Post by David on Oct 16, 2012 13:09:48 GMT -5
The heroes (Cliffy, Daj, Jamal, Maedhros, Saanau, Bethany, Loftwyr, and Ichi) have a minor pause in their battle with the forces of Khali in her mountain floating over the Bright Desert...
Ichi collapses after his speed wears off. Maedhros drags the monk into the tower. That’s when four gargoyles and ten baaz fly up to the party’s level from the far side of the structure. Flying up behind the tower are six baaz draconian. Also arriving are nine kapaks and nine more baaz.
Saanau casts a fireball at the incoming kapaks and baaz, wiping out 14 of them. Bethany casts a prayer and Daj casts mirror image, making five of herself. Lofwyr breathes slow gas on the group with the gargoyles, catching most of the group.
The foes swarm in on the party. Maedhros cleaves off the wings of three incoming draconian with magic missiles. Two plummet to their death, and the third grabs the edge. Daj clears off one draconian and stuns another with magic missiles. Bethany kills off three draconian with her small shurikens (!). Cliffy fireballs the slowed group, clearing off eleven. Maedhros hits the climbing draconian’s hand with his sword, making him fall to his death.
Lofwyr takes a critical hit to her chest and is stunned. He gets swarmed by draconian. Two of the kapaks had landed on higher points and pulled out their bows. They start shooting. Bethany gets critically hit in her arm by the gargoyle. Ten baaz fly up.
Saanau magic missiles Bethany’s gargoyle. Maedhros catches the incoming group of draconians with a frostball, killing all but one. Cliffy helps out Bethany as she runs to help out Lofwyr. Jamal clears off two of his draconians. Daj casts lightning bolt, angling it to catch Cliffy’s gargoyle and one of the kapak archers. It kills the gargoyle, but magic resistance saves the kapak.
Lofwyr isn’t doing so well, as he gets critically hit in his ribs again. Ichi recovers and starts climbing up to get one of the archers. Daj stuns one of the archers with her throwing scimitars. Jamal kills his last baaz, but his weapon gets stuck when it turns to stone. Maedhros casts a shadow magic fireball at the latest incoming draconian, and kills all but two. Saanau helps out with Lofwyr’s opponents by magic missiling them, killing two. Ichi gets hit by an arrow while climbing, but he’s still climbing.
Suddenly, 25 shadows start pouring in from the staircase. Maedhros destroys nine as they ascend. Saanau flies over and kills one of the archers. Lofwyr kills his baaz and some shadows by spitting acid. Bethany takes her magical sword in both hands and invokes its sunburst ability on the shadows, killing all of them. It also blinds one of the baaz and Lofwyr. Daj hurls her scimitar at the other archer.
Twelve more shadows arrive. Two shadow mastiffs also appear and bay, attempting to cause panic. Daj gets affected and runs away, dropping her throwing scimitar. Ichi reaches and kills the remaining archer. Cliffy uses his wand of illumination to cast sunburst at the shadows again, killing all of them. Saanau kills one shadow mastiff and damages another with improved magic missile.
Twenty baaz now show up. Maedhros kills all but six by dropping a wall of ice on them. Cliffy turns invisible. Lofwyr kills the mastiff, ending Daj’s panic. She runs over to get her scimitar, while Bethany fixes her arm crit with a cure light wounds. The whirlwind known as Ichi clears out three of the baaz, freeing Maedhros and Bethany. Daj kills another with her scimitar of dragon slaying. Lofwyr finishes off the remaining baaz.
While they’re trying to heal up, Saanau and Cliffy notice four wraiths spying on them. Cliffy sunbursts them, and they run off.
Desert warrior:
Leather armor (human-size) +2 “mouth of God”
Scimitar +2 “mouth of God”
Priestess:
Sling “primordial man” +1
Medallion “hail Mary” faith-specific, conjuration, divination
Staff (very powerful) “lofty bridges” alteration, +2 protection, other powers
Shamshear “dancing” +3
Cliffy grabs the staff. Nothing happens.
Bethany casts change self on herself to look like one of the enemy mage. Maedhros uses aid to bring up one of the unconscious foes, and Bethany casts minor quest on him, asking him to go report to Khali (a reasonable request). He heads off, and Bethany’s cat familiar, Cleo, follows him. They follow, using Bethany’s sense link with Cleo.
All of a sudden, Bethany announces that her familiar is racing back being pursued by four wraiths. They let the cat go and turn back around. They reach the wraith room, and the wraiths attack. The heroes quickly finish off the damaged wraith and continue following Cleo.
Cleo ends up in a room containing various scenes of dragons subjugating humanity. Suddenly, Bethany collapses and goes into shock. Daj takes Bethany into Cliffy’s house. The party continues on. They enter and see something strange about the stained glass. Suddenly, they get hit with a prismatic spray. They also see a stone cat (Cleo) in the center of the room. Jamal and Loftwyr get turned to stone while Saanau goes insane.
Saanau collapses, crying for no apparent reason. She then goes catatonic. That leaves Ichi and Maedhros to face the stained glass golem. Maedhros casts prayer, while Ichi attacks. The monk quickly shatters it. They place everyone who’s incapacitated in Cliffy’s house. Everyone but Cliffy and Daj also enter the house. Cliffy and Daj go sneaking invisibly to try to find Khali’s location so they can later teleport to it when better prepared.
They find the man in a circular room that contains a forge. Also in there is a gaudily-dressed woman with black hair, dark skin, and spooky-looking eyes (Khali)?. With her are five other people: a female Tuskar warrior with scimitar and short sword and studded leather, brother and sister elves (they look a little odd) in elven chain and bows and swords, a white guy in chain and shield with long sword, and another Tuskar. She looks very angry and is scolding the man. The man turns to leave and walks past Cliffy and Daj. Cliffy backstabs and kills the man in the hallway, and an iron statue in the hallway animates. He teleports back to the Greyhawk mages guild with Daj.
They get Lofwyr returned to flesh. They then get Cleo returned to flesh, but it has a heart attack and dies. Treblo casts item on it to preserve it. They now need to get a heal spell for it, or it will die when the item spell expires. Jamal get returned to flesh. They go to see Ourobos to get Bethany’s familiar fixed. He does it happily. He also casts cure insanity on Saanau. Everyone is now fixed.
They get a cleric of Istus to cast nap on them so they can get spells back and return to their mission. Saanau teleports them all to Klarr to see Esmeralda. The heroes get some healing from her and the temple of Frey. The heroes also ask Esmeralda to cast moment and probability control while Cliffy teleports to the stained glass room. Once he arrives, the elven mage/thief turns invisible and follows their original path. Before getting to the room where Khali was, Saanau gets everyone out of the house, and they prepare quietly to attack Khali.
As they approach the door, an iron statue animates and sounds the alarm. Ichi moves to engage it. He takes it out in two hits. Daj webs the hallway to try to keep the rest at bay while they enter the door. They continue sounding the alarm. The room is empty. Saanau casts lightning bolt down the hall and destroys all but one. It also shatters the door at the end of the hall, revealing a large chamber beyond. Daj and Ichi destroy the remaining one.
The party moves through the shattered door and find what looks like an audience chamber. There is a fountain in an adjoining room. As they pass through the door, a glyph goes out, conjuring a stinking cloud. Maedhros succumbs but gets dragged along by Daj. In the fountain room are five bozak. They cast web and stinking cloud the party. One mirror images himself, making five of him.
Lofwyr spits acid at them, removing the mirror images. Ichi moves to attack (to subdue). He knocks out one and stuns one. Daj throws her scimitar. Maedhros and Saanau destroy them all with magic missiles. Unfortunately, it also damages Ichi really badly since bozak explode when they die. The heroes remove the web with Daj’s firefinger. Then they go to the outside and down the stairs.
The party winds up in a huge hallway with picture on the walls of dwarves conquering orcs. The dwarves look a little unusual to Daj. The come to a tower. Daj tries to track but finds nothing. They decide to head back to the circular room. As they climb up the stairs, three kapaks fly by. Ichi flies up to attack. Daj tosses her scimitar and cuts off one’s leg. He is stunned and plummets to his death. Ichi and Saanau kill the other two.
They continue to the circular room and descend to the level of the forge. It is amazingly hot there, and too hot to land on it. There is a hammer in the forge surrounded by rainbow-colored flames. Magic mouths go off as they arrive. As they are planning, Khali arrives with blade barrier up and casts flame strike at the party.
Saanau casts fumble at the priestess. Maedhros cast frostball at her but does minimal damage due to the heat of the furnace. Khali telekineses Saanau into the blade barrier but the elf's stoneskin protects her . . . for now. Lofwyr casts glitterdust at Khali, but it doesn’t blind her. Saanau escapes from the blade barrier. Maedhros tries to cast silence on the priestess of Tiamat, but it fails.
A red dragon is crawling up over the top of the area. It breathes on them as Ichi, Jamal, and Daj fly up to attack it. Ichi falls, but Maedhros catches him with a feather fall. Saanau casts thunderbolt, but it does nothing to Khali. Cliffy casts improved magic missile again at Khali.
Jamal drops off Daj on the way up to the dragon and continues to the attack. Bethany casts levitate on herself and heads up to the dragon. Lofwyr spider climbs up as well. Daj dimension doors behind the dragon and prepares to strike. She gets tail swiped but her stoneskin saves her.
Badly wounded, surrounded and outnumbered, Khali speaks a single word of recall and disappears, much to the chagrin of the heroes.
Status:
Saanau: 25 of 64, cast LB / SS, fumble / TP, TB
Maedhros: 24 of 36, cast FF, MM / / frost, flyx2 / SS plus DangerS / find, r fire, silence, STONESKIN
Cliffy: 23 of 67, cast IMMx2 / / SS / TP, STONESKIN
Jamal: 44 of 74, STR=18/50
Loftwyr: 52 (fully), cast glitter, breathed acid, STONESKIN
Bethany: 15 of 40, cast / / / lev, prot fire, 6 shurikens LEFT, STONESKIN
Cleo: 14 (full), STONESKIN
Dajamira: 46 of 65, STR=18 (+3/+4 and +1/+3) cast firefinger / IMM, web / / d.door
Ichi: 0 of 73, unconscious
Ichi collapses after his speed wears off. Maedhros drags the monk into the tower. That’s when four gargoyles and ten baaz fly up to the party’s level from the far side of the structure. Flying up behind the tower are six baaz draconian. Also arriving are nine kapaks and nine more baaz.
Saanau casts a fireball at the incoming kapaks and baaz, wiping out 14 of them. Bethany casts a prayer and Daj casts mirror image, making five of herself. Lofwyr breathes slow gas on the group with the gargoyles, catching most of the group.
The foes swarm in on the party. Maedhros cleaves off the wings of three incoming draconian with magic missiles. Two plummet to their death, and the third grabs the edge. Daj clears off one draconian and stuns another with magic missiles. Bethany kills off three draconian with her small shurikens (!). Cliffy fireballs the slowed group, clearing off eleven. Maedhros hits the climbing draconian’s hand with his sword, making him fall to his death.
Lofwyr takes a critical hit to her chest and is stunned. He gets swarmed by draconian. Two of the kapaks had landed on higher points and pulled out their bows. They start shooting. Bethany gets critically hit in her arm by the gargoyle. Ten baaz fly up.
Saanau magic missiles Bethany’s gargoyle. Maedhros catches the incoming group of draconians with a frostball, killing all but one. Cliffy helps out Bethany as she runs to help out Lofwyr. Jamal clears off two of his draconians. Daj casts lightning bolt, angling it to catch Cliffy’s gargoyle and one of the kapak archers. It kills the gargoyle, but magic resistance saves the kapak.
Lofwyr isn’t doing so well, as he gets critically hit in his ribs again. Ichi recovers and starts climbing up to get one of the archers. Daj stuns one of the archers with her throwing scimitars. Jamal kills his last baaz, but his weapon gets stuck when it turns to stone. Maedhros casts a shadow magic fireball at the latest incoming draconian, and kills all but two. Saanau helps out with Lofwyr’s opponents by magic missiling them, killing two. Ichi gets hit by an arrow while climbing, but he’s still climbing.
Suddenly, 25 shadows start pouring in from the staircase. Maedhros destroys nine as they ascend. Saanau flies over and kills one of the archers. Lofwyr kills his baaz and some shadows by spitting acid. Bethany takes her magical sword in both hands and invokes its sunburst ability on the shadows, killing all of them. It also blinds one of the baaz and Lofwyr. Daj hurls her scimitar at the other archer.
Twelve more shadows arrive. Two shadow mastiffs also appear and bay, attempting to cause panic. Daj gets affected and runs away, dropping her throwing scimitar. Ichi reaches and kills the remaining archer. Cliffy uses his wand of illumination to cast sunburst at the shadows again, killing all of them. Saanau kills one shadow mastiff and damages another with improved magic missile.
Twenty baaz now show up. Maedhros kills all but six by dropping a wall of ice on them. Cliffy turns invisible. Lofwyr kills the mastiff, ending Daj’s panic. She runs over to get her scimitar, while Bethany fixes her arm crit with a cure light wounds. The whirlwind known as Ichi clears out three of the baaz, freeing Maedhros and Bethany. Daj kills another with her scimitar of dragon slaying. Lofwyr finishes off the remaining baaz.
While they’re trying to heal up, Saanau and Cliffy notice four wraiths spying on them. Cliffy sunbursts them, and they run off.
Desert warrior:
Leather armor (human-size) +2 “mouth of God”
Scimitar +2 “mouth of God”
Priestess:
Sling “primordial man” +1
Medallion “hail Mary” faith-specific, conjuration, divination
Staff (very powerful) “lofty bridges” alteration, +2 protection, other powers
Shamshear “dancing” +3
Cliffy grabs the staff. Nothing happens.
Bethany casts change self on herself to look like one of the enemy mage. Maedhros uses aid to bring up one of the unconscious foes, and Bethany casts minor quest on him, asking him to go report to Khali (a reasonable request). He heads off, and Bethany’s cat familiar, Cleo, follows him. They follow, using Bethany’s sense link with Cleo.
All of a sudden, Bethany announces that her familiar is racing back being pursued by four wraiths. They let the cat go and turn back around. They reach the wraith room, and the wraiths attack. The heroes quickly finish off the damaged wraith and continue following Cleo.
Cleo ends up in a room containing various scenes of dragons subjugating humanity. Suddenly, Bethany collapses and goes into shock. Daj takes Bethany into Cliffy’s house. The party continues on. They enter and see something strange about the stained glass. Suddenly, they get hit with a prismatic spray. They also see a stone cat (Cleo) in the center of the room. Jamal and Loftwyr get turned to stone while Saanau goes insane.
Saanau collapses, crying for no apparent reason. She then goes catatonic. That leaves Ichi and Maedhros to face the stained glass golem. Maedhros casts prayer, while Ichi attacks. The monk quickly shatters it. They place everyone who’s incapacitated in Cliffy’s house. Everyone but Cliffy and Daj also enter the house. Cliffy and Daj go sneaking invisibly to try to find Khali’s location so they can later teleport to it when better prepared.
They find the man in a circular room that contains a forge. Also in there is a gaudily-dressed woman with black hair, dark skin, and spooky-looking eyes (Khali)?. With her are five other people: a female Tuskar warrior with scimitar and short sword and studded leather, brother and sister elves (they look a little odd) in elven chain and bows and swords, a white guy in chain and shield with long sword, and another Tuskar. She looks very angry and is scolding the man. The man turns to leave and walks past Cliffy and Daj. Cliffy backstabs and kills the man in the hallway, and an iron statue in the hallway animates. He teleports back to the Greyhawk mages guild with Daj.
They get Lofwyr returned to flesh. They then get Cleo returned to flesh, but it has a heart attack and dies. Treblo casts item on it to preserve it. They now need to get a heal spell for it, or it will die when the item spell expires. Jamal get returned to flesh. They go to see Ourobos to get Bethany’s familiar fixed. He does it happily. He also casts cure insanity on Saanau. Everyone is now fixed.
They get a cleric of Istus to cast nap on them so they can get spells back and return to their mission. Saanau teleports them all to Klarr to see Esmeralda. The heroes get some healing from her and the temple of Frey. The heroes also ask Esmeralda to cast moment and probability control while Cliffy teleports to the stained glass room. Once he arrives, the elven mage/thief turns invisible and follows their original path. Before getting to the room where Khali was, Saanau gets everyone out of the house, and they prepare quietly to attack Khali.
As they approach the door, an iron statue animates and sounds the alarm. Ichi moves to engage it. He takes it out in two hits. Daj webs the hallway to try to keep the rest at bay while they enter the door. They continue sounding the alarm. The room is empty. Saanau casts lightning bolt down the hall and destroys all but one. It also shatters the door at the end of the hall, revealing a large chamber beyond. Daj and Ichi destroy the remaining one.
The party moves through the shattered door and find what looks like an audience chamber. There is a fountain in an adjoining room. As they pass through the door, a glyph goes out, conjuring a stinking cloud. Maedhros succumbs but gets dragged along by Daj. In the fountain room are five bozak. They cast web and stinking cloud the party. One mirror images himself, making five of him.
Lofwyr spits acid at them, removing the mirror images. Ichi moves to attack (to subdue). He knocks out one and stuns one. Daj throws her scimitar. Maedhros and Saanau destroy them all with magic missiles. Unfortunately, it also damages Ichi really badly since bozak explode when they die. The heroes remove the web with Daj’s firefinger. Then they go to the outside and down the stairs.
The party winds up in a huge hallway with picture on the walls of dwarves conquering orcs. The dwarves look a little unusual to Daj. The come to a tower. Daj tries to track but finds nothing. They decide to head back to the circular room. As they climb up the stairs, three kapaks fly by. Ichi flies up to attack. Daj tosses her scimitar and cuts off one’s leg. He is stunned and plummets to his death. Ichi and Saanau kill the other two.
They continue to the circular room and descend to the level of the forge. It is amazingly hot there, and too hot to land on it. There is a hammer in the forge surrounded by rainbow-colored flames. Magic mouths go off as they arrive. As they are planning, Khali arrives with blade barrier up and casts flame strike at the party.
Saanau casts fumble at the priestess. Maedhros cast frostball at her but does minimal damage due to the heat of the furnace. Khali telekineses Saanau into the blade barrier but the elf's stoneskin protects her . . . for now. Lofwyr casts glitterdust at Khali, but it doesn’t blind her. Saanau escapes from the blade barrier. Maedhros tries to cast silence on the priestess of Tiamat, but it fails.
A red dragon is crawling up over the top of the area. It breathes on them as Ichi, Jamal, and Daj fly up to attack it. Ichi falls, but Maedhros catches him with a feather fall. Saanau casts thunderbolt, but it does nothing to Khali. Cliffy casts improved magic missile again at Khali.
Jamal drops off Daj on the way up to the dragon and continues to the attack. Bethany casts levitate on herself and heads up to the dragon. Lofwyr spider climbs up as well. Daj dimension doors behind the dragon and prepares to strike. She gets tail swiped but her stoneskin saves her.
Badly wounded, surrounded and outnumbered, Khali speaks a single word of recall and disappears, much to the chagrin of the heroes.
Status:
Saanau: 25 of 64, cast LB / SS, fumble / TP, TB
Maedhros: 24 of 36, cast FF, MM / / frost, flyx2 / SS plus DangerS / find, r fire, silence, STONESKIN
Cliffy: 23 of 67, cast IMMx2 / / SS / TP, STONESKIN
Jamal: 44 of 74, STR=18/50
Loftwyr: 52 (fully), cast glitter, breathed acid, STONESKIN
Bethany: 15 of 40, cast / / / lev, prot fire, 6 shurikens LEFT, STONESKIN
Cleo: 14 (full), STONESKIN
Dajamira: 46 of 65, STR=18 (+3/+4 and +1/+3) cast firefinger / IMM, web / / d.door
Ichi: 0 of 73, unconscious
