XP 3500 to Lilith & Thuruar
Thuruar LEVEL 15 XP 3500+172,786=176,286/195,000
6:14pm 2016-10-12 chris107 Has entered the room
6:14pm 2016-10-12 Smon Has entered the room
chris107: Simon, Kjato
Kjato Ragfoot: Hello
chris107: I have the longest list of spells
chris107: Not sure how you do this week after week Kjato
Kjato Ragfoot: Neither am I.
chris107: It's so 'thinking'
Kjato Ragfoot: And why is Thuruar level 15? Did I miss XP?
chris107: You got loads!
Kjato Ragfoot: Oh. Hmm.
chris107: 14,000 Ithink
Kjato Ragfoot: Yep, that would put me above level 15 xp.
chris107: 8th level spells
chris107:
chris107: Cantrips: Sacred Flame, Resistance, Guidence, Light.
Smon: Hi guys - yes Thuruar is 15th now
chris107: 1st. Command, Identify, Detect Magic, Sanctuary, Shield of Faith and Detect Evil
chris107: 2nd: Auguary, Suggestion, Find Traps, Hold Person, Prayer of Healing
Smon: If you can both post your Cleric PC sheets on the thread that'd be great, then I'll transfer them to blog.
chris107: 3rd: Non-detection, Speak with dead, Clairvoyance, Dispel Magic, Prot v Energy
chris107: Gosh
chris107: Will do Simon.
Kjato Ragfoot: I just remembered why I chose a non-magical class for the other campaign I am playing in.
chris107: 4th Arcane EWye, Confusion, Freedom of Movement, Divination, Guardian oif Faith
chris107: 5th: Legend Lore, Scrying, Flame Strike!
chris107: Gosh that was hard work!
Smon:
chris107: (And I only know what half of them do)
Smon:
Kjato Ragfoot: Remember that you also have domain spells.
chris107: that includes them thankfully
Smon: GM: Need to do magic item check for Lilith.
chris107: I was going to play her with no armour and only use sacred Flame in combat.
Smon: Roll a d20 Chris
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 16,
chris107: 16
chris107: still here?
Smon: 16 is a +1 weapon of your choice, or I'll allow a wand that gives +1 to hit with spell attacks and ignores half cover.
Smon: 'wand of the war mage' - call it wand of Athena.
chris107: Wand of Athena sounds cool
chris107: AC20 sounds bad but she will use Sanctuary and stuff.
Smon: GM: In the week following your return from destroying undead Varek, Lilith can teach Thuruar the ritual to summon an Owl of Athena.
Kjato Ragfoot: AC20 is rather good.
chris107: oops
chris107: ac10
Kjato Ragfoot: Oh. Yes. Please!
chris107:
chris107: Now that is super cool.
Smon: By the light of the full moon that illuminates the darkness, Thuruar carries out the sacred rites and at their conclusion silent wings bring the great owl to land before him.
Smon: "Twit-twoo... Twit-twoo...." says the Owl.
Kjato Ragfoot: I will feed her a giant mouse.
Smon: GM: Your owls have Giant Eagle stats (AC 13 hp 26 fly 80')
Smon: If they get killed you have to wait to the next full moon to summon another (assuming Athena is happy to send one).
chris107: A very nice touch, excellent.
chris107: Wiswwing is the best name I can come up with.
Smon: Cool
chris107: wisewing
Kjato Ragfoot: I will call my owl Atrytōne.
Smon: Even better
chris107: nice name!
Smon: GM: Hakeem bids his wife and child a fond farewell and flies north from Thusia on the back of Laurana's griffon Goldmans, seeking the legendary elven smith Aeanor to instruct him in the reforging of the sword and armour of Bondorr.
Smon: It may be a long and arduous task, but to become the Exalted Champion of Bondorr is no small thing...
Smon: Back on the ground in Thusia, Shieldbiter is grumbling about the inaction and wants to go hunt bandits (he says), while Lady Meda is calling a council of the wise (now Hakeem's gone) to discuss word from the north.
chris107: indeed
chris107: haha
Kjato Ragfoot: Ah. Let's point Shieldbiter to Serena's pirate den. That should keep him occupied for some time.
chris107: Lilith nods at Thuruar's wisdom.
chris107: but says nothing
Smon: A dozen or so leaders gather in the Hall, including Thuruar and Lilith. Lady Meda: "Anna Souvari has told you of events in the north - the pirate raid, and now the Feathered Bear it seems march on Hara."
Smon: Meda frowns at Thuruar's words. "Are you sure? Sarene has been an ally against Nerath - though I fear she has a dark heart..."
Smon: Weaponmaster Damne speaks up: "I agree with Thuruar. Sarene is a vile slaver - it is time she paid for her crimes."
Kjato Ragfoot: Our dear ally Sarene threatened the death of Hakeem and I as soon as we were no longer of use to her.
chris107: "Sometimes broken tools must be thrown away."
Smon: Damne: "Aye. And Sarene likely still has Nerathi captives, held for ransom - and sport... Rescuing them would help seal Hara's loyalty, yes?"
Smon: Anna Souvari nods, though looking unsure. "She has long been an enemy of the Rangers of the Woad..."
Kjato Ragfoot: Furthermore, as soon as we consolidated the realm, she would be just as happy to raid us than she is to raid the Nerathi.
Smon: Anna: "My concern is that Sarene is also an ally of Minars Rapak, Chief of Seawolf and war chief of all the Altani... He has held the Altani back from war with Hara, so far..."
Kjato Ragfoot: That is true.
Smon: Meda: "Mycr teaches us that Peace is the best path, even when War seems the only option. But peace with the Nerathi of Hara may mean war with the Pirates of Sarene..." she sighs.
chris107: "Is there no way we can reconcile them?"
chris107: "Mayhap give Sarene a juicy peach to pluck that does not hang from one of our own trees?"
Smon: Meda: "I think Sarene is one with a restless heart. Where there is no conflict, she will create it. I think she should be told to take her ships and leave these lands - or face the consequences."
Smon: Meda nods at Lilith's wise words. "A peach that does not cause the suffering of goodly folk would be best."
Smon: Damne: "My lady Meda, if we send Sarene an ultimatum, the element of surprise is lost. We should strike fast, rescue the captives, THEN deliver an ultimatum - at sword point."
chris107: "Is not this Sarene a favourite of that huge foolish barbarian you all seem so fond of?"
Kjato Ragfoot: I am quite sure that, if we send Sarene an ultimatum, she will raid us just out of spite.
Smon: Meda: "I believe Sarene's greatest fondness lies with Rey, our new King of Carchimish."
chris107: "For now could she not be bought off?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Either we leave her be, we defeat her, or we lure her aways.
chris107: "Then when the time is ripe...."
chris107: "Perhaps this King Rey can be of use to us?"
Smon: Meda: "Surely he is the one with the best chance to persuade her. His silver tongue is legendary..."
Smon: (several of the ladies present cross their legs)
chris107: haha
Kjato Ragfoot: (lol)
Smon: Meda blushes slightly. "You know what I mean."
Smon: Damne: "So, fetch Rey from Carchimish, send him to Sarene with a mission that takes her and her pirates far away? Some great pile of loot?"
chris107: "If it serves our cause for now."
chris107: "We can deal with this evil haradin when the time is right."
Kjato Ragfoot: Antil might be a good target. After all, her competitor was slain by marines from Antil. she could prove her worth.
chris107: "Antil has not proved a friend in your conflict so far?"
Kjato Ragfoot: So far, they have not been involved one way or the other.
chris107: "They have no connection with your allies in the south?"
Kjato Ragfoot: As far as I know, they have been subdued by Nerath.
Smon: Meda: "Hmm... I know of a wrecked ship in shallow waters off the coast of Oricha, east of Dianceht - they say great golden plates can be glimpsed lying on the sandy seabed. That might take her a little while." She listens to Thuruar. "They were marines of Rallu, not Antil. Rallu, City State of the Sea Kings... But Bjornalf Bright-eyes spoke highly of Rallu's Captain Eldam Allamsor, in the brief time I knew him. Accounted him a friend, I think."
Smon: OOC Lucky for you Meda is a Loremaster Bard.
chris107:
Smon: Meda: "From what little I know of Antil, City of the Windriders, they are allied with Nerath, yes..."
Smon: She pauses.
Smon: "Hmm... Antil slaver ships often dock at Ahyf to take on Oriax girls, and captives taken by the pirates..."
Smon: She shakes her head. "Sarene would not likely raid her own customers."
chris107: "Then we must find a reason she should..."
Smon: Anna Souvari: "Could she not be sent to raid the Nerathi coast, west of the mountains? It is a long voyage...."
Kjato Ragfoot: Hmm. That is true.
Kjato Ragfoot: Would be a good distraction for the Nerathi, too.
chris107: "Perhaps with gently sown rumours of a great treasure?..."
Smon: Meda looks to Lilith, nods. "Yes - all three of you speak wisely. Sending her that way will take a voyage of months. When she arrives, either she may do some good, or with Mycr's blessing our war may be over. "
Smon: Meda: "The main trading centre in those parts is Mysk, a wealthy Antillian trade city built upon an island just off the Nerathi coast. A suitable target?"
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 20,
Smon: Malenn of Mitra has been lurking at the back, looking unhappy. Now she speaks up. "*cough* Milady - there is a Bastion of the Paladins of Mitra at Mysk..."
Smon: Damne scowls: "Well they should not be there to defend slavers!"
Smon: OOC Mysk is on this map - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQhsTZS9DMBHD2OPBNTIN8nienTx5juiJX-LzZUPBMKgEFRw6N1euCV8SVFCU39vtF3nLQDgf1pGtzFDiiB2YACGZR8NDzm7RbHYwbbfoGVBQxqtlmHFWuQGoFuVyA6XmJy8d_85AMlg/s1600/Altanis.jpg
chris107: "Lady Malenn, perhaps these goodly folks could be in a position to help us against the wicked slavers?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Renth would be a more suitable target, I think.
Smon: OOC post on Mysk ca 4333 - http://4esouthlands.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/order-of-mitra-mysk.html
Smon: sorry 4434
Kjato Ragfoot: After all, Mysk and Atil are customers of Sarene, whereas Renth and Nerath are not.
Smon: It's 4446 now.
chris107: "The Warmaster speaks wisdom."
Smon: Meda sighs. "Renth is a city of Nerath, but they do not sell slaves, they sell rope - the population are mostly elves, they grow the finest flax in all Altanis."
chris107: drat
Smon: Damne shrugs: "Send her to raid the wharfs of Bisgen, then. The river is navigable that far, right?"
chris107: "Bisgen is the stronghold of the Crowfinger?"
Smon: Meda: "Bisgen is the Capital of Neo-Nerath, seat of power of her Princes, High Prince Cormarrin - and Borritt Crowfinger."
Smon: Meda nods to Lilith. "A suicide mission, I think."
Kjato Ragfoot: But is Sarene suicidal enough to take it?
chris107: Lilith keeps a straight face and her own council but bows to the lady's wisdom.
Smon: Anna Souvari: "I don't know Sarene well, but I think she might... If the prize were great enough, and to boast."
Smon: Meda: "It would certainly make her the Queen of Pirates..."
chris107: "And give the Neo-Nerathi quite a headache to boot.."
Smon: Anna: "The Black Sun have amassed vast wealth at Bisgen - gold, slaves - and sorcery. The city was cleansed of all non-Nerathi; only pure blooded devotees of Nerath Restored may dwell there."
Smon: Meda looks quizzically at Anna Souvari: "The Nerath are your people, Anna."
Smon: Anna scowls. "Aye. But the Black Sun are evil. Better Sarene raid Bisgen than Hara."
chris107: "I say send this King Ray to pour honey in her ear and greed in her soul for bisgen..."
Smon: Meda: "I will say this for the plan... The Nerath will hardly expect us to attack them from the *west*!"
Smon: Meda looks round the council. "It is agreed, then? Thuruar, you are a good friend of King Rey. Perhaps you could visit him, persuade him of the importance of this mission."
Kjato Ragfoot: Indeed, they will not expect it. It will surprise them. And Sarene is the only one who could pull it off.
Kjato Ragfoot: I agree.
Smon: Meda and the others nod. Anna: "If anyone can, Sarene can. She has slipped through traps the Rangers set, that should have caught any man or woman alive."
Smon: Meda: "Next issue..." OOC this reminds me of work Senior Management Committe
chris107: Drat! Phone. brb
chris107: carry on without me
Smon: "...The Feathered Bear clan. With the Nerathi army withdrawn from Hara, they may well have strength enough to sack the city - especially if any Greywolf, Seawolf or Hoard-Wardens join them... Thuruar, am I right you are of the Feathered Bear?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes, that is right.
Smon: "On what terms did you leave them?"
Kjato Ragfoot: I was a youth, left to work as mercenary, to plunder, to become rich and famous.
Kjato Ragfoot: I have hardly visited them since, as my first work as mercenary turned into a disaster and I found Athena afterwards.
Kjato Ragfoot: So, I left them on good terms, just as any young hotheaded aspiring mercenarie does.
Smon: Malenn of Mitra is looking oddly at Thuruar. Her eyes widen. "Forgive me, Father - but... Were you with the Army of Mitra that fought the Red Reavers at Grimalon?"
Kjato Ragfoot: I was indeed. I fought alongside Marcus Hyaptasos, when we were cornered at the old temple.
Smon: Malenn nods. "I remember! We had fought our way in to the town of Landmarch, when the Reavers' high mage came against us..."
Smon: Her face falls. "You died that day."
Kjato Ragfoot: I should have died. The temple collapsed around me, burying me beneath tons of rubble.
Smon: Malenn: "No - I saw...! " she stops, tails off. "But that was long ago and far away. Very far."
chris107: sorry about that
Kjato Ragfoot: Indeed, long ago and far away. I hardly remember the person I was back then.
Smon: Malenn looks teary eyed, but brightens, wiping away a glistening teardrop. "I do remember you - a version of you, before the battle. Very young, and fierce, and proud. You were so sure we would win."
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes, back then I longed for battle. Today, I consider it more of a necessary evil.
Kjato Ragfoot: Also, I no longer feel that invincible. But that is what being buried beneath a temple does to you.
Smon: Meda starts to break in and get the meeting back on track, but Malenn continues: "Did you - in this time-world, I mean... Did you see Deodanth die?"
Smon: ooc your choice
Smon: Weaponmaster Damne rolls her eyes. "Enough speaking of the dead. Let us attend to the living."
Kjato Ragfoot: Deodanth? No. He was separated from us shortly before we got cornered. I have no idea what happened to him.,
Smon: Malenn sighs. "I'm sure he must be dead... I should go, my little one will need feeding."
Smon: She rises and hurries out of the Hall.
Smon: Damne looks slightly scornful: "Not an Amazon, that one, for sure."
Kjato Ragfoot: We all have our faults, Damne.
Smon: Anna Souvari, also not an amazon, looks more sympathetically after Malenn, curious at what inner struggle ails Hakeem's wife.
Smon: Make a Persuasion (CHA+Prof) check Thuruar.
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 9, (+8) = 17
Smon: Damne nods: "Aye, I suppose so Father... We all do our part."
chris107: Lilith also nods at the Warfather's wisdom.
Smon: Meda coughs. "...So, as I was saying, since you are of the Feathered Bear, Thuruar, and have gained a great reputation for your might and wisdom, it seems to me you would likewise make the best emissary to them. To halt their march on Hara."
Smon: Anna: "Aye. And I suggest this is the more urgent task. Sarene may not strike again for weeks, but within days the Feathered Bear will have finished gathering their warriors - they may attack very soon."
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes. That might work.
Kjato Ragfoot: We need something else for them to do, though. They won't stop marching on Hara just because we ask nicely.
Smon: Damne: "They would if you blasted them with the Holy Fire of Athena..."
Smon: OOC Damne gets a bit like Shieldbiter when no fighty too long.
Kjato Ragfoot: Well, Lilith and I had another plan, but in a bind, that might work as well.
chris107:
Smon: Anna: "You suggested earlier sending them over the mountains? We have reports the Warforged of Madcat Mountain and their Altani Lion Clan allies are hard pressed by Nerath, now that the Warbringer has joined the conflict. Perhaps they could assist their kin?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes, hopefully.
Kjato Ragfoot: After all, it would not be very honourable to plunder an almost defenseless town while there are true enemies to be fought.
Smon: Meda nods. "The good Lord Bulwark of Madcat could definitely use a few hundred Altani warriors to aid the defence..."
Smon: Meda rolls out a map, sighing (she doesn't love military strategy as much as your GM does)
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s640/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
chris107: ":D
chris107:
Smon: Meda: "I believe the Fairhills river west of Feathered Bear territory can be crossed, though not easily. Magic would certainly help... Thuruar, it's said you can part rivers?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes, I can divert rivers.
Smon: "Then offer to do so for them."
chris107: "Would the Lord Bulwark ask the Feathered Bear for aid?"
Smon: Anna: "Of course once they're west of the River there's nothing between them and the Hara heartlands - I pray to Erathis-Athena that your persuasion skills are good."
Kjato Ragfoot: There is little but praying we can do about my persuasion skills, I fear.
Smon: Meda: "Bulwark is very old, and very wise. I hear they named Bulwark's Breach, where Ractuan stands, after him centuries ago... Though it was only ten or so years back that he awoke his comrades beneath Madcat Mountain to their new war against Nerath and the Black Sun."
Smon: Anna: "Bulwark was at the last Altani Clan Moot, where Hakeem was made War Chief - the Feathered Bear will know him."
Smon: Meda nods: "And they will certainly know Rameses, noble chief of the Mountain Lion and the Winged Ape. There is no feud between those clans. They should be willing to help."
chris107: "Perhaps worth a try?"
Kjato Ragfoot: It is definitely worth a try.
Smon: Meda nods. "Hara must be saved. If the Altani sack Hara, all hope of winning the support of goodly Nerathi against the Black Sun will be lost."
chris107: "Then our path is clear."
Kjato Ragfoot: Indeed. And it leads me home.
Smon: Meda: "Thuruar, Lilith, I charge you now, go find the Feathered Bear and send them to Madcat Mountain. Then seek King Rey of Carchimish and send him to Sarene with the proposal to raid Bisgen."
chris107: "I will be beside you Warfather. The Lady of Wisdom commands it."
Smon: Meda blushes (slightly green, she's half-Viridian) before realising he means Athena not her!
Smon: GM: Next morning dawns muggy and rainy (it is the wet season in Ghinaria) as Thuruar and Lilith saddle up their giant owls and prepare to depart Thusia.
chris107: hehe
Smon: Meda: "Fare well, my friends. Stay well east of the mountains - the Vrocks have been attacking fliers often, recently."
Kjato Ragfoot: Indeed, the Vrocks are a real nuisance.
Smon: A crowd gathers to see you off, the Amazons forming an honour guard flanking your take-off path across the village green.
Smon: Damne has her squadron raise their shining swords in salute. "Hail to the Champions of Athena! Victory go with you!"
Smon: Meda sighs, muttering something about ghost-spirits that are mere shadows of the True Wisdom, but smiles affably and waves the priests goodbye.
chris107: Lilith looks suitably chaste and shy as she mounts Wisewing.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Eh, well, Meda and her delusional idea of a one single god)
Smon: Anna waves too: "Good fortune! I suggest you fly due north and seek first the Castle of the Wode - the Rangers may help you locate the Feathered Bear more swiftly."
Smon: ooc stopping there, got to get Bill to bed.
chris107: "Damne, cousin. We shall meet again when war is all aeound us. "
chris107: Thanks for the game Simon, Kjato
Smon: Damne nods proudly, smiling at the thought.
Smon: OK for Saturday 8.15?
Kjato Ragfoot: Indeed, thank you two.
chris107: Should be.
Smon: XP 3500 each.
chris107: G'night guys
Smon: Planning is important. :
Kjato Ragfoot: Should be OK.
Smon:
chris107: Say G'night to Bill too
Kjato Ragfoot: Good night everyone!
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Saturday, 8 October 2016
Session 83 13-21/10/4446 Night Things, New Dawn
XP Hakeem +9000 Night Things, Thuruar +9000 Varek & Raised, +5000 diamond cleansed = 14000
Hakeem, Barbarian LEVEL 16>17 XP 9000+219,363=228,363/225,000>265,000
Thuruar, Cleric LEVEL 14>15 XP 158,786+14000=172,786/165,000>195,000
Shieldbiter, Dragonborn Barbarian LEVEL 13 XP 136,758/140,000
7:17pm 2016-10-08 Smon Has entered the room
7:17pm 2016-10-08 chris107 Has entered the room
7:17pm 2016-10-08 Kjato Ragfoot Has entered the room
chris107: Good evening.
Kjato Ragfoot: Good evening.
Smon: Hello.
Smon: OK w Kjato here will want to get a move on.
chris107: We are flying with the Thuruar and the treasures back towards Thusia?
Smon: GM: The Wyvern flies east, ascending a saddle that runs north from the northern flank of snow-capped Mt Eglezar towards a lesser peak, and as the evening shadows lengthen begins a descent on the eastern side of the Castellan Mts.
Smon: Down below in a secluded mountain vale, Hakeem catches a glimpse of brilliant white, a horse drinking from the pool of an ancient baroque fountain... No, a unicorn!
chris107: Does he know anything about Unicorns?
chris107: Can they raise the dead?
Smon: The unicorn looks up as the wyvern passes overhead - seeming to realise you pose no threat, it raises its horn as if in salute.
Kjato Ragfoot: (We already met one, it lead us to the fairy grove, where we met T-Rex)
chris107: Perhaps there will be a powerful Druid nearby?
Smon: Unicorns are holy animals that can only be ridden by virgin maids.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Thuruar reincarnated as a badger?)
chris107: Hakeem raises a meaty hand in salute.
chris107: (Ah good point Kjato)
chris107: (On to Thusia it is)
Smon: They are associated with goodly fey & are set as guardians over the sylvan places.
chris107: (Also I remembered the chalise of Beleras if all alse fails)
chris107: Hakeem will try and note the position of this place but he has greater concerns on his mind.
Smon: As the sun sets behind the western mountains you are travelling east, following a tributary of the River Cedarwade.
Smon: Where this tributary meets a second flowing from Bulwark's Breach pass & Ractuan you see the smokes of a small village.
chris107: "Shieldbiter, how much further can your loyal Wyvern fly us?"
Smon: (hex 2630) North beyond the river are rolling hills.
chris107: @ DM you mentioned we could use healing dice as we flew?
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts: "Can fly long time. Not see so good at night though."
Smon: Yes you can have had a short rest.
chris107: I have 5 healing dice left and am at 55HP so will use them all.
Smon: A road leads east from the village towards Carchimish town, where Lord Rey now rules.
chris107 rolls 5d12+25 and gets: 8, 7, 12, 9, 10, (+25) = 71
chris107: 126/197HP
chris107: We must press on with all haste
chris107: "With lady Meda does our only hope now lay!"
Smon: You're going to fly east through the night?
Smon: /roll d8
Smon rolls 1d8 and gets: 5,
Smon: It's a half moon, waxing.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
Smon: Luckily the night is clear, with scattered cloud, unusual for this time of year.
chris107: What time limit does Lady Meda's raise dead have? Would Hakeem know?
Smon: Days, likely?
chris107: I make it 3 hexes to the ESE?
Smon: You fly on through the night.
chris107: Dare we push on?
chris107: Dare we not?
chris107: Yes
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts.
chris107: Hakeem fears for his friend
Smon: You fly on, the hours passing, the rugged uplands of the high Ghinarian hills passing below.
Smon: There a herd of mastodons break into run, spooked by the wyvern's flight.
chris107: "Onwards mighty beast! We have no time to hunt now."
Smon: Hakeem spots a band of pale-glittered skeletons roaming abroad, armed with hunting bows - Ghuls!
Smon: They scatter apart at the sight of the wyvern, bows readied.
Smon: But no shots are loosed.
Smon: Hakeem make a Survival (WIS + Prof) check DC 12.
Smon: Altanians get +2 I believe.
chris107: Survival is one of his things
chris107: yup
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 16, (+7) = 23
Smon: Failing this would be bad.
chris107: Falling asleep?
chris107: His Altanian heritage is unswerving. Unnatural vitality
Smon: GM: It's towards dawn, the tired wyvern's wing-flaps weary now, descending towards dark woods in search of rest, when Hakeem spots just a half mile or less to the north a high caldera - he recognises it as the place wherein lies the Halls of Tizun Thane!
Smon: Make a History (INT +Prof) check.
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 18, (+5) = 23
Smon: Shieldbiter: "Wyvern tired now - need rest..."
Smon: Nice
Smon: Moonlit night - Halls of Tizun Thane so close... the NIght Things!
chris107: Arrgghhh yes!
Kjato Ragfoot: Finally, you can see them Hakeem!
Smon: Legends tell of deadly demons, unkillable, that venture forth from the Halls on moonlit nights...
Kjato Ragfoot: Of course, that might be the last thing you see, but at least, you will see them.
chris107: No time! We must save my friend Thuruar!
Smon: The Wyvern is selecting a moonlit clearing just south of the caldera to land.
Smon: If Hakeem's geography is correct, Thusia must be due south of here, only about nine miles off - less than an hour's flight?
chris107: We are to the North of Thusia
Smon:
chris107: "Come you wonderful beast! Fly south just a little!"
Smon: Persuasion check (CHA + Prof) - it's tired so DC 15.
chris107: "Leave me here if the lightened load will help. I will follow on foot."
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 10, (+6) = 16
chris107: phew!
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts: "OK, you get off here, see you in morning. Will take Thuruar to Lady Meda..."
chris107: "Mightiest of beasts! Just a few short miles!"
chris107: Hakeem hops off and starts to trot south
Smon: Is Hakeem leaping down onto the greensward?
chris107: once it is safe to do so.
Smon: OK make Acrobatics (DEX+Prof) DC 20 for no dmg from 30' up onto soft grass.
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 1, (+7) = 8
chris107: arrgghh
Smon: ouch.
Smon: Hakeem lands badly, twisting an ankle.
Smon: /roll 4d6
Smon rolls 4d6 and gets: 4, 5, 1, 3, = 13
Smon: 13 dmg.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
Smon: LOL
Smon: Always the way...
chris107: simon's 6's!
Smon: And eerily, the Night Things were waiting...
chris107: 113/197HP
Kjato Ragfoot: (we were expecting you, Mr Greywolfson)
chris107: So long as the wyvern and Thur have flown off to safety that's cool. hakeem will take his chances.
chris107: He clutches the black gem tightly in his shield hand.
Smon: 12' tall, elegantly slim, black ebon statues come dancing, skipping, out of the trees in an inhuman gait, totally silent.
chris107: Is there a tree that H can set his back to?
Smon: Hands are claws, no faces, blank, elongated heads - if heads they are - Eldritch things, not of this world, at home somewhere in the outer dark...
Smon: /roll d4+1
Smon rolls 1d4+1 and gets: 4, (+1) = 5
Smon: 5 of them. :FD
Smon:
Smon: Dice are loving you.
chris107: Oh well it has been fun.
Smon: roll init to get to a tree ahead of them...
Smon: /roll d20+5
chris107: You want to play Thur & Co. out first before you kill me?
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 19, (+5) = 24
Smon: Thur is safely on his way to Thusia atop a weary wyvern.
chris107: Can't win. Hakeem will stand his ground and go down fighting like a true sword knight of Bondorr.
Smon: roll init
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
3 (+2) = 5
4 (+2) = 6
Smon: LOL
Smon: The dice want you dead!
Smon: /roll d4
Smon rolls 1d4 and gets: 2,
chris107: Bondorr will decide.
Smon: 2 of them reach Hakeem, inhumanly fast, 3 more close behind.
chris107: Rage + Berserk when he can.
chris107: "BONDORR!"
Smon: Slashing with claw hands and lunging with chin-spike...
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
chris107: He will hack them to pieces with Bloodletter!
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
15 (+8) = 23
15 (+8) = 23
5 (+8) = 13
19 (+8) = 27
15 (+8) = 23
18 (+8) = 26
chris107: Cripes
Smon: 5 hits?
chris107: yes
chris107: ac20
Smon: /roll 5d8+25
Smon rolls 5d8+25 and gets: 1, 8, 3, 8, 1, (+25) = 46
Smon: 46 dmg - still up?
chris107: 67/197
Smon: You could attack then fall back to a tree, would take 2 OAs if both still up.
chris107: Riposte agin 1
Smon: ok
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 15, (+12) = 27
Smon: AC 25
Smon: hit
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 7, (+11) = 18
Smon: It's like hitting stone - enchanted stone, but Bloodletter cuts through the obsidian-like hide...
chris107: After the riposte he will leap with his boots to a tree
Smon: A great crack appears on the Night Thing's flank.
Smon: You can attack then move, or take a withdraw action if you don't want to soak OAs.
chris107: Keeping his rage and berserk due to his level 15 ability
chris107: Can I use the magic boots to avoid OA's?
chris107: If I don't attack.
Smon: If you don't attack & use a Withdraw action you don't provoke OAs.
Smon: The wounded Night Thing suddenly shatters!
chris107: (I doubt it will make much difference agin 5 of the buggers but hakeem will go down fighting!)
Smon: (rolled terrible for its hp)
Smon: Bits of obsidian scatter the grass.
chris107: Then he will withdraw, keeping on raging to set his back against a tree.
Smon: Hakeem falls back against the nearest tree, the 4 Night Things come on.
Smon: 12' tall, they have to stoop beneath boughs to reach him - 2 can do so...
Smon: 2 attack:
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
1 (+8) = 9
2 (+8) = 10
13 (+8) = 21
15 (+8) = 23
16 (+8) = 24
1 (+8) = 9
Smon: 3 hits?
Smon: /roll 3d8+15
Smon rolls 3d8+15 and gets: 4, 7, 2, (+15) = 28
Smon: 28 piercing > 14
chris107: ac20
Smon: 14 dmg, your go.
chris107: 53/197
chris107: He strikes back, silently and grimly for a change.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
10 (+12) = 22
12 (+12) = 24
18 (+12) = 30
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 7, (+11) = 18
Smon: AC 25, 1 hit - it's damaged but still up.
chris107: oh and his riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 19, (+12) = 31
Smon: ok
Smon: hit...
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 1, (+11) = 12
Smon: It smashes apart!
Smon: 3 left...
chris107: Phew
Smon: Another takes the place of the damaged one, jabbing.
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
19 (+8) = 27
8 (+8) = 16
4 (+8) = 12
4 (+8) = 12
18 (+8) = 26
11 (+8) = 19
Smon: 2 hits
chris107: jeez
chris107: that was lucky!
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
chris107: yup
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 1, 3, (+10) = 14
Smon: 7 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 46/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 19, (+12) = 31
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 4, (+11) = 15
Smon: They are fast, and very hard - but fragile...
Smon: crack - damaged
Smon: Your go
chris107: he visciously strikes again
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
8 (+12) = 20
11 (+12) = 23
8 (+12) = 20
Smon: aww
chris107: no good
Smon: Their go
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
13 (+8) = 21
6 (+8) = 14
8 (+8) = 16
4 (+8) = 12
19 (+8) = 27
3 (+8) = 11
Smon: 2 hits
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
chris107: 2 hitsss again
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 8, 3, (+10) = 21
Smon: 10 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 36/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 5, (+12) = 17
chris107: nope
chris107: attacks
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
14 (+12) = 26
12 (+12) = 24
2 (+12) = 14
Smon: We'll likely see how well that keep-fighting power works.
Smon: 1 hit
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 3, (+11) = 14
Smon: A third night thing smashes apart!
Smon: 2 left now...
chris107: I fear we will
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
Smon: Although dawn nears, the moon still shines brightly on the Night Thing's ebon forms.
chris107: Hakeem fights on doggedly
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
5 (+8) = 13
17 (+8) = 25
13 (+8) = 21
10 (+8) = 18
5 (+8) = 13
5 (+8) = 13
Smon: 2 hits
chris107: The love of his new born son keeping him going
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 5, 4, (+10) = 19
Smon: 9 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 27/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 1, (+12) = 13
Smon: nope
chris107: crap!
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
12 (+12) = 24
3 (+12) = 15
12 (+12) = 24
Smon: Tears chunk out of the tree though
Smon: Not good enough...
chris107: nope
Smon: They rear back a moment, then close for the kill...
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
12 (+8) = 20
17 (+8) = 25
6 (+8) = 14
18 (+8) = 26
15 (+8) = 23
11 (+8) = 19
Smon: AC 20?
chris107: jeez
chris107: 4 hits
Smon: /roll 4d8+20
Smon rolls 4d8+20 and gets: 8, 2, 8, 5, (+20) = 43
chris107: yup
Smon: 21 dmg
chris107: 6/197
chris107: riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 15, (+12) = 27
Smon: hit!
Smon: roll high!
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 8, (+11) = 19
Smon: It smashes apart!
Smon: (rolled 14 on 3d8+6 for that one's hp)
Smon: Now your go
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
6 (+12) = 18
8 (+12) = 20
16 (+12) = 28
Smon: 1 hit
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 15, (+11) = 26
Smon: d8?
chris107: oops
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 3, (+11) = 14
Smon: This one is tougher, it's cracked but still up. It attacks.
Smon: 1st attack:
Smon: /roll d20+8
chris107: He silently focuses all his hatred on this last creature.
Smon rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 17, (+8) = 25
Smon: hit
Smon: /roll d8+5
Smon rolls 1d8+5 and gets: 7, (+5) = 12
Smon: 6 dmg
Smon: CON save or go down?
chris107: dc10 save as at 0
Smon: Good luck!
chris107 rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 11, (+10) = 21
Smon: 1 & you're dead - lucky...
chris107: riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 1, (+12) = 13
Smon: Bad luck.
Smon: /roll d20+8x2
chris107: he strikes with every once of himself
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
14 (+8) = 22
5 (+8) = 13
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 2,
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
17 (+12) = 29
9 (+12) = 21
9 (+12) = 21
Smon: oh.
chris107: DC15 check
Smon: It hit w 2nd attack.
chris107 rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 19, (+10) = 29
chris107: YES!
chris107: and one hit on the thing
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 1, (+11) = 12
Smon: Had 11 hp.
Smon: It shatters.
chris107: 1/197HP
Smon: And a wounded Hakeem, covered in terrible injuries, still stands...
chris107: "BONDORR!" He cries his thanks to the heavens
chris107: He limps off south
Smon: And the moon passes behind a cloud as new dawn lightens the eastern sky.
chris107: 2 mins please, need a glass of wine after that
Smon: That was close.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Very close)
Smon: Three hours later...
chris107: That was as close a shave as they come!
Smon: Thuruar blinks awake to see Lady Meda standing over him, smiling. He feels weak as a kitten (1 hp & -4 on checks).
Smon: He's in bed in Meda's Hall, clad in a white linen robe. Behind Meda stands Tania the amazon scout, also smiling.
Smon: Meda: "Welcome back, Father Thuruar. Mycr has restored you to life."
Smon: Suddenly a cry goes up from outside and Weaponmaster Damne bursts in: "Lookouts report Hakeem approaching from the north! He appears sore wounded..."
chris107: Just a scratch, a mere flesh wound!
Kjato Ragfoot: I shall thank him very much once I can stand again.
Kjato Ragfoot: But thanks for your support right now, Lady Meda.
chris107: He clutches the black gem and the remnents of Bondorr's armour proudly.
Smon: Hakeem is dragging his tattered carcass towards Thusia's north gate when it opens and out runs Malenn, his beloved wife, holding their baby.
Smon: "Hakeem!"
Kjato Ragfoot: (Good that Malenns touch heals :D)
Smon: Eyes wide, she sprints towards him across the meadow.
chris107: "Malenn my love. Is Thuruar safe?"
chris107: He lands a bloody kiss on her and his infant boy.
Smon: Reaching Hakeem she nods. "He is restored to life this very instant! While you hover at the gates of Death..."
Smon: Malenn kisses him back, and Hakeem feels a lot better... 40 hp back.
chris107: "Bah! Bondorr will protect me."
Smon: Malenn smiles: "But a little help from Mitra doesn't hurt."
chris107: Phew! That's twice in 3 weeks I've needed to use that ability. One more wound and it would have been a DC20 check
chris107: 41/197HP
chris107: "And a little help from you would be much appreciated!" he kisses her lustily all wounds forgotten!
Smon: Malenn isn't too lusty until you're safely back inside the palisade and the babe is in his cot...
chris107: "Now take me to Lord Thuruar and lady Meda. And feed a cow to that Wyvern. It earned it!"
Smon: A short time later, Hakeem is at Thuruar's bedside.
chris107: Hakeem paints a little sword using his life blood on his child's forehead.
chris107: as a thankyou to Bondorr.
chris107: He greets his friend warmly
Kjato Ragfoot: Cough, cough.
chris107: "I thought I'd lost you Thuruar."
Kjato Ragfoot: I thought I was done for.
chris107: "But we did it! We killed Varek, or at least what was left of him and recovered the sacred armour."
Kjato Ragfoot: Thanks for bringing me along. But it seems you only escaped death by a breadth of hair.
Kjato Ragfoot: At least. That is good to hear.
chris107: "I have never been better my friend. Our quest is a step nearer compleation."
chris107: "But I fear I must now leave it in your hands for a while to fight the Neo-Nerathi."
Smon: XP - Hakeem gets 9000 for defeating the Night Things, Thuruar gets 9000 for his role in the seeking & defeat of Varek Tigerclaw.
chris107: "I must go and find Aeanor."
8:26pm 2016-10-08 Eliana Has entered the room
chris107: 17th level!
chris107: Hi Eli
Smon: Meda nods to Varek. "I thought as much."
chris107: EPIC level at last!
Smon: & Eli gave your level-up a rousing intro note.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Hello Eli)
*Eliana sneaks in and pickpockets everyone's purse....*
Eliana: (Hi!)¸
Smon: Hi Eli
Kjato Ragfoot: (Hi! I liked that pick!)
chris107: Arrgghh my purse! And I keep my rat trap in there too!
chris107: 17th level is pretty darn KEWL
Smon: Meda: "Thuruar, last evening a priestess of Athena arrived in Thusia. She has asked to meet you..."
chris107: Epic at last.
Smon: GM: OK to intro your new character chris?
Kjato Ragfoot: To Aenor? Tell my regards to the elves.
chris107: Ah
Kjato Ragfoot: And please, deliver them a letter where I ask for their help in establishing my school.
chris107: I was going to have a little play with the numbers again
Kjato Ragfoot: A priestess of Athena? I will be glad to speak with her.
Smon: Meda nods. "The legends of Bondorr... Hakeem must reforge that which is broken, rededicate that where the spirit is lost. I believe Mycr has a plan for this."
chris107: But sure. I'll just change the level and am happy to play her.
chris107: A slim young dark haired priestess to Athena, Mother of Wisdom enters humbly. "Lord Thuruar."
Smon: Meda nods. "She came on a giant owl - from the north, from your temple I believe."
chris107: http://esophoria.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/venusPristess.jpg
chris107: "I..I saw you fall Lord Thuruar. Our Lady sent me a vision to come here and aid you."
chris107: "I am Lilith."
chris107: She kneels before the mighty war priest.
chris107: "And lady Meda, your power is well known to us. As is your wisdom."
Kjato Ragfoot: Raise, young lady.
chris107: She rises gracefully.
Kjato Ragfoot: I am honoured to be considered worthy of visions.
chris107: "I know nothing more than our Lady has shown me. But I believe you have much to do in her service."
chris107: "She has sent me to aid you as I can."
Kjato Ragfoot: There is much work to be done here, young priestess. We have to learn the weakness of Warbringer, son of Bane. We have to reestablish piety to Athena in the Nerathi people. We have to establish a school, to teach wisdom.
chris107: She bows. "It shall be as you command."
Smon: Damne smiles at Lilith: "It is good to see you again, cousin. You were little more than a child when last we parted."
chris107: "Cousin. It has indeed been too long." She smiles warmly at her lost kin.
Kjato Ragfoot: (And, if I remember correctly, we also have to destroy the black gem from the armour of Bondorr?)
chris107: (Do we?)
chris107: Lilith can use Identify on it.
chris107: (I thought it was part of the armour, there to rescue the hero of Bondorr? OOC)
Kjato Ragfoot: (If I understood it correctly, the armour should include a diamond. Borrit replaced that diamond with an unholy black gem)
chris107: (@ GM, I'll PM an updated Lilith to you asap.)
Kjato Ragfoot: (That gem turns the wearer into an undead)
chris107: (Thanks Kjato! You're a gem! )
chris107: Lilith will Identify anyway then hakeem will pass the black gem over to Athena's High Priest.
Smon: GM: Some hours later the sun is high in the sky, past noon, as Lilith completes her investigations.
chris107: (You'll know what to do with it Kjato )
Smon: The gem swirls with Necrotic energies; a power source to transport the Armour of Bondorr to some unholy place and reanimate its dead wearer to cursed undeath.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Smash it with the holy Hammer of Righteousness!)
chris107:
Smon: Smashing it is possible but will unleash a hellfire of necrotising flame.
chris107: I missed that bit. No one ever said that Hakeem was bright.
Kjato Ragfoot: (alternatively, use it as conduit between two points in the plane of elemental holy water)
chris107: A ritual suggests Lilith
Smon: Do either of you have any spells that might destroy it without detonating it?
Smon: Or you can keep it and use it for a necromantic ritual to raise a dracolich or somesuch
chris107: hehe
chris107: I haven't had much chance to study the clerical lists yet
Kjato Ragfoot: Plane Shift to Positive Energy Plane?
chris107: Nice idea
Kjato Ragfoot: Maybe Hallow, as that can be used to sacrify unholy places.
chris107: Perhaps a communr to Our lady for advice?
chris107: Commune
chris107: "I do not have the power my lord... bit?"
chris107: but
Kjato Ragfoot: Commune only allows Yes / No questions.
chris107: she once more bows shyly
chris107: "Lady Meda, have you come across the likes before?"
Smon: Meda nods, eyes narrowed slightly. "Aye... Far from here, in service of the Viridian Empire..."
Smon: "...And again, wielded by the Conclave of Gwalion as they raised dead armies from the dust..."
chris107: "And did you destroy it?"
Smon: She nods. "The first time, I barely survived - others did not. I was young then, and foolish."
Smon: "The second time, we buried it, and left."
chris107: "Can we confine it's destructive powers? or as my lord Thuruar suggests send it to the Plkane of Positive Power?"
Kjato Ragfoot: How far does its destruction reach?
Smon: Meda shrugs. "I know little of other worlds. I do believe it might be Sanctified, but there are risks. Before embarking on such a task Father Thuruar must rest, and regain his strength."
Smon: "The blast resembled a Fireball, but the energy was flame and necrotic, intermingled."
Kjato Ragfoot: We could plant a pool of holy water beneath a cliff and throw it done. We should be out of reach of whatever evil fire it conjures.
chris107: "Oh my Lord forgive me. In my haste I had not noted your condition."
chris107: Lilith will use her most potent healing on Thuruar.
Smon: GM: Meda wants Thuruar to rest at least a week, enough time to fully recover, and for Hakeem to spend a little time with his family.
Smon: GM: Is Hakeem going north to Aeanor alone?
Smon: Meda secures the evil gem in her vault while Thuruar rests, recovers and prays.
Kjato Ragfoot: Hmm. 20 Feet radius.
chris107: Hakeem will spend that time but then ask Shieldbiter to once more help him. He needs to travel to Aeanor with the precious relics of his God.
chris107: Lilith will spend time in prayer with Thuruar and in conversation with lady Meda where possible.
Kjato Ragfoot: Lady Meda, how did you destroy the necromatic gem?
Smon: On the fifth day, Anna Souvari arrives from the north with worrying news. "Thuruar, I heard you were sore wounded! It is good to see you, my fond one. But I have news - Altanian pirates have raided a manor of Hara - they say it was Sarene and her men. And the Feathered Bear clan are rumoured to be about to march on Hara - perhaps the Seawolf will join them..."
chris107: Blast them!
Smon: Meda: "We smashed the first one - it exploded, killed most of my companions. That was when I learned to leave such alone... Greetings, Anna of the Wode."
Kjato Ragfoot: We need to divert their attention to another target.
Kjato Ragfoot: Send them against the orcs that wiped out the tigerclaws or something like that.
chris107: "Lord Thuruar." Whispers Lilith
Smon: Anna nods. "The Altanian clans see Hara now as a fruit to pluck from the tree. With the Neo-Nerath armies gone, there are but few defenders. Lord Bronze is readying the defences."
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes?
Kjato Ragfoot: Speak, Lady Lilith.
chris107: "The lady of Wisdom allows me to influence the barbarian mind..."
Smon: Meda smiles wryly.
chris107: She looks a little shyly at Hakeem hoping he has not heard this.
chris107: "Pehaps they can be shown that there are wiser targets for their wrath?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Excellent. Do you think you could convince them that everyone will consider them weak if they allow the slaughter of one of their tribes go unrevenged, and rather debauched themselves in riches taken from weaklings.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Does that sentence make any sense?)
chris107: "As you say Lord Thuruar."
chris107: (Just )
chris107: (OOC - Knowledge clerics get a suggestion type power at 6th)
Kjato Ragfoot: (Basically. Tell the barbarians, if they steal from the city now, they are just weaklings. Real Altanians would avenge the death of the Tigerclaws against the ORcs)
chris107: (And as Hakeem will be away and unable to break heads we must find a more subtle plan)
chris107: (OOC seems a perfectly legitimate suggestion)
Kjato Ragfoot: (I like subtle plans. At least if they include some head bashing)
Smon: OOC Feathered Bear & Tigerclaw lands are on different sides of the mountains & quite far apart NE to SW. Doable via Bulwark's Breach/Ractuan pass I guess.
chris107: (But I'm sure we can engineer some subtle plan between us)
chris107: (OOC seems like a perfect start for our new partnership? )
Kjato Ragfoot: (I would agree)
Smon: Feathered Bear to Ractuan route passes through Hara...https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s1600/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s1600/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
chris107: Got you.
Kjato Ragfoot: Lady Meda, could you built a hollow shaft, that is placed upon an anvil, and through which we can let a hammer smash the gem from afar?
chris107: hehe it's tough getting out of the Hakeem mind set to solving problems
Smon: Meda: "The force required to smash the gem is too great - it requires a mighty blow from an enchanted weapon."
Smon: Meda: "I suggest the best course is to Hallow the gem - but be ready for it to fight back..."
Smon: OOC going to stop ca 10.20.
Kjato Ragfoot: I hate gems that fight back.
chris107: Perhaps Lilith could aid by casting wards and protections as you do so?
Smon: GM: That is doable (Aid on check gives advtg)
Kjato Ragfoot: Couldn't we sacrifice a really big stone to one of the giant gods and throw it down on the gem from high up?
chris107: Cool with me Simon, great to get an extra game in this week.
Smon: Meda chuckles.
chris107: (OOC has the week passed, Thuruar back to rude health and Hakeem gone North?)
Smon: Meda: "I shall prepare a mystic circle. Within it the negative energy will be contained as you Hallow it. Even should you fail, in good health you should survive."
Kjato Ragfoot: Very well, we will do this the proper way.
chris107: (OOC will also have to think of a cool name for a Giant Owl )
Smon: GM: 2 days later Thuruar is fully recovered. Hakeem too as he bids his farewells. His half sister Laurana volunteers to fly Hakeem north on her war griffon.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Eulalia!)
Smon: OOC you guys need to get your own mounts now.
chris107: "That's great sis!"
Smon: Laurana shrugs. "You did save my life..." She smiles slightly.
Kjato Ragfoot: We will simply buy pegasi, as every good high level cleric.
chris107: OOC Yes we do!
Smon: Damne nudges Lilith. "Princess Laurana there is being a hell of a lot nicer than I ever saw, don't you think? You left before her mother the old queen died - she thinks she should rule Highhaven..."
chris107: "I think that what ever she decides she would be wise to have her brother beside her."
Kjato Ragfoot: (Nudge. Nudge. "If she hires a priest of Athena as her advisor")
chris107: "Cousin." She adds with a warm smile.
Smon: Damne nods. "They're both Yusan's children... Let's hope blood does not tell."
chris107: "Aye you make a good point."
Smon: GM: The wards are readied and Thuruar is ready for the cleansing ritual...
Smon: GM: Thuruar & Lilith both roll a d20 but we use higher result, and add Thuruar's Religion skill (WIS+Prof)
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 2,
chris107: good job!
chris107: Lilith is inexperienced in these matters
Smon: Lilith's wards aren't going to be much help.
chris107: Good luck Kjato
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20 and gets: 15,
Smon: yes
Kjato Ragfoot: That is +5
chris107: Yay!
chris107: +10
Smon: +10 sounds right (+5 WIS +5 Prof right?)
Kjato Ragfoot: Oh. I thought it was +INT + prof.
Smon: It was DC 20 anyway.... Black mist swirls inside the gem then dissipates, leaving a pure white flawless diamond, very large (worth 5000gp)
Smon: (Normally but this was WIS + Prof, which is an allowed option)
chris107: NICE!
Smon: (same as your casting attack I guess)
chris107: The diamond of the armour of bondorr perhaps?
Kjato Ragfoot: Hakeem, I think you will need this diamond to restore your armour.
Smon: Well it was a new diamond Borritt procured, but yes.
chris107:
Kjato Ragfoot: It has been cleansed of the Black Suns evil.
Smon: OOC I expected you to smash the diamond in the battle or afterwards so this is a big bonus.
chris107: All in all not a bad night's work
Smon: +5000 xp to Thuruar.
Smon: OK 20 past, will stop there.
chris107: Nice one!
Kjato Ragfoot: All right. Good night everyone!
chris107: Good game guys.
chris107: Thanks Simon.
chris107: G'night Kjato
chris107: I may not be able to play on Wednesday. 50/50 if I'm in London.
9:22pm 2016-10-08 Kjato Ragfoot Has exited the room
chris107: That should take Thuruar to 15th I think?
chris107: 8th level spells
Smon: yes
chris107: excellent.
Smon: Let's put Lilith to 9th since Hakeem made 17th
chris107: That's brilliant too!
chris107: 5th level spells.
chris107: Epic level
Smon: Handy for raising dead Thuruars
chris107: Who'd have thought it when we started the game?
Smon: Congrats.
Smon: I thought you were dead tonight.
chris107: Thanks
chris107: Been a great game all round. Thurs chance to shine now.
Smon: Would have been horribly ironic way to go - very Jack Vance.
chris107: So did I
chris107: Hakeem had faith in Bondorr. Right to the end.
chris107: That's how one should start EPIC adventuring.
Smon: The dice were really hating you for ages there.
chris107: haha they were in deed.
Smon: I was using the Night Thing OD&D stats very closely (AC-5 hd 3d8 3 attacks)
chris107: That really was as close as hakeem has been since he was captured by Joseph and the Orcs.
Smon: The way they're described I had to give em +5 DEX
chris107: I thought you got thenm spot on.
Smon: Made for very swingy tense fight.
chris107: Hard but fragile. And very scary!
Smon: AC 25 is horrible even at 16th level.
chris107: You did another great job tonight.
Smon: Cheers, was fun.
chris107: It's very 5e.
chris107: It was in deed. I'll go read up on level 9 clerics now. Will be great for Kjato to guide us from here.
Smon: I remember the foreshadowing in Cahlu
Smon: Cahli
chris107: And the Giant Owl is just so
chris107: The village?
Smon: yes
Smon: You didn't open the blinds did you?
Smon: The previous group did, nearly lost a PC to the Night Things.
chris107: I can't remember. I know we stopped there
Smon: I think you took the tip of a claw off?
chris107: It's probably the one adventure I still would love to play.
chris107: That does ring bells.
chris107: Are we at session 90 yet? Can't be far off.
Smon: It had a claw at the blind and I think it was Hakeem took it off.
chris107: That's a lot of adventuring
Smon: #83 - http://smons.blogspot.co.uk/
chris107: I think this has been the coolest online campaign I've ever been involved in.
chris107: Great fun and we are really becoming movers and shakers in the world.
chris107: It feels pretty EPIC
Smon: My 4e game did 103 sessions over 5.5 years - http://frloudwater.blogspot.co.uk/ - but you're catching up.
Smon: Yeah this is def one of my favourite ever campaigns. The Wilderlands has really come alive.
chris107: Oh! How did they go on agin Orcus?
Smon: I had a lot of failed Wilderlands campaigns and some fairly successful but this is the first runaway success.
Smon: They killed him, but the 4e stats were really bad.
chris107: 20 more sessions then.
chris107: Maybe face The warbringer!
Smon: (4e is best in levels 1-20)
chris107: Good fight?
chris107: (never played it)
Smon: (Sort of good fight but too tricksy)
Smon: (his wand took a PC to 0 every round then they had to negate that somehow, plus he raises all undead in 50' every round)
chris107: Also I think I should be asking for inspiration after beating Varek and surviving the Shadowdancers
Smon: 1e Orcus is better.
Smon: Yeah ok.
Smon: Thuruar too for the gem.
chris107: 1e Orcus
chris107: sounds great
chris107: Just now and then it will save a life.
Smon: I like how the bad guys in this game have so much history.
chris107: (or make one I guess with hakeem's son )
chris107: Yes
chris107: Southlands and beyond with Kaystar
Smon: By the time you fight Shadowdancers/Varek/Warbringer/Borritt there's years of stuff.
chris107: I find myself reading the blog at all hours
Smon: Kaystar good example, yup.
Smon: Meda talked tonight about adventuring vs the Necromancers of Battleplain Gwalion, the guys Kaystar took the Ilhiedrin Codex too...
chris107: I'm happy to let Kjato take the limelight for a while.
chris107: Hakeem has been hogging it for a while.
chris107: ah yes!
Smon: Some diplomacy w Thuruar should work well,
Smon: They got the Codex 13 years ago game time, 7+ years real time.
Smon: 2009 I think.
chris107: I thought Lilith waould be the perfect aid.
chris107: It was 2009 when we played it.
Smon: Then Varek fell to Borritt 12 years ago in game, 6+ real.
chris107: A real history developing. How cool is that?
Smon: yup
chris107: I'm facinated to see what the armour and sword of Bondorr will become.
chris107: Hopefully Thur joining Hakeem at Epic level then both pressing on.
Smon: For the armour base stats I'm looking at breastplate since that's medium armour, Hakeem could use it right?
chris107: Not without loosing his unarmoured bonuses
Smon: He'd lose the +5 for CON but can have 2 pts of DEX
chris107: Probably worth it for the kudos though
Smon: Now you're Epic, w Aeanor you can potentially reforge it as +3 armour, so base AC 17, that's 2 pts higher than you unarmoured.
chris107: From the minute I created him he was always looking to become Bondorr's champion. A true sword knight. This just works so well.
chris107: hehe and with Bondorr's sword too!
Smon: Yeah. And I love how Varek is an ex PC who wore that armour in service to BONDORR!!!! before you.
Smon: Bulwark is an ex PC too BTW
chris107: It sure is working to build an epic story.
chris107: I'd be tempted to set it down in novel form.
Smon: Feel free
chris107: Yeah i read a bit of the text. Cool PC.
Smon: Bob Bledsaw Jnr prob owns Wilderlands but they seem generous w licensing.
chris107: A genuinly enjoyable game.
Smon: cheers
Smon: I love Hakeem.
Smon: Thuruar & Rey good too - and Dragonbiter.
Smon: Could make Armour of Bondorr half plate - AC 1 pt higher but disad to stealth
chris107: Hakeem is known for his stealth!
chris107: The armour and sword of a God to whom one has served since level 1 is pretty darned awsome!
Smon: AC 23 though...
chris107: EPIC!
chris107: As the name says
chris107: Now I think I need a sandwich after all that excitment
Smon: I'll sign off now, gonna play some Oblivion on my new PC before bed.
chris107: Thanks again Simon. Great game!
Smon: Goodnight & see you Wed hopefully.
chris107: G'night.
9:51pm 2016-10-08 chris107 Has exited the room
Hakeem, Barbarian LEVEL 16>17 XP 9000+219,363=228,363/225,000>265,000
Thuruar, Cleric LEVEL 14>15 XP 158,786+14000=172,786/165,000>195,000
Shieldbiter, Dragonborn Barbarian LEVEL 13 XP 136,758/140,000
7:17pm 2016-10-08 Smon Has entered the room
7:17pm 2016-10-08 chris107 Has entered the room
7:17pm 2016-10-08 Kjato Ragfoot Has entered the room
chris107: Good evening.
Kjato Ragfoot: Good evening.
Smon: Hello.
Smon: OK w Kjato here will want to get a move on.
chris107: We are flying with the Thuruar and the treasures back towards Thusia?
Smon: GM: The Wyvern flies east, ascending a saddle that runs north from the northern flank of snow-capped Mt Eglezar towards a lesser peak, and as the evening shadows lengthen begins a descent on the eastern side of the Castellan Mts.
Smon: Down below in a secluded mountain vale, Hakeem catches a glimpse of brilliant white, a horse drinking from the pool of an ancient baroque fountain... No, a unicorn!
chris107: Does he know anything about Unicorns?
chris107: Can they raise the dead?
Smon: The unicorn looks up as the wyvern passes overhead - seeming to realise you pose no threat, it raises its horn as if in salute.
Kjato Ragfoot: (We already met one, it lead us to the fairy grove, where we met T-Rex)
chris107: Perhaps there will be a powerful Druid nearby?
Smon: Unicorns are holy animals that can only be ridden by virgin maids.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Thuruar reincarnated as a badger?)
chris107: Hakeem raises a meaty hand in salute.
chris107: (Ah good point Kjato)
chris107: (On to Thusia it is)
Smon: They are associated with goodly fey & are set as guardians over the sylvan places.
chris107: (Also I remembered the chalise of Beleras if all alse fails)
chris107: Hakeem will try and note the position of this place but he has greater concerns on his mind.
Smon: As the sun sets behind the western mountains you are travelling east, following a tributary of the River Cedarwade.
Smon: Where this tributary meets a second flowing from Bulwark's Breach pass & Ractuan you see the smokes of a small village.
chris107: "Shieldbiter, how much further can your loyal Wyvern fly us?"
Smon: (hex 2630) North beyond the river are rolling hills.
chris107: @ DM you mentioned we could use healing dice as we flew?
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts: "Can fly long time. Not see so good at night though."
Smon: Yes you can have had a short rest.
chris107: I have 5 healing dice left and am at 55HP so will use them all.
Smon: A road leads east from the village towards Carchimish town, where Lord Rey now rules.
chris107 rolls 5d12+25 and gets: 8, 7, 12, 9, 10, (+25) = 71
chris107: 126/197HP
chris107: We must press on with all haste
chris107: "With lady Meda does our only hope now lay!"
Smon: You're going to fly east through the night?
Smon: /roll d8
Smon rolls 1d8 and gets: 5,
Smon: It's a half moon, waxing.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
Smon: Luckily the night is clear, with scattered cloud, unusual for this time of year.
chris107: What time limit does Lady Meda's raise dead have? Would Hakeem know?
Smon: Days, likely?
chris107: I make it 3 hexes to the ESE?
Smon: You fly on through the night.
chris107: Dare we push on?
chris107: Dare we not?
chris107: Yes
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts.
chris107: Hakeem fears for his friend
Smon: You fly on, the hours passing, the rugged uplands of the high Ghinarian hills passing below.
Smon: There a herd of mastodons break into run, spooked by the wyvern's flight.
chris107: "Onwards mighty beast! We have no time to hunt now."
Smon: Hakeem spots a band of pale-glittered skeletons roaming abroad, armed with hunting bows - Ghuls!
Smon: They scatter apart at the sight of the wyvern, bows readied.
Smon: But no shots are loosed.
Smon: Hakeem make a Survival (WIS + Prof) check DC 12.
Smon: Altanians get +2 I believe.
chris107: Survival is one of his things
chris107: yup
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 16, (+7) = 23
Smon: Failing this would be bad.
chris107: Falling asleep?
chris107: His Altanian heritage is unswerving. Unnatural vitality
Smon: GM: It's towards dawn, the tired wyvern's wing-flaps weary now, descending towards dark woods in search of rest, when Hakeem spots just a half mile or less to the north a high caldera - he recognises it as the place wherein lies the Halls of Tizun Thane!
Smon: Make a History (INT +Prof) check.
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 18, (+5) = 23
Smon: Shieldbiter: "Wyvern tired now - need rest..."
Smon: Nice
Smon: Moonlit night - Halls of Tizun Thane so close... the NIght Things!
chris107: Arrgghhh yes!
Kjato Ragfoot: Finally, you can see them Hakeem!
Smon: Legends tell of deadly demons, unkillable, that venture forth from the Halls on moonlit nights...
Kjato Ragfoot: Of course, that might be the last thing you see, but at least, you will see them.
chris107: No time! We must save my friend Thuruar!
Smon: The Wyvern is selecting a moonlit clearing just south of the caldera to land.
Smon: If Hakeem's geography is correct, Thusia must be due south of here, only about nine miles off - less than an hour's flight?
chris107: We are to the North of Thusia
Smon:
chris107: "Come you wonderful beast! Fly south just a little!"
Smon: Persuasion check (CHA + Prof) - it's tired so DC 15.
chris107: "Leave me here if the lightened load will help. I will follow on foot."
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 10, (+6) = 16
chris107: phew!
Smon: Shieldbiter grunts: "OK, you get off here, see you in morning. Will take Thuruar to Lady Meda..."
chris107: "Mightiest of beasts! Just a few short miles!"
chris107: Hakeem hops off and starts to trot south
Smon: Is Hakeem leaping down onto the greensward?
chris107: once it is safe to do so.
Smon: OK make Acrobatics (DEX+Prof) DC 20 for no dmg from 30' up onto soft grass.
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 1, (+7) = 8
chris107: arrgghh
Smon: ouch.
Smon: Hakeem lands badly, twisting an ankle.
Smon: /roll 4d6
Smon rolls 4d6 and gets: 4, 5, 1, 3, = 13
Smon: 13 dmg.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
Smon: LOL
Smon: Always the way...
chris107: simon's 6's!
Smon: And eerily, the Night Things were waiting...
chris107: 113/197HP
Kjato Ragfoot: (we were expecting you, Mr Greywolfson)
chris107: So long as the wyvern and Thur have flown off to safety that's cool. hakeem will take his chances.
chris107: He clutches the black gem tightly in his shield hand.
Smon: 12' tall, elegantly slim, black ebon statues come dancing, skipping, out of the trees in an inhuman gait, totally silent.
chris107: Is there a tree that H can set his back to?
Smon: Hands are claws, no faces, blank, elongated heads - if heads they are - Eldritch things, not of this world, at home somewhere in the outer dark...
Smon: /roll d4+1
Smon rolls 1d4+1 and gets: 4, (+1) = 5
Smon: 5 of them. :FD
Smon:
Smon: Dice are loving you.
chris107: Oh well it has been fun.
Smon: roll init to get to a tree ahead of them...
Smon: /roll d20+5
chris107: You want to play Thur & Co. out first before you kill me?
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 19, (+5) = 24
Smon: Thur is safely on his way to Thusia atop a weary wyvern.
chris107: Can't win. Hakeem will stand his ground and go down fighting like a true sword knight of Bondorr.
Smon: roll init
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
3 (+2) = 5
4 (+2) = 6
Smon: LOL
Smon: The dice want you dead!
Smon: /roll d4
Smon rolls 1d4 and gets: 2,
chris107: Bondorr will decide.
Smon: 2 of them reach Hakeem, inhumanly fast, 3 more close behind.
chris107: Rage + Berserk when he can.
chris107: "BONDORR!"
Smon: Slashing with claw hands and lunging with chin-spike...
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
chris107: He will hack them to pieces with Bloodletter!
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
15 (+8) = 23
15 (+8) = 23
5 (+8) = 13
19 (+8) = 27
15 (+8) = 23
18 (+8) = 26
chris107: Cripes
Smon: 5 hits?
chris107: yes
chris107: ac20
Smon: /roll 5d8+25
Smon rolls 5d8+25 and gets: 1, 8, 3, 8, 1, (+25) = 46
Smon: 46 dmg - still up?
chris107: 67/197
Smon: You could attack then fall back to a tree, would take 2 OAs if both still up.
chris107: Riposte agin 1
Smon: ok
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 15, (+12) = 27
Smon: AC 25
Smon: hit
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 7, (+11) = 18
Smon: It's like hitting stone - enchanted stone, but Bloodletter cuts through the obsidian-like hide...
chris107: After the riposte he will leap with his boots to a tree
Smon: A great crack appears on the Night Thing's flank.
Smon: You can attack then move, or take a withdraw action if you don't want to soak OAs.
chris107: Keeping his rage and berserk due to his level 15 ability
chris107: Can I use the magic boots to avoid OA's?
chris107: If I don't attack.
Smon: If you don't attack & use a Withdraw action you don't provoke OAs.
Smon: The wounded Night Thing suddenly shatters!
chris107: (I doubt it will make much difference agin 5 of the buggers but hakeem will go down fighting!)
Smon: (rolled terrible for its hp)
Smon: Bits of obsidian scatter the grass.
chris107: Then he will withdraw, keeping on raging to set his back against a tree.
Smon: Hakeem falls back against the nearest tree, the 4 Night Things come on.
Smon: 12' tall, they have to stoop beneath boughs to reach him - 2 can do so...
Smon: 2 attack:
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
1 (+8) = 9
2 (+8) = 10
13 (+8) = 21
15 (+8) = 23
16 (+8) = 24
1 (+8) = 9
Smon: 3 hits?
Smon: /roll 3d8+15
Smon rolls 3d8+15 and gets: 4, 7, 2, (+15) = 28
Smon: 28 piercing > 14
chris107: ac20
Smon: 14 dmg, your go.
chris107: 53/197
chris107: He strikes back, silently and grimly for a change.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
10 (+12) = 22
12 (+12) = 24
18 (+12) = 30
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 7, (+11) = 18
Smon: AC 25, 1 hit - it's damaged but still up.
chris107: oh and his riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 19, (+12) = 31
Smon: ok
Smon: hit...
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 1, (+11) = 12
Smon: It smashes apart!
Smon: 3 left...
chris107: Phew
Smon: Another takes the place of the damaged one, jabbing.
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
19 (+8) = 27
8 (+8) = 16
4 (+8) = 12
4 (+8) = 12
18 (+8) = 26
11 (+8) = 19
Smon: 2 hits
chris107: jeez
chris107: that was lucky!
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
chris107: yup
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 1, 3, (+10) = 14
Smon: 7 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 46/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 19, (+12) = 31
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 4, (+11) = 15
Smon: They are fast, and very hard - but fragile...
Smon: crack - damaged
Smon: Your go
chris107: he visciously strikes again
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
8 (+12) = 20
11 (+12) = 23
8 (+12) = 20
Smon: aww
chris107: no good
Smon: Their go
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
13 (+8) = 21
6 (+8) = 14
8 (+8) = 16
4 (+8) = 12
19 (+8) = 27
3 (+8) = 11
Smon: 2 hits
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
chris107: 2 hitsss again
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 8, 3, (+10) = 21
Smon: 10 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 36/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 5, (+12) = 17
chris107: nope
chris107: attacks
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
14 (+12) = 26
12 (+12) = 24
2 (+12) = 14
Smon: We'll likely see how well that keep-fighting power works.
Smon: 1 hit
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 3, (+11) = 14
Smon: A third night thing smashes apart!
Smon: 2 left now...
chris107: I fear we will
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
Smon: Although dawn nears, the moon still shines brightly on the Night Thing's ebon forms.
chris107: Hakeem fights on doggedly
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
5 (+8) = 13
17 (+8) = 25
13 (+8) = 21
10 (+8) = 18
5 (+8) = 13
5 (+8) = 13
Smon: 2 hits
chris107: The love of his new born son keeping him going
Smon: /roll 2d8+10
Smon rolls 2d8+10 and gets: 5, 4, (+10) = 19
Smon: 9 dmg
Smon: riposte
chris107: 27/197
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 1, (+12) = 13
Smon: nope
chris107: crap!
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
12 (+12) = 24
3 (+12) = 15
12 (+12) = 24
Smon: Tears chunk out of the tree though
Smon: Not good enough...
chris107: nope
Smon: They rear back a moment, then close for the kill...
Smon: /roll d20+8x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x6 and gets:
12 (+8) = 20
17 (+8) = 25
6 (+8) = 14
18 (+8) = 26
15 (+8) = 23
11 (+8) = 19
Smon: AC 20?
chris107: jeez
chris107: 4 hits
Smon: /roll 4d8+20
Smon rolls 4d8+20 and gets: 8, 2, 8, 5, (+20) = 43
chris107: yup
Smon: 21 dmg
chris107: 6/197
chris107: riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 15, (+12) = 27
Smon: hit!
Smon: roll high!
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 8, (+11) = 19
Smon: It smashes apart!
Smon: (rolled 14 on 3d8+6 for that one's hp)
Smon: Now your go
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
6 (+12) = 18
8 (+12) = 20
16 (+12) = 28
Smon: 1 hit
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 15, (+11) = 26
Smon: d8?
chris107: oops
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 3, (+11) = 14
Smon: This one is tougher, it's cracked but still up. It attacks.
Smon: 1st attack:
Smon: /roll d20+8
chris107: He silently focuses all his hatred on this last creature.
Smon rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 17, (+8) = 25
Smon: hit
Smon: /roll d8+5
Smon rolls 1d8+5 and gets: 7, (+5) = 12
Smon: 6 dmg
Smon: CON save or go down?
chris107: dc10 save as at 0
Smon: Good luck!
chris107 rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 11, (+10) = 21
Smon: 1 & you're dead - lucky...
chris107: riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 1, (+12) = 13
Smon: Bad luck.
Smon: /roll d20+8x2
chris107: he strikes with every once of himself
Smon Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
14 (+8) = 22
5 (+8) = 13
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 2,
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
17 (+12) = 29
9 (+12) = 21
9 (+12) = 21
Smon: oh.
chris107: DC15 check
Smon: It hit w 2nd attack.
chris107 rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 19, (+10) = 29
chris107: YES!
chris107: and one hit on the thing
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 1, (+11) = 12
Smon: Had 11 hp.
Smon: It shatters.
chris107: 1/197HP
Smon: And a wounded Hakeem, covered in terrible injuries, still stands...
chris107: "BONDORR!" He cries his thanks to the heavens
chris107: He limps off south
Smon: And the moon passes behind a cloud as new dawn lightens the eastern sky.
chris107: 2 mins please, need a glass of wine after that
Smon: That was close.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Very close)
Smon: Three hours later...
chris107: That was as close a shave as they come!
Smon: Thuruar blinks awake to see Lady Meda standing over him, smiling. He feels weak as a kitten (1 hp & -4 on checks).
Smon: He's in bed in Meda's Hall, clad in a white linen robe. Behind Meda stands Tania the amazon scout, also smiling.
Smon: Meda: "Welcome back, Father Thuruar. Mycr has restored you to life."
Smon: Suddenly a cry goes up from outside and Weaponmaster Damne bursts in: "Lookouts report Hakeem approaching from the north! He appears sore wounded..."
chris107: Just a scratch, a mere flesh wound!
Kjato Ragfoot: I shall thank him very much once I can stand again.
Kjato Ragfoot: But thanks for your support right now, Lady Meda.
chris107: He clutches the black gem and the remnents of Bondorr's armour proudly.
Smon: Hakeem is dragging his tattered carcass towards Thusia's north gate when it opens and out runs Malenn, his beloved wife, holding their baby.
Smon: "Hakeem!"
Kjato Ragfoot: (Good that Malenns touch heals :D)
Smon: Eyes wide, she sprints towards him across the meadow.
chris107: "Malenn my love. Is Thuruar safe?"
chris107: He lands a bloody kiss on her and his infant boy.
Smon: Reaching Hakeem she nods. "He is restored to life this very instant! While you hover at the gates of Death..."
Smon: Malenn kisses him back, and Hakeem feels a lot better... 40 hp back.
chris107: "Bah! Bondorr will protect me."
Smon: Malenn smiles: "But a little help from Mitra doesn't hurt."
chris107: Phew! That's twice in 3 weeks I've needed to use that ability. One more wound and it would have been a DC20 check
chris107: 41/197HP
chris107: "And a little help from you would be much appreciated!" he kisses her lustily all wounds forgotten!
Smon: Malenn isn't too lusty until you're safely back inside the palisade and the babe is in his cot...
chris107: "Now take me to Lord Thuruar and lady Meda. And feed a cow to that Wyvern. It earned it!"
Smon: A short time later, Hakeem is at Thuruar's bedside.
chris107: Hakeem paints a little sword using his life blood on his child's forehead.
chris107: as a thankyou to Bondorr.
chris107: He greets his friend warmly
Kjato Ragfoot: Cough, cough.
chris107: "I thought I'd lost you Thuruar."
Kjato Ragfoot: I thought I was done for.
chris107: "But we did it! We killed Varek, or at least what was left of him and recovered the sacred armour."
Kjato Ragfoot: Thanks for bringing me along. But it seems you only escaped death by a breadth of hair.
Kjato Ragfoot: At least. That is good to hear.
chris107: "I have never been better my friend. Our quest is a step nearer compleation."
chris107: "But I fear I must now leave it in your hands for a while to fight the Neo-Nerathi."
Smon: XP - Hakeem gets 9000 for defeating the Night Things, Thuruar gets 9000 for his role in the seeking & defeat of Varek Tigerclaw.
chris107: "I must go and find Aeanor."
8:26pm 2016-10-08 Eliana Has entered the room
chris107: 17th level!
chris107: Hi Eli
Smon: Meda nods to Varek. "I thought as much."
chris107: EPIC level at last!
Smon: & Eli gave your level-up a rousing intro note.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Hello Eli)
*Eliana sneaks in and pickpockets everyone's purse....*
Eliana: (Hi!)¸
Smon: Hi Eli
Kjato Ragfoot: (Hi! I liked that pick!)
chris107: Arrgghh my purse! And I keep my rat trap in there too!
chris107: 17th level is pretty darn KEWL
Smon: Meda: "Thuruar, last evening a priestess of Athena arrived in Thusia. She has asked to meet you..."
chris107: Epic at last.
Smon: GM: OK to intro your new character chris?
Kjato Ragfoot: To Aenor? Tell my regards to the elves.
chris107: Ah
Kjato Ragfoot: And please, deliver them a letter where I ask for their help in establishing my school.
chris107: I was going to have a little play with the numbers again
Kjato Ragfoot: A priestess of Athena? I will be glad to speak with her.
Smon: Meda nods. "The legends of Bondorr... Hakeem must reforge that which is broken, rededicate that where the spirit is lost. I believe Mycr has a plan for this."
chris107: But sure. I'll just change the level and am happy to play her.
chris107: A slim young dark haired priestess to Athena, Mother of Wisdom enters humbly. "Lord Thuruar."
Smon: Meda nods. "She came on a giant owl - from the north, from your temple I believe."
chris107: http://esophoria.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/venusPristess.jpg
chris107: "I..I saw you fall Lord Thuruar. Our Lady sent me a vision to come here and aid you."
chris107: "I am Lilith."
chris107: She kneels before the mighty war priest.
chris107: "And lady Meda, your power is well known to us. As is your wisdom."
Kjato Ragfoot: Raise, young lady.
chris107: She rises gracefully.
Kjato Ragfoot: I am honoured to be considered worthy of visions.
chris107: "I know nothing more than our Lady has shown me. But I believe you have much to do in her service."
chris107: "She has sent me to aid you as I can."
Kjato Ragfoot: There is much work to be done here, young priestess. We have to learn the weakness of Warbringer, son of Bane. We have to reestablish piety to Athena in the Nerathi people. We have to establish a school, to teach wisdom.
chris107: She bows. "It shall be as you command."
Smon: Damne smiles at Lilith: "It is good to see you again, cousin. You were little more than a child when last we parted."
chris107: "Cousin. It has indeed been too long." She smiles warmly at her lost kin.
Kjato Ragfoot: (And, if I remember correctly, we also have to destroy the black gem from the armour of Bondorr?)
chris107: (Do we?)
chris107: Lilith can use Identify on it.
chris107: (I thought it was part of the armour, there to rescue the hero of Bondorr? OOC)
Kjato Ragfoot: (If I understood it correctly, the armour should include a diamond. Borrit replaced that diamond with an unholy black gem)
chris107: (@ GM, I'll PM an updated Lilith to you asap.)
Kjato Ragfoot: (That gem turns the wearer into an undead)
chris107: (Thanks Kjato! You're a gem! )
chris107: Lilith will Identify anyway then hakeem will pass the black gem over to Athena's High Priest.
Smon: GM: Some hours later the sun is high in the sky, past noon, as Lilith completes her investigations.
chris107: (You'll know what to do with it Kjato )
Smon: The gem swirls with Necrotic energies; a power source to transport the Armour of Bondorr to some unholy place and reanimate its dead wearer to cursed undeath.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Smash it with the holy Hammer of Righteousness!)
chris107:
Smon: Smashing it is possible but will unleash a hellfire of necrotising flame.
chris107: I missed that bit. No one ever said that Hakeem was bright.
Kjato Ragfoot: (alternatively, use it as conduit between two points in the plane of elemental holy water)
chris107: A ritual suggests Lilith
Smon: Do either of you have any spells that might destroy it without detonating it?
Smon: Or you can keep it and use it for a necromantic ritual to raise a dracolich or somesuch
chris107: hehe
chris107: I haven't had much chance to study the clerical lists yet
Kjato Ragfoot: Plane Shift to Positive Energy Plane?
chris107: Nice idea
Kjato Ragfoot: Maybe Hallow, as that can be used to sacrify unholy places.
chris107: Perhaps a communr to Our lady for advice?
chris107: Commune
chris107: "I do not have the power my lord... bit?"
chris107: but
Kjato Ragfoot: Commune only allows Yes / No questions.
chris107: she once more bows shyly
chris107: "Lady Meda, have you come across the likes before?"
Smon: Meda nods, eyes narrowed slightly. "Aye... Far from here, in service of the Viridian Empire..."
Smon: "...And again, wielded by the Conclave of Gwalion as they raised dead armies from the dust..."
chris107: "And did you destroy it?"
Smon: She nods. "The first time, I barely survived - others did not. I was young then, and foolish."
Smon: "The second time, we buried it, and left."
chris107: "Can we confine it's destructive powers? or as my lord Thuruar suggests send it to the Plkane of Positive Power?"
Kjato Ragfoot: How far does its destruction reach?
Smon: Meda shrugs. "I know little of other worlds. I do believe it might be Sanctified, but there are risks. Before embarking on such a task Father Thuruar must rest, and regain his strength."
Smon: "The blast resembled a Fireball, but the energy was flame and necrotic, intermingled."
Kjato Ragfoot: We could plant a pool of holy water beneath a cliff and throw it done. We should be out of reach of whatever evil fire it conjures.
chris107: "Oh my Lord forgive me. In my haste I had not noted your condition."
chris107: Lilith will use her most potent healing on Thuruar.
Smon: GM: Meda wants Thuruar to rest at least a week, enough time to fully recover, and for Hakeem to spend a little time with his family.
Smon: GM: Is Hakeem going north to Aeanor alone?
Smon: Meda secures the evil gem in her vault while Thuruar rests, recovers and prays.
Kjato Ragfoot: Hmm. 20 Feet radius.
chris107: Hakeem will spend that time but then ask Shieldbiter to once more help him. He needs to travel to Aeanor with the precious relics of his God.
chris107: Lilith will spend time in prayer with Thuruar and in conversation with lady Meda where possible.
Kjato Ragfoot: Lady Meda, how did you destroy the necromatic gem?
Smon: On the fifth day, Anna Souvari arrives from the north with worrying news. "Thuruar, I heard you were sore wounded! It is good to see you, my fond one. But I have news - Altanian pirates have raided a manor of Hara - they say it was Sarene and her men. And the Feathered Bear clan are rumoured to be about to march on Hara - perhaps the Seawolf will join them..."
chris107: Blast them!
Smon: Meda: "We smashed the first one - it exploded, killed most of my companions. That was when I learned to leave such alone... Greetings, Anna of the Wode."
Kjato Ragfoot: We need to divert their attention to another target.
Kjato Ragfoot: Send them against the orcs that wiped out the tigerclaws or something like that.
chris107: "Lord Thuruar." Whispers Lilith
Smon: Anna nods. "The Altanian clans see Hara now as a fruit to pluck from the tree. With the Neo-Nerath armies gone, there are but few defenders. Lord Bronze is readying the defences."
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes?
Kjato Ragfoot: Speak, Lady Lilith.
chris107: "The lady of Wisdom allows me to influence the barbarian mind..."
Smon: Meda smiles wryly.
chris107: She looks a little shyly at Hakeem hoping he has not heard this.
chris107: "Pehaps they can be shown that there are wiser targets for their wrath?"
Kjato Ragfoot: Excellent. Do you think you could convince them that everyone will consider them weak if they allow the slaughter of one of their tribes go unrevenged, and rather debauched themselves in riches taken from weaklings.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Does that sentence make any sense?)
chris107: "As you say Lord Thuruar."
chris107: (Just )
chris107: (OOC - Knowledge clerics get a suggestion type power at 6th)
Kjato Ragfoot: (Basically. Tell the barbarians, if they steal from the city now, they are just weaklings. Real Altanians would avenge the death of the Tigerclaws against the ORcs)
chris107: (And as Hakeem will be away and unable to break heads we must find a more subtle plan)
chris107: (OOC seems a perfectly legitimate suggestion)
Kjato Ragfoot: (I like subtle plans. At least if they include some head bashing)
Smon: OOC Feathered Bear & Tigerclaw lands are on different sides of the mountains & quite far apart NE to SW. Doable via Bulwark's Breach/Ractuan pass I guess.
chris107: (But I'm sure we can engineer some subtle plan between us)
chris107: (OOC seems like a perfect start for our new partnership? )
Kjato Ragfoot: (I would agree)
Smon: Feathered Bear to Ractuan route passes through Hara...https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s1600/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s1600/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
chris107: Got you.
Kjato Ragfoot: Lady Meda, could you built a hollow shaft, that is placed upon an anvil, and through which we can let a hammer smash the gem from afar?
chris107: hehe it's tough getting out of the Hakeem mind set to solving problems
Smon: Meda: "The force required to smash the gem is too great - it requires a mighty blow from an enchanted weapon."
Smon: Meda: "I suggest the best course is to Hallow the gem - but be ready for it to fight back..."
Smon: OOC going to stop ca 10.20.
Kjato Ragfoot: I hate gems that fight back.
chris107: Perhaps Lilith could aid by casting wards and protections as you do so?
Smon: GM: That is doable (Aid on check gives advtg)
Kjato Ragfoot: Couldn't we sacrifice a really big stone to one of the giant gods and throw it down on the gem from high up?
chris107: Cool with me Simon, great to get an extra game in this week.
Smon: Meda chuckles.
chris107: (OOC has the week passed, Thuruar back to rude health and Hakeem gone North?)
Smon: Meda: "I shall prepare a mystic circle. Within it the negative energy will be contained as you Hallow it. Even should you fail, in good health you should survive."
Kjato Ragfoot: Very well, we will do this the proper way.
chris107: (OOC will also have to think of a cool name for a Giant Owl )
Smon: GM: 2 days later Thuruar is fully recovered. Hakeem too as he bids his farewells. His half sister Laurana volunteers to fly Hakeem north on her war griffon.
Kjato Ragfoot: (Eulalia!)
Smon: OOC you guys need to get your own mounts now.
chris107: "That's great sis!"
Smon: Laurana shrugs. "You did save my life..." She smiles slightly.
Kjato Ragfoot: We will simply buy pegasi, as every good high level cleric.
chris107: OOC Yes we do!
Smon: Damne nudges Lilith. "Princess Laurana there is being a hell of a lot nicer than I ever saw, don't you think? You left before her mother the old queen died - she thinks she should rule Highhaven..."
chris107: "I think that what ever she decides she would be wise to have her brother beside her."
Kjato Ragfoot: (Nudge. Nudge. "If she hires a priest of Athena as her advisor")
chris107: "Cousin." She adds with a warm smile.
Smon: Damne nods. "They're both Yusan's children... Let's hope blood does not tell."
chris107: "Aye you make a good point."
Smon: GM: The wards are readied and Thuruar is ready for the cleansing ritual...
Smon: GM: Thuruar & Lilith both roll a d20 but we use higher result, and add Thuruar's Religion skill (WIS+Prof)
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 2,
chris107: good job!
chris107: Lilith is inexperienced in these matters
Smon: Lilith's wards aren't going to be much help.
chris107: Good luck Kjato
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20 and gets: 15,
Smon: yes
Kjato Ragfoot: That is +5
chris107: Yay!
chris107: +10
Smon: +10 sounds right (+5 WIS +5 Prof right?)
Kjato Ragfoot: Oh. I thought it was +INT + prof.
Smon: It was DC 20 anyway.... Black mist swirls inside the gem then dissipates, leaving a pure white flawless diamond, very large (worth 5000gp)
Smon: (Normally but this was WIS + Prof, which is an allowed option)
chris107: NICE!
Smon: (same as your casting attack I guess)
chris107: The diamond of the armour of bondorr perhaps?
Kjato Ragfoot: Hakeem, I think you will need this diamond to restore your armour.
Smon: Well it was a new diamond Borritt procured, but yes.
chris107:
Kjato Ragfoot: It has been cleansed of the Black Suns evil.
Smon: OOC I expected you to smash the diamond in the battle or afterwards so this is a big bonus.
chris107: All in all not a bad night's work
Smon: +5000 xp to Thuruar.
Smon: OK 20 past, will stop there.
chris107: Nice one!
Kjato Ragfoot: All right. Good night everyone!
chris107: Good game guys.
chris107: Thanks Simon.
chris107: G'night Kjato
chris107: I may not be able to play on Wednesday. 50/50 if I'm in London.
9:22pm 2016-10-08 Kjato Ragfoot Has exited the room
chris107: That should take Thuruar to 15th I think?
chris107: 8th level spells
Smon: yes
chris107: excellent.
Smon: Let's put Lilith to 9th since Hakeem made 17th
chris107: That's brilliant too!
chris107: 5th level spells.
chris107: Epic level
Smon: Handy for raising dead Thuruars
chris107: Who'd have thought it when we started the game?
Smon: Congrats.
Smon: I thought you were dead tonight.
chris107: Thanks
chris107: Been a great game all round. Thurs chance to shine now.
Smon: Would have been horribly ironic way to go - very Jack Vance.
chris107: So did I
chris107: Hakeem had faith in Bondorr. Right to the end.
chris107: That's how one should start EPIC adventuring.
Smon: The dice were really hating you for ages there.
chris107: haha they were in deed.
Smon: I was using the Night Thing OD&D stats very closely (AC-5 hd 3d8 3 attacks)
chris107: That really was as close as hakeem has been since he was captured by Joseph and the Orcs.
Smon: The way they're described I had to give em +5 DEX
chris107: I thought you got thenm spot on.
Smon: Made for very swingy tense fight.
chris107: Hard but fragile. And very scary!
Smon: AC 25 is horrible even at 16th level.
chris107: You did another great job tonight.
Smon: Cheers, was fun.
chris107: It's very 5e.
chris107: It was in deed. I'll go read up on level 9 clerics now. Will be great for Kjato to guide us from here.
Smon: I remember the foreshadowing in Cahlu
Smon: Cahli
chris107: And the Giant Owl is just so
chris107: The village?
Smon: yes
Smon: You didn't open the blinds did you?
Smon: The previous group did, nearly lost a PC to the Night Things.
chris107: I can't remember. I know we stopped there
Smon: I think you took the tip of a claw off?
chris107: It's probably the one adventure I still would love to play.
chris107: That does ring bells.
chris107: Are we at session 90 yet? Can't be far off.
Smon: It had a claw at the blind and I think it was Hakeem took it off.
chris107: That's a lot of adventuring
Smon: #83 - http://smons.blogspot.co.uk/
chris107: I think this has been the coolest online campaign I've ever been involved in.
chris107: Great fun and we are really becoming movers and shakers in the world.
chris107: It feels pretty EPIC
Smon: My 4e game did 103 sessions over 5.5 years - http://frloudwater.blogspot.co.uk/ - but you're catching up.
Smon: Yeah this is def one of my favourite ever campaigns. The Wilderlands has really come alive.
chris107: Oh! How did they go on agin Orcus?
Smon: I had a lot of failed Wilderlands campaigns and some fairly successful but this is the first runaway success.
Smon: They killed him, but the 4e stats were really bad.
chris107: 20 more sessions then.
chris107: Maybe face The warbringer!
Smon: (4e is best in levels 1-20)
chris107: Good fight?
chris107: (never played it)
Smon: (Sort of good fight but too tricksy)
Smon: (his wand took a PC to 0 every round then they had to negate that somehow, plus he raises all undead in 50' every round)
chris107: Also I think I should be asking for inspiration after beating Varek and surviving the Shadowdancers
Smon: 1e Orcus is better.
Smon: Yeah ok.
Smon: Thuruar too for the gem.
chris107: 1e Orcus
chris107: sounds great
chris107: Just now and then it will save a life.
Smon: I like how the bad guys in this game have so much history.
chris107: (or make one I guess with hakeem's son )
chris107: Yes
chris107: Southlands and beyond with Kaystar
Smon: By the time you fight Shadowdancers/Varek/Warbringer/Borritt there's years of stuff.
chris107: I find myself reading the blog at all hours
Smon: Kaystar good example, yup.
Smon: Meda talked tonight about adventuring vs the Necromancers of Battleplain Gwalion, the guys Kaystar took the Ilhiedrin Codex too...
chris107: I'm happy to let Kjato take the limelight for a while.
chris107: Hakeem has been hogging it for a while.
chris107: ah yes!
Smon: Some diplomacy w Thuruar should work well,
Smon: They got the Codex 13 years ago game time, 7+ years real time.
Smon: 2009 I think.
chris107: I thought Lilith waould be the perfect aid.
chris107: It was 2009 when we played it.
Smon: Then Varek fell to Borritt 12 years ago in game, 6+ real.
chris107: A real history developing. How cool is that?
Smon: yup
chris107: I'm facinated to see what the armour and sword of Bondorr will become.
chris107: Hopefully Thur joining Hakeem at Epic level then both pressing on.
Smon: For the armour base stats I'm looking at breastplate since that's medium armour, Hakeem could use it right?
chris107: Not without loosing his unarmoured bonuses
Smon: He'd lose the +5 for CON but can have 2 pts of DEX
chris107: Probably worth it for the kudos though
Smon: Now you're Epic, w Aeanor you can potentially reforge it as +3 armour, so base AC 17, that's 2 pts higher than you unarmoured.
chris107: From the minute I created him he was always looking to become Bondorr's champion. A true sword knight. This just works so well.
chris107: hehe and with Bondorr's sword too!
Smon: Yeah. And I love how Varek is an ex PC who wore that armour in service to BONDORR!!!! before you.
Smon: Bulwark is an ex PC too BTW
chris107: It sure is working to build an epic story.
chris107: I'd be tempted to set it down in novel form.
Smon: Feel free
chris107: Yeah i read a bit of the text. Cool PC.
Smon: Bob Bledsaw Jnr prob owns Wilderlands but they seem generous w licensing.
chris107: A genuinly enjoyable game.
Smon: cheers
Smon: I love Hakeem.
Smon: Thuruar & Rey good too - and Dragonbiter.
Smon: Could make Armour of Bondorr half plate - AC 1 pt higher but disad to stealth
chris107: Hakeem is known for his stealth!
chris107: The armour and sword of a God to whom one has served since level 1 is pretty darned awsome!
Smon: AC 23 though...
chris107: EPIC!
chris107: As the name says
chris107: Now I think I need a sandwich after all that excitment
Smon: I'll sign off now, gonna play some Oblivion on my new PC before bed.
chris107: Thanks again Simon. Great game!
Smon: Goodnight & see you Wed hopefully.
chris107: G'night.
9:51pm 2016-10-08 chris107 Has exited the room
chris Lilith, Priestess of Athena PC
Lilith is an Amazon High Priestess of Athena in her aspect as the Mother of Wisdom (Knowledge Domain). Originally from Highhaven she has traveled extensively in the North. Portents led her to Zothay and from there south east to The temple of the Lady of Wisdom where she had a vision of the fall of Thuruar and the desperate flight to Thusia. Giant Owl riding to Thusia.
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Strength: 11
Dexterity: 13
Constitution: 12
Intelligence: 14
Wisdom: 20
Charisma: 19
Alignment: Lawful Good
Level: 8
Damne smiles at Lilith: "It is good to see you again, cousin. You were little more than a child when last we parted."
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Session 82 13/10/4446 Fall of Thuruar, Fall of Varek
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| Varek the Death Knight |
Hakeem, Barbarian LEVEL 16 XP 10000+209363=219,363/225,000
Thuruar, Cleric LEVEL 14 XP 1000+157786=158,786/165,000
Shieldbiter, Dragonborn Barbarian LEVEL 13 XP 10000+126758=136,758/140,000
6:03pm 2016-10-05 Smon Has entered the room
chris107: Hi Guys
Kjato Ragfoot: Hello!
Smon: Hi all.
chris107: So we rescue the Tigerclaw fro the curse of Varek this evening?
Smon: Smon: After a couple miles you top a rise and enter a small sheltered valley, low cliffs with several caves, from two of which come the smoke of cooking fires. Smon: Altanian scouts watch you from the clifftop as Tal leads you to the nearest cave, a hide pushed back to let in the warm breeze and afternoon light. Smon: Inside a dozen or so men, women & children of ragged and half-starved countenance. Smon: A grizzled and battered war chief, who Hakeem recognises as Kalgol, sits atop a bone throne, hands resting on orc skulls, while an ancient Wise Woman, the famous Mama Kala, reads portents in the fire. Smon: The wyvern stays outside. Smon: Kalgol rises as you enter. "Chief Hakeem! Wise Thuruar! Welcome! Women, bring food and drink for our guests!" Smon: Mama Kala spits purple dust into the fire, it blazes up eerily, casting multicoloured shadows on the cave wall. chris107: "Thank you Tal. Remember my words. Stay loyal to Bondorr and we shall meet again in glory." chris107: Hakeem adresses them. "This boy has served you well. I am Hakeem, the Slayer. I am here to destroy Varek." chris107: Smon: The flickering light seems to create images of characters battling, killing and dying - here a skull-warrior, there an enormous 20' tall figure wielding spear & shield... << Kjato Ragfoot: Hello Bill. chris107: How is school going? DESTROYERBILL: im just saying hello hi kajato ittill thers fighting chris107: Good for you Bill Smon: Mama Kala peers into the flames: "You will face Varek soon - very soon..." chris107: "It is my destiny revered mother."
Smon: I'm playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmA93ppNBws
chris107: Cool image of the flickering shadows painting pictures of possible futures
Smon: Suddenly you hear an angry roar from outside - the War-Wyvern!
Smon: At the same time comes the blare of the alarm-horn from the sentries on the cliff tops - suddenly cut short...
Smon: Mama Kala looks deep into the flames, nods and sighs.
Smon: "Now comes the hour of my death."
chris107: (Kjato, I hope your magic is strong tonight!)
Kjato Ragfoot: (I should sacrifice an oxen to the random number generator, just in case)
6:09pm 2016-10-05 DESTROYERBILL Has entered the room
chris107: (hehe )
DESTROYERBILL: dcbcbnfnfrffnggkjgehjko5i6t6
DESTROYERBILL: it means hello
chris107: Hey Bill! Just in time for the biggest fight of the game so far!
Kjato Ragfoot: Hello Bill! You arrived in the nick of time!
DESTROYERBILL: really / sarcastickly
DESTROYERBILL: to chris
chris107: REALLY
chris107: This could be end of campaign time.
DESTROYERBILL: i dont belive you
chris107: Wait and sea
chris107: Varek the Deathknight approaches!
DESTROYERBILL: its see not sea=ocean
chris107: it is. I have taken one too many glasses of wine.
Kjato Ragfoot: Don't you see the sea approaching fastly? Flood is coming!
DESTROYERBILL: verak aproches slowly and not scarly at all
DESTROYERBILL: no it isnt
chris107: Hakeem says a heart felt prayer to Bondorr.
Kjato Ragfoot: Athena silently prays to Athena for her Aegis protecting us from harm.
DESTROYERBILL: r
chris107: Then drawing Bloodletter he goes to meet his fate.
Smon: OK everyone roll init.
DESTROYERBILL: Then drawing Bloodletter he goes to meet his death
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
7 (+2) = 9
8 (+2) = 10
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 15, (+2) = 17
chris107: eek
chris107: great start.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
chris107: I hope Shieldbiter and the royal Wyvern will be helping us?
Smon: 2 rolls Bill
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
DESTROYERBILL:
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: Altanians on 10
DESTROYERBILL: comin
Smon: /roll d20+1
Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 4, (+1) = 5
DESTROYERBILL: the reaper is expecting us
Smon: /roll d20+1
Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 20, (+1) = 21
Smon: /roll d20+1
DESTROYERBILL: i was rigt
Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 13, (+1) = 14
DESTROYERBILL: right
Smon: Now the big one...
DESTROYERBILL: brb
chris107: ....
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 6,
chris107: phew
Smon: Lucky!
DESTROYERBILL: hn
DESTROYERBILL: heello
Smon: GM: Round 1 - the hide flap at the cave entrance is flung open and you see a massive, heavily armoured orc with rank-marking scars grinning evilly, bloody great axe in hand.
DESTROYERBILL: f###
chris107: You guys want to take him?
DESTROYERBILL: h###
Smon: In the bright daylight behind you catch a glimpse of the war wyvern taking to the air, several thrown orc javelins falling short as it takes to flight.
chris107: Hakeem, I think will need every HP v Varek.
Smon: The orc war chief barrels into the cave, axe swinging wildly...
DESTROYERBILL: no yes opsite no yes no no yes coiunt how many times i said yes if i want to fight
chris107: Anyone?
Smon: (Orcs get x2 move when attacking)
Kjato Ragfoot: Hold Person on the Orc Chief.
chris107: If not Hakeem will rage and defent the Tigerclaws
Smon: (It's on 21 init, Thuruar on 17) Before you can react it leaps over the fire pit and...
DESTROYERBILL: hint more yes then no i shoot ork with bow
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 17, (+6) = 23
Smon: It plants the axe deep into Mama Kala's chest.
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: As she dies it tugs out the axe and...
Smon: /roll d4
Smon rolls 1d4 and gets: 2,
DESTROYERBILL: killllllllllllllllllllllll it nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Smon: Swings at Hakeem, the nearest target.
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 4, (+6) = 10
chris107: Gosh
Smon: Hakeem bats away the clumsy blow.
DESTROYERBILL: i attack with axe while raging#
chris107: mama Kala knew her stuff...
Smon: Thuruar gets off a Hold Person as more armoured orcs pour into the cave...
DESTROYERBILL: hwo is she?
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 2,
chris107: Rage then attack the large Orc
Smon: The Orc War Chief is Held.
Kjato Ragfoot: Cut that Chieftain to pieces, everyone!
Smon: 4 Orc battle champions sprint into the cave, axes swinging (on init 14)
chris107: H hacks at him twice + his retort (?)
Smon: /roll d4x4
Smon Rolls 1d4x4 and gets:
4 = 4
3 = 3
2 = 2
4 = 4
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: 2 attack Thuruar, one attacks Hakeem, one attacks Shieldbiter.
DESTROYERBILL:
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: vs Thuruar: /roll d12+6x4
Smon: /roll d20+6x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+6x4 and gets:
20 (+6) = 26
7 (+6) = 13
8 (+6) = 14
20 (+6) = 26
DESTROYERBILL: orcks
chris107: ouch!
chris107: That is going to hurt!
Smon: 2 crits!
Smon: It's like the end of Blake's 7 in here...
Smon: /roll 4d12+8
Smon rolls 4d12+8 and gets: 4, 8, 10, 6, (+8) = 36
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107: haha
Kjato Ragfoot: (I already had back luck with the rolls last time)
Smon: Thuruar takes 36 dmg
chris107: I can't remember what happened at the end of Blake's 7?
DESTROYERBILL:
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 20, (+7) = 27
Smon: Federation troopers charge in, all the heroes die.
DESTROYERBILL: ????????????????????????????????????
Kjato Ragfoot: OK. Hold Person is still going on.
Smon: 1 vs Hakeem:
chris107: eek!
chris107: eek!
chris107: eek!
chris107: eek!
Smon: Thuruar sorry it's 2 DC 10 concentration rolls, make a 2nd.
Smon: vs Hakeem:
Smon: /roll d20+6x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
7 (+6) = 13
10 (+6) = 16
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 16, (+7) = 23
Smon: misses
chris107: ac20
DESTROYERBILL: thats how i fell
Smon: 1 attacks Shielbiter:
Smon: /roll d20+6x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
5 (+6) = 11
16 (+6) = 22
DESTROYERBILL: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Smon: /roll d12+4
Smon rolls 1d12+4 and gets: 8, (+4) = 12
Smon: 12 dmg
chris107: Now rage?
chris107: init 10
DESTROYERBILL: Room List User CP Status Help Logout 6:09pm 2016-10-05 DESTROYERBILL Has entered the room chris107: (hehe ) DESTROYERBILL: dcbcbnfnfrffnggkjgehjko5i6t6 DESTROYERBILL: it means hello chris107: Hey Bill! Just in time for the biggest fight of the game so far! Kjato Ragfoot: Hello Bill! You arrived in the nick of time! DESTROYERBILL: really / sarcastickly DESTROYERBILL: to chris chris107: REALLY chris107: This could be end of campaign time. DESTROYERBILL: i dont belive you chris107: Wait and sea chris107: Varek the Deathknight approaches! DESTROYERBILL: its see not sea=ocean chris107: it is. I have taken one too many glasses of wine. Kjato Ragfoot: Don't you see the sea approaching fastly? Flood is coming! DESTROYERBILL: verak aproches slowly and not scarly at all DESTROYERBILL: no it isnt chris107: Hakeem says a heart felt prayer to Bondorr. Kjato Ragfoot: Athena silently prays to Athena for her Aegis protecting us from harm. DESTROYERBILL: r chris107: Then drawing Bloodletter he goes to meet his fate. Smon: OK everyone roll init. DESTROYERBILL: Then drawing Bloodletter he goes to meet his death chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets: 7 (+2) = 9 8 (+2) = 10 Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 15, (+2) = 17 chris107: eek chris107: great start. DESTROYERBILL: /roll d20+1 DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8 chris107: I hope Shieldbiter and the royal Wyvern will be helping us? Smon: 2 rolls Bill DESTROYERBILL: /roll d20+1 DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8 DESTROYERBILL: DESTROYERBILL: Smon: Altanians on 10 DESTROYERBILL: comin Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 4, (+1) = 5 DESTROYERBILL: the reaper is expecting us Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 20, (+1) = 21 DESTROYERBILL: i was rigt Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 13, (+1) = 14 DESTROYERBILL: right DESTROYERBILL: brb Smon: Now the big one... chris107: .... Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 6, chris107: phew Smon: Lucky! DESTROYERBILL: hn DESTROYERBILL: heello Smon: GM: Round 1 - the hide flap at the cave entrance is flung open and you see a massive, heavily armoured orc with rank-marking scars grinning evilly, bloody great axe in hand. DESTROYERBILL: f### chris107: You guys want to take him? DESTROYERBILL: h### chris107: Hakeem, I think will need every HP v Varek. Smon: In the bright daylight behind you catch a glimpse of the war wyvern taking to the air, several thrown orc javelins falling short as it takes to flight. Smon: The orc war chief barrels into the cave, axe swinging wildly... DESTROYERBILL: no yes opsite no yes no no yes coiunt how many times i said yes if i want to fight chris107: Anyone? Smon: (Orcs get x2 move when at
DESTROYERBILL: sorry
chris107: bugger my screen has been swamped
DESTROYERBILL: acsedenly coopiad the hwole thing and now your screans full
chris107: anyone there?
chris107:
Kjato Ragfoot: Yes.
DESTROYERBILL: sorry chris
Smon: (Bad Bill) The Altanian survivors leap to their feet, the women and children screaming as they shrink back towards the rear of the cave.
DESTROYERBILL: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
chris107:
chris107: Hakeem rages and slashes at the held war chief
Smon: The old Tigerclaw gets painfully to his feet, grasping his pitted axe with unsteady hand, and grins the wolf-grin.
Smon: Hakeem rages and can attack the Held orc chief, 2 attacks w advtg, hits are crits.
Smon: AC 18
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x2 and gets:
8 (+12) = 20
8 (+12) = 20
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x2 and gets:
19 (+12) = 31
20 (+12) = 32
chris107: 2 crits then?
Smon: I'll give you an extra dmg die for the double crit there
chris107 rolls 7d8+22 and gets: 7, 1, 5, 3, 1, 8, 8, (+22) = 55
chris107:
Smon: YOur crit is 4d8 so 2 more dice
chris107 rolls 2d8 and gets: 2, 6, = 8
chris107: ah yes I'm forgetting the actual crit and just adding the brutal ones.
chris107: sorry about that.
Smon: 63 dmg, still alive.
Smon: War Chief Kalgol also swings at the paralysed Orc.
Smon: /roll d20+4x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x4 and gets:
5 (+4) = 9
20 (+4) = 24
10 (+4) = 14
10 (+4) = 14
Smon: 1 hit/crit
Smon: /roll 2d12+2
Smon rolls 2d12+2 and gets: 7, 8, (+2) = 17
chris107: nice
DESTROYERBILL: is it my turn yet?
Smon: Hacking at his trunk, he's badly injured.
Smon: A couple Altani men attack the Orcs on Thuruar:
Smon: /roll d20+4x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x2 and gets:
20 (+4) = 24
16 (+4) = 20
Smon: nice
chris107: yay
Smon: /roll 3d8+8
Smon rolls 3d8+8 and gets: 3, 2, 7, (+8) = 20
Smon: 1 is wounded
Smon: Shieldbiter's go.
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
2 (+10) = 12
13 (+10) = 23
DESTROYERBILL: i rage
Smon: ok
Smon: 1 hit
chris107: Kill it Bill!
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+9 and gets: 12, (+9) = 21
chris107: nice!
Smon: The orc champion rocks back from the solid blow.
chris107: is it another dice as a crit?
Smon: Outside you hear screams as the orc attackers butcher the Altani in the other cave.
Smon: Shieldbiter attacked the orc attacking him.
chris107: ah sorry
Smon: Then a tall dark figure appears silhouetted in the cave entrance, clad in black plate of ancient style, wind whipping dramatically at his tattered scarlet cloak.
chris107: oh s**t!
Smon: Red light glints in the eye-sockets of his night black helm as he raises a corroded sword, points...
Smon: A blossom of hellfire streaks into the cave and detonates, enveloping everyone in searing necrotic hell-flame!
Smon: DC 18 DEX save, 70 damage fail, 35 damage succeed.
Kjato Ragfoot rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 2, (+6) = 8
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 4, (+7) = 11
Kjato Ragfoot: Thuruar dies.
chris107: 127/197HP
Smon: Thuruar goes down.
Smon: Thuruar at -12 my count.
Kjato Ragfoot: -42
chris107: Then we all die. We needed his magic to beat this fiend
chris107: Do we have any healing?
Kjato Ragfoot: I only had 64 hit points at game start, as we did not rest after the fight with the Rehmoraz.
Smon: You'll have at least potions of healing.
chris107: I have none on my shett. Anyone else?
Smon: You had a short rest after Remorhaz, should have spent hit dice
Kjato Ragfoot: K
Kjato Ragfoot: I spent all my hit dice to get from -50 hit points to 64.
chris107: I'm sure we did.
Smon: ok, if you didn't cast any heal spells either then yup you're deceased.
Kjato Ragfoot: Plus most of my healing spells.
Smon: Orc war chief is killed, along with all the Altanians.
Smon: /roll d20+1x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+1x2 and gets:
9 (+1) = 10
18 (+1) = 19
Smon: 3 of the orc champions are incinerated, 1 ducks and survives, just.
chris107: Hakeem will Berserk and at least try and dispel the horrid shade away.
chris107: For once hoping that the armour of Bondorr will take him away.
chris107: Unless anyone has any other way of dispelling the magic?
Smon: Chris Barbs have advtg on DEX saves
Smon: so roll again
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 13, (+7) = 20
chris107: 162/197
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+1x2 and gets:
6 (+1) = 7
10 (+1) = 11
Smon: Luckily Shieldbiter is Bear Totem & takes half dmg from everything but psychic
Smon: Bill pointed out to me!
Smon: 35 dmg to Shieldbiter, has taken 47 so far.
chris107: (We need to get Thur back to Lady Meda)
chris107: Thanks Bill!
Smon: Choking black smoke fills the corpse-filled cave.
Smon: Outside come cries of dismay from the orc warband whose leaders have just been incinerated.
chris107: "VAREK!"
Smon: The Death Knight Varek Tigerclaw raises his sword to Hakeem in silent salute.
chris107: The Berserk Hakeem launches himself at the WarWight
chris107: "BONDORR!"
Smon: The last orc champ's turn first.
Smon: /roll 2d6
7:00pm 2016-10-05 Kjato Ragfoot Has exited the room
chris107: Hakeem is beyond rage
Smon rolls 2d6 and gets: 4, 1, = 5
Smon: He passes check and swings at Hakeem.
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 17, (+6) = 23
Smon: hit, Hakeem can riposte
Smon: /roll d12+4
Smon rolls 1d12+4 and gets: 5, (+4) = 9
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 12, (+12) = 24
Smon: 4 dmg to H
Smon: Hakeem guts the wounded orc then lunges at Varek.
chris107: 158
Smon: Varek raises a black iron shield.
Smon: AC 20, good luck.
chris107: thanks
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
17 (+12) = 29
14 (+12) = 26
16 (+12) = 28
chris107: bish-bash-bosh
chris107 rolls 3d8+33 and gets: 3, 2, 8, (+33) = 46
Smon: The great black gem inset in Varek's chest plate glows brightly as Hakeem's blows descend.
Smon: 3 hits (can't even Parry those!)
Smon: Hakeem make INT check (w prof)
chris107: He is enraged seeing yet another of his allies fall to the Nerathi
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 19, (+5) = 24
chris107: nice
DESTROYERBILL: is it my go yet
Smon: Hakeem knows the legends well, that the diamond in Bondor's armour protected him from death. Mortal weapons could not harm it - might a powerful enchanted blade suffice?
Smon: Shieldbiter's go.
Smon: The cave is full of death - and smoke.
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
19 (+10) = 29
14 (+10) = 24
Smon: Now only Varek the Death Knight, Hakeem & Shieldbiter remain.
DESTROYERBILL: more fire with flame breath
chris107: Nice hits Bill!
Smon: Shieldbiter surges forward, axe swinging. Varek raises his sword with incredible skill to deflect the second blow (AC 26 vs 1 attack)
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d12+9x2 and gets:
6 (+9) = 15
10 (+9) = 19
Smon: 1 hit, 15 dmg.
Smon: Can breathe on him too.
chris107: Hakeem once more prays to Bondorr to instill Bloodletter with his power to free the soul of varek the Sword Knight from wicked bondage!
DESTROYERBILL: whate is armer class?
Smon: roll 4d6 for dmg, auto hit, he gets a save
DESTROYERBILL: whate damage is flame breath
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 3, (+6) = 9
Smon: 4d6, and he failed the save
DESTROYERBILL rolls 4d6 and gets: 1, 2, 6, 4, = 13
Smon: Scorchio
DESTROYERBILL: whait is his armer class
chris107: yay!
Smon: AC 20, 26 vs 1 attack
chris107: 20/26 agin 1 attack I think Bill
Smon: Varek's eyeless skull-sockets glow red as he glares at Shieldbiter then turns on Hakeem...
DESTROYERBILL: but i got 24 and 29
Smon: "YOU WILL DIE AND BE REBORN AS A SLAVE OF NERATH, MORTAL."
DESTROYERBILL: you said i got one hit i got 2
Smon: That's no Tigerclaw voice - it sounds like an old Nerathi aristocrat speaking...
DESTROYERBILL: brb
Smon: Varek used his Parry ability to deflect the 24.
chris107: "I SERVE BONDORR AND WILL FREE YOUR SOUL THIS DAY VARAK SWORD KNIGHT!"
chris107: Ah, the body has been inhabited by a Nerathi Necromancer perhaps?
chris107: Varek's soul is no more...
Smon: /roll d20+11x3
Smon Rolls 1d20+11x3 and gets:
9 (+11) = 20
15 (+11) = 26
19 (+11) = 30
chris107: ouch!
Smon: 3 hits?
chris107: ac20
chris107: so yup
Smon: 54 Necrotic damage & 30/2=15 slashing dmg.
Smon: 69 total.
chris107: Hopefully rage will save him from mega damage
Smon: Still up?
chris107: 89/197
chris107: Riposte
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 19, (+12) = 31
Smon: hit
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 7, (+11) = 18
chris107: "I FEAR NO NERATHI SORCERY!"
Smon: "YOU WILL LEARN TO FEAR..."
chris107: Back on us I believe?
Smon: yup
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
11 (+12) = 23
11 (+12) = 23
1 (+12) = 13
chris107: 1 hit?
Smon: yup
chris107: the other been parried?
Smon: Varek laughs. "PATHETIC."
Smon: yup
chris107 rolls 1d8+11 and gets: 5, (+11) = 16
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
12 (+10) = 22
9 (+10) = 19
Smon: 1 hit
chris107: Bill, berserk maybe?
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+9 and gets: 1, (+9) = 10
Smon: He's Bear Totem, no berserk
chris107: oh no you're a Bear chap aren't you?
chris107: Sorry I forgot
Smon: Yup, so very hard to kill.
Smon: Varek focuses methodically on Hakeem...
Smon: /roll d20+11x3
chris107: Hakeem prepares to riposte
Smon Rolls 1d20+11x3 and gets:
7 (+11) = 18
7 (+11) = 18
6 (+11) = 17
chris107: hehe
chris107: "YOUR POWERS ARE WEAK OLD MAN!"
Smon: oops
chris107: That's our chance Bill!
Smon: "IT MATTERS NOT - EVEN IF YOU PREVAIL THIS DAY I SHALL RETURN..."
chris107: Hakeem strikes like a savage wolf.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+12x3 and gets:
19 (+12) = 31
14 (+12) = 26
14 (+12) = 26
chris107: three hits!
Smon: ouch
chris107 rolls 3d8+33 and gets: 7, 2, 2, (+33) = 44
Smon: The gem glows brighter as Varek's undead life energy begins to falter.
chris107: "YOU HAVE NOT BARGAINED FOR THE POWER OF BLOODLETTER!"
chris107: "BONDORR DESTROY HIM!"
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
2 (+10) = 12
8 (+10) = 18
chris107: Hard lines Bill
Smon: Varek laughs and turns back to Hakeem. "LOOK INTO MY EYES - NO NOT AROUND THE EYES, INTO MY EYES... YES..."
Smon: Hakeem sees Varek's eye-glows expand to fill his universe...
chris107: haha
chris107: Hakeem laughs outloud
chris107: The laugh of the barbarian who cares not for his own life
Smon: DC 18 Wisdom save Hakeem
chris107: Just that Bondorr's justice is served
Smon: (Hold Person)
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 2, (+5) = 7
chris107:
chris107: Well his Barbarian powers of relentless rage won't end
chris107: (lvl 15 power)
chris107: and his ability to make a save agin going below zero may just save him.
chris107: Up to you now Bill. Your big chance mate!
Smon: Varek glances over at Shieldbiter; he feels the same effect...
Smon: DC 18 Wisdom save...
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 13, (+5) = 18
Smon: LOL!!!
chris107: nice one Bill!
chris107: Just what you needed
Smon: Varek: "WHAT?! IT CANNOT BE!"
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL: f### you vala looser
Smon: Varek turns, making for the exit - Reaction attack Shieldbiter.
DESTROYERBILL: die /roll d20+10
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 1, (+10) = 11
chris107: Good luck Bill!
chris107:
Smon: Varek runs out of the smoking cave, into the daylight, yelling at his orcs: "IN THE CAVE! KILL THEM!"
Smon: Varek concentration check:
Smon: Sorry you missed right
Smon: Hakeem's turn, he's paralysed - make WIS save
Smon: (that's all you get)
chris107: If H can escape this foul sorcery he will leap after Varek using his magical boots
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 19,
chris107: yea!
Smon: Hakeem breaks the enchantment at the end of his turn.
Smon: Shieldbiter's go.
chris107: DC18 yes?
Smon: yes
chris107: still raging and berserk. In fact very cross in deed
Smon: Shieldbiter stows shield & axe, draws bow.
Smon: Several orcs appear at the cave mouth, a flurry of javelins are flung in.
chris107: He bounds after the fiend!
Smon: /roll 2d4
Smon rolls 2d4 and gets: 3, 4, = 7
Smon: 7 at Hakeem
chris107: (can he jump over them without banging his head? Even if they can strike him)
Smon: /roll d20+5x7
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x7 and gets:
6 (+5) = 11
13 (+5) = 18
3 (+5) = 8
5 (+5) = 10
12 (+5) = 17
12 (+5) = 17
19 (+5) = 24
Smon: 1 hit
chris107: 1 hit
Smon: 6 dmg > 3 dmg
Smon: /roll 2d4
Smon rolls 2d4 and gets: 2, 4, = 6
chris107: 86/197
Smon: 6 at Shieldbiter
Smon: /roll d20+5x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x6 and gets:
7 (+5) = 12
3 (+5) = 8
4 (+5) = 9
8 (+5) = 13
1 (+5) = 6
11 (+5) = 16
chris107: these Orcs have little skill thankfully
Smon: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a2/d1/fc/a2d1fcffb470e5027d6f7f52d8183d6f.jpg
Smon: 1 hit, 6>3 dmg to Shielb
Smon: Shieldb has taken 50 dmg
Smon: Hakeem races forward, using his Boots of Striding & Springing to leap over the heads of the surprised throng of orcs at the cave mouth..
Smon: /roll d4
Smon rolls 1d4 and gets: 3,
Smon: 3 axes slash at him as he sails overhead.
chris107: he searches out the black hearted Death Knight
Smon: /roll d20+5x3
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x3 and gets:
12 (+5) = 17
17 (+5) = 22
20 (+5) = 25
Smon: ouch
chris107: Rage burning brightly in his steely heart
Smon: /roll 3d12+6
Smon rolls 3d12+6 and gets: 9, 12, 1, (+6) = 28
Smon: 28/2=14 dmg
chris107: he ignores the wounds, anger for his dead friend driving him on
Smon: Make a Perception check Hakeem, DC 13
chris107: 72/198
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 18, (+5) = 23
Smon: Hakeem lands right beside a very surprised Varek, the black diamond in his chest plate pulsing brightly now.
Smon: You attacking him normally?
chris107: He strikes at him with berserk frenzy!
Smon: Varek: "IN THE CAVE! MORE JAVELINS... OH..."
chris107: "FOR BONDORR AND THURUAR OF ATHENA!"
Smon: Varek turns to look at Hakeem, glow-eyes wide with surprise.
chris107: Can I strangle him?
Smon: "I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT."
chris107: Tear his undead head from his shoulders?
Smon: You can try.
chris107: Or tear the black gem from the armour?
chris107: He will try the latter
Smon: You can try - be a melee to hit roll then athletics roll.
chris107: grabbing the gem in both his mighty hands
Smon: OK I'll let you drop shield & sword and grab for gem - if Reckless you get Advtg
Smon: AC 18
chris107: He will be reckless. It's all or nothing now
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
12 (+10) = 22
4 (+10) = 14
Smon: you grab it, DC 18 Athletics to rip it loose.
Smon: You have Advtg as raging
chris107 Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
3 (+5) = 8
18 (+5) = 23
Smon: The gem burts free!
chris107: yay!
Smon: "NOOO....!"
Smon: Says Varek.
chris107: He howls his thanks to the God of Swords
Smon: There is an explosion of black flame...
Smon: DC 18 DEX save
Smon: /roll 10d6
Smon rolls 10d6 and gets: 6, 5, 4, 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2, 5, = 35
chris107 Rolls 1d20+7x2 and gets:
18 (+7) = 25
19 (+7) = 26
Smon: 17 dmg to Hakeem
chris107: yay!
Smon: Several nearby orcs are flattened.
chris107: Bondorr is indeed with Hakeem tonight. So far at least.
chris107: 55/197HP
Smon: Varek looks down at the smoking pit in his chest (took 17 fire no save, no dmg from the necrotic).
Smon: Shieldbiter through the smoke and flames and throngs of orcs you see Varek stagger as Hakeem rips the gem free... You have a chance to shoot...
chris107: Hakeem grins into the skull face,reaching out to lay a hand on his fearsome sword. The black gem clutched tightly in his left hand
chris107: Kill him Shieldbiter!
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+9x2 and gets:
6 (+9) = 15
15 (+9) = 24
chris107: arrgghhh
chris107: so close
Smon: (Parry vs melee only) An arrow strikes Varek in his ruined chest - and a bag of old bones tumbles to the ground.
Smon: He had 1 hp left.
chris107: EXCELLENT SHOY BILL!
chris107: shot
Smon: The orcs see the Death Knight champion destroyed, they turn and flee, howling in terror.
chris107: You did it!
DESTROYERBILL: yay whers kato?
Smon: (You win)
Smon: Kjato quit after Thuruar died.
chris107:
chris107: We can take Thur to Lady Meda?
chris107: On the royal Wyvern
DESTROYERBILL: the whole campain forever or temparrly
Smon: You stand in a dell, corpses everywhere, the caves full of Altani dead - the Tigerclaw are likely extinct.
chris107: temporarily I hope
Smon: One survivor - in the distance you see the sun glint on wyvern scales as the great beast swoops round and heads back in your direction, several javelins sticking out of its tough hide.
DESTROYERBILL: we failed
chris107: Hakeem embraces his Draconian brother
chris107: and rips the armour from the corpse of Varek
chris107: then we must get Thur's body back to lady Meda.
chris107: We won Bill
Smon: There is a smoking black pit in the chest of the Armour of Bondorr, it will need quite some repair - and reconsecration.
chris107: For now at least.
DESTROYERBILL: we weare suposed to keep them alive not have em dead
chris107: 2 mins, been desperate for a pee for ages
Smon: Varek strips the armour from mouldering bones that seem years in the grave.
Smon: (well done guys)
chris107: The armour and sword are H's next project with the elven smith aenor
chris107: back in 2 mins. We must save Thur!
Smon: Varek was using the Tigerclaw to lure you into a trap, so I don't think there was much chance of them surviving - you would have had to beat all the orcs on init & charged out right away.
DESTROYERBILL: we failed cry cry back to normal
Smon: Stop Varek getting into the cave.
DESTROYERBILL: bondor was defniatly angry at us
DESTROYERBILL: bondor was defniatly angry at us
chris107: Bondorr has given us victory
chris107: Varek or what was left with him is gone
DESTROYERBILL: well angry at the tiger claw
chris107: the armour of Bondorr and the black gem is saved
chris107: Did the lad survive?
Smon: No, Tal was incinerated with the others.
DESTROYERBILL: mabye the tiger claw diddnt give bonder his ofrings
chris107: Drat!
DESTROYERBILL: hwo is tal?
chris107: Then we need to gather any other treasure and get Thur back to Lady Meda
chris107: Tal led us here. he was the son of a sword knight.
Smon: GM The Tigerclaw paid the price for their failures in my previous 4e Southlands game.
DESTROYERBILL: hwo is tal?
chris107: see above Bill
chris107: He was a Tiger Claw lad, son of a famous sword knight.
DESTROYERBILL: OKAY SORRY
chris107: He led us to this camp
chris107: No probs
DESTROYERBILL: THANKS
chris107: Gather loot, safely store the treasures of Bondorr and get Thur back would be my vote.
DESTROYERBILL: why coident we git a rocket laincher from the futear
chris107: We need Athena's champion
Smon: The Tigerclaw had some small treasures that survived the fire - 2,900 Copper 1,000 Silver 100 Gold 3 bottle(s) of common wine (0.6 gp) 1 lute (35 gp) 6 lbs. of copper trade bars (3 gp) 12 gallon(s) of ale (2.4 gp) 4 azurite worth 10 gp each
chris107: That would be most helpful.
DESTROYERBILL: okay ill git the wiven ready
Smon: And a fire-blackened silver mirror worth 25gp.
chris107: those are great but our main worry is Thur and the armour of Bondorr. Hakeem will keep that and the gem closely guarded.
DESTROYERBILL: they wear poor
chris107: Poor Tiger Claw.
Smon: GM: You load up the Wyvern with Thuruar's body and the armour of Bondorr.
chris107: We need the speed of the Royal Wyvern now. Like never before.
DESTROYERBILL: they had no mony
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: H will carry the armour and the gem.
chris107: A short rest maybe?
Smon: Red-furred Hyenas are already approaching, attracted by the smell of charred flesh.
chris107: I have 3 healing dice left
Smon: You can rest on the wyvern.
chris107:
Smon: GM: You flying back straight east, or north-east towards Ractuan, or...?
chris107: "Come Shieldbiter! Let us fly and return our friend to the land of the living!"
DESTROYERBILL: sure
chris107: (Drat I changed my screen saver to the map west of the mountains./ One minute
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCG1oAJwFOGbYkrEhYfj7jyzNTItL8vU8Etg7GEL2k71t9JAdxmXtb2jaHPeBMkcFyRj6t8yAGmJZYSTVSYMhTBk3BGcmcryUF37ffHzHc3D-8mtvfu90vGJfbwdPM2o1JhOAvGIduHA/s640/Ghinarian+Hills.jpg
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: Varek was CR 17, good news is that's 18000 XP, call it 20,000 with the orcs & ambush > 10,000 each.
chris107: Thusia is almost directly east
chris107: wow!
chris107: That and the armour etc could well put H to Epic level
chris107: ah not quite
chris107: I say we make all haste to Thusia for Thurs sake.
Smon: OK will stop there for tonight.
Smon: OK will stop there for tonight.
chris107: Cool. Thanks Simon, Bill. Shame Thur bit the dust so early
chris107: A real campaign milestone tonight.
DESTROYERBILL: bye cris
chris107: Maybe time for H to back out and learn some smithing skills while the others catch up and he reforges sword and aermour?
chris107: G'night Bill
8:03pm 2016-10-05 DESTROYERBILL Has exited the room
chris107: I'd really like Hakeem to reforge the Bondorr artifacts.
Smon: Doable
chris107: ready for the epic level game.
chris107: Then the others will be similar level too
Smon: It's a good idea to take time for reforging.
chris107: Happy to play a lower level character while the game time goes.
Smon: I could do more diplomatic stuff with Kjato if you definitely want Hakeem out of it.
chris107: Have a couple of cool ideas
chris107: I'm happy to play Hakeem all the time but I don't want to put the other guys out of the game.
Smon: There are issues with the Mara/Hara Nerathi not sorted yet
chris107: The forging stuff seems a good excuse to let them catch up
Smon: Thuruar would be good choice for emissary.
chris107: the best
Smon: Doubt Bill would care for diplomacy though.
chris107: Kjato really wants to bring the good Nerathi into the fold
chris107: And I agree. If we are going to win long term we need them.
Smon: So I suggest you make a diplomatic sidekick for Thuruar? Could be a Ranger of the Wode for instance, or Athena temple.
chris107: Your call of course Simon. What ever path you would rather us follow is good with me.
chris107: I'll have a good look at the PHB if that's okay?
Smon: Well that would work. It's a major plot point needs tending.
Smon: ok
chris107: Could fancy a go at a rolled character. 4d6?
Smon: I hear Beastmaster Rangers are underpowered so I'd boost them.
Smon: hm, ok if it's in order.
chris107: Either way it will be fun looking at other classes that can support Thur
Smon: want to roll?
chris107: okay
chris107: Sure
Smon: 6 rolls in order, good luck!
chris107: Then I'll have the character done before next week
Smon: roll now then
chris107: whats the order\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\?
Smon: STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 2, 3, 1, 5, = 11
Smon: 10
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 2, 4, 5, 3, = 14
Smon: 12
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 1, 2, 5, 3, = 11
Smon: 10
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 5, 4, 5, 1, = 15
Smon: 14
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 1, 6, 5, 5, = 17
Smon: 16
chris107 rolls 4d6 and gets: 6, 4, 5, 3, = 18
Smon: 15
chris107: cool
Smon: Well you rolled a very diplomatic cleric!
chris107: good numbers!
chris107: yup
Smon: Or could be a Bard, Druid etc
Smon: Amazon maybe
chris107: what level?
Smon: Even a wizard
Smon: 13
chris107: cool. I'll have a play and PM you some ideas. Thanks again for a great game. See you next week.
Smon: Could be lower if level if preferred.
Smon: Bye now.
chris107: G'night!
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