Post by David on Mar 4, 2013 20:43:49 GMT -5
The heroes (Malkierian, Nikolai, Talking Bird, Skierra, Joe, Fluffy, and Pudic) are joined by the elven archer, Tolinar though they reject Eric (and Faust's) offer to accompany them. The heroes return to the orc cave to find it empty and the bodies are gone. They go back to where they last had the big orc battle. An ambush awaits them! In the room are: 30 skeletons, 20 orcs, three orogs, about a half dozen “special” orcs (mostly female), plus three humans in armor and bloodstained robes.
Skierra starts turning skeletons, while the party pushes into the room and attempts to form a fighting line. One of the human clerics casts hold person, catching Pudic and Joe. Fluffy and Tolinar charge forward to plug the resulting holes. Meanwhile, a female orc with extended pointy fingers advances through the throng. Talking Bird casts hold person on the cleric, catching him.
Two other clerics step forward and casts hold person, catching Malkierian, Fluffy, and Tolinar. Skierra casts dispel magic, releasing Pudic, Malkierian, and Tolinar. She also dispels four of the animated skeletons. Tolinar steps up to attack a cleric and stuns him. Pudic and Talking Bird kill the other two. Malkierian and Nikolai move forward to re-establish the fighting line.
Skierra sleeps eight of the orcs at the back of the room. Tolinar finishes off the third cleric. Skierra turns the two skeletons on Malkieiran, so he can focus on the weird female orc.
The rest of the orcs that were sleeping at the beginning of the combat have now awoken. The party sees that they are all weird. One is a beautiful female orc. All the males find her sexually attractive!! Another is a very buff female. The rest are funny-colored.
Seven of the skeletons that had been turned now return to the room. Looks like they got commanded to go back. The party is now mostly fighting orcs. Skierra casts an improved phantasmal force of a fireball at the back of the room, wiping out (in their minds) ten orcs (five are the special ones). Meantime, Eric (who had been skulking behind the party) sneaks up and casts charm person on an orog but it resists.
The beautiful female orc attacks Pudic. From the right passageway, a leader orc shows up with eight other orcs. From the left, another leader with three orcs shows up. From the opposite passage come two leaders with seven orcs. Skierra returns to turning skeletons. Faust starts killing sleeping orcs. The last remaining skeleton is destroyed, and now there are only ocs.
Eric suggests that the pointy-fingered orc go hunt down and kill the clerics of Iuz, and she obeys. The newly-arrived orcs are surprised that their compatriots are downed and start talking in orcish about how their sorcerous powers must have backfired on them. They are still holding the line, and now 11 skeletons return.
Skierra holds two orcs, including the very tough beautiful orc. Faust auto-kills one. Eric charms another orog to run off and follow the previous monsterous-she-orc in attack the followers of Iuz as the have enslaved the followers of "Old One Eye." Skierra goes back to turning undead. Joe slits the throat of the beautiful orc, again taunting the orcs in their own language.
Two more human clerics enter from the left passage with a leader and 22 orcs. One cleric casts hold person, but Nikolai sends a stone at his head, interrupting the spell. Fluffy, now free of the hold, switches places with Talking Bird. Skierra casts another illusionary fireball at the left passageway, and one cleric and all the normal orcs succumb. With almost all their leaders dead or gone, the orcs start to withdraw, allowing the skeletons to move up and engage the party. The remaining cleric casts hold person at Skierra and Nikolai, paralyzing Skierra. Eric withdraws from battle and turns five skeletons. Tolinar attacks the remaining cleric, bringing him near death and preventing any further spellcasting. The party starts to close ranks. Eric continues turning skeletons. The orcs decide to come back to fight.
The remaining cleric flees and gets attacked by the pointy-fingered orc in the far cavern. The heroes merely hear the screams. The party reforms into a more compact fighting line as fatigue starts to set in. Nine orcs and another cleric of Iuz show up from the right passage. The cleric spits at Nikolai, and he loses the use of his right leg. He falls to the ground. Joe jumps through the orcs to attack the cleric, stunning him.
Eric takes out the final leader with a shuriken to the head and starts on Nikolai’s orcs. Joe takes out the cleric and starts in on his orcs in the passage. The orcs flee from him, so he returns to the party. Faust kills off the last of the sleeping orcs. Meanwhile, Eric’s unseen servant (that he cast before) has been spreading oil over the downed orcs.
Meanwhile, the resting Pudic and Malkierian can’t seem to catch their breath. Skierra finally thaws from the hold and looks for some way to help out. So she starts firing arrows. Faust continues to kill off the unconscius enemies who succumbed to the illusionary fireballs.
The room is now cleared. The party slits the throats of all the special orcs. As they are doing that and getting some healing, they hear more orcs approaching. So they back out of the room and ignite the oil. That kills all the unconscious orcs and humans and most of the incoming orcs. It badly damages the rest, who flee back down their respective passages. After a minute, the fire dies down, and they continue on.
The heroes head down the opposite passageway into a massive cavern with a hole in the floor. The bodies of a number of dead orcs and clerics are here. There are also 36 skeletons, a burnt orcish leader, two burnt orogs, three burnt orcish leaders, six normal orcs, and four Iuz clerics (at the back).
Malkierian charges in as Skierra starts turning and Tolinar starts shooting at the clerics. Nikolai drops his oil for the unseen servant, while also Eric turns undead. Talking Bird casts hold person, catching two orcish leaders and an orog. The rest form a fighting line.
One cleric casts hold person, catching Malkierian and Fluffy. Two other holds also go off, but don’t catch anyone new. Tolinar interrupts one cleric casting prayer. Yay! Talking Bird casts another hold person, catching an orog and an orc leader. Tolinar interrupts the cleric’s spell . . . twice!
That cleric orders everyone to “grease the archer.” But the other clerics make a point of ignoring him. Another cleric casts hold person but catches no one. Another hold person fails against Joe. And another hold fails against Talking Bird. Faust runs up to engage one of the clerics. An arrow from Tolinar kills the commanding priest of Iuz. After Skierra clears off a large number of skeletons, the party expands their fighting line back out to protect Malkierian and Fluffy.
The orcs don’t seem very eager to engage the party, especially since Joe is taunting them. One of the clerics unturns six skeletons. Faust’s cleric spits on him, giving him a limpy leg. Tolinar interrupts another prayer with an arrow. The orc leader nearly kills Faust, but Eric siphons some hit points to him.
Talking Bird starts to skewer held orcs. Eric runs to defend Faust, hitting the weasel instead. He ends up getting stunned. Joe goes to defend him. The clerics begin to fall back, two out of bow range. Talking Bird pulls Eric back out of combat. Skierra sends the rest of the skeletons packing, giving the party opportunity to get to the orcs who’ve been holding back.
An evil cleric unturns eight of the skeletons. Nikolai gets taken down. Tolinar takes out his two orcs with arrows, as Talking Bird tends to his wounds. Pudic slaughters his orc as it attempts to withdraw.The evil clerics send 18 more skeletons back into the room. Skierra continues the turning combat with the evil clerics, sending five off. The rest get sent back by the clerics.
Skierra notices that a wounded cleric of Iuz is sneaking up on her to stab her from behind. He hits! She turns to defend herself. Now the last orcs (except the leader) are now dead. Skierra’s opponent spits but gets himself and falls over stunned. One of the cleric casts prayer.
Malkierian unfreezes and helps out Joe with his opponent. Unfortunately, he critically hits Joe instead, knocking him unconscious. Eric’s unseen servant ignites the oil spread over the floor. It kills a lot of skeletons in the first round. More die the next round. Pudic runs to help Skierra. She staples the cleric with her bow.
Tolinar moves to engage the orc chieftain. Eric’s unseen servant takes Talking Bird’s oil skin and start spraying oil at the remaining skeletons, killing them. Skierra and Pudic run around to get a better shot on the clerics. Eric follows them. Fluffy unfreezes and helps out with the chieftain. Nikolai gets taken out by the clerics’ spiritual blades.
Skierra’s group reaches the other end, and she starts shooting arrows at them. Malkierian positions himself to run up to the clerics once the fire dies down. The clerics reorient their spiritual blades on Skierra. Pudic joins the melee against the chieftain from the other side. Malikierian and Joe rush the clerics. They go down quickly. Tolinar strikes the killing blow on the chieftain. The cleric commands Malkierian to “dive.” Fortunately, he interprets it in his own favor and dives to the ground.
They drive off a bunch of women, children, and some male orcs. And they find the passage down. Eric has disappeared. The party heads down to the pool. Water flows in from two different directions and join in a large, shimmering pool of water with a faint purple shine to it.
Nikolai drinks: nothing happens.
Pudic drinks: nothing happens.
Tolinar drinks: He loses his voice, becomes very sick and falls over. He recovers, runs around the room, hits the wall, and explodes. He falls unconscious. Talking Bird heals him and brings him conscious. Tolinar’s senses are now painfully hyper-sensitive.
Malkierian drinks: his hair turns brown and his eyes glow red in the dark.
Talking Bird drinks: magical energy courses through his body. He extends his hand, and a red ball of energy appears. He throws it against the far wall. It cracks the wall and the wall starts glowing red.
Leaving Eric behind, the heroes head back to the village.
Eeps: 1363 each + mission bonus (if on one mission 100 eeps, if on two missions 200 eeps, three missions 400 eeps, if on all four 800 eeps).
In the morning, the heroes and see that the orcs have deserted. The cleric hasn’t come conscious yet. Eric reports that the glow on the walls faded after a couple hours.
With help from Eric’s moment spell . . .
Pudic bathes: Nothing happens
Nikolai drinks: nothing
Faust drinks: he freaks out like Tolinar did, which initiates his power. The room fills with mushrooms that explode, damaging everyone. He keeps the power, and the sensory effect goes away.
Joe bathes: He glows bright white like faerie fire. He releases the power against a wall. A shadow forms into a troll and obeys him. He keeps the power for now. The glow dissipates.
Eric drinks: he gains the ability to cast vanish
Skierra starts turning skeletons, while the party pushes into the room and attempts to form a fighting line. One of the human clerics casts hold person, catching Pudic and Joe. Fluffy and Tolinar charge forward to plug the resulting holes. Meanwhile, a female orc with extended pointy fingers advances through the throng. Talking Bird casts hold person on the cleric, catching him.
Two other clerics step forward and casts hold person, catching Malkierian, Fluffy, and Tolinar. Skierra casts dispel magic, releasing Pudic, Malkierian, and Tolinar. She also dispels four of the animated skeletons. Tolinar steps up to attack a cleric and stuns him. Pudic and Talking Bird kill the other two. Malkierian and Nikolai move forward to re-establish the fighting line.
Skierra sleeps eight of the orcs at the back of the room. Tolinar finishes off the third cleric. Skierra turns the two skeletons on Malkieiran, so he can focus on the weird female orc.
The rest of the orcs that were sleeping at the beginning of the combat have now awoken. The party sees that they are all weird. One is a beautiful female orc. All the males find her sexually attractive!! Another is a very buff female. The rest are funny-colored.
Seven of the skeletons that had been turned now return to the room. Looks like they got commanded to go back. The party is now mostly fighting orcs. Skierra casts an improved phantasmal force of a fireball at the back of the room, wiping out (in their minds) ten orcs (five are the special ones). Meantime, Eric (who had been skulking behind the party) sneaks up and casts charm person on an orog but it resists.
The beautiful female orc attacks Pudic. From the right passageway, a leader orc shows up with eight other orcs. From the left, another leader with three orcs shows up. From the opposite passage come two leaders with seven orcs. Skierra returns to turning skeletons. Faust starts killing sleeping orcs. The last remaining skeleton is destroyed, and now there are only ocs.
Eric suggests that the pointy-fingered orc go hunt down and kill the clerics of Iuz, and she obeys. The newly-arrived orcs are surprised that their compatriots are downed and start talking in orcish about how their sorcerous powers must have backfired on them. They are still holding the line, and now 11 skeletons return.
Skierra holds two orcs, including the very tough beautiful orc. Faust auto-kills one. Eric charms another orog to run off and follow the previous monsterous-she-orc in attack the followers of Iuz as the have enslaved the followers of "Old One Eye." Skierra goes back to turning undead. Joe slits the throat of the beautiful orc, again taunting the orcs in their own language.
Two more human clerics enter from the left passage with a leader and 22 orcs. One cleric casts hold person, but Nikolai sends a stone at his head, interrupting the spell. Fluffy, now free of the hold, switches places with Talking Bird. Skierra casts another illusionary fireball at the left passageway, and one cleric and all the normal orcs succumb. With almost all their leaders dead or gone, the orcs start to withdraw, allowing the skeletons to move up and engage the party. The remaining cleric casts hold person at Skierra and Nikolai, paralyzing Skierra. Eric withdraws from battle and turns five skeletons. Tolinar attacks the remaining cleric, bringing him near death and preventing any further spellcasting. The party starts to close ranks. Eric continues turning skeletons. The orcs decide to come back to fight.
The remaining cleric flees and gets attacked by the pointy-fingered orc in the far cavern. The heroes merely hear the screams. The party reforms into a more compact fighting line as fatigue starts to set in. Nine orcs and another cleric of Iuz show up from the right passage. The cleric spits at Nikolai, and he loses the use of his right leg. He falls to the ground. Joe jumps through the orcs to attack the cleric, stunning him.
Eric takes out the final leader with a shuriken to the head and starts on Nikolai’s orcs. Joe takes out the cleric and starts in on his orcs in the passage. The orcs flee from him, so he returns to the party. Faust kills off the last of the sleeping orcs. Meanwhile, Eric’s unseen servant (that he cast before) has been spreading oil over the downed orcs.
Meanwhile, the resting Pudic and Malkierian can’t seem to catch their breath. Skierra finally thaws from the hold and looks for some way to help out. So she starts firing arrows. Faust continues to kill off the unconscius enemies who succumbed to the illusionary fireballs.
The room is now cleared. The party slits the throats of all the special orcs. As they are doing that and getting some healing, they hear more orcs approaching. So they back out of the room and ignite the oil. That kills all the unconscious orcs and humans and most of the incoming orcs. It badly damages the rest, who flee back down their respective passages. After a minute, the fire dies down, and they continue on.
The heroes head down the opposite passageway into a massive cavern with a hole in the floor. The bodies of a number of dead orcs and clerics are here. There are also 36 skeletons, a burnt orcish leader, two burnt orogs, three burnt orcish leaders, six normal orcs, and four Iuz clerics (at the back).
Malkierian charges in as Skierra starts turning and Tolinar starts shooting at the clerics. Nikolai drops his oil for the unseen servant, while also Eric turns undead. Talking Bird casts hold person, catching two orcish leaders and an orog. The rest form a fighting line.
One cleric casts hold person, catching Malkierian and Fluffy. Two other holds also go off, but don’t catch anyone new. Tolinar interrupts one cleric casting prayer. Yay! Talking Bird casts another hold person, catching an orog and an orc leader. Tolinar interrupts the cleric’s spell . . . twice!
That cleric orders everyone to “grease the archer.” But the other clerics make a point of ignoring him. Another cleric casts hold person but catches no one. Another hold person fails against Joe. And another hold fails against Talking Bird. Faust runs up to engage one of the clerics. An arrow from Tolinar kills the commanding priest of Iuz. After Skierra clears off a large number of skeletons, the party expands their fighting line back out to protect Malkierian and Fluffy.
The orcs don’t seem very eager to engage the party, especially since Joe is taunting them. One of the clerics unturns six skeletons. Faust’s cleric spits on him, giving him a limpy leg. Tolinar interrupts another prayer with an arrow. The orc leader nearly kills Faust, but Eric siphons some hit points to him.
Talking Bird starts to skewer held orcs. Eric runs to defend Faust, hitting the weasel instead. He ends up getting stunned. Joe goes to defend him. The clerics begin to fall back, two out of bow range. Talking Bird pulls Eric back out of combat. Skierra sends the rest of the skeletons packing, giving the party opportunity to get to the orcs who’ve been holding back.
An evil cleric unturns eight of the skeletons. Nikolai gets taken down. Tolinar takes out his two orcs with arrows, as Talking Bird tends to his wounds. Pudic slaughters his orc as it attempts to withdraw.The evil clerics send 18 more skeletons back into the room. Skierra continues the turning combat with the evil clerics, sending five off. The rest get sent back by the clerics.
Skierra notices that a wounded cleric of Iuz is sneaking up on her to stab her from behind. He hits! She turns to defend herself. Now the last orcs (except the leader) are now dead. Skierra’s opponent spits but gets himself and falls over stunned. One of the cleric casts prayer.
Malkierian unfreezes and helps out Joe with his opponent. Unfortunately, he critically hits Joe instead, knocking him unconscious. Eric’s unseen servant ignites the oil spread over the floor. It kills a lot of skeletons in the first round. More die the next round. Pudic runs to help Skierra. She staples the cleric with her bow.
Tolinar moves to engage the orc chieftain. Eric’s unseen servant takes Talking Bird’s oil skin and start spraying oil at the remaining skeletons, killing them. Skierra and Pudic run around to get a better shot on the clerics. Eric follows them. Fluffy unfreezes and helps out with the chieftain. Nikolai gets taken out by the clerics’ spiritual blades.
Skierra’s group reaches the other end, and she starts shooting arrows at them. Malkierian positions himself to run up to the clerics once the fire dies down. The clerics reorient their spiritual blades on Skierra. Pudic joins the melee against the chieftain from the other side. Malikierian and Joe rush the clerics. They go down quickly. Tolinar strikes the killing blow on the chieftain. The cleric commands Malkierian to “dive.” Fortunately, he interprets it in his own favor and dives to the ground.
They drive off a bunch of women, children, and some male orcs. And they find the passage down. Eric has disappeared. The party heads down to the pool. Water flows in from two different directions and join in a large, shimmering pool of water with a faint purple shine to it.
Nikolai drinks: nothing happens.
Pudic drinks: nothing happens.
Tolinar drinks: He loses his voice, becomes very sick and falls over. He recovers, runs around the room, hits the wall, and explodes. He falls unconscious. Talking Bird heals him and brings him conscious. Tolinar’s senses are now painfully hyper-sensitive.
Malkierian drinks: his hair turns brown and his eyes glow red in the dark.
Talking Bird drinks: magical energy courses through his body. He extends his hand, and a red ball of energy appears. He throws it against the far wall. It cracks the wall and the wall starts glowing red.
Leaving Eric behind, the heroes head back to the village.
Eeps: 1363 each + mission bonus (if on one mission 100 eeps, if on two missions 200 eeps, three missions 400 eeps, if on all four 800 eeps).
In the morning, the heroes and see that the orcs have deserted. The cleric hasn’t come conscious yet. Eric reports that the glow on the walls faded after a couple hours.
With help from Eric’s moment spell . . .
Pudic bathes: Nothing happens
Nikolai drinks: nothing
Faust drinks: he freaks out like Tolinar did, which initiates his power. The room fills with mushrooms that explode, damaging everyone. He keeps the power, and the sensory effect goes away.
Joe bathes: He glows bright white like faerie fire. He releases the power against a wall. A shadow forms into a troll and obeys him. He keeps the power for now. The glow dissipates.
Eric drinks: he gains the ability to cast vanish
