Post by David on Oct 19, 2011 19:57:17 GMT -5
The Chessboard of the previous "Test of Intellect" dissolves. The heroes (Maedhros, Daj, Helga, Saanau, Cliffy, Moonlight, Jyolli, Black Robe and Jamal) exit and descend a large set of stairs, coming into a large cavern with a sunken city. The water moves and a colossal man arises. It is a vampiric elder titan. He says to Saanau and Black Robe “We need to finish what we started. You have something of mine.”
Saanau fires off a thunderbolt, but it doesn’t pierce the enemy's magic resistance. Helga casts prayer but aborts because the titan casts a lightning bolt. She bounces it back at him, but it has no effect. Maedhros attempts to turn the creature, but the monster simply looks at the half-elf and its eyes flash red. Daj attacks with her throwing scimitar and manages to score a hits. Cliffy casts a fireball at the titan, but the spell again doesn’t pierce its resistance. Finally, Moonlight starts casting water walk on members of the party, so they can take the fight to their foe.
The water walkers rush to engage the titan in melee. Daj gets stunned by the titan, and it drains her one level. Saanau swims out to rescue the half-dryad. Black Robe also casts a (higher level) prayer while Cliffy goes invisible.
As the vampire-elder titan bleeds, the blood flows to the bottom of the watery cavern and amid the ruins the blood forms a human-sized aquatic vampire which rises up and attacks Daj. The titan hits Helga and also drains the dwarf of a life level. Willish, after trying faerie fire a couple of times, turns into a mountain lion. Cliffy sets up behind the new vampire to backstab it while Maedhros turns the small vampire and two others that were forming in the water.
The titan grabs Moonlight and starts crushing him. Maedhros continues to turn vampires as the gang continues their attacks. Cliffy sets up for a backstab of the titan. Willish-the-mountain-lion runs up to attack the titan but misses.
Moonlight gets fanged, goes unconscious, and loses six levels. To save the druid, Daj drops one of her scimitars and jumps for Moonlight, dimension dooring him out of the titan’s grasp. Unfortunately, this frees the titan up to grabs ahold of Willish, stunning him. Meanwhile, one of the new vampires attacks one of the turned ones and unturns them all!
Daj casts slow on five of the lesser vampires. The titan-vampire drains Willish (as a mountain lion) dry and the druid turns into a lesser (blue aquatic Morganti) vampire...! For her part, Helga gets level-drained by a lesser vampire and Maedhros casts disintegrate off a scroll, but the titan invoked some ability to wrench Maedhros’ mage spellcasting ability from him instead!
Saanau, who pulled Moonlight’s ruby from him, activates it and disappears. The titan ‘steals’ Black Robe’s prayer, turning it against the party. That's when Vertigo’s unluck goes off, causing Black Robe to slip and fall onto the water.
Jamal sprinkles himself with undead repellent, forcing the vampires onto Helga. The titan engages Black Robe, draining six levels from the shaman! Daj runs past the battle, hurling her scimitar as she goes. The heroes are trying to convince her to continue on without them, but the half-dryad doesn't want to abandon her friends!
Vampire Willish transforms into a mako shark and comes up to try to drag Black Robe under water. Fortunately, he’s not able to and just pushes the stunned and bleeding shaman around on the surface of the water. Daj clears Cliffy’s opponents with magic missiles backed by divine intervention -- each missile transforms into a tiger that savages the monster. She clears another vampire off Helga, then Cliffy scoops her up and flees with her. Moonlight joins them.
Helga goes down. She invokes her Death-Resistance power, but she’s ripped into three pieces. Her dying action is to spit in the titan’s face.
Only Cliffy, Moonlight, and Daj survive
As it turns out this was a “kobayashi maru”. Saanau and Black Robe had figured it out by disbelieving during the battle. So they are healed and napped by the Spirits. No one actually died, but they are in comas, thinking they have died. This was the Test of Insight.
Eeps (from last game too):
Daj, Moonlight, Cliffy: 14,024 each
Everyone else (but Saanau & Black Robe): 19,024 each
Saanau & Black Robe: 24,024
The next cavern is massive. The heroes' light can’t even reach the walls or ceiling. Then they see what looks like lava dripping from the ceiling. They hear a thunderstorm with sleet and lightning in the cavern. The passage behind them has disappeared. They get pelted with lava, sleet, lightning. Then, four elementals arise: fire, water, air, earth. Black Robe notices that this is a particularly spiritual place, very primal.
As they engage on four fronts, stones, lava, sleet, and lightning rain down on them. Moonlight leads his water elemental over to Helga, who engages it.
Black Robe gets the wind knocked out of him by the earth elemental. Cliffy gets thrown and breaks his arm. Moonlight heals him but is only able to set the arm bone.
As they kill an elemental, that element stops raining down on them. The earth elemental is the final one to go down. A blaze of fire, a pool of water, a whirlwind, and a cavern are all that’s left of the elementals. Each party member notices that a flickering aura surrounds them. Daj’s aura is exceedingly powerful and all shades, though mostly forest hues. Saanau’s aura is also more powerful, with shifting purple. Her wand also has a matching aura. Cliffy’s is similarly powerful.
Black Robe senses that they are on the ethereal plane, and an ethereal cyclone is coming. It sucks them all around, and they are separated from each other, naked.
Air gate: Saanau and Willish
Water gate: Daj, Maedhros, Cliffy, Jamal
Earth gate: Helga, Black Robe, Moonlight (only one to grab pants!)
Eeps: 4840 each
Saanau fires off a thunderbolt, but it doesn’t pierce the enemy's magic resistance. Helga casts prayer but aborts because the titan casts a lightning bolt. She bounces it back at him, but it has no effect. Maedhros attempts to turn the creature, but the monster simply looks at the half-elf and its eyes flash red. Daj attacks with her throwing scimitar and manages to score a hits. Cliffy casts a fireball at the titan, but the spell again doesn’t pierce its resistance. Finally, Moonlight starts casting water walk on members of the party, so they can take the fight to their foe.
The water walkers rush to engage the titan in melee. Daj gets stunned by the titan, and it drains her one level. Saanau swims out to rescue the half-dryad. Black Robe also casts a (higher level) prayer while Cliffy goes invisible.
As the vampire-elder titan bleeds, the blood flows to the bottom of the watery cavern and amid the ruins the blood forms a human-sized aquatic vampire which rises up and attacks Daj. The titan hits Helga and also drains the dwarf of a life level. Willish, after trying faerie fire a couple of times, turns into a mountain lion. Cliffy sets up behind the new vampire to backstab it while Maedhros turns the small vampire and two others that were forming in the water.
The titan grabs Moonlight and starts crushing him. Maedhros continues to turn vampires as the gang continues their attacks. Cliffy sets up for a backstab of the titan. Willish-the-mountain-lion runs up to attack the titan but misses.
Moonlight gets fanged, goes unconscious, and loses six levels. To save the druid, Daj drops one of her scimitars and jumps for Moonlight, dimension dooring him out of the titan’s grasp. Unfortunately, this frees the titan up to grabs ahold of Willish, stunning him. Meanwhile, one of the new vampires attacks one of the turned ones and unturns them all!
Daj casts slow on five of the lesser vampires. The titan-vampire drains Willish (as a mountain lion) dry and the druid turns into a lesser (blue aquatic Morganti) vampire...! For her part, Helga gets level-drained by a lesser vampire and Maedhros casts disintegrate off a scroll, but the titan invoked some ability to wrench Maedhros’ mage spellcasting ability from him instead!
Saanau, who pulled Moonlight’s ruby from him, activates it and disappears. The titan ‘steals’ Black Robe’s prayer, turning it against the party. That's when Vertigo’s unluck goes off, causing Black Robe to slip and fall onto the water.
Jamal sprinkles himself with undead repellent, forcing the vampires onto Helga. The titan engages Black Robe, draining six levels from the shaman! Daj runs past the battle, hurling her scimitar as she goes. The heroes are trying to convince her to continue on without them, but the half-dryad doesn't want to abandon her friends!
Vampire Willish transforms into a mako shark and comes up to try to drag Black Robe under water. Fortunately, he’s not able to and just pushes the stunned and bleeding shaman around on the surface of the water. Daj clears Cliffy’s opponents with magic missiles backed by divine intervention -- each missile transforms into a tiger that savages the monster. She clears another vampire off Helga, then Cliffy scoops her up and flees with her. Moonlight joins them.
Helga goes down. She invokes her Death-Resistance power, but she’s ripped into three pieces. Her dying action is to spit in the titan’s face.
Only Cliffy, Moonlight, and Daj survive
As it turns out this was a “kobayashi maru”. Saanau and Black Robe had figured it out by disbelieving during the battle. So they are healed and napped by the Spirits. No one actually died, but they are in comas, thinking they have died. This was the Test of Insight.
Eeps (from last game too):
Daj, Moonlight, Cliffy: 14,024 each
Everyone else (but Saanau & Black Robe): 19,024 each
Saanau & Black Robe: 24,024
The next cavern is massive. The heroes' light can’t even reach the walls or ceiling. Then they see what looks like lava dripping from the ceiling. They hear a thunderstorm with sleet and lightning in the cavern. The passage behind them has disappeared. They get pelted with lava, sleet, lightning. Then, four elementals arise: fire, water, air, earth. Black Robe notices that this is a particularly spiritual place, very primal.
As they engage on four fronts, stones, lava, sleet, and lightning rain down on them. Moonlight leads his water elemental over to Helga, who engages it.
Black Robe gets the wind knocked out of him by the earth elemental. Cliffy gets thrown and breaks his arm. Moonlight heals him but is only able to set the arm bone.
As they kill an elemental, that element stops raining down on them. The earth elemental is the final one to go down. A blaze of fire, a pool of water, a whirlwind, and a cavern are all that’s left of the elementals. Each party member notices that a flickering aura surrounds them. Daj’s aura is exceedingly powerful and all shades, though mostly forest hues. Saanau’s aura is also more powerful, with shifting purple. Her wand also has a matching aura. Cliffy’s is similarly powerful.
Black Robe senses that they are on the ethereal plane, and an ethereal cyclone is coming. It sucks them all around, and they are separated from each other, naked.
Air gate: Saanau and Willish
Water gate: Daj, Maedhros, Cliffy, Jamal
Earth gate: Helga, Black Robe, Moonlight (only one to grab pants!)
Eeps: 4840 each