Post by David on Sept 13, 2012 23:35:42 GMT -5
Mikhail returns to Oerth after some time on Eon, where Andar telepathically questioned the surviving borg. With him is his friend, Marc the beastmaster. The young druid has a brief discussion with Shyana as well as Gamoth and Zylvanar before collecting the heroes to see what's on the other side of the borg's gate. The Archdruid leaves and bring his entourage with him, leaving Daniel O'Shea to keep watch over the party. Also there is the half-dryad druidess, Glorianna, sent by the three Druidesses of Artemis.
Mikhail, Adama, and Marc head through gate with Glorianna in the form of a snake and Cedric and Demetrius in bags of holding. The mist was ____. The group appears on swelteringly hot and humid world. Mikhail has already cast various protective spells on himself, but now passes around endure heats to other party members. Marc picks up tracks of two creatures with boots. The beastmaster track them back to a mudflow with a giant creature sticking out of it. It was assimilated but died. It’s metal parts look like they overheated and were struck by lightning. Nearby are dead bodies of both borg.
Two creatures (male and female) rise from mud. Mikhail empathically projects peace and that seems to satisfy them. It turns out they speak a dialect of giant, which Mikhail somewhat understands. The creatures explain those two were the only borg they saw and that they died immediately after infecting their grandfather. The world is Sunev. The heroes head back through the gate . . . but not to Oerth. The mist was white.
The temperature drops dramatically. Glorianna and Marc get frostbite, are covered in frost, and are shivering uncontrollably. There are two live borg on either side, trying to assimilate the gate. The heroes find themselves in a cold, arid red desert, the air amazingly dry, with no life anywhere. In front of them is a huge city made of alabaster rising from the sandy desert.
Mikhail psi blasts two, stunning one. Adama detonates one borg’s mechanical parts, destroying it. One borg attacks Marc and it injects the Manëan with nanoprobes. Adama detonates a borg on the other side, destroying it and damaging the other.
Mikhail lets Cedric and Demetrius out of the bags of holding. The party makes quick work of the creatures but twelve more borg head toward the heroes from the city. They prepare for the attack. One of the borg has a “protein disruptor.” Marc rushes that one with his boots of speed, as Glorianna takes it out with a knee shot. Four borg move to defend the one with the protein disruptor.
Mikhail activates his strengthen ability, Glorianna faerie fires, Adama blows up one, Demetrius casts mirror image. Marc gets blasted by the protein disruptor before he takes the borg out. The other borg swarm him. Cedric gets a nanoprobe injection. Adama blows up one of Cedric’s, also damaging the ranger, but clearing two off him. Demetrius magic missiles the one on Adama. Mikhail runs to help out Marc.
At this point, Cedric starts changing into a borg, as does Marc. Adama rushes off to help Mark as well. The borg turn to get Adama and Mikhail. Adama blows up one. Glorianna tends to Cedric and gives him sweet water, which doesn’t help.
Adama and Mikhail finish off their borg. Mikhail picks up Marc but Adama now starts to change. Glorianna finishes off the last of Marc’s borg. Mikhail brings back Marc and Adama. Demetrius does subdual damage to one of the downed borg to keep him down.
They collect everyone and prepare to move through the gate. The mist is still red, and they walk through. They end up on a barren, blasted world. Mikhail and Glorianna attempt to cast cure disease. They don’t have access to their druidic powers. Marc and Cedric enter stage three of assimilation. Fortunately, they are “unprogrammed” borg and are no immediate threat to the party.
Mikhail uses cell adjustment on his sister to try to slow or reverse the assimilation. It works! This world looks like it’s made of fused glass. It’s freezing cold, but there is a glow on the horizon. Mikhail attempts to cell adjust Marc, but it doesn’t cure him. After several hours of meditation by Mikhail, Glorianna assumes animal form, they put the borg in the bags, and Mikhail plane shifts the party. They appear on another world that isn’t Oerth. It is a desert with a deep purple sky at night and several moons. Mikhail is able to cast cure disease on Mark and Cedric. They still have borg implants on them, Cedric being worse off.
Status:
Mikhail: 69 of 77, 58 of 123 PSPs, cast resist cold, bark, endure / curex2, water, prot fire / prot light
Cedric: 34 of 55, -6 CHR, -2 DEX
Demetrius: 19 of 20, cast MMx2 / MI
Marc: 35 of 72, -2 CHR
Glorianna: 74 of 75, used all forms, cast FF / / prot fire
Adama: 24 of 46, 65 of 92 PSPs
Mikhail, Adama, and Marc head through gate with Glorianna in the form of a snake and Cedric and Demetrius in bags of holding. The mist was ____. The group appears on swelteringly hot and humid world. Mikhail has already cast various protective spells on himself, but now passes around endure heats to other party members. Marc picks up tracks of two creatures with boots. The beastmaster track them back to a mudflow with a giant creature sticking out of it. It was assimilated but died. It’s metal parts look like they overheated and were struck by lightning. Nearby are dead bodies of both borg.
Two creatures (male and female) rise from mud. Mikhail empathically projects peace and that seems to satisfy them. It turns out they speak a dialect of giant, which Mikhail somewhat understands. The creatures explain those two were the only borg they saw and that they died immediately after infecting their grandfather. The world is Sunev. The heroes head back through the gate . . . but not to Oerth. The mist was white.
The temperature drops dramatically. Glorianna and Marc get frostbite, are covered in frost, and are shivering uncontrollably. There are two live borg on either side, trying to assimilate the gate. The heroes find themselves in a cold, arid red desert, the air amazingly dry, with no life anywhere. In front of them is a huge city made of alabaster rising from the sandy desert.
Mikhail psi blasts two, stunning one. Adama detonates one borg’s mechanical parts, destroying it. One borg attacks Marc and it injects the Manëan with nanoprobes. Adama detonates a borg on the other side, destroying it and damaging the other.
Mikhail lets Cedric and Demetrius out of the bags of holding. The party makes quick work of the creatures but twelve more borg head toward the heroes from the city. They prepare for the attack. One of the borg has a “protein disruptor.” Marc rushes that one with his boots of speed, as Glorianna takes it out with a knee shot. Four borg move to defend the one with the protein disruptor.
Mikhail activates his strengthen ability, Glorianna faerie fires, Adama blows up one, Demetrius casts mirror image. Marc gets blasted by the protein disruptor before he takes the borg out. The other borg swarm him. Cedric gets a nanoprobe injection. Adama blows up one of Cedric’s, also damaging the ranger, but clearing two off him. Demetrius magic missiles the one on Adama. Mikhail runs to help out Marc.
At this point, Cedric starts changing into a borg, as does Marc. Adama rushes off to help Mark as well. The borg turn to get Adama and Mikhail. Adama blows up one. Glorianna tends to Cedric and gives him sweet water, which doesn’t help.
Adama and Mikhail finish off their borg. Mikhail picks up Marc but Adama now starts to change. Glorianna finishes off the last of Marc’s borg. Mikhail brings back Marc and Adama. Demetrius does subdual damage to one of the downed borg to keep him down.
They collect everyone and prepare to move through the gate. The mist is still red, and they walk through. They end up on a barren, blasted world. Mikhail and Glorianna attempt to cast cure disease. They don’t have access to their druidic powers. Marc and Cedric enter stage three of assimilation. Fortunately, they are “unprogrammed” borg and are no immediate threat to the party.
Mikhail uses cell adjustment on his sister to try to slow or reverse the assimilation. It works! This world looks like it’s made of fused glass. It’s freezing cold, but there is a glow on the horizon. Mikhail attempts to cell adjust Marc, but it doesn’t cure him. After several hours of meditation by Mikhail, Glorianna assumes animal form, they put the borg in the bags, and Mikhail plane shifts the party. They appear on another world that isn’t Oerth. It is a desert with a deep purple sky at night and several moons. Mikhail is able to cast cure disease on Mark and Cedric. They still have borg implants on them, Cedric being worse off.
Status:
Mikhail: 69 of 77, 58 of 123 PSPs, cast resist cold, bark, endure / curex2, water, prot fire / prot light
Cedric: 34 of 55, -6 CHR, -2 DEX
Demetrius: 19 of 20, cast MMx2 / MI
Marc: 35 of 72, -2 CHR
Glorianna: 74 of 75, used all forms, cast FF / / prot fire
Adama: 24 of 46, 65 of 92 PSPs