Back at the intersection, the party wanders down the southern passage which open into a room of carnage. Blood and body parts a strewn about the room in an orgy of death and destruction. Two human heads, one male and one female, are the only clue of what might have happened here. The party continues on to the opposite passage which winds around to a trapped door. Daria, unusually on the ball, disarms the trap and opens the door.
The room is a giant 200-foot square descending down, like an inverted ziggurat. Like children in a playground the party makes a dash for the bottom, only to be interruped by two ambush drakes. While the effects of their vile breath only temporarily slowed the party, the poison in their bite proved less than effective. The party made quick work of the vile lizards and hurried down to the bottom of the ziggurat. A little bit of blood, and a quick turn of the lock and the party unlocks one of the doors in the bottom of the pit.
The next room radiates a holy aura so strong that Daria can't muster the will to enter. And when Rudolpho pushes her in, she turns green and is overwhelmed by nausea. Food, water, and an overwhelming sense of calm overwhelms the party. The water has curative powers and the party is quickly restore to top fighting prowess.
Moving on the party enters the temple of light and darkness. Atop the ziggurat in the large, cavernous room, stands Lord Khayven and Tellax. Exchanging long range magical artillery blows, the two sides finally close for combat. Lord Khayven survives Ortho's disintergrate only to be blasted apart by Hjalmgerdr's Bolt of Glory. Tellax, with his master destroyed and no way to protect the dread forge, slips the plane to fight another day. The geased party members can now find their release.
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Session Characters: Nesta, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nualla
Session Loot: Dread Anvil (to complete geas return to Riesaru Bonoro, 3rd Vector and High Priest of Fharlanghn in Monmug), +5 full plate, +3 frost greatsword, ring of protection +2, boots of speed, cloak of resistance +2, belt of giant strength +4, various gems totaling 1000 gp.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The party moves on to the twisting ramp which descends down over 100 feet. Daria easily finds and disarms the trap on the lone flat spot during the descent. The room at the end is full of couatl and Olman figures in bas-relief. There is a trough in the middle of the room with a familiar icky black goo. Moving on the party arrives at a four way intersection.
Northward, the party encounters a room with the warning "Revere the light, respect the guardian". The room contains ten sarcophagi, and like candy to a child, Daria starts on the lid of the nearest one. Immediately wraiths and their dread bretheren attack the party, defending the entrance to the guardian's chamber. After defeating the wraiths, the party opens the door and meet the guardian of the key of light. He opens with a numbing chain lighting bolt through the party, then manages to dominate Rudolpho to defend him. Vin in a valiant charge, whollops the guardian right before Rudy takes him down. Struggling the party also looses Ortho in combat, but finally manages to bring down the guardian. Hjalmgerdr revivifies Ortho, and the party teleports back to Farshore to get Vin's corpse back into service.
Returning to the temple, the party moves into the west corridor and is eventually confronted by another warning, "Revile the darkness, defeat the guardian". The sarcophagi are all open, and the room was already ransacked. Continuing over a plank and rope bridge, spanning a huge dark chasm, the party discovers a 30' square room with a table and an orb. As the party investigates, flaming arrows appear out of nowhere and nick Nesta. Ortho shouts "Shenanigans!" and proves the back wall to be an illusion. Behind the cover of magic lurk a Gelugon and an Erinyes. Gwendelyn wonders why devils are lurking in a demonic temple. The party makes quick work of their fiendish foes, and notes the other corpses on the throne and in the corner have been dead a while. A robed human and an angelic being apparently had been defeated earlier.
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Session Characters: Nesta, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nualla
Session Loot: spear +3, 3 ivory statues (100 gp each), 2000 gp, feathered staff of the Couatl (as staff of divination 50 charges) , magic halberd (etherblade), 250 gp diamond dust, 250 gp of ointment for true seeing, 1500 gp of ruby dust, scroll of plane shift.
Northward, the party encounters a room with the warning "Revere the light, respect the guardian". The room contains ten sarcophagi, and like candy to a child, Daria starts on the lid of the nearest one. Immediately wraiths and their dread bretheren attack the party, defending the entrance to the guardian's chamber. After defeating the wraiths, the party opens the door and meet the guardian of the key of light. He opens with a numbing chain lighting bolt through the party, then manages to dominate Rudolpho to defend him. Vin in a valiant charge, whollops the guardian right before Rudy takes him down. Struggling the party also looses Ortho in combat, but finally manages to bring down the guardian. Hjalmgerdr revivifies Ortho, and the party teleports back to Farshore to get Vin's corpse back into service.
Returning to the temple, the party moves into the west corridor and is eventually confronted by another warning, "Revile the darkness, defeat the guardian". The sarcophagi are all open, and the room was already ransacked. Continuing over a plank and rope bridge, spanning a huge dark chasm, the party discovers a 30' square room with a table and an orb. As the party investigates, flaming arrows appear out of nowhere and nick Nesta. Ortho shouts "Shenanigans!" and proves the back wall to be an illusion. Behind the cover of magic lurk a Gelugon and an Erinyes. Gwendelyn wonders why devils are lurking in a demonic temple. The party makes quick work of their fiendish foes, and notes the other corpses on the throne and in the corner have been dead a while. A robed human and an angelic being apparently had been defeated earlier.
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Session Characters: Nesta, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nualla
Session Loot: spear +3, 3 ivory statues (100 gp each), 2000 gp, feathered staff of the Couatl (as staff of divination 50 charges) , magic halberd (etherblade), 250 gp diamond dust, 250 gp of ointment for true seeing, 1500 gp of ruby dust, scroll of plane shift.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Ortho Challenge
I'm putting a bounty out for everyone, BYOO. Or, as it will soon be known, "Bring Your Own Ortho". 700xp for ANYONE submitting their own version of Ortho at 13th level. The "best" version of Ortho, subject to my review, will be given an additional 700xp, which will certainly raise them to 14th level.
There are no restrictions, paper or electronic, classes, geography, race, etc all.
All submissions must be in my hand by 1:00pm on Sunday 29th.
Have fun.
There are no restrictions, paper or electronic, classes, geography, race, etc all.
All submissions must be in my hand by 1:00pm on Sunday 29th.
Have fun.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Rudolpho, Rudolpho, wherefore art thou Rudolpho...
Rudolpho gets lost in Farshore, probably on a drinking binge, as the party returns to the fiendish oyster pond in the lower level of the temple. The party finds an underwater entrance to the temple and more underwater passages.
Daria sets out bravely treading through many waterfilled passages, only to be assaulted by a green slime. Quickly overcoming that predator, the party continues through the maze of passages in the lower level of the temple. Exploring a few side passage, disturbs an ochre jelly and the party quickly fights a tactical retreat until Hjalmgerdr and Ortho weaken the creature with various spells. Vin remembers his mace and rounds it out by smacking the jelly too. The jelly is no match for the party and falls before anyone can be gobbled.
Daria discovers a porcullis with a few torture tables behind it. With a combined effort the party cranks the porcullis open and search the room. Three elven victims are on tables, with only one being alive. Failing to detect any evil, Vin lays on hands. The elf maiden asks Vin to identify himself, and Vin tells the tale of the party's call to the island and now pursuit of the evil on taboo island. Vin gets a little twitchy when better light reveals that she is a sea elf. The elf maiden introduces herself as Nualla and says that she was party of an expedition of elves that were looking for Noltus Innersol. One of the deceased elves was a Pelorian cleric. Partially equipped and healed by Hjalmgerdr, Nualla wishes to continue with the party, searching of Noltus Innersol.
As the exploration continues, the party discovers a boiling pool. With a bit of energy resistance help from Hjalmgerdr, Vin swims down into the boiling pool and discovers a passageway into a new section further under the temple. Not wanting to engage the kopru by himself, Vin returns to the party and they resume exploring the current section of the temple.
After a long passageway the party finds a long spiral stairway going down. At a landing there was a door that a mosaic that Daria suspects there is a special key that will open it. The party went to other side of the landing and continued down another spiral stairway. At the bottom a huge demon guardian appears and assaults the party. The combat is swift and terrible. Daria, frustrated by not having the benefits of invisibility, cuts her way into the gut of the nalfeshnee and emerges with its heart still stabbing it with her dagger.
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Session characters: Vin, Gwen, Daria, Ortho, Nesta, Hjalmgerdr
Session loot: +2 human bane dagger [Nualla], 500 gp [[Daria]], 2 coral statues of fish with ruby eyes 1500 gp each, masterwork torture tools (+4 intimidate) 1500 gp [Daria], Olman clay tablet archives 2000 gp.
Daria sets out bravely treading through many waterfilled passages, only to be assaulted by a green slime. Quickly overcoming that predator, the party continues through the maze of passages in the lower level of the temple. Exploring a few side passage, disturbs an ochre jelly and the party quickly fights a tactical retreat until Hjalmgerdr and Ortho weaken the creature with various spells. Vin remembers his mace and rounds it out by smacking the jelly too. The jelly is no match for the party and falls before anyone can be gobbled.
Daria discovers a porcullis with a few torture tables behind it. With a combined effort the party cranks the porcullis open and search the room. Three elven victims are on tables, with only one being alive. Failing to detect any evil, Vin lays on hands. The elf maiden asks Vin to identify himself, and Vin tells the tale of the party's call to the island and now pursuit of the evil on taboo island. Vin gets a little twitchy when better light reveals that she is a sea elf. The elf maiden introduces herself as Nualla and says that she was party of an expedition of elves that were looking for Noltus Innersol. One of the deceased elves was a Pelorian cleric. Partially equipped and healed by Hjalmgerdr, Nualla wishes to continue with the party, searching of Noltus Innersol.
As the exploration continues, the party discovers a boiling pool. With a bit of energy resistance help from Hjalmgerdr, Vin swims down into the boiling pool and discovers a passageway into a new section further under the temple. Not wanting to engage the kopru by himself, Vin returns to the party and they resume exploring the current section of the temple.
After a long passageway the party finds a long spiral stairway going down. At a landing there was a door that a mosaic that Daria suspects there is a special key that will open it. The party went to other side of the landing and continued down another spiral stairway. At the bottom a huge demon guardian appears and assaults the party. The combat is swift and terrible. Daria, frustrated by not having the benefits of invisibility, cuts her way into the gut of the nalfeshnee and emerges with its heart still stabbing it with her dagger.
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Session characters: Vin, Gwen, Daria, Ortho, Nesta, Hjalmgerdr
Session loot: +2 human bane dagger [Nualla], 500 gp [[Daria]], 2 coral statues of fish with ruby eyes 1500 gp each, masterwork torture tools (+4 intimidate) 1500 gp [Daria], Olman clay tablet archives 2000 gp.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Update
A dose of violet fungus venom is worth 600 gp per dose.
Gwendelyn is resurrected and geased to recover the dread forge, for a mere 15000 gp.
Daria has a message from her underground contacts, she has a high profile contract waiting.
Lavinia misses Vin and arranges a special banquet in Farshore.
Gwendelyn is resurrected and geased to recover the dread forge, for a mere 15000 gp.
Daria has a message from her underground contacts, she has a high profile contract waiting.
Lavinia misses Vin and arranges a special banquet in Farshore.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
When the lights go out... in the temple...
Daria tracks the escaped demon to the entrance to the taboo temple. After a quick recoup, Ortho makes the first hop with part of the party and the Hezuru has buddied up with another demon in cavernous opening to the island. The huge worm-like demon at the entrance bellows out blasphemy and wobbles the party. Combat ensues and the Hezrou is the first to fall, and Ortho returns with the rest of the party. The entrance guardian blackens the area and Ortho counters with the light of Pelor. Badly wounded the wastrilith demon teleports away.
The party reorganizes and proceeds into the temple. Daria "finds" the symbol trap and its deadly energy shoots through the party. Daria, Rudolpho, Nesta endure the effect but Vin and Gwendelyn succumb to the power and die. Hjalmgerdr revivifies Vin, and Gwen is bundled up to be returned to town.
The party finishes its exploration of the entrance level, and takes on of the stairways down. Passing a landing the party arrives in a large cave, two feet of water. Large fiendish oysters are apparently cultivated in this room. Rudy manages to pry on open with some help and the oyster shrieks while it yields its prize, a large black pearl.
Large kopru, alerted by the schrieks, emerge into the cavern and assault the party. After they are defeated the party extracts four more pearls from the big oysters.
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Session Characters: Vin, Gwendelyn, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nesta
Session Loot: ivory olman statue (70 gp), 55 shards of obsidian (10 gp each), lapis lazuli mask (1100 gp), 5 amethyst (100 gp each), scepter (1450 gp), 5 feather cloaks (50 gp), 2 potions of cure moderate wounds, 6 gold bowls (200 gp each), pipes of pain (shaped as feathered snake), 4 chalices (500 gp each), 3 studded leather armor +3, 6 potions of flying, 5 black pearls (1000 gp each), 3 coral demogorgon statues (50 gp)
The party reorganizes and proceeds into the temple. Daria "finds" the symbol trap and its deadly energy shoots through the party. Daria, Rudolpho, Nesta endure the effect but Vin and Gwendelyn succumb to the power and die. Hjalmgerdr revivifies Vin, and Gwen is bundled up to be returned to town.
The party finishes its exploration of the entrance level, and takes on of the stairways down. Passing a landing the party arrives in a large cave, two feet of water. Large fiendish oysters are apparently cultivated in this room. Rudy manages to pry on open with some help and the oyster shrieks while it yields its prize, a large black pearl.
Large kopru, alerted by the schrieks, emerge into the cavern and assault the party. After they are defeated the party extracts four more pearls from the big oysters.
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Session Characters: Vin, Gwendelyn, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nesta
Session Loot: ivory olman statue (70 gp), 55 shards of obsidian (10 gp each), lapis lazuli mask (1100 gp), 5 amethyst (100 gp each), scepter (1450 gp), 5 feather cloaks (50 gp), 2 potions of cure moderate wounds, 6 gold bowls (200 gp each), pipes of pain (shaped as feathered snake), 4 chalices (500 gp each), 3 studded leather armor +3, 6 potions of flying, 5 black pearls (1000 gp each), 3 coral demogorgon statues (50 gp)
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