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| Evil Tapestry depicts Ape Demons ravaging Verdant Meadows |
2 Cultists - 400
1 Ape Demon - 1800
4 Cultists - 800
Telekinetic Green Jelly - 2700
Total: 5700/3 = 1900 to Hakeem
Exploration: +400
Total: 2300 to Hakeem.
Hakeem, Barbarian LEVEL 6>7 XP 2300+23217/34000
PLAYERS NOT PRESENT
Bjornalf Brighteyes Warlock LEVEL 6 XP 19970/23000
Rey Rogue LEVEL 6 XP 17015/23000
NEW START LEVEL: 5 (HEROIC TIER)
Osgar Dominated & Captured by Azure Lion after throwing mace through Teleportal.
Leave the Caves, kill last 2 Cultist guards minding the horses. North through woods. Short Rest to afternoon at Farmer Barin's house. Plan to return to Clear Meadows and free Sister Tamara from Gaol.
8:30am 2015-5-22 Smon Has entered the room
8:30am 2015-5-22 chris107 Has entered the room
chris107: Morning Simon
Smon: Hi Chris
Smon: Atherton playing?
chris107: He is
Smon: cool
chris107: Just putting his tea on.
chris107: Just been trying to explain Carry On films to 'mericans. Not an easy task.
Smon: I got a bit stressed trying to print a sheet for my 4e game, printer refusing to cooperate - just calming down now.
Smon: I eventually managed to c/p text onto blog & asked player to print for me.
chris107: Hey, take you're time. I've got all weekend. Laid up with Gout
Smon: Reminds me why I prefer Classic or 5e.
8:33am 2015-5-22 atherton Has entered the room
Smon: Hi ath
atherton: Hi Simon
Smon: Best wishes for your gout Chris
chris107: Hi again Athers.
atherton: I've just realised I've forgotten mums pills
atherton: back in 5-10 minutes
Smon: fine
chris107: Go get Mum sorted out you rotter!
Smon: I could do w 5-10 mins to chill
chris107: Did you see my Primal Champion post Simon?
Smon: *eek*
Smon: Just did.
chris107:
chris107: How 'Conan' is that?!
chris107: Though I doubt it's likely to become an issue in my lifetime!
Smon: Funny how I never read the really high level powers until just now...
Smon: I am actually really hoping to take this game all the way to 20th.
Smon: It seems to have a lot of legs.
Smon: Hakeem will need to learn more battle wisdom if he's to make it that far, though.
chris107: That would be pretty cool. The background sort of lends itself to high adventure.
Smon: Yep.
chris107: Lots of things to get ones teeth into. Just got to stay alive!
Smon: There is tons of stuff suitable for Level 17-20+ play, especially around Viridistan is very high-powered.
chris107: I think going from 1st and Classic the sheer numbers give a certain sense of bravado.
Smon: 20 is max level, but beyond 20 you get 'Epic Boons' 1 per 30,000 XP, the system looks very playable.
Smon: The monster numbers are up, too.
chris107: A kind of "I have 71HP?! I must be unbeatable!" Mentality at first.
Smon: Yeah.
chris107: Yeah, even I'm learning that. Slowly
chris107: But I do like my fantasy to be heroic.
Smon: Compared to other editions, masses of low level opponents remain very dangerous. You can beat a squad of orcs but you need to play smart & use the terrain.
chris107: Played the same skulking character for 34 years. Yeah they thrive but I get such joy playing heroes
Smon: And enemy wizards are as deadly as ever.
chris107: Yeah, I need to learn the advantage rules for numbers.
Smon: I love Hakeem but I hope he listens to Malenn.
chris107: Even the horrid Joseph
chris107: I thought I chose the terms for handing back Demonslayer pretty well. Just hope it doesn't turn him all 'demonic'.
Smon: You did have him fairly worried.
Smon: And I think 5e suits your style very well, with the way PCs can be taken to 0 but survive and recover.
chris107: It's the classic 'if I get my hands round your scrawny neck wizard' stuff
Smon: You were still very lucky to escape the slave wagon, though - don't rely on luck!
chris107: But the Magic Missiles alone had me knowing I was backing a looser there.
Smon: Demonslayer - yup.
Smon: Been chatting a bunch with the author of Liberation, he's been sending me free stuff and getting a misprinted book replaced.
chris107: Wow, that's cool.
Smon: For a Cthulu worshipper he seems a nice guy.
atherton: ok back
chris107: I don't have any idea what were doing so it's all just nuts to me. Lots of fun
Smon: GM: ok so at the end of last session your PCs had accompanied the Town Guard, Rey Bjornalf & Malenn into the Caves, searching for the cultists.
chris107: just going to take you into the kitchen. My sausage are ready.
Smon: You met the Elves Thadeus & Glevina.
Smon: Glevina then Fireballed the guards...
Smon: Rey killed Father Ulfic, Glevina finished Captain Jeremiah with a magic missile.
Smon: Turned out the guards & Ulfic were all K'tulu cultists, Malenn confirmed the corruption on them.
Smon: If you've not read the last session blog I suggest you give it a skim.
chris107: I read it
Smon: Rey & Bjornalf persuaded Thadeus & Glevina to come with you down a secret trapdoor to the lower levels.
atherton: where was I during this?
Smon: Watching.
atherton: sounds very like me
atherton: probably munching on iron rations
Smon: Probably recovering from hangover from last night at the Shark's Tooth Inn in Clear Meadows.
Smon: More likely delicious breakfast leftovers from the Inn.
atherton: well Osgar will eat anything within reason
Smon: Party is about to head down spiral stairway to the lower levels.
atherton: he didn't attain to that girth without a lot of hard work
Smon: Hakeem, Malenn, Osgar, Thadeus, Glevina. Rey & Bjornalf to rear.
atherton: ok I lick the last of the bacon juices off my fingers
atherton: I'll take a torch and use my falchion
Smon: The Elves are looking for a way through the flooded levels to exit this part of the Megadungeon and get back to their home world/plane/dimension.
chris107: with their nifty packs
Smon: Handy Haversacks
chris107:
Smon: gonna be 5 mins to start sorry
atherton: no worries
chris107: no probs. I'm munching on a huge sausage sandwich anyway. tough to type
atherton: I should check my stew
Smon: I'm getting some Bulgarian Breakfast...
chris107: Vodka?
Smon: No, greasy pastries
chris107: yum
Smon: Thadeus & Glevina - http://smonstats.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/elf-heroes.html
Smon: Eating sausage & gherkin pastry, *yum*
chris107: glad they're on our side
atherton: back, stews simmering
atherton: woah, high level
chris107: I feel we will need 'em Dave.
atherton: first time I've seen an asian elf
Smon:
Smon: Took a while to find pics resembling the ones in the adventure, which aren't online.
atherton: the thing she's wearing is almost identical to the thing the young lady sitting next to me at lunch was wearing
Smon:
atherton: and its supposed to be winter
chris107:
chris107: One of the great things about Runelords was that there were so many great images on the interwebs.
Smon: yup
Smon: nearly ready...
chris107: The blog helps keep us all in the same experience. A shared and common place even though we are hundreds or even thousands of miles apart
Smon:
Smon: ok, ready!
atherton: whats happened to Boredom Chris?
atherton: oops ready
atherton: I take a torch in my left, sword in my right
chris107: ready (and don't know Dave)
Smon: GM: You descend the spiral stairs down from the Banquet Hall, nearly 30'.
Smon: (he got Bored?)
Smon: Emerging into the centre of a good sized chamber that narrows to the east. A single door is set in the east wall at the narrowest point.
Smon: Rey checks the door for traps then opens it.
atherton: is the room furnsihed?
atherton: ok guess we're not stopping
Smon: (no, was empty). Beyond the doorway a short 10' passage opens out into the west wall of a large, 8-sided chamber with 3 other exits in the N, S & E walls. The walls are hung with tapestries.
Smon: This chamber looks a lot more interesting...
atherton: I'll gingerly enter and study the tapestries
chris107: got it.
atherton: if they look safe to handle, I'll take them down and examine the walls behind them
Smon: The south exit is blocked by a door set in a 10' deep recess. The door bulges inwards towards you, and a stream of water is flowing from under the door, north across the chamber and exiting through the north archway.
chris107: What do the tapesteries depict?
chris107: (hehe I seem to remember Tor and Moffet been washed away in a place like this )
atherton: we might want to be quick!
Smon: The tapestries are long, thick and darkly hued. They depict epic battles of years gone by - Irig defending Clear Meadows from the Gnolla; Belaras casting down the Death Priests of Thracia; Dyson Logos driving the Deathwalkers from the surface world...
atherton: ok nevermind the walls behind the tapestries
chris107: "Mmmmm the civilized folk would pay well for these..."
atherton: "north or east Hakeem, choose swiftly friend"
chris107: East
atherton: I roll the tapestries up
atherton: I open the east door, torch in the left hand, rolled up tapestry slung over the right
atherton: sword sheathed obviously
Smon: (Hold on!) They are each about 20' long, 12' high, and no way are you getting any in a backpack. Just removing them from the wall would be a major undertaking.The one on the south-east wall catches your attention...
chris107: H piles the rest up the spiral staircase to stop them getting wet then will hurry to cath Os up.
chris107: Okay
atherton: ok never mind the tapestries then
chris107: Maybe he won't.
Smon: (& there is no east door, just an archway & tunnel which looks like it ends at a dead end)
atherton: as before, but with sowrd and torch
atherton: I tap at the dead end, hoping to hear an echo
Smon: The stream looks to have been flowing for a long time, there seems no imminent danger unless you mess with the south door.
chris107: Cool
Smon: (please wait while I finish description)
chris107: H looks at the interesting tap
Smon: The south-east tapestry is particularly graphic and lewd. It features shaggy ape-like demons destroying a human town.
chris107: Boo!
atherton: "better watch out for shaggy ape demon ahead Hakeem"
atherton: I open the north door
Smon: The buildings burn as farmers and merchants die by the claws of the infernal fiends. Other demons busy themselves raping the women trying to escape.
chris107: There isn't one
Smon: (there is no north door, *sigh*)
atherton: and no east door
chris107: @ Simon, does this elicit any response from Demonslayer?
chris107: just archways ath
Smon: This tapestry in particular attracts attention because of an obvious blood stain cutting across the front, as if adding to the gruesome havoc shown in the imagery.
chris107: Like the tapestry is a living thing?
Smon: Demonslayer: "That was before I was forged - the destruction of Verdant Meadows...."
chris107:
atherton: ok up the north passage then
chris107: (Talking swords are soooo cool )
chris107: Hang on Os!
Smon: Hakeem studies the tapestry. Odd... two cloaked figures in the foreground, rolling a rust-iron "egg" about 5' long by 3' high towards the viewer.
chris107: H would like to look a bit more.
atherton: "do you want to burn the tapestry Hakeem?"
Smon: They wear robes just like the cultists you have encountered, and the same iron masks.
chris107: 5 mins guys work
Smon: As Hakeem watches again, it seems the two figures and the 'egg' are suddenly closer...
Smon: As if they were about to 'leave' the picture and enter the room with you!
Smon: The nearby demons are ignoring them.
atherton: "lets burn the tapestry Hakeem"
atherton: "no reason to leave it be"
Smon: The octagonal chamber itself is about 50' across.
atherton: "plenty of room here, the other tapestries will just smell a bit smokey is all"
chris107: Guys got to duck out for 10 minutes. I got an irate client on the line. Use H as you will.
Smon: The north archway leads to a tunnel heading north as far as you can see, the narrow stream flowing down it. Did Os want to look behind one of the tapestries or otherwise interact with them?
atherton: no
atherton: time to plough on I think
Smon: LOL
atherton: we'd head down the north tapestry
Smon: ???
atherton: umm
atherton: north tunnel
atherton: freudian slip there
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 11, (+4) = 5
Smon: heh
Smon: Looking down the north tunnel, in the far distance Osgar can see a faint green glow, like the energy crystal Bjornalf took from the Roper cavern.
Smon: Glevina is studying the south-east Tapestry. "This tapestry is magical - some kind of Conjuration I think..."
atherton: ok I lead the way, marching swiftly down the tunnel away from the accursed tapestry room
Smon: Os starts north, the others don't follow, they are looking at the strange tapestry.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 33,
Smon: The glow ahead is shifting from green to red.
atherton: ok I jog (slowly) down towards the red glow
atherton: "c'mon Hakeem" I shout over my shoulder
Smon: Os passes side alcoves after 20'. After another 80' of tunnel, the north passage opens out into a great hall running east-west. It's 30' wide n-s, with the passage continuing north opposite, the stream running across the Hall.
Smon: Pillars set at 20' intervals run down the centre of the great hall, lit by glowing gemstones in the arched ceiling some 20' above.
Smon: Are you entering the chamber?
atherton: ok I investigate the new hall. Is the glow from here or further ahead?
Smon: Pillars set at 20' intervals run down the centre of the great hall, lit by glowing gemstones in the arched ceiling some 20' above.
Smon: Os steps out into the great hall.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 55,
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 22,
Smon: The hall runs some 170' east-west, you have come out about 70' from the eastern end.
Smon: At the east end it narrows to a tunnel running out east.
Smon: To the west 2 more tunnels exit from north and south walls, both about 40' from the flat western wall of the hall.
atherton: ok, well I think I do a circuit of the hall
Smon: which direction?
atherton: just to see if there's anything interesting
atherton: east first and then back to the west
Smon: Os heads east.
atherton: I'll look down each of the tunnels
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 33,
Smon: You reach the eastern exit from the dimly lit hall. A tunnel runs east some 30' from the hall, ending in an ornate brass-bound set of double doors.
chris107: Back, sorry about that. The lady renting one of our houses (@ £4K/month) has sewerage coming in!
atherton: sounds liek a but of a worry Chris
Smon: A bas relief on the brass-bound doors depicts some kind of winged vampire toad thing, triumphant over the prostrate form of a human knight.
Smon: Back to Hakeem...
atherton: ooh sounds interesting
atherton: I push the doors open
9:42am 2015-5-22 Eliana Has entered the room
chris107: H is a bit disturbed why we are not inspecting the enchanted tapestery more.
Smon: Hakeem, as you regard the lewd tapestry, the two figures rolling the 'egg' seem to get closer again so that now they fill much of the lower half of the picture, practically life size.
*Eliana sneaks in using her sleepers of silence....*
chris107: If the elf thought it worth inspection?...
chris107: Hi Eli
Smon: Everyone except Os is watching the tapestry.
Eliana: (Hi!)
Smon: Os with his usual wisdom wandered off alone...
chris107: H points Demonslayer at the figures.
Smon: Glevina gasps. "Look out, it's an Interdimensional Temporal Portal!!"
Smon: *crash!*
chris107: Does he sense anything?
chris107: I guess he does
Smon: With a titanic bang the Egg rolls right out of the tapestry at Hakeem!
Smon: Hakeem DEX save, Barbarian advtg.
chris107: Hakeem strikes the cursed thing!
atherton: Hi Eli
chris107 Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
3 (+5) = 8
7 (+5) = 12
Smon: Following the egg come the two masked & robed aberrant cultists...
Smon: 12 is pass, Hakeem leaps aside before the iron egg can crush his legs, striking at the rusty egg... roll to hit
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 77, (+6) = 13
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 1414, (+6) = 20
Eliana: (Hi!)
Smon: Deep in the dungeon, Os approaches the double doors when he hears the crash of iron on stone in the distance behind him.
Smon: (hi Eli!)
chris107: Just checking here...
Smon: Hakeem hits the egg 2 blows, roll dmg
atherton: ok well I guess I run back then
chris107: +3 str. +3 prof bonus, +1 sword?
Smon: yup.
Smon: no
Smon: You don't add prof bonus to dmg!
chris107 rolls 4d6+8 and gets: 55, 55, 44, 44, (+8) = 26
chris107: oops
chris107: =3=3=2
Smon: 4d6+8 is right
chris107: =8
Smon: 2d6+4 per hit
chris107:
chris107: yup
chris107: This makes Hakeem focus his rage next round
Smon: The egg cracks open, foul green amniotic fluid pouring across the floor. Inside the egg a furry black ape-demon thing like the ones in the tapestry stirs to life...
chris107: "Grrrrr!"
chris107: H hacks at the thing with Demonslayer with all his might.
Smon: The two cultists who have just emerged from the tapestry gasp in horror: "Blasphemers!" and raise their maces...
Smon: init, PCs first:
Smon: /roll d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
5 = 5
7 = 7
chris107: +2 for H if it helps?
Smon: (I'll assume Rey & Bjornalf are still checking out the empty stairwell chamber)
Smon: The furry demon has awoken and is climbing out of the shattered remnants of its egg-cyst.
Smon: /roll d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
16 = 16
14 = 14
Smon: Thadeus & Glevina strike before the 2 cultists can act.
Smon: Thadeus with sword...
Smon: /roll d20+9x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+9x2 and gets:
11 (+9) = 20
15 (+9) = 24
Smon: He stabs a man twice, he drops dead.
Smon: Glevina magic missiles the second.
Smon: /roll 3d4+3
Smon rolls 3d4+3 and gets: 11, 33, 22, (+3) = 9
Smon: He's still up.
Smon: He swings his mace at Hakeem (simultaneous w H attack):
chris107: Nice work Thadeus
chris107: ac16
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 44, (+4) = 8
chris107: (H is attacking the ape demon by the way)
Smon: misses.
chris107: Yeah!
Smon: Malenn yells and strikes the cultist:
Smon: /roll d20+5x2
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
9 (+7) = 16
20 (+7) = 27
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
5 (+5) = 10
2 (+5) = 7
Smon: she is parried.
Smon: demon AC 15, 2 hits raging, yes?
chris107: yes
chris107: 4d6+18?
Smon: ok, reg damage but Kalthalax adds +2d6 dmg/hit vs demons
chris107: 6d+12
Smon: 4d6+6 per hit
chris107: 10d6+12?
chris107: one crit
Smon: right... well the 2d6 > 4d6 on a crit...
chris107 rolls 10d6+12 and gets: 33, 22, 44, 33, 11, 55, 33, 11, 44, 33, (+12) = 41
Smon: 4d6+6 and then 8d6+6
Smon: roll 2 more d6
chris107 rolls 2d6 and gets: 33, 33, = 6
Smon: 47 dmg
chris107: 47 damage then
Smon: It looks angry now.
chris107: so does H
Smon: Osgar is Dashing back... he started off 200' away from the chamber, so 60x4=240', 4 rounds for him to get back.
chris107: "Osgar?!"
Smon: (he's just lucky he didn't get eaten by a grue after wandering off...)
atherton: "what, why?"
atherton: I attack the demon
atherton rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 1212, (+5) = 17
Smon: Os is currently running through the lit hall.
Smon: He can't see any demon.
atherton: oh ok
Smon: (& next time maybe think twice about wandering off like that, you seem extra scatty today)
Smon: GM: The ape-demon lunges at Hakeem, slavering...
atherton: the rest of them should have followed me
chris107: "Urgghhh!"
Smon: Reckless Attack, it gets & grants advantage. (:D)
Smon: 2 fists & 1 bite
Smon: /roll 1d20+7x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
13 (+7) = 20
12 (+7) = 19
chris107: this is going to hurt.
Smon: /roll d20+7x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
3 (+7) = 10
6 (+7) = 13
Smon: /roll d20+7x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
17 (+7) = 24
6 (+7) = 13
Smon: 1 fist slam, & 1 bite
chris107: Berserk!!!!!!!!!!!
Smon: /roll d10+4
Smon rolls 1d10+4 and gets: 99, (+4) = 13
Smon: /roll 2d6+4
Smon rolls 2d6+4 and gets: 55, 33, (+4) = 12
Smon: 25/2=12 dmg
chris107: halved for rage?
chris107: 59/71HP
Smon: Thadeus attacks the cultist...
Smon: /roll d20+9x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+9x2 and gets:
2 (+9) = 11
18 (+9) = 27
Smon: one hit, Thadeus fells the wounded cultist.
Smon: H can attack the ape-demon
chris107: 3 attacks with advantage
Smon: ok
Smon: ac 15
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
8 (+7) = 15
7 (+7) = 14
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
7 (+7) = 14
18 (+7) = 25
Smon: hold there
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
20 (+7) = 27
17 (+7) = 24
Smon: don't roll last one
chris107: oops
Smon: I want to be kind to you because if you Berserk unnecessarily you've Fatigued yourself for no reason.
chris107: was busy, head down typing
Smon: roll dmg on the first 2
chris107: cool
Smon: rem you do 4d6+4/hit
chris107 rolls 8d6+12 and gets: 33, 44, 55, 66, 22, 44, 55, 22, (+12) = 43
Smon: Demonslayer glows brightly as it Slays the Demon.
chris107: Yeah!
chris107: "Die Hell Spawn!" Cries Hakeem!
Smon: Silence falls... 18 seconds later Osgar comes huffing & puffing back into the chamber.
Smon: Thadeus looks at Os and raises an eyebrow archly.
chris107: H is covered in demon gore
Smon: Thadeus turns to Hakeem. "Nice sword you've got there." "Thank you" says Demonslayer, smugly.
atherton: any cultists still alive?
chris107: "Hey Os, where you been?"
Smon: Thadeus killed them both.
chris107: hehe
Smon: He wipes his sword clean on their purple robes.
chris107: And the tapestery now?
chris107: still magical? Any more coming?
Smon: The egg & cultists are no longer 'in' the picture.
Eliana: See you all later
chris107: If not H will carfully clean Demonslayer
atherton: "up at the next hall, there's some bronze doors with a vampire frog engraved on them"
10:10am 2015-5-22 Eliana Has exited the room
atherton: "well a vampire frog sitting on a knight"
atherton: I loot the cultists bodies
chris107: "Nice."
Smon: It seems slightly different now, the ape-demons have gathered their female victims to the town square and are engaging in a grotesque orgy amongst the gore of the slaughtered menfolk.
Smon: /roll 4d6
Smon rolls 4d6 and gets: 55, 22, 66, 11, = 14
chris107: Hakeems hatred for Demons and Wizards deepes.
chris107: deepens
Smon: Os finds 14gp on the cultists, they have maces and chain shirts under purple robes.
atherton: I hold my torch up the burn the demons in the tapestry
chris107: "Can you send me back into the tapestery to put an end to this?"
atherton: until they can no longer be seen
Smon: Their iron masks seem stapled to their twisted flesh.
atherton: take the gold, can't see any point in taking the maces
Smon: Os raises his torch to the tapestry... there is a flash of purple-black light and he vanishes from the chamber.
chris107: "Maybe not now Os has burned it all up?"
Smon: Hakeem sees Os appear in the Tapestry, demons turning in his direction...
chris107: "Mmmmmm"
atherton: I run for Hakeem!
atherton: or in the same direction that the cultists ran
Smon: Os takes a step back *flash* he appears back in the room beside Hakeem.
chris107: H looks at the elves and Malenn. "I can't leave him there alone!"
Smon: Glevina: "The Tapestry can protect itself..."
atherton: "then we should go"
Smon: "If you touch it or try to harm it it will send you through."
chris107: Are more demons heading our way?
atherton: dinner time
atherton: back in a while
Smon: Several are now depicted looking in your direction, out of the tapestry.
chris107: See you Dave.
Smon: Some have headed over your way.
chris107: Do they appear to be trying to get through?
Smon: Whatever kept them from noticing the cultists clearly did not apply to Os.
Smon: Not really.
Smon: After a minute or so they are depicted again ravaging the helpless womenfolk.
chris107: "Malenn, can you sense their presence? Should I go in and slay the foul things forever?"
Smon: Malenn: "I can only sense the Tapestry... it is Unclean."
chris107: H's tiny brain struggles with issues of time and place.
Smon: Glevina: "Barbarian, darling, there are dozens of those demons in the picture! They'll eat you up!"
chris107: "Demonslayer, can you destroy this foul work?"
Smon: Kalthalax: "Hmm...."
chris107: H doesn't count well past 3. One, two, three, many foes to slay
Smon: Kalthalax: "Clearly your petty mortal magic is of no avail against such dark sorcery."
Smon: Kalthalax: "Perhaps I could be employed as the Energy Focus of a Ritual Whereby this Daemonic Rift in the Space-Time Continuum is Seared and Sealed?"
chris107: "Erm....sure Kalthalax."
Smon: Glevina: "Great idea! What a clever sword! How do we do that?"
Smon: Kalthalax: "You tell me."
chris107:
chris107: H's brain starts to steam with the concepts...
Smon: Glevina: "Hmmm..." she studies the tapestry with her arcane energies, calling Bjornalf in to assist her.
Smon: /roll d20+9
Smon rolls 1d20+9 and gets: 1616, (+9) = 25
Smon: They confer for some time.
chris107: nice roll
Smon: Glevina: "An evil K'tuluesque Ritual was cast on this Tapestry by a High Priest, opening the Rift. As long as he lives, it can draw power from his sacrifices to power it... We need to find him and kill him. Or you do, anyway!"
Smon: Thadeus: "Yes, this is scarcely our concern."
chris107: Hakeem grins at the thought of gutting an evil high priest. "Lead on!"
chris107: @GM The other tap's are none-magical?
Smon: Glevina: "The others don't radiate Magic."
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 1212, (+4) = 16
Smon: Hakeem notices the muddy footprints leading from the demon-tapestry on the S-E wall to the eastern exit.
Smon: They seem to head down the east tunnel to a blank wall.
chris107: H goes and inspects this strange thing. He's seen Rey look for secret doors so tries the same.
Smon: /roll d20+2
Smon rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 1414, (+2) = 16
Smon: !
Smon: Hakeem finds the catch to the secret door.
Smon: Glevina: "You're a barbarian of many talents!" Malenn grins: "He certainly is!"
chris107:
chris107: "Looks like this is the way we want...."
chris107: Kalthalax in one hand he opens the door.
Smon: Malenn: "Do you need any healing, Hakeem?"
chris107: "Yes please Malenn." (OOC H down 12
Smon: Malenn heals you 12.
chris107: (Also OOC was watching Game of Thrones the other night. And saw the pretty blonde dragon lady with the horse barbarian leading their hordes. Gave me ideas about Hakeem and Malenn's future )
chris107: "Thanks Malenn"
chris107: 71/71HP
Smon: re GoT The panel slides open, revealing a 40x30 chamber, the ne corner cut off, brightly lit by glowing ceiling gemstones.
Smon: /roll d6
chris107: 3 rages left. 6 healing dice left
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 66,
Smon: heh
Smon: /roll d12
Smon rolls 1d12 and gets: 1212,
Smon: heh
chris107: You and your 6's!
Smon: /roll d12x2
Smon Rolls 1d12x2 and gets:
3 = 3
9 = 9
chris107: And true to form Os is guzzling when the trouble arrives
Smon: 4 more of the masked cultists stand guard here, and in the centre of the chamber is a squamous green jelly mass...
Smon: Os has wandered off to eat lunch (again)
chris107: (Like the one we met before?)
Smon: No, that one was blue.
chris107: (The jelly that is)
Smon: Hakeem hears a shriek in his mind: "ALERT! ALERT! INTRUDERS!"
chris107: "'ware the jelly!"
Smon: Demonslayer's runes glow brightly... You now do the +2d6 damage vs all Aberrant, Infernal & Fey (inc Elf) foes.
Smon: (not humans, dragons, orcs etc)
chris107: "Come and die servents of corruption!"
chris107: Are they attacking us?
chris107: If so can H hold them in the secret doorway or maybe even let them through one at a time so two of us can attack?
Smon: init, PCs first:
Smon: /roll d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
11 = 11
19 = 19
chris107: grrr!
chris107: H will slowly build his rage then
Smon: Hakeem yells at them. The Jelly quivers. Stones rise from the floor and fly at him (& no Rage protection yet...)
chris107: okay
Smon: /roll 1d20+7x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x4 and gets:
10 (+7) = 17
6 (+7) = 13
3 (+7) = 10
19 (+7) = 26
Smon: 2 hit
chris107: ac16
Smon: /roll 4d6+10
Smon rolls 4d6+10 and gets: 44, 33, 11, 55, (+10) = 23
Smon: The heavy stones batter at Hakeem, bloodying him.
chris107: 48/71HP
Smon: The 2 cultists begin chanting...
chris107: H's rage hasn't started yet has it? So on his turn he could shut the secret door? If he still stands
Smon: Lacerations appear on the skin of Hakeem, Malenn, Thadeus & Glevina - 4 dmg each.
Smon: The others are out of range.
chris107: 44/71HP
Smon: Oops, 4 more dmg.
chris107: Hakeem shuts the secret door, turns and shouts "C'mon guys we're out of here!"
Smon: 2x4=8
chris107: 40/71HP
chris107: He hurries the others back towards the spiral stairs.
Smon: Hakeem shuts the secret door, you can still hear the droning chant but hustle down the corridor out of range before taking any more laceration damage.
chris107: (Initiative advantage will be such a bonus at 7th!)
Smon: Glevina: "I'm all bloody and ouchy!"
Smon: Your bloodied quarter rejoins the others in the main chamber.
chris107: H tells the elves of the strange jelly we met before and of it's properties.
Smon: Glevina: "Medic!"
chris107: "Perhaps M can help?"
chris107:
Smon: Malenn shrugs and heals Glevina 8 hp, her superficial wounds vanish.
Smon: (Malenn 5 pts of healing left)
chris107: "I fear this may be beyond us, wounded as we are. We should plan it's destruction carfully."
chris107: Any sound of persuit?
Smon: Glevina: "I could have Fireballed it if you hadn't shut the door! Now they'll be waiting for us!"
Smon: The enemy don't seem to be pursuing.
chris107: H looks at her cooly "It wasn't you doing the bleeding."
Smon: "Yes it was!"
chris107: H pulls bits of masonary out of his flesh as if to proove a point
Smon: Malenn: "They hurt all of us - a little bit. Rey, let Hakeem have those healing potions please."
Smon: Hakeem can drink some of the 4 healing potions taken from Fr Ulfic?
chris107: he will try -40/71HP is not good.
chris107: Can Malenn heal her own wounds first though?
Smon: Malenn uses 4 pts healing on herself, saves 1 in case she needs to stabilise someone later.
chris107: cool, what do the potions do?
Smon: healing potions are 2d4+2
chris107: points wise?
chris107: He'll take two if the others agree.
Smon: ok
chris107 rolls 4d4+4 and gets: 22, 33, 22, 22, (+4) = 13
chris107: 53/71HP
chris107: With rage he should be okay to take 4 cultists if the elves can fireball the jelly first.
Smon: Malenn is 52/56, Thadeus 64/72, Glevina 40/40
chris107: Malenn the two elves and Hakeem creep forward, H as silently as poss slips open the door, fireball in then follow up with a charge?
Smon: Glevina: "Someone needs to go back down the corridor and open the door.... I'll stay here away from the nasty chanting, and throw in a Fireball once the door opens."
chris107: H agrees to do so.
Smon: Malenn: "Thadeus, you and me stay here, but ready to charge in if Hakeem is in trouble." Thadeus nods.
chris107: Hakeem creeps stealthily down
chris107: or down stealthily I suppose
Smon: Hakeem creeps down the corridor. He can hear muffled chanting from behind the secret door. The lacerations on his body begin to ooze blood again... -8 hp.
Smon: You reach the door - opening it?
chris107: 43/71 and yes
Smon: The door opens; Hakeem sees the Jelly in the centre of the chamber, the 4 cultists chanting a hymn of praise to great K'tulu...
Smon: init, pcs 1st:
Smon: /roll d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
4 = 4
16 = 16
chris107: cripes!
Smon: The jelly telekinetically flings the 4 stones at Hakeem again...
Smon: /roll 1d20+7x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x4 and gets:
10 (+7) = 17
14 (+7) = 21
17 (+7) = 24
1 (+7) = 8
Smon: 3 hit
chris107: Ouch!
Smon: /roll 6d6+15
Smon rolls 6d6+15 and gets: 33, 22, 66, 44, 33, 44, (+15) = 37
Smon: 37 dmg
chris107: 5/71HP
chris107: "This fireball had better work!
Smon: Hakeem takes another 8 dmg from the chanting & goes down - ya should have drunk more potions!
chris107: -3/71HP
Smon: As Hakeem falls, the Fireball streaks over his head, exploding in the chamber.
chris107: (I foolishly imagined Hakeem would be stood behind the wall when he opened the door and therefore not be hit by stones
Smon: What wall?
Smon: You had to slide open the secret door at the end of the tunnel.
chris107: (Oh the whole wall opens as the door?)
chris107: (Yeah I assumed there was wall to the side, my fault for not asking)
chris107: (No problem )
Smon: The secret door is about 5' wide, there is a bit of wall on either side. You didn't say anything about using cover but it wouldn't have worked anyway as the telekinetic masonry can turn corners...
chris107: no problem
Smon: /roll 9d6
Smon rolls 9d6 and gets: 55, 11, 44, 55, 33, 11, 22, 33, 55, = 29
Smon: 29 dmg, dc 15 for half
Smon: 4 cultists:
Smon: /roll d20x4
Smon Rolls 1d20x4 and gets:
14 = 14
10 = 10
17 = 17
14 = 14
Smon: 3 perish, one ducks & takes 14 dmg
Smon: jelly:
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 1717,
Smon: takes 14 dmg
chris107:
Smon: Thadeus & Malenn Dash 60' down the tunnel, bursting into the chamber.
Smon: Next round: The Cultist chants, Hakeem & co take 2 dmg.
Smon: The Jelly strikes... 1-3 Malenn 4-6 Thadeus
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 11,
Smon: 4 stones fly at Malenn.
chris107: -11/71HP
Smon: /roll 1d20+7x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+7x4 and gets:
18 (+7) = 25
5 (+7) = 12
9 (+7) = 16
18 (+7) = 25
chris107: OUCH!
Smon: AC 17, 2 hit
Smon: /roll 4d6+10
Smon rolls 4d6+10 and gets: 44, 33, 44, 44, (+10) = 25
Smon: Malenn at 25/56
Smon: Thadeus strikes first at the cultist:
atherton: finishing up lunch (number 5) I will aimlesly wander off in the wake of the rest of the party
Smon: /roll d20+9
Smon rolls 1d20+9 and gets: 77, (+9) = 16
chris107: We're dying in here Ath, H at -11
Smon: Thadeus kills the Masked Priest of Dread K'tulu, then does a Duelist's strike into the brain of the quivering jelly mass...
Smon: /roll d20+9
Smon rolls 1d20+9 and gets: 1818, (+9) = 27
Smon: hit...
chris107: Maybe Os could wander aimlessly and drag him out of range? Feed him healing potions?
Smon: /roll 4d8+8
Smon rolls 4d8+8 and gets: 77, 66, 88, 88, (+8) = 37
Smon: 37 dmg...
atherton: when I get there Chris
chris107: Nice
chris107: No rush...
Smon: It had 34 left, he pierces its brain and it dies instantly.
atherton: I'm sure Os will go to the rescue of his old friend
chris107: Phew!
Smon: Malenn moves over to Hakeem and stabilises him, 1 hp back.
chris107: -10/71HP
atherton: that was a mega roll Simon
Smon: Os hefts the remaining 2 potions & administers them to Hakeem.
atherton: 29 from 32
Smon: yeah
Smon: 2d4+2 back per potion
chris107: shall I roll?
Smon: ok
chris107 rolls 4d4+4 and gets: 44, 33, 22, 33, (+4) = 16
chris107: 6/71HP
Smon: Malenn waits for Hakeem to wake up. "Next time before doing the suicide mission, drink all the potions!"
Smon: She kisses him.
chris107: Hakeem is battered and bloody but pleased his friends have finished the fiends.
chris107:
Smon: You have triumphed over the 4 cultists & their telekinetic jelly ally.
chris107: (Loosing initiative really makes a difference for Barbarians)
Smon: (yup)
atherton: I rub my grizzled jowls and I look hungrily at the jelly
chris107: Anything else in the chamber, or further exits?
chris107: hehe jelly
Smon: There is a recessed door at the east end of the south wall of this guard chamber,
Smon: the only obvious exit.
atherton: I open the door
chris107: Hakeem uses his new found secret door skills and looks around, including the floor.
Smon: Thadeus listens at the door... "I don't hear anything. Suggest we..." Os opens the door.
Smon: /roll d12
Smon rolls 1d12 and gets: 66,
Smon: Luckily, no more monsters greet you.
chris107: phew.
chris107: Ath I am on 6HP
Smon: You see a 30'x30' chamber, no other exits, empty but for the large magic circle & pentagram inscribed in the middle of the floor, baleful mystic sigils glowing faintly.
atherton: "just stick at the back Hakeem, I'm feeling fully fit after just 5 lunches"
Smon: /roll d20+7
Smon rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 1414, (+7) = 21
Smon: Glevina smiles: "A Teleportal! I expect it leads down to the Cultists' Lair!"
chris107: H carries on his searching from behind. He will not open anything if he finds it.
atherton: "ok
Smon: Thadeus: "We need time to tend to our wounds...."
atherton: "lets try shall we"
Smon: Malenn: "I'm pretty beaten up *ouch*"
chris107: Hakeem agrees it's best to wait.
Smon: Malenn looks horrified at Os: " No! Keep away from it!"
chris107: "Os! NO!"
atherton: I grab one of the cultists weapons and throw it on the teleport
Smon: Thadeus glares at Os: "Your blundering will get us all killed."
chris107: Don't alert them below!
Smon: init, Os first:
Smon: /roll 1d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
10 = 10
6 = 6
chris107: What if what ever is at the other end decides to come investigate?
Smon: Before anyone can react, Os throws a mace onto the portal. It disappears in a flash of light.
chris107: FUCK!
chris107: That's surprise blown.
Smon: Thadeus: "That's it! We have to get out of here - now!"
chris107: H agrees, lets go.
Smon: Malenn helps Hakeem, who is still woozy.
chris107: "Have you got a death wish friend Os?"
Smon: Thadeus Glevina Hakeem & Malenn start away from the Portal...
Smon: What is Os doing? Following them? Entering the portal?
atherton: I'll wait at the door
atherton: get ready to slam it should anything appear
chris107: "Os come on! We must get far away!"
Smon: Os waits at the door to the portal room while the others hurry away, join Bjornalf & Rey.
Smon: Hakeem calls back.
atherton: "keep going, I'll follow you up"
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 66,
Smon: heh
Smon: /roll d12
Smon rolls 1d12 and gets: 1010,
atherton: I close the door most of the way
chris107: crikey Simon
chris107: another 6!
Smon: As the others reach the tapestry room there's a flash of red light and an azure figure appears in the circle - a great blue lion.
Smon: init Os first:
Smon: /roll d20x2
Smon Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
18 = 18
17 = 17
chris107: lucky
atherton: I close the door
Smon: Os has the door mostly shut. Malenn Hakeem & co reach the spiral stairs & start back up.
atherton: and hurry after the others
Smon: Os slams the door shut. He feels something trying to take control of his mind...
Smon: DC 16 Will save
atherton: any door I encounter I slam shut
atherton rolls 1d20 and gets: 66,
chris107:
Smon: Os is Dominated.
Smon: I think that's the last you'll be seeing of Os.
atherton: ah well
atherton:
Smon: He'll make a useful source of info for the K'tulu Kult.
chris107: Hakeem is furious
Smon: The rest of the group reach the upper caves and avoid the traps Rey points out.
chris107: And weekly struggles to go back and rescue his dumb friend.
Smon: As they burst out into the clean daylight, rain falling, they see two Guardsmen tending the horses you brought from Clear Meadows.
chris107: But alas his wounds have taken a toll on his great strength.
Smon: Malenn looks at the soldiers. "Hakeem... These two are Tainted, too!"
chris107: Does Malenn detect the taint upon them?
Smon: The Guards look at you oddly. "Er, wot?"
chris107: H summons up the reserves of his courage and centres his rage.
Smon: Thadeus draws his Lytheum blade...
chris107: "Die fiends!" He attacks
Smon: 3 in 6 you get a Surprise rounf...
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 33,
Smon: ok, Hakeem Rages and strikes
chris107: attack recklessly
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
10 (+7) = 17
2 (+7) = 9
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
18 (+7) = 25
9 (+7) = 16
Smon: 2 hits, they count as Aberrant
chris107 rolls 8d6+8 and gets: 22, 33, 55, 33, 44, 44, 33, 33, (+8) = 35
Smon: AC 16 as they were not wielding shields
Smon: Hakeem cuts them both down, Demonslayer glowing brightly.
chris107: Phew!
Smon: Thadeus smiles slightly, sheathes his unneeded blade.
chris107: "We need to get back to town and warn the temple of Mitra-Apollo!"
chris107: "Poor Tamara will be in danger!"
Smon: Thadeus looks up at the rain-filled leaden sky. "What a miserable world." Glevina: "Don't be rude Thadeus! I'm sure it's a lovely world!"
chris107: (And we have plenty of horses after all )
Smon: Malenn: "The Guards took Tamara to the Gaol under their Barracks - I bet there are a lot more in there."
chris107: "Glevina, Thadeus, come with us. I swear we will help you find your way home upon our return."
Smon: Glevina nods, smiling brightly. "Sure thing!"
chris107: Hakeem 6/71HP used 2 rages, has 6 healing dice left.
chris107: Can we take a short rest?
Smon: Thadeus: "My wounds are minor, Hakeem, but you need medical attention before you fight again."
Smon: Where do you want to rest? In the rain just outside the cave?
chris107: (Maybe wait for Ath's new character to wander along? )
chris107: No but before we reach town.
Smon: Malenn: "There's a farm not far from here I recall? Just past the tree line?"
chris107: There is. H remembers
Smon: Rey: "And a pretty farmer's daughter..."
Smon:
chris107:
chris107: That's the one.
Smon: OOC Atherton I don't know if you can focus a bit better with your next PC? You really will cause a TPK if you keep playing like that.
atherton: well its not a good time for me to be playing
chris107:
atherton: dinner right in the middle of the game
Smon: With the way the dice roller has a personal vendetta against you guys...
atherton: plus I really don't have much of a clue whats going on anymore
atherton: so I might pull out
atherton: seems an appropriate time
chris107: The logs are all posted on the blog Athers
Smon: yep
chris107: That's how I keep up when I miss a session or two.
chris107: That's a shame
Smon: If you're not that interested to read the blogs & follow what's happening I guess it'll not work well. It's not really a super-casual game.
atherton: no, I think its probably for the best Chris
chris107: Okay dave, shall miss you.
Smon: OK, but if you had more time/focus you'd be welcome back.
atherton: no worries, and good luck with the game!
Smon: Thx
chris107: Thanks
atherton: I'll catcha's later
chris107: Bye Athers
Smon: Bye
Smon: (I'll stop shortly)
11:35am 2015-5-22 atherton Has exited the room
chris107: Okay, can we go rest at the farmer's hut?
Smon: Your weary band rides north, each leading extra horses, to Barin's farm.
Smon: Knocking at the door of the fortified farmhouse, the nervous farmer greets you.
chris107: Get some HP back, really don't want to go against a town full of cultists on 6HP
chris107: Malenn does her stuff?
Smon: Rey turns on the charm and asks for shelter...
Smon: /roll d20+8
Smon rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 55, (+8) = 13
chris107: Checking them for tenticals etc
Smon: Barin lets you in, he and his sons keep a close eye on you, and sadly for Rey they keep his pretty redhead teenage daughter Tammy well out of sight!
chris107: hehe
Smon: But you are able to rest and tend your wounds by a warm fire.
chris107: H will thank them giving them half of his 10GP fortune
Smon: (only DC 10 to get in, but failed the 'they let Tammy show Rey the barn' DC) :D]
chris107: And spend all 6 of his dice.
Smon: Barin nods and smiles. "Thank you, sir."
chris107: poor old Rey, Graham will be shattered that he's loosing his touch
Smon: Malenn: "We'll see you well rewarded for this, Mr Barin sir."
chris107 rolls 6d12+24 and gets: 33, 1010, 88, 77, 1212, 22, (+24) = 66
chris107: 71/71HP
Smon: (naw, he was talking to *men*)
Smon: (It's only vs the ladies he never rolls under 18)
chris107:
Smon: Cool, ok we'll stop there until 7pm tonight.
Smon: I'll post log & do XP.
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