björk with Lilly) continue deeper into the steaming caverns as the heat reaches a level humans cannot survive without protection or magic. Björk remembers the toy doll which Treblo gave her, drops it to the ground, and suddenly the dwarven warrior, Mang, appears. It turns out that Mang and Torr are actually old friends from a time before the young man was a paladin, in fact.
Meanwhile, Yavin and Björk get into an altercation over Yavin entering the young woman's mind telepathically to convey images, something which she does NOT like. It ends with Yavin mind thrusting the Viking to get her to forget what he sent.
Continuing on, the mist gets thicker, more sulfurous, and far hotter; anyone who doesn’t have some sort of fire protection will suffer damage every minute...! Idky and Yavin cast endure heat on those who need it, and the party moves further on, coming to a 4-way intersection There they try to determine which way to go (the hottest). Unfortunately, their map is useless at this point. The heroes guess at going to the right and come to a flow of lava with the tunnel continuing on. In the lava are two fire toads.
The toads belch fireballs at Zayüß and Mang, dispelling the dwarf's endure heat spell. Björk charges the toads and stuns one with a hit. Stephan attacks the same creature. Idky also charges, attacking the other one which Yavin also hacks with his short swords. Idky and Yavin’s toad belches a fireball at them, removing their endure heat spells. Zayüß runs up and kills Idky and Yavin’s toad while Torr kills the other one.
The party continues on into the maze of tunnels. Eventually, Bjork’s cat and Idky both get delirious, but Idky actually passes out. Yavin gets into his head and finds out he’s hallucinating. The cleric of Celestian casts slow poison on Idky, which revives him. Yavin telepathically stills Kelly’s dreams, and she goes unconscious. Björk asks for magic for her familiar, but the clerics prefer to save their magics.
A short while later, nine firebats swarm in, one of which attaches itself to Idky and another to Stephan. Idky stuns the one on his leg and Björk kills one of fire bats menacing her. Similarly, Mang kills one of the ones attacking Idky as Torr kills one on Zayüß and another on Stephan. The warhorse returns the favor, killing one of firebats threatening his master, Torr.
The group decides to go back to before the hot caves and sets up a secure shelter and naps, after bringing everyone up the full health. When they arrive back to the place where they encountered the firetoads, a “hand” of lava walks toward them out of the lava flow. Torr, Björk, and Mang charge and attack. Idky attempts to hide in shadows to sneak up behind it. Unfortunately, the fighters take it out before Idky can sneak up. Idky begins tracking as they continue to the large cavern.
They come upon a group of creatures that look like melted gargoyles. They move through the walls without a trace. Idky casts tongues to talk to them and get directions to the dragon after giving them a continual light stone as a gift.
The party eventually comes to a cavern with jewels and gems encrusted in the walls. Unfortunately, two 15’ long beetles are also in the room. They rear up as the party enters but the creatures don’t seem to move to attack.
As the group starts moving sideways toward the exit, the beetles start advancing slowly. They follow them all the way to the exit, making sure they leave. The fighters decide to attack the beetles where the passage narrows. Yavin mind thrusts the lead one, and the fighters attack
The first one drops almost immediately. Torr then jumps to the second one, which attacks and breathes on the attackers. Unfortunately, Mang and Bjork can’t get to the second one.
Bjork and Stephan magic missile it as Torr continues to attack. Stephan sends another volley of magic missiles, killing it
The group goes back to the chamber with the crystal formations in order to start taking some gems. As Bjork pulls out one of the glowing ones that she notices, it tries to enlighten her but can’t. She touches it to Kelly, and it gives her +1 INT.
She goes for another glowing stone and tells Idky to grab it. He does and disappears. Unfortunately, Idky had the amulet—the key to the whole mission!
The party decides to head back to the goblin king after taking 20 100 gp gems. They arrive back at the “melted gargoyles,” who are clearly upset that they have returned, and attack.
Stephan magic missiles the largest creature as they swarm the heroes. Bjork gets critically hit in her leg and clawed to a pulpy mass. Luckily, one of the lava creatures stuns itself and another that hung back casts slow at the party, but Torr’s sword disrupts the spell.
Unfortunately, both metal armor and metal weapons seem to be ignored by them, which really messes up the party’s counter attack. Luckily they have a warhorse! Zayüß stuns one of his opponents while Stephan goes invisible. Yavin in turn faerie fires nine of the monsters and Mang drinks a potion, which has no helpful effect.
Bjork’s three reorient on Yavin and Zayüß as the lot continue attacking the group. Stephan drinks a potion of mass destruction that Idky had lent to him earlier. The fighters continue to whittle away at the monsters. Yavin activates his power to fly and leads two on a chase. The spell caster casts light at Torr, but it doesn’t succeed in blinding him. Unfortunately, the paladin gets critically hit in the chest and Mang gets critically hit in the leg.
Just as things start to look particularly bleak, Stephan unleashes the mass destruction, destroying all but five. And three of those five are stunned by the magical discharge! Yavin mind thrusts the big guy to keep him out of combat and Zayüß engages the spellcaster.
Mang continues pummeling one, as Torr knocks out two others. Zayüß kills the spellcaster. Yavin mind thrusts the big one again, keeping it out of combat, giving the warhorse tike to run over and help Yavin with his opponent. Mang knocks out his opponent and
Torr moves against Zayüß’ foe. Yavin attempts to mind thrust it again but fails.
The lava creature attacks Zayuss, who stomps him back. Torr continues attacking it, calling for Mang’s help. Mang breaks the neck of one of the fallen ones, a useless gesture which annoys the paladin. Without the help of the dwarf, Torr and Zayüß finish off the last opponent, with paladin having sharp words with Mang.
The healing commences...
Mang tries to take up Björk’s sword, which sends a chilling attack at him. The sword allows Torr to wield it this one time only to save the party. They load up Björk’s dead body on Zayuss and head back out toward the goblins. Yavin notices that Bjork has started to regenerate, and a conversation with the sword reveals that Björk should be back up by the morning. They set up in the cavern where they fought the gargoyles and camp out in Stephan's secure shelter.
Eeps:
Last week: 3936
This week for all: 1732 for all
This week all but Idky: 6800
Status after sleeping and Yavin's psionic powers...:
Idky: 62 (full)
Björk: 18 (full)
Kelly: 5 (full)
Lowdog: full (103)
Woxin: full
Tensay: 21 (full)
Masamo: 46 of 49
Diawané: 42 of 45
Stephan: 34 (full)
Peter: 9 (full), STILL HAS STONESKIN
Torr: 82 of 93
Zayüß: 45 (full)
Artec: 65 (full)
Yavin: 49 (full)
Mang: 72 of 110
Meanwhile, Yavin and Björk get into an altercation over Yavin entering the young woman's mind telepathically to convey images, something which she does NOT like. It ends with Yavin mind thrusting the Viking to get her to forget what he sent.
Continuing on, the mist gets thicker, more sulfurous, and far hotter; anyone who doesn’t have some sort of fire protection will suffer damage every minute...! Idky and Yavin cast endure heat on those who need it, and the party moves further on, coming to a 4-way intersection There they try to determine which way to go (the hottest). Unfortunately, their map is useless at this point. The heroes guess at going to the right and come to a flow of lava with the tunnel continuing on. In the lava are two fire toads.
The toads belch fireballs at Zayüß and Mang, dispelling the dwarf's endure heat spell. Björk charges the toads and stuns one with a hit. Stephan attacks the same creature. Idky also charges, attacking the other one which Yavin also hacks with his short swords. Idky and Yavin’s toad belches a fireball at them, removing their endure heat spells. Zayüß runs up and kills Idky and Yavin’s toad while Torr kills the other one.
The party continues on into the maze of tunnels. Eventually, Bjork’s cat and Idky both get delirious, but Idky actually passes out. Yavin gets into his head and finds out he’s hallucinating. The cleric of Celestian casts slow poison on Idky, which revives him. Yavin telepathically stills Kelly’s dreams, and she goes unconscious. Björk asks for magic for her familiar, but the clerics prefer to save their magics.
A short while later, nine firebats swarm in, one of which attaches itself to Idky and another to Stephan. Idky stuns the one on his leg and Björk kills one of fire bats menacing her. Similarly, Mang kills one of the ones attacking Idky as Torr kills one on Zayüß and another on Stephan. The warhorse returns the favor, killing one of firebats threatening his master, Torr.
The group decides to go back to before the hot caves and sets up a secure shelter and naps, after bringing everyone up the full health. When they arrive back to the place where they encountered the firetoads, a “hand” of lava walks toward them out of the lava flow. Torr, Björk, and Mang charge and attack. Idky attempts to hide in shadows to sneak up behind it. Unfortunately, the fighters take it out before Idky can sneak up. Idky begins tracking as they continue to the large cavern.
They come upon a group of creatures that look like melted gargoyles. They move through the walls without a trace. Idky casts tongues to talk to them and get directions to the dragon after giving them a continual light stone as a gift.
The party eventually comes to a cavern with jewels and gems encrusted in the walls. Unfortunately, two 15’ long beetles are also in the room. They rear up as the party enters but the creatures don’t seem to move to attack.
As the group starts moving sideways toward the exit, the beetles start advancing slowly. They follow them all the way to the exit, making sure they leave. The fighters decide to attack the beetles where the passage narrows. Yavin mind thrusts the lead one, and the fighters attack
The first one drops almost immediately. Torr then jumps to the second one, which attacks and breathes on the attackers. Unfortunately, Mang and Bjork can’t get to the second one.
Bjork and Stephan magic missile it as Torr continues to attack. Stephan sends another volley of magic missiles, killing it
The group goes back to the chamber with the crystal formations in order to start taking some gems. As Bjork pulls out one of the glowing ones that she notices, it tries to enlighten her but can’t. She touches it to Kelly, and it gives her +1 INT.
She goes for another glowing stone and tells Idky to grab it. He does and disappears. Unfortunately, Idky had the amulet—the key to the whole mission!
The party decides to head back to the goblin king after taking 20 100 gp gems. They arrive back at the “melted gargoyles,” who are clearly upset that they have returned, and attack.
Stephan magic missiles the largest creature as they swarm the heroes. Bjork gets critically hit in her leg and clawed to a pulpy mass. Luckily, one of the lava creatures stuns itself and another that hung back casts slow at the party, but Torr’s sword disrupts the spell.
Unfortunately, both metal armor and metal weapons seem to be ignored by them, which really messes up the party’s counter attack. Luckily they have a warhorse! Zayüß stuns one of his opponents while Stephan goes invisible. Yavin in turn faerie fires nine of the monsters and Mang drinks a potion, which has no helpful effect.
Bjork’s three reorient on Yavin and Zayüß as the lot continue attacking the group. Stephan drinks a potion of mass destruction that Idky had lent to him earlier. The fighters continue to whittle away at the monsters. Yavin activates his power to fly and leads two on a chase. The spell caster casts light at Torr, but it doesn’t succeed in blinding him. Unfortunately, the paladin gets critically hit in the chest and Mang gets critically hit in the leg.
Just as things start to look particularly bleak, Stephan unleashes the mass destruction, destroying all but five. And three of those five are stunned by the magical discharge! Yavin mind thrusts the big guy to keep him out of combat and Zayüß engages the spellcaster.
Mang continues pummeling one, as Torr knocks out two others. Zayüß kills the spellcaster. Yavin mind thrusts the big one again, keeping it out of combat, giving the warhorse tike to run over and help Yavin with his opponent. Mang knocks out his opponent and
Torr moves against Zayüß’ foe. Yavin attempts to mind thrust it again but fails.
The lava creature attacks Zayuss, who stomps him back. Torr continues attacking it, calling for Mang’s help. Mang breaks the neck of one of the fallen ones, a useless gesture which annoys the paladin. Without the help of the dwarf, Torr and Zayüß finish off the last opponent, with paladin having sharp words with Mang.
The healing commences...
Mang tries to take up Björk’s sword, which sends a chilling attack at him. The sword allows Torr to wield it this one time only to save the party. They load up Björk’s dead body on Zayuss and head back out toward the goblins. Yavin notices that Bjork has started to regenerate, and a conversation with the sword reveals that Björk should be back up by the morning. They set up in the cavern where they fought the gargoyles and camp out in Stephan's secure shelter.
Eeps:
Last week: 3936
This week for all: 1732 for all
This week all but Idky: 6800
Status after sleeping and Yavin's psionic powers...:
Idky: 62 (full)
Björk: 18 (full)
Kelly: 5 (full)
Lowdog: full (103)
Woxin: full
Tensay: 21 (full)
Masamo: 46 of 49
Diawané: 42 of 45
Stephan: 34 (full)
Peter: 9 (full), STILL HAS STONESKIN
Torr: 82 of 93
Zayüß: 45 (full)
Artec: 65 (full)
Yavin: 49 (full)
Mang: 72 of 110