Post by David on Nov 11, 2011 19:48:58 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Torr, Yavin, Ichi, and Arthur) turn themselves invisible with potions and continue on to the lair of Hecuba, the Queen of Witches on Terrax. After about a dozen minutes moving through the woods, they come upon a massive clearing with the largest tree they’ve ever seen. There are harpies and bugbears on watch. Torr also spots a large cave bear . . . . downwind from them. In the entrance of the tree is a centaur with a lance.
They move in invisibly. The cave bears sound an alarm, due to the scent of the heroes in the air. The creatures in the clearing go on alert. Ichi gets past him, but Torr’s noisy armor alerts him. Ichi pulls out his darkness stone and strikes to subdue. In the scuffle, the centaur sounds the alarm and Torr shatters his left front leg, and he goes down . . . . even though Torr was striking to subdue. Ichi disarms him and knocks him unconscious. Yavin takes the lance (spear).
Meantime, Arthur remained levitating above the darkness, keeping watch on the clearing. Idky drops his darkness stone in the entrance and leaves it there to cover them. Yavin telepathically calls Arthur back, and he comes back down.
The group enters the tree. A long hallway leads to a large round room with a number of doors. There are a shambling mound and two silver people. The back wall is magically trapped. Ichi and Torr charge a silver person each. Idky casts hold plant on the shambling mound, and Yavin mind thrusts it.
Ichi kills his silver lady by cutting her in two. Torr also badly damages his silver lady and the shambling mound. The shambling mound succumbs to Idky's hold plant spell.
Arthur sets off the magical exploding runes on the back wall. Fortunately, his protection from fire minimizes the damage. He notices the back wall has an illusion on it. Arthur walks through the wall, and Ichi follows. The rest of the team goes through as well. It ends at three doors. As they switch around, Arthur notices bugbear coming through the darkness, so he webs the hallway.
Idky sees that all three doors are mechanically trapped. And they have no thief! Idky opens the door, and a ballista (poisoned) fires at him. Then there are exploding runes that go off. They also end up facing a giant scorpion, and giant spider, 24 stirges, and 21 skeletons.
Torr starts dusting skeletons, while Ichi stuns his scorpion and Idky takes on the spider. Arthur casts web to hold off the stirges, but five get through. Ichi finishes off the scorpion and spider. They hear cow, chicken and tiger noises coming from the webbed room. Idky treats Ichi’s wounds and casts slow poison on the monk.
Torr tries to open the doors and fails. Idky does as well. Ichi forces open another door and gets a bucket of green slime hurled at him. Torr kills it with his paladin ability to cure disease, although he also sets off the explosive runes behind the slime-slinger.
Yavin opens the last door and sets off a scythe blade, which narrowly misses him. Yavin also sets off the explosive runes in this room.
Arthur dons his robe of eyes and starts looking around for secret doors. Unfortunately, it reveals nothing. Ichi uses his talent with clairvoyance and determines that there is a false wall in one of the rooms but no way to open it.
They finally decide to light the webs on fire so they can enter the large round room and check out those doors. The fires kill or stun all the stirges. In the meantime, Idky is casting commune with nature. They finish off all the stirges. Also in the room are three cockatrices, a gorgon on a chain, a big black panther, three displacer beasts, and a leopard with snake heads instead of a mane . From one of the doors, they hear a voice enticing them into the room.
Torr and Ichi move to attack the gorgon and cockatrices. Yavin faces the kamadan. The displacer beasts go after Torr. The panther doesn’t attack right away.
Arthur lightning bolts the kamadan, stunning it. Yavin finishes it off. Torr critically and then kills the gorgon.
Ichi gets pecked by a cockatrice and turns to stone. The panther turns into nine, which attack Yavin and Arthur.
Yavin, badly hurt, initiates his blur and speed abilities and kills two of the cats. Arthur kills one with a full spread of magic missiles. One cockatrice attacks a displacer beast, while the other orients on one of the black panthers.
Idky stops casting mid-spell to help out Arthur and Yavin. All three of the nonafel blink out and reform into a single creature to attack Arthur. Torr kills it and turns to the displacer beasts.
Yavin, whose speed just ran out, collapses. They finish off the last of the beasts and beat it out of there.
Status:
Idky: 46 of 63, cast CLWx6, pass / find, trip, slow, aid / dispel / dig, CSW, hold plant / commune / heal
Arthur: 11 of 35, cast MMx3, detect / webx2, invis / LBx2 and -3 STR
Ichi: 38 of 79, with scorpion and spider, stoned, and sitta 8-(
Yavin: 7+ of 52, cast CLWx6 / aidx3, slow, lost pr fire, 55 of 97 PSPs with three dose of snake venom
Torr: 47 of 93, cast CLWx2, cure disease, lost pr cold and sacred guardian
Running eeps are: 79,290 xps (total)
They move in invisibly. The cave bears sound an alarm, due to the scent of the heroes in the air. The creatures in the clearing go on alert. Ichi gets past him, but Torr’s noisy armor alerts him. Ichi pulls out his darkness stone and strikes to subdue. In the scuffle, the centaur sounds the alarm and Torr shatters his left front leg, and he goes down . . . . even though Torr was striking to subdue. Ichi disarms him and knocks him unconscious. Yavin takes the lance (spear).
Meantime, Arthur remained levitating above the darkness, keeping watch on the clearing. Idky drops his darkness stone in the entrance and leaves it there to cover them. Yavin telepathically calls Arthur back, and he comes back down.
The group enters the tree. A long hallway leads to a large round room with a number of doors. There are a shambling mound and two silver people. The back wall is magically trapped. Ichi and Torr charge a silver person each. Idky casts hold plant on the shambling mound, and Yavin mind thrusts it.
Ichi kills his silver lady by cutting her in two. Torr also badly damages his silver lady and the shambling mound. The shambling mound succumbs to Idky's hold plant spell.
Arthur sets off the magical exploding runes on the back wall. Fortunately, his protection from fire minimizes the damage. He notices the back wall has an illusion on it. Arthur walks through the wall, and Ichi follows. The rest of the team goes through as well. It ends at three doors. As they switch around, Arthur notices bugbear coming through the darkness, so he webs the hallway.
Idky sees that all three doors are mechanically trapped. And they have no thief! Idky opens the door, and a ballista (poisoned) fires at him. Then there are exploding runes that go off. They also end up facing a giant scorpion, and giant spider, 24 stirges, and 21 skeletons.
Torr starts dusting skeletons, while Ichi stuns his scorpion and Idky takes on the spider. Arthur casts web to hold off the stirges, but five get through. Ichi finishes off the scorpion and spider. They hear cow, chicken and tiger noises coming from the webbed room. Idky treats Ichi’s wounds and casts slow poison on the monk.
Torr tries to open the doors and fails. Idky does as well. Ichi forces open another door and gets a bucket of green slime hurled at him. Torr kills it with his paladin ability to cure disease, although he also sets off the explosive runes behind the slime-slinger.
Yavin opens the last door and sets off a scythe blade, which narrowly misses him. Yavin also sets off the explosive runes in this room.
Arthur dons his robe of eyes and starts looking around for secret doors. Unfortunately, it reveals nothing. Ichi uses his talent with clairvoyance and determines that there is a false wall in one of the rooms but no way to open it.
They finally decide to light the webs on fire so they can enter the large round room and check out those doors. The fires kill or stun all the stirges. In the meantime, Idky is casting commune with nature. They finish off all the stirges. Also in the room are three cockatrices, a gorgon on a chain, a big black panther, three displacer beasts, and a leopard with snake heads instead of a mane . From one of the doors, they hear a voice enticing them into the room.
Torr and Ichi move to attack the gorgon and cockatrices. Yavin faces the kamadan. The displacer beasts go after Torr. The panther doesn’t attack right away.
Arthur lightning bolts the kamadan, stunning it. Yavin finishes it off. Torr critically and then kills the gorgon.
Ichi gets pecked by a cockatrice and turns to stone. The panther turns into nine, which attack Yavin and Arthur.
Yavin, badly hurt, initiates his blur and speed abilities and kills two of the cats. Arthur kills one with a full spread of magic missiles. One cockatrice attacks a displacer beast, while the other orients on one of the black panthers.
Idky stops casting mid-spell to help out Arthur and Yavin. All three of the nonafel blink out and reform into a single creature to attack Arthur. Torr kills it and turns to the displacer beasts.
Yavin, whose speed just ran out, collapses. They finish off the last of the beasts and beat it out of there.
Status:
Idky: 46 of 63, cast CLWx6, pass / find, trip, slow, aid / dispel / dig, CSW, hold plant / commune / heal
Arthur: 11 of 35, cast MMx3, detect / webx2, invis / LBx2 and -3 STR
Ichi: 38 of 79, with scorpion and spider, stoned, and sitta 8-(
Yavin: 7+ of 52, cast CLWx6 / aidx3, slow, lost pr fire, 55 of 97 PSPs with three dose of snake venom
Torr: 47 of 93, cast CLWx2, cure disease, lost pr cold and sacred guardian
Running eeps are: 79,290 xps (total)