Post by David on Dec 3, 2012 15:26:35 GMT -5
After a lot of preparation and planning, a party made up of Saanau the Purple Witch of Klarr, Baron Moorak Drake of Amberwood, Tyris=Flare the Destroyer, Dobby, Cliffy Swiftfoot, Maedhros, Ichi, Torr Redlocke, Moonlight, Taarna, Tetsuko no Kuwahara, and Svala forms to attack Dorakaa, the City of Skulls and Capitol of Iuz. The mission: to kill 100 demons in a single day.
Moorak calls in a minor favor from Reifus the Paganhammer to provide the heroes with a nap spell on the shores of the Whyestil Lake. After casting many defensive and protective spells, the heroes get into Cliffy’s house for a short sleep. Then the elf, as the former host of the spirit of the great lake, calls upon those powers to water gate to Dorakaa, arriving at the defunct docks.
The scene is depressing and gloomy. A giant dark cloud over eight miles in diameter hangs over the city. The sensitive can feel the darkness reeking of great evil. The city is full of demons, undead, giants, orcs and dark-robed people. Cliffy comes ashore in the slave quarter. He slinks around to a shack and enters a building bringing the party out of the house inside the shack.
Moorak reveals that Iuz knows they’re here, because he can sense Iuz and the demi-god's powers must be at least reciprocal. The party heads straight to the Priest Quarter. Along the way, Torr imbibes his spectral elixir and Svala her potion of blurr. At the intersection is a large group of gnolls, orcs, and a troll. The troll and some gnolls charge. Tetsuko orders them to stop. They don’t listen, so she and Moorak (in the form of a withered old crone) take out the troll, which gives them pause. Moorak kills a gnoll, which convinces them to part and allow them the pass.
The enter the backyard of the temple and a group of five ogres challenges them. Moorak fireballs the monsters, and Ichi (hasted) and Tetsuko finish the ogres off in less than 10 seconds. The temple is guarded by more ogres and some zombies. Torr and Maedhros dust some zombies and Tyris=Flare turns some (they run off on a murderous spree). Moonlight casts rock to mud at the temple itself.
One of the ogres casts an illusionary fireball and becomes an orangutan-demon. No one is fooled by the illusion. Tetsuko kills the fiend and all the other foes are cleared out by the party. Meantime, the temple is melting into mud, killing a lot of priests inside. Moonlight casts another rock to mud at the second half of the temple. Meantime, a priest inside manages to halt the first spell with a dispel magic. Moorak follows up with an earthquake he casts from a staff. That finishes off the building.
Saanau tries to get a fix on Iuz with her wand but is unable to get sense him. A bunch of gnolls and orcs run up, but Tyris=Flare kills them with with an ice storm. Tetsuko reads a scroll of protection from magic. Six bar-ligura rush out to attack. One attempts to telekinese Tetsuko but the magic failes to work (excellent scroll use!).
The demons try to attack but run into the heroes' protections from evil. So a demon blankets the area with dispel magic, taking out a number of enchantments. Maedhros casts a prayer, which immediately and unquestioningly attracts Iuz’ attention. That said, the heroes finish off the demons very quickly.
An ogre fights its way out of the ruins of the temple. It gets quickly dispatched. Ten orogs also try to crawl from the ruins. Ichi, Tetsuko, and Moorak finish them off.
People start emerging from the other buildings around the courtyard. Two of them cast hold person but Torr’s magic resistance prevents one and they resist the other. Six ogres also emerge. Then three gargoyle-like demons fly in. With them are another demon and three ghasts. One demon tries to paralyze some party members but none succumb. The ghasts rush Maedhros and Cliffy. Another demon tries to attack that group but runs into Torr’s aura of protection.
Torr stuns one demon and the jumps and airwalks to a flying one to attack. Tetsuko drinks a potion of hill giant strength. The ghasts get turned by Maedhros while the other party members clear off ogres and evil humans. Tarrna beheads one of her ogres. Saanau lines up a lightning bolt to catch a building and the ghasts. She kills the ghasts but doesn’t damage the building.
Five ogres come out of a building and hurl spears at Saanau. More ogres crawl out of the rubble and a rutterkin shows up. Also joining in are four zombies, 16 skeletons, and four humans. One of the humans (a fighter) is already hasted and runs at Saanau. Five creatures that look like tentacled heads with bat wings fly in. The staff of Avanrakash warns Moonlight that they are very dangerous because their bites do NOT heal without very powerful magic.
One of the priests casts slay living at Saanau. The elven mage succumbs, but calls upon her boon from Death to forestalls her own demise...for now, although a minor death appears on the ethereal plane, awaiting the outcome of the battle and the time limit of Saanau's boon. The Purple Witch casts lightning bolt, killing the skeletons and stunning two male priests. But her bolt passes harmlessly around the zombies--jujus! Cliffy follows up with a fireball of his own, killing two male priests and the juju zombies.
Ichi really messes up the half-orc fighter. Torr finishes off the final nabassu. The half-orc bolts.. Ichi (who moves even faster) pursues him and cuts off his head. He then kills the two ogres standing nearby.
Four orog, four ogres, and a dozen orcs now arrive. Also coming in are a type II demon and three bar-ligura. Three babau also fly in. A few party members notice that a succubus is sitting on a nearby building watching the combat.
A bunch of orcs in the ruins try to attack Tyris=Flare, but ten get caught by her fear effect and run off. Only two are able to attack her. One babau tries to psychic crush Ichi but misses. Another casts dispel magic, taking out many enchantments, including Moorak’s anchor.
The priestess casts flame strike at Torr, Tarrna, and Moonlight, but the three are largely unharmed. A bar-ligura casts an illusionary fireball. Only Moonlight is fooled.
Since Moorak’s anchor is down, demons start teleporting in. Two succubi appear. Eight greater zombies also arrive. Tarrna starts attacking the priestess.Ten skeletons, eight juju zombies, and 15 zombies also show up. A bunch of priests join them. Tryis=Flare ice storms the orcs and orogs, killing all the orcs orogs and stunning the ogres. Tetsuko takes down the priestess and a bar-llgura.
Cliffy fireballs the undead/priest group, destroying the regular zombies and skeletons and damaging the others. Saanau casts acid bolt at the succubi but misses. Moorak casts doomblade on Torr and Torr takes his father's foes.
Moonlight casts sticks to snakes to take on the bar-llgura, while Ichi attacks physically and kills them. He then rushes over to engage the type II demon. Torr stuns the babau. The type II tries to teke Ichi, but the monk's training in Mad Monkey Fu allows him to resists.
A succubus attempts to suggest that Cliffy cast a fireball at his friends, but the elf resists. The zombies swarm the party. Two trolls arrive, taking acid damage from Saanau’s acid bolt residue. A rutterkin and a nabassu also arrive. Ichi kills the type II and starts on a babau.
Svala finishes off the rutterkin. Saanau casts acid bolt at the succubi again and hits this time. Tarrna takes on the trolls. Cliffy magic missiles a juju, but he doesn’t realize that they are immune. Moorak casts lightning bolt, killing three ogres and a rutterkin.
The trolls tear into Tarrna badly. The nabassu attempts to steal Moorak’s soul but fails. A succubus suggests that Ichi run to get help, but he resists. The succubus burning up with acid teleports away. The third succubus flies over the battle to another building.
Five ogres arrive, coming through Moonlight’s snakes, which attack them. Seven babau fly in. Saanau lightning bolts them, catching six. But magic resistance protects most of them and does only minimal damage to one.
Maedhros puts up another protection from evil 10’ and calls Moorak over to its protection. Ichi starts mowing through Moorak’s foes to clear him to cast spells. Once clear, Moorak steps over, casts firebreath and breathes dragonfire on the incoming babau, stunning five of them. The babau facing Ichi attempts to enfeeble him and fails. He also attempts to gate in something and also fails.
Svala gets caught in a hold person spell from one of the priests. The nabassue moves to menace Moorak. A babau tries to dispel magic on Moorak and fails. Another psychic crushes Moonlight and misses. Six ogres, two trolls, three vrocks, a marilith, and a black death squad (a priest, a mage, a fighter, and six orog) arrive. The succubus who teleported away earlier returns and watches from the roof.
Status:
Saanau: 65 (full), cast / / LBx2 / acidx2, standing NPP, 17 STR, PE, WP
Taarna: 27 of 92, standing PE, WP
Cliffy: 34 of 65, cast MMx2 / IMM / FBx2 AND watergate, standing NPP, 18+ STR
Maedhros: 36 (full), cast 6th / / prayer / prot e 10'r x2 AND / IMM, d.invis / anchor, standing PE
Svala: 91 (full), but HELD with standing STONESKIN and PE, WP
Moorak: 100 (full), cast doom / / anchor / / penetrate. fire, standing NPP, PNM, PE, WP
Moonlight: 61 of 105, cast / commune / / sticks / r2mx2, used snake-form, standing WP
Ichi: 73 (full), standing NPP, 18+ STR
Torr: 90 of 96, cast control vapor, standing PNM, NPP, 18/00 STR, one strike of Doomblade
Tyris=Flare: 74 (full)
Dobby: 50 (full), standing FP, NPP
Tetsuko: 69 (full), standing protection from magic and hill giant strength
Party's body count (includes what's on the map when we stopped):
Trolls: 5
Ogres: 29
Bar-llgura: 10
Gnolls: 14
Orcs: 35 (but three actually fled willingly and 12 more are feared)
Orog: 14
Skeletons: 26
Zombies: 15
Juju Zombies: 12
Ghasts: 3
1st lvl clerics: 8
2nd lvl clerics: 8
3rd lvl clerics: 3
4th lvl clerics: 1
5th lvl clerics: 2
Nabassu: 2
Babau: 10
Rutterkin: 4
Type II: 1
Succubi: 3
Vargouille: 5
Moorak calls in a minor favor from Reifus the Paganhammer to provide the heroes with a nap spell on the shores of the Whyestil Lake. After casting many defensive and protective spells, the heroes get into Cliffy’s house for a short sleep. Then the elf, as the former host of the spirit of the great lake, calls upon those powers to water gate to Dorakaa, arriving at the defunct docks.
The scene is depressing and gloomy. A giant dark cloud over eight miles in diameter hangs over the city. The sensitive can feel the darkness reeking of great evil. The city is full of demons, undead, giants, orcs and dark-robed people. Cliffy comes ashore in the slave quarter. He slinks around to a shack and enters a building bringing the party out of the house inside the shack.
Moorak reveals that Iuz knows they’re here, because he can sense Iuz and the demi-god's powers must be at least reciprocal. The party heads straight to the Priest Quarter. Along the way, Torr imbibes his spectral elixir and Svala her potion of blurr. At the intersection is a large group of gnolls, orcs, and a troll. The troll and some gnolls charge. Tetsuko orders them to stop. They don’t listen, so she and Moorak (in the form of a withered old crone) take out the troll, which gives them pause. Moorak kills a gnoll, which convinces them to part and allow them the pass.
The enter the backyard of the temple and a group of five ogres challenges them. Moorak fireballs the monsters, and Ichi (hasted) and Tetsuko finish the ogres off in less than 10 seconds. The temple is guarded by more ogres and some zombies. Torr and Maedhros dust some zombies and Tyris=Flare turns some (they run off on a murderous spree). Moonlight casts rock to mud at the temple itself.
One of the ogres casts an illusionary fireball and becomes an orangutan-demon. No one is fooled by the illusion. Tetsuko kills the fiend and all the other foes are cleared out by the party. Meantime, the temple is melting into mud, killing a lot of priests inside. Moonlight casts another rock to mud at the second half of the temple. Meantime, a priest inside manages to halt the first spell with a dispel magic. Moorak follows up with an earthquake he casts from a staff. That finishes off the building.
Saanau tries to get a fix on Iuz with her wand but is unable to get sense him. A bunch of gnolls and orcs run up, but Tyris=Flare kills them with with an ice storm. Tetsuko reads a scroll of protection from magic. Six bar-ligura rush out to attack. One attempts to telekinese Tetsuko but the magic failes to work (excellent scroll use!).
The demons try to attack but run into the heroes' protections from evil. So a demon blankets the area with dispel magic, taking out a number of enchantments. Maedhros casts a prayer, which immediately and unquestioningly attracts Iuz’ attention. That said, the heroes finish off the demons very quickly.
An ogre fights its way out of the ruins of the temple. It gets quickly dispatched. Ten orogs also try to crawl from the ruins. Ichi, Tetsuko, and Moorak finish them off.
People start emerging from the other buildings around the courtyard. Two of them cast hold person but Torr’s magic resistance prevents one and they resist the other. Six ogres also emerge. Then three gargoyle-like demons fly in. With them are another demon and three ghasts. One demon tries to paralyze some party members but none succumb. The ghasts rush Maedhros and Cliffy. Another demon tries to attack that group but runs into Torr’s aura of protection.
Torr stuns one demon and the jumps and airwalks to a flying one to attack. Tetsuko drinks a potion of hill giant strength. The ghasts get turned by Maedhros while the other party members clear off ogres and evil humans. Tarrna beheads one of her ogres. Saanau lines up a lightning bolt to catch a building and the ghasts. She kills the ghasts but doesn’t damage the building.
Five ogres come out of a building and hurl spears at Saanau. More ogres crawl out of the rubble and a rutterkin shows up. Also joining in are four zombies, 16 skeletons, and four humans. One of the humans (a fighter) is already hasted and runs at Saanau. Five creatures that look like tentacled heads with bat wings fly in. The staff of Avanrakash warns Moonlight that they are very dangerous because their bites do NOT heal without very powerful magic.
One of the priests casts slay living at Saanau. The elven mage succumbs, but calls upon her boon from Death to forestalls her own demise...for now, although a minor death appears on the ethereal plane, awaiting the outcome of the battle and the time limit of Saanau's boon. The Purple Witch casts lightning bolt, killing the skeletons and stunning two male priests. But her bolt passes harmlessly around the zombies--jujus! Cliffy follows up with a fireball of his own, killing two male priests and the juju zombies.
Ichi really messes up the half-orc fighter. Torr finishes off the final nabassu. The half-orc bolts.. Ichi (who moves even faster) pursues him and cuts off his head. He then kills the two ogres standing nearby.
Four orog, four ogres, and a dozen orcs now arrive. Also coming in are a type II demon and three bar-ligura. Three babau also fly in. A few party members notice that a succubus is sitting on a nearby building watching the combat.
A bunch of orcs in the ruins try to attack Tyris=Flare, but ten get caught by her fear effect and run off. Only two are able to attack her. One babau tries to psychic crush Ichi but misses. Another casts dispel magic, taking out many enchantments, including Moorak’s anchor.
The priestess casts flame strike at Torr, Tarrna, and Moonlight, but the three are largely unharmed. A bar-ligura casts an illusionary fireball. Only Moonlight is fooled.
Since Moorak’s anchor is down, demons start teleporting in. Two succubi appear. Eight greater zombies also arrive. Tarrna starts attacking the priestess.Ten skeletons, eight juju zombies, and 15 zombies also show up. A bunch of priests join them. Tryis=Flare ice storms the orcs and orogs, killing all the orcs orogs and stunning the ogres. Tetsuko takes down the priestess and a bar-llgura.
Cliffy fireballs the undead/priest group, destroying the regular zombies and skeletons and damaging the others. Saanau casts acid bolt at the succubi but misses. Moorak casts doomblade on Torr and Torr takes his father's foes.
Moonlight casts sticks to snakes to take on the bar-llgura, while Ichi attacks physically and kills them. He then rushes over to engage the type II demon. Torr stuns the babau. The type II tries to teke Ichi, but the monk's training in Mad Monkey Fu allows him to resists.
A succubus attempts to suggest that Cliffy cast a fireball at his friends, but the elf resists. The zombies swarm the party. Two trolls arrive, taking acid damage from Saanau’s acid bolt residue. A rutterkin and a nabassu also arrive. Ichi kills the type II and starts on a babau.
Svala finishes off the rutterkin. Saanau casts acid bolt at the succubi again and hits this time. Tarrna takes on the trolls. Cliffy magic missiles a juju, but he doesn’t realize that they are immune. Moorak casts lightning bolt, killing three ogres and a rutterkin.
The trolls tear into Tarrna badly. The nabassu attempts to steal Moorak’s soul but fails. A succubus suggests that Ichi run to get help, but he resists. The succubus burning up with acid teleports away. The third succubus flies over the battle to another building.
Five ogres arrive, coming through Moonlight’s snakes, which attack them. Seven babau fly in. Saanau lightning bolts them, catching six. But magic resistance protects most of them and does only minimal damage to one.
Maedhros puts up another protection from evil 10’ and calls Moorak over to its protection. Ichi starts mowing through Moorak’s foes to clear him to cast spells. Once clear, Moorak steps over, casts firebreath and breathes dragonfire on the incoming babau, stunning five of them. The babau facing Ichi attempts to enfeeble him and fails. He also attempts to gate in something and also fails.
Svala gets caught in a hold person spell from one of the priests. The nabassue moves to menace Moorak. A babau tries to dispel magic on Moorak and fails. Another psychic crushes Moonlight and misses. Six ogres, two trolls, three vrocks, a marilith, and a black death squad (a priest, a mage, a fighter, and six orog) arrive. The succubus who teleported away earlier returns and watches from the roof.
Status:
Saanau: 65 (full), cast / / LBx2 / acidx2, standing NPP, 17 STR, PE, WP
Taarna: 27 of 92, standing PE, WP
Cliffy: 34 of 65, cast MMx2 / IMM / FBx2 AND watergate, standing NPP, 18+ STR
Maedhros: 36 (full), cast 6th / / prayer / prot e 10'r x2 AND / IMM, d.invis / anchor, standing PE
Svala: 91 (full), but HELD with standing STONESKIN and PE, WP
Moorak: 100 (full), cast doom / / anchor / / penetrate. fire, standing NPP, PNM, PE, WP
Moonlight: 61 of 105, cast / commune / / sticks / r2mx2, used snake-form, standing WP
Ichi: 73 (full), standing NPP, 18+ STR
Torr: 90 of 96, cast control vapor, standing PNM, NPP, 18/00 STR, one strike of Doomblade
Tyris=Flare: 74 (full)
Dobby: 50 (full), standing FP, NPP
Tetsuko: 69 (full), standing protection from magic and hill giant strength
Party's body count (includes what's on the map when we stopped):
Trolls: 5
Ogres: 29
Bar-llgura: 10
Gnolls: 14
Orcs: 35 (but three actually fled willingly and 12 more are feared)
Orog: 14
Skeletons: 26
Zombies: 15
Juju Zombies: 12
Ghasts: 3
1st lvl clerics: 8
2nd lvl clerics: 8
3rd lvl clerics: 3
4th lvl clerics: 1
5th lvl clerics: 2
Nabassu: 2
Babau: 10
Rutterkin: 4
Type II: 1
Succubi: 3
Vargouille: 5
