Post by David on Oct 4, 2011 19:08:56 GMT -5
The heroes (Maedhros, Daj, Helga, Saanau, Cliffy, Moonlight, Jyolli, Black Robe and Jamal) continue up the icy slope, spying ten scorpion men around the cave mouth ahead. The party splits up as they move at different speeds up the steep, knee-deep, snow-covered mountainside.
Daj sprints up the mountainside with a protection from normal missiles and reaches the monsters in a few rounds. She gets magic missiled for her effort, but casts slow, catching one.
One of the scorpion men is a cleric and it holds Saanau! In return, the monsters get a frostball from Maedhros, a sundazzle from Moonlight, while Daj lightning bolts a line of them. The response is a fireball from one of the scorpion men and continued arrow fire from some with direct melee from others.
Cliffy casts improved magic missile while Maedhros removes paralysis on Saanau. Black Robe casts firebows and starts shooting. Suddenly, a dinosaur, a raptor identical to the kind that tore off Mikhail's arm, leaps down and attacks one of the blinded scorpionmen. It misses and lands in the snow very gracefully nonetheless.
A confusion from one of the scorpionmen catches Saanau, the dinosaur (archaeopteryx) and Daj. The pincher of a scorpion man catches and breaks Saanau's hip. About the same time, a minor (unlucky) snowquake sends Cliffy, Jamal, and Daj a little way down the hillside while Helga gets blinded by a light spell. A stinking cloud catches Cliffy and forces Maedhros and Saanau to fall back.
The heroes continue to fight the scorpion men, downing one and wounding several others. Another stinking cloud catches Jamal and Daj. Saanau wanders away confused while Daj rushes to attack Jamal. Helga gets badly hit critically and drops to the snow. The raptor runs to attack Cliffy, who just recovered from nausea.
After killing all the scorpion men, the heroes regroup to heal, neutralize poison, etc. After some communication, the raptor transforms into a young man who turns out is known to Black Robe; he is the son of the shaman's dear friend, Kalavor. Willish had been lost for nearly four years on Torsh and had resorted to staying largely in his reptilian forms in order to survive.
The heroes see that the gates to the cave are closing, so they collect Saanau and Helga and enter. Inside, the group encounters a three-way fork and choose to take the path straight ahead. The come upon magical darkness and toss a light stone which reveals a bunch of trolls, ogres, skeletons, zombies, and a few people...!
Helga charges, backed up by Jamal, with a Maedhros turning all the undead to dust. That's when the fireball hits! Moonlight gets charmed by the woman, so he casts a wall of fire to protect her from his allies and catches two ogres in the spell. Maedhros lobs a frostball at the people at the back, behind the wall of fire. Willish, meanwhile, offers to "heal" Moonlight and asks him to accept a "healing" (charm person) spell...!
That's when things get crazy. Helga (still enlarged) and Jamal are battling the trolls stuck at the front of the party. The rest of the non-human enemies are down and/or roasting, but effectively both sides are stoppered up. Another fireball (shot blindly) from the same bad guy completely misses, impacting an allied troll in the back of the head, and blasts back at the caster and his cohorts. A flame strike catches Helga, Black Robe, and Jamal but does minimal damage. Daj manages to jump totally clear.
The half-dryad rolls forward and takes on Helga's troll, allowing Jamal, Helga, and Black Robe run through the wall of fire. As Moonlight rushes up to protect his “mistress,” Willish acts like he needs healing badly, and calls him back. Moonlight hesitates to look at the newcomer's wounds.
The woman turns into an ogre magi and blasts the heroes' front line with a cone of cold. Daj sees this (the cone causes the wall of fire to momentarily waver) and she leaps through the blaze, killing the monster with two swipes of her scimitars. The charm on Moonlight breaks, but Willish has a hard time believing it and holds onto the druid until he agrees to kiss him.
The acrobat attempts to flee, after the rest of his cohorts go down, but Helga knocks him back. Black Robe catches him with a hold person, and Helga tries to hew off his head. The man goes down, but his head remains attached...
Treasure (fighter-mage)
Potion, brown: extra-healing (Daj)
Potion, red: antitoxin (Cliffy)
Potion, orange: healing (Black Robe)
Scroll:
Gold ring w/ diamonds 7250 gp
Gem 5000 gp
Gem 400 gp
Gold mithral and diamond elven crown 8000 gp
Diamond mithral elven orb 8000 gp
Treasure (acrobat):
Brass bracers* AC 5 (Willish)
Iron ring* alteration (Helga)
Fire opal and diamond ring 12000 gp
Mithral neckchain 9000 gp
Mother of pearl ring of sea-elven manufacture 2000 gp
Gem 500 gp
Gem 100 gp
Diamond 3000 gp
Gold ring 250 gp
Gold neckchain 7000 gp
Gold silver ring w jade 1500 gp
Gold bracer 2000 gp
Gold ring with large emerald 1500 gp
Pearl string 2700 gp
Gold ring with sapphire 1500 gp
Gem 3000 gp
Oriental sapphire 10000 gp
Gem 500 gp
160 PP
10 gp
Copper ring 500 gp
Treasure (cleric of Iuz):
Pearlescent armor* +2
Pearlescent shield* +2
Potion, orange: healing (Jamal)
Potion, yellow: gaseous form? (Maedhros)
Potion, green: ?? (Saanau)
Treasure (ogre magi):
Mithral, gold silver gauntlet 7900 gp
Pearl 5000 gp
Godl diamond tiara 9000 gp
Gold mithral diamond scepter 12000 gp
Solid diamond ring 5000 gp
Bronze ring 100 gp * protection +1 (Willish)
The party continues on. The hallway splits in three again. They go straight. Up ahead the hallway splits into eight, each way with a different color: brown, yellow, red, blue, green, purple, orange, gray and with a path that's only one person wide.
Cliffy: blue
Helga: green
Saanau: purple
Maedhros: yellow
Black Robe: brown
Jamal: orange
Moonlight: gray
Daj: red
Willish: green (again)
The party all appears on a large 8x8 grid (a chess board). The pawns are ogres. The Bishops are Cyclops. The Knights are ettins. The Rooks are fire giants in armor. The Queens are cloud giantess and the ENEMY King is a teenage hill giant. The party, meanwhile, are all pawns, except Willish, who is the party's King...!
The group then plays chess with Willish having to call out the moves before the party's pieces will act. Cheating (by the PCs) results in everyone taking damage. After a certain number of legal moves, each side is slowly healed. Through a series of legal moves and a few cheats, they manage to win the game.
Status:
Saanau: 52 of 59, no spells left
Black Robe: 69 of 93, used eagle, AH, cast CLW x4, herbs, d.magic / d.invis and hold / mud x2, firebow / CSW /CCWx2 / heal
Helga: 76 of 87, AH, cast EC x2, CLW x3 / / cure blind / free action / CCW
Maedhros: 22 of 34, spirit heal, cast EC x3, CLW, dark / / removex3 / NP, CSW *AND* MMx2 / d.invis, Melf's / frost x2 and LB + adder
Jamal: 56 of 62
Daj: 27 of 56, AH, non-D, cast MM /IMMx3 / slow, LB, prot norm /
Moonlight: 41 of 84, used rat, castall 1st / all 2nd / pray, NP / CSWx2 / animal growth, wall of fire
Cliffy: 56 of 65, cast MM x2, d.magic /Melf's, IMMx2 / itemx2 / WW
Willish: 41 (full), used raptor, cast FF / charm, CLWx2
I might have not charged you enough for spells as the melee sheet got VERY chaotic there and I can't quite read it after the third line with the healing...8-P
Daj sprints up the mountainside with a protection from normal missiles and reaches the monsters in a few rounds. She gets magic missiled for her effort, but casts slow, catching one.
One of the scorpion men is a cleric and it holds Saanau! In return, the monsters get a frostball from Maedhros, a sundazzle from Moonlight, while Daj lightning bolts a line of them. The response is a fireball from one of the scorpion men and continued arrow fire from some with direct melee from others.
Cliffy casts improved magic missile while Maedhros removes paralysis on Saanau. Black Robe casts firebows and starts shooting. Suddenly, a dinosaur, a raptor identical to the kind that tore off Mikhail's arm, leaps down and attacks one of the blinded scorpionmen. It misses and lands in the snow very gracefully nonetheless.
A confusion from one of the scorpionmen catches Saanau, the dinosaur (archaeopteryx) and Daj. The pincher of a scorpion man catches and breaks Saanau's hip. About the same time, a minor (unlucky) snowquake sends Cliffy, Jamal, and Daj a little way down the hillside while Helga gets blinded by a light spell. A stinking cloud catches Cliffy and forces Maedhros and Saanau to fall back.
The heroes continue to fight the scorpion men, downing one and wounding several others. Another stinking cloud catches Jamal and Daj. Saanau wanders away confused while Daj rushes to attack Jamal. Helga gets badly hit critically and drops to the snow. The raptor runs to attack Cliffy, who just recovered from nausea.
After killing all the scorpion men, the heroes regroup to heal, neutralize poison, etc. After some communication, the raptor transforms into a young man who turns out is known to Black Robe; he is the son of the shaman's dear friend, Kalavor. Willish had been lost for nearly four years on Torsh and had resorted to staying largely in his reptilian forms in order to survive.
The heroes see that the gates to the cave are closing, so they collect Saanau and Helga and enter. Inside, the group encounters a three-way fork and choose to take the path straight ahead. The come upon magical darkness and toss a light stone which reveals a bunch of trolls, ogres, skeletons, zombies, and a few people...!
Helga charges, backed up by Jamal, with a Maedhros turning all the undead to dust. That's when the fireball hits! Moonlight gets charmed by the woman, so he casts a wall of fire to protect her from his allies and catches two ogres in the spell. Maedhros lobs a frostball at the people at the back, behind the wall of fire. Willish, meanwhile, offers to "heal" Moonlight and asks him to accept a "healing" (charm person) spell...!
That's when things get crazy. Helga (still enlarged) and Jamal are battling the trolls stuck at the front of the party. The rest of the non-human enemies are down and/or roasting, but effectively both sides are stoppered up. Another fireball (shot blindly) from the same bad guy completely misses, impacting an allied troll in the back of the head, and blasts back at the caster and his cohorts. A flame strike catches Helga, Black Robe, and Jamal but does minimal damage. Daj manages to jump totally clear.
The half-dryad rolls forward and takes on Helga's troll, allowing Jamal, Helga, and Black Robe run through the wall of fire. As Moonlight rushes up to protect his “mistress,” Willish acts like he needs healing badly, and calls him back. Moonlight hesitates to look at the newcomer's wounds.
The woman turns into an ogre magi and blasts the heroes' front line with a cone of cold. Daj sees this (the cone causes the wall of fire to momentarily waver) and she leaps through the blaze, killing the monster with two swipes of her scimitars. The charm on Moonlight breaks, but Willish has a hard time believing it and holds onto the druid until he agrees to kiss him.
The acrobat attempts to flee, after the rest of his cohorts go down, but Helga knocks him back. Black Robe catches him with a hold person, and Helga tries to hew off his head. The man goes down, but his head remains attached...
Treasure (fighter-mage)
Potion, brown: extra-healing (Daj)
Potion, red: antitoxin (Cliffy)
Potion, orange: healing (Black Robe)
Scroll:
Gold ring w/ diamonds 7250 gp
Gem 5000 gp
Gem 400 gp
Gold mithral and diamond elven crown 8000 gp
Diamond mithral elven orb 8000 gp
Treasure (acrobat):
Brass bracers* AC 5 (Willish)
Iron ring* alteration (Helga)
Fire opal and diamond ring 12000 gp
Mithral neckchain 9000 gp
Mother of pearl ring of sea-elven manufacture 2000 gp
Gem 500 gp
Gem 100 gp
Diamond 3000 gp
Gold ring 250 gp
Gold neckchain 7000 gp
Gold silver ring w jade 1500 gp
Gold bracer 2000 gp
Gold ring with large emerald 1500 gp
Pearl string 2700 gp
Gold ring with sapphire 1500 gp
Gem 3000 gp
Oriental sapphire 10000 gp
Gem 500 gp
160 PP
10 gp
Copper ring 500 gp
Treasure (cleric of Iuz):
Pearlescent armor* +2
Pearlescent shield* +2
Potion, orange: healing (Jamal)
Potion, yellow: gaseous form? (Maedhros)
Potion, green: ?? (Saanau)
Treasure (ogre magi):
Mithral, gold silver gauntlet 7900 gp
Pearl 5000 gp
Godl diamond tiara 9000 gp
Gold mithral diamond scepter 12000 gp
Solid diamond ring 5000 gp
Bronze ring 100 gp * protection +1 (Willish)
The party continues on. The hallway splits in three again. They go straight. Up ahead the hallway splits into eight, each way with a different color: brown, yellow, red, blue, green, purple, orange, gray and with a path that's only one person wide.
Cliffy: blue
Helga: green
Saanau: purple
Maedhros: yellow
Black Robe: brown
Jamal: orange
Moonlight: gray
Daj: red
Willish: green (again)
The party all appears on a large 8x8 grid (a chess board). The pawns are ogres. The Bishops are Cyclops. The Knights are ettins. The Rooks are fire giants in armor. The Queens are cloud giantess and the ENEMY King is a teenage hill giant. The party, meanwhile, are all pawns, except Willish, who is the party's King...!
The group then plays chess with Willish having to call out the moves before the party's pieces will act. Cheating (by the PCs) results in everyone taking damage. After a certain number of legal moves, each side is slowly healed. Through a series of legal moves and a few cheats, they manage to win the game.
Status:
Saanau: 52 of 59, no spells left
Black Robe: 69 of 93, used eagle, AH, cast CLW x4, herbs, d.magic / d.invis and hold / mud x2, firebow / CSW /
Helga: 76 of 87, AH, cast EC x2, CLW x3 / / cure blind / free action / CCW
Maedhros: 22 of 34, spirit heal, cast EC x3, CLW, dark / / removex3 / NP, CSW *AND* MMx2 / d.invis, Melf's / frost x2 and LB + adder
Jamal: 56 of 62
Daj: 27 of 56, AH, non-D, cast MM /
Moonlight: 41 of 84, used rat, cast
Cliffy: 56 of 65, cast MM x2, d.magic /
Willish: 41 (full), used raptor, cast FF / charm, CLWx2
I might have not charged you enough for spells as the melee sheet got VERY chaotic there and I can't quite read it after the third line with the healing...8-P
