Post by David on Feb 17, 2012 22:44:54 GMT -5
The heroes (Idky, Torr with Zayüß, Yavin, Ichi, Arthur, and Athos) return through the portal to the cave/bowl. Zayüß senses an invisible stalker, but not before Arthur gets assaulted by it and scooped up. The mage activates his levitation ability. Torr hops onto Zayüß' back and the stallion runs on air after the creature, blocking off its escape. Idky begins casting abjure but Torr sword sends it back to the Plane of Air before the cleric can finish his spell.
They continue on toward the oni gate after healing up Arthur. The party decides to send Torr and Zayüß through first, with a rope tied to Torr. The rope goes taunt and the rest of the party waits for a minute with no feedback from the paladin...
Meantime, Torr steps through into brackish water and encounters six beautiful women with red hair and sharp teeth, who attack him. Unfortunately, each hit drains his strength as they latch on and leech blood. The paladin and his steed kill five and the last one swims away.
The rest of the party goes through underwater. They all swim for the surface. Yavin initiates his levitate ability to raise everyone to the surface. The mermaid sees them and swims to attack them. She latches onto Yavin, who brings everyone to the surface. Idky starts airwalking over to help Yavin, who is getting blood sucked out of him. Arthur magic missiles the bitch. Ichi flies up on his broom but Torr makes it over and kills her.
The heroes are in a mangrove grove, so they head over to a nearby tree to collect themselves. Torr and Athos head down to check the mermaid bodies to see if any of them have a shard. Arthur and Ichi fly up to survey the area.
They are in a lagoon of an atoll. Torr and Athos resurface with pearl necklaces and jewelry from the mermaids.
Torr and Athos explore the mermaid grotto and see a bunch of ocean junk. They later suggest that Torr cast detect magic on the shards and determines they are magical. He is then able to scan the grotto looking for magical items, in the hopes that another shard is there. He finds:
A shard
Blue-green spindle
Brass lozenge
Torr also sees that the portal they came through was also magical. They surmise that it is now able to take them back. Before they are able to go, a meteor hits the atoll. An eight foot tall creature with bat-wings, reddish-black scaled skin, elephant-like ears, and tusks arises where the skyfire hit. It says: “You have offended the gods and for that you must be punished.” He fires arrows an arrow from his green bow at Ichi, Torr, Athos. Ichi is able to deflect his missile but the other two strike flawlessly for severe damage. Idky casts aid on Torr. Arthur magic missiles the creature and pierces its magic resistance, which angers him. Ichi flies over and lands at his feet to attack. Torr rushes over with Zayüß. The both also attack. Athos swims over to join in. Yavin tries to mind thrust him but misses.
Ichi does a tremendous amount of damage to it. Arthur pierces his magic resistance twice more with magic missiles. Ichi brings "the Punisher of the Gods" near to death, so Chih-Chiang Fyu-Ya teleports back to Heaven.
The heroes take their luck and high-tail it out of there through the portal and on to the ogre gate (and to the maze).
They are plunged into inky darkness underground in a stone maze. They reduce Zayüß and itemize him. Idky casts find traps to help navigate through the maze. Arthur uses chalk to mark where they’ve been. They come across shards of pottery that are actually the remains of golems, which alarms them.
Down one hallway, they find four surprised-looking animated crystal statues. Ichi makes short work of them.
Another trapped door lands Athos and Ichi into a poisoned spiked pit. It also jams the door, so they end up having to try to force it open. Idky and Torr are the only ones who can walk over to try. They fail. Arthur casts strength on Torr, and he is able to force it open.
Arthur finds:
Bone wand (room 28)
Pearl necklace (room 28)
They end up at a dead end. They search around and find a secret door. The door opens up to a room containing a giant iron statue and 10 warriors in plate mail, whose eyes are glowing. Idky nails himself with a slaying bullet, which kills his right arm below the elbow and stuns him. Arthur lightning bolts the golem, which does something strange to it. Torr, who has been informed that the “people” are actually juju zombies, turns them all. They are now just facing the iron golem. Yavin’s heat metal is now starting to burn the juju zombies. Torr and Ichi finish off the iron golem quickly after that. They start in on the turned jujus. They coordinate attacks and turning to finish them off.
The next room is empty with two magically trapped doors and a non-trapped door. They can’t get past the magically trapped doors, so they go through the non-trapped one. The room has four other doors. One is magically trapped. There are two other magic traps in the room. The find traps indicates that the traps will be set off by touching the floor of the room. They could levitate or airwalk across. Torr is unable to dispel them.
Status:
Idky: 62 of 65, 5psi, cast CLWx7 / aidx2, findx2 / d.mag / CSW, abj / / healx2
Arthur: 41 (full), 10psi, 10 STR, cast MMx5 / / LB, item / sskin, has STONE SKIN
Ichi: 79 of 83, 5psi, used blur, speed, one deferred poison
Torr: 96 (Full), cast d.magic
Zayüß: 40 of 48, -2 STR
Athos: 33 of 50, 10psi, SIX deferred poisons
Yavin: 51 of 52, 59 of 98 PSPs, 10psi, 7 STR, cast / slowpx2, heat, used Lev
Running Eep total: 47,980 xps
They continue on toward the oni gate after healing up Arthur. The party decides to send Torr and Zayüß through first, with a rope tied to Torr. The rope goes taunt and the rest of the party waits for a minute with no feedback from the paladin...
Meantime, Torr steps through into brackish water and encounters six beautiful women with red hair and sharp teeth, who attack him. Unfortunately, each hit drains his strength as they latch on and leech blood. The paladin and his steed kill five and the last one swims away.
The rest of the party goes through underwater. They all swim for the surface. Yavin initiates his levitate ability to raise everyone to the surface. The mermaid sees them and swims to attack them. She latches onto Yavin, who brings everyone to the surface. Idky starts airwalking over to help Yavin, who is getting blood sucked out of him. Arthur magic missiles the bitch. Ichi flies up on his broom but Torr makes it over and kills her.
The heroes are in a mangrove grove, so they head over to a nearby tree to collect themselves. Torr and Athos head down to check the mermaid bodies to see if any of them have a shard. Arthur and Ichi fly up to survey the area.
They are in a lagoon of an atoll. Torr and Athos resurface with pearl necklaces and jewelry from the mermaids.
Torr and Athos explore the mermaid grotto and see a bunch of ocean junk. They later suggest that Torr cast detect magic on the shards and determines they are magical. He is then able to scan the grotto looking for magical items, in the hopes that another shard is there. He finds:
A shard
Blue-green spindle
Brass lozenge
Torr also sees that the portal they came through was also magical. They surmise that it is now able to take them back. Before they are able to go, a meteor hits the atoll. An eight foot tall creature with bat-wings, reddish-black scaled skin, elephant-like ears, and tusks arises where the skyfire hit. It says: “You have offended the gods and for that you must be punished.” He fires arrows an arrow from his green bow at Ichi, Torr, Athos. Ichi is able to deflect his missile but the other two strike flawlessly for severe damage. Idky casts aid on Torr. Arthur magic missiles the creature and pierces its magic resistance, which angers him. Ichi flies over and lands at his feet to attack. Torr rushes over with Zayüß. The both also attack. Athos swims over to join in. Yavin tries to mind thrust him but misses.
Ichi does a tremendous amount of damage to it. Arthur pierces his magic resistance twice more with magic missiles. Ichi brings "the Punisher of the Gods" near to death, so Chih-Chiang Fyu-Ya teleports back to Heaven.
The heroes take their luck and high-tail it out of there through the portal and on to the ogre gate (and to the maze).
They are plunged into inky darkness underground in a stone maze. They reduce Zayüß and itemize him. Idky casts find traps to help navigate through the maze. Arthur uses chalk to mark where they’ve been. They come across shards of pottery that are actually the remains of golems, which alarms them.
Down one hallway, they find four surprised-looking animated crystal statues. Ichi makes short work of them.
Another trapped door lands Athos and Ichi into a poisoned spiked pit. It also jams the door, so they end up having to try to force it open. Idky and Torr are the only ones who can walk over to try. They fail. Arthur casts strength on Torr, and he is able to force it open.
Arthur finds:
Bone wand (room 28)
Pearl necklace (room 28)
They end up at a dead end. They search around and find a secret door. The door opens up to a room containing a giant iron statue and 10 warriors in plate mail, whose eyes are glowing. Idky nails himself with a slaying bullet, which kills his right arm below the elbow and stuns him. Arthur lightning bolts the golem, which does something strange to it. Torr, who has been informed that the “people” are actually juju zombies, turns them all. They are now just facing the iron golem. Yavin’s heat metal is now starting to burn the juju zombies. Torr and Ichi finish off the iron golem quickly after that. They start in on the turned jujus. They coordinate attacks and turning to finish them off.
The next room is empty with two magically trapped doors and a non-trapped door. They can’t get past the magically trapped doors, so they go through the non-trapped one. The room has four other doors. One is magically trapped. There are two other magic traps in the room. The find traps indicates that the traps will be set off by touching the floor of the room. They could levitate or airwalk across. Torr is unable to dispel them.
Status:
Idky: 62 of 65, 5psi, cast CLWx7 / aidx2, findx2 / d.mag / CSW, abj / / healx2
Arthur: 41 (full), 10psi, 10 STR, cast MMx5 / / LB, item / sskin, has STONE SKIN
Ichi: 79 of 83, 5psi, used blur, speed, one deferred poison
Torr: 96 (Full), cast d.magic
Zayüß: 40 of 48, -2 STR
Athos: 33 of 50, 10psi, SIX deferred poisons
Yavin: 51 of 52, 59 of 98 PSPs, 10psi, 7 STR, cast / slowpx2, heat, used Lev
Running Eep total: 47,980 xps