Session 120 18/2/47 to 11.30pm, Fall of the First King (19000 XP)

Helga's new armour

Hakeem L19 XP 309,196/355,000
Shieldbiter L16 XP 195,000/225,000
Ajax L9 XP 57,325/64,000
+Epicaste the Golden Falcon
+Vuthrik the Deathwalker
+Dr Rosa Piercemuller
   

5:52pm  2017-6-28 Smon Has entered the room
5:59pm  2017-6-28 chris107 Has entered the room
chris107: Evening Simon
Smon: Hi chris
Smon: Just getting Bill logged in
chris107: Super
6:01pm  2017-6-28 DESTROYERBILL Has entered the room
Smon: Hi Bill!
DESTROYERBILL: HELLO
Smon: Smon: You notice the walls are smeared with a mineral/stalactite glaze of congealed limestone. Smon: /roll d20+6 Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 19, (+6) = 25 chris107: "There have been many illusions here. Maybe the First King hided behind one last illusion?" Sandor Sunneson: oooooooooooooooh Smon: Rosa points out the door half-huidden by the glaze. Smon: OOC feel free to say "I search the walls" THracia has a million secret doors! Smon: On the north wall you make out the outline of a door. chris107: "That way it is then."
chris107: Evening, Bill
DESTROYERBILL: COOL
Smon: Your group: Hakeem L18 2100+288,096=290,196/305,000 Shieldbiter L15 2100+171,591=173,691/195,000 Ajax L8 2100+45,225=47,325/48,000 (cast +Epicaste the Golden Falcon +Vuthrik the Deathwalker +Dr Rosa Piercemuller
DESTROYERBILL: PRETTY GOOD TEAM
Smon: The mineral glaze (mostly limestone) is congealed over the door, but it looks as if H & SB should be able to break through it easily enough.
chris107: Not bad at all
DESTROYERBILL: sorry for the caps
Smon:
Smon: Rosa: "Do the honours, boys!" she stands back from the door.
DESTROYERBILL: im multi tasking right now
chris107: "This looks like it Prince Shieldbiter. Good luck my old friend."
DESTROYERBILL: its fun
chris107: H causes his sword to crackle.
chris107: 3-2-
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
chris107: 1! Kicks at the door.
DESTROYERBILL: teah
DESTROYERBILL: yeah
chris107: (Hakeem 218/221 HP, 3 ragesused, 1 Berserk (recovered), 8 Healing Dice used.)
Smon: GM: The door shudders at Hakeem's kick, bits of mineral glaze fall off.
DESTROYERBILL: i try
Smon: A couple more kicks from the pair of you and it bursts open.
chris107: "Rrarararararararaar!"
Smon: Dust swirls from the dark corridor beyond, which runs 30' north into an unlit 30x30 chamber.
DESTROYERBILL: raaaaaa
chris107: (encourage the others to stand well back)
Smon: Shielbiter suddenly has a vision - he sees himself leading a great army of reptilian creatures in conquest of the world!
DESTROYERBILL: okary
chris107: "Hmmmm, not what I was expecting..."
chris107: "More illusions?"
Smon: Hakeem also has a vision, almost as vivid, of vast treasures held within the tomb-cyst of the Immortal King.
Smon: Rosa: "I felt something... in my mind." She frowns.
chris107: "BAH! Show yourself Lizard! No offence Shieldbiter."
Smon: Epicaste and Vuthik look at each other and shrug.
DESTROYERBILL: none tskin
Smon: GM: You head carefully down the tunnel, the others keeping 30' back.
DESTROYERBILL: taken
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL: cool
chris107: Crackle-crackle
DESTROYERBILL: burn
chris107: stealthy as I can
Smon: It enters into the next chamber, which seems barren but for an exit archway on the north wall leading to another tunnel, and two large piles of dust and debris on either side of the archway.
DESTROYERBILL: omanus
Smon: You make out bits of bone and teeth - not human teeth - among the ashy debris.
chris107: "You said it..."
chris107: "I remeber another monster we battled that was made of bone shards.."
Smon: Through the far arch appears to be a second longer tunnel, with a faint green light in the distance.
chris107: "Dr. P.? You getting more headaches?"
DESTROYERBILL: are yo?
chris107: Hakeem stalks into the room.
DESTROYERBILL: me to
Smon: Behind you Rosa nods, moving forward. Then as Hakeem & SB stalk into the room the dust mounds rise up in a swirl...
Smon: Roll init
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
10 (+2) = 12
9 (+2) = 11
chris107: 4th Rage
DESTROYERBILL: i4th rage to
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 14, (+1) = 15
Smon: /roll d20+5
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 14, (+5) = 19
Smon: Before you can react you are enveloped in a whirlwind of dust, bones and teeth...
Smon: make 2 DC 17 DEX saves, you have advtg on both rolls as barbarians.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
5 (+8) = 13
11 (+8) = 19
chris107 Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
6 (+8) = 14
10 (+8) = 18
chris107: Phew!
chris107: Just
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
7 (+6) = 13
20 (+6) = 26
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
1 (+6) = 7
10 (+6) = 16
chris107: Arrgghhh!
chris107: So close!
DESTROYERBILL: what effect
Smon: ok Hakeem you take 66 damage. SB you take 99 damage and have your STR drained...
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 2,
Smon: SB you lose 2 points of STR so STR 18
chris107: 152/221
Smon: Your goes, you can rage
chris107: "Foul sorcery! Rrrrarararargghhhhh!"
DESTROYERBILL: 69/172
chris107: Rage
DESTROYERBILL: rage
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
8 (+14) = 22
13 (+14) = 27
DESTROYERBILL: rage
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
11 (+10) = 21
10 (+10) = 20
Smon: You slash at the amorphous forms as they begin to recoalesce - AC 18
Smon: all hits
chris107 rolls 4d8+24 and gets: 8, 4, 6, 3, (+24) = 45
Smon: Epicaste: "Do you need help in there?!"
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d12+20 and gets: 6, 3, (+20) = 29
chris107: "You'd better stay back! This thing nearly killed us in one blow!"
Smon: GM: They have lightning resistance so -3 dmg fr Hakeem
DESTROYERBILL rolls 4d6 and gets: 4, 3, 5, 3, = 15
Smon: No fire resistance though
chris107: yay!
chris107: Go Prince Shieldbiter!
Smon: SB attacks the same vague figure Hakeem wounded.
Smon: His sword burns it...
Smon: GM: The others stay well back down the tunnel...
DESTROYERBILL: hellp
Smon: GM: Ajax casts Haste on you
chris107: (66 or 99 would kill them in one go Bill  )
Smon: You can take extra attacks now
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x3 and gets:
13 (+14) = 27
3 (+14) = 17
20 (+14) = 34
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 14, (+11) = 25
chris107: Ohsorry
Smon: 1 attack not 3 chris!!!
chris107: one extra.
chris107: the 13 then?
Smon: ok
chris107 rolls 1d8+12 and gets: 4, (+12) = 16
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+9 and gets: 6, (+9) = 15
chris107 rolls 1d8 and gets: 7,
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d6 and gets: 1, 1, = 2
Smon: R2
Smon: You've done 120 dmg to one of the foul creatures but they're still attacking...
Smon: /roll d6x2
Smon Rolls 1d6x2 and gets:
5 = 5
6 = 6
DESTROYERBILL: god dam
Smon: Their Whirlwind power recharges and they use it again (prob better than their spells...)
Smon: The choking clawing slashing dust assails you.
chris107: With our hasted initiative?
chris107: +2?
chris107: (Good luck Bill!)
Smon: Roll 2 DC 17 DEX saves. And Haste doesn't affect init.
chris107: okay, thanks.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
1 (+8) = 9
4 (+8) = 12
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
18 (+6) = 24
18 (+6) = 24
Smon: you have advtg so 2 rolls per save
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
18 (+6) = 24
6 (+6) = 12
chris107 Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
3 (+8) = 11
4 (+8) = 12
DESTROYERBILL: im dead
chris107: both fail
chris107: I'm dead too
DESTROYERBILL: wait im not dead
chris107: Inspiration!
Smon: SB makes both saves, 66 dmg/2 Rage = 33
chris107: reroll 1?
DESTROYERBILL: 33/172
Smon: no that's not how it works
chris107: okay, just give me the bad news then
Smon: Hakeem takes 66 dmg after halving for raging and -2d6 STR
Smon: /roll 2d6
Smon rolls 2d6 and gets: 4, 4, = 8
Smon: -8 STR so -4 to att & dmg
chris107: 86/221
chris107: 12 strength
Smon: might want to Reckless
chris107: May as well
Smon: 3 atts each hasted
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+11x6 and gets:
8 (+11) = 19
2 (+11) = 13
5 (+11) = 16
17 (+11) = 28
12 (+11) = 23
12 (+11) = 23
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
2 (+14) = 16
7 (+14) = 21
Smon: 3 hits SB
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
18 (+14) = 32
15 (+14) = 29
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
18 (+14) = 32
4 (+14) = 18
Smon: 3 hits H
chris107 rolls 3d8+18 and gets: 8, 2, 5, (+18) = 33
chris107 rolls 3d8 and gets: 5, 5, 2, = 12
chris107: actually 30
chris107: 12 =+1
chris107: Rage = +4
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+9 and gets: 10, (+9) = 19
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d6 and gets: 2, 5, = 7
Smon: SB destroys one with his second blow.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+9 and gets: 9, (+9) = 18
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d6 and gets: 1, 3, = 4
Smon: Third blow on remaining creature does 22.
Smon: R3
chris107: Hakeem leaps at the other!
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
Smon: Its go, 1-3 circle of death 4-6 finger of death
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 2,
Smon: Black necrotic energy ripples out from the insubstantial figure.
DESTROYERBILL: a lot of death
chris107: a lot
chris107: But we are tough!
Smon: Make a DC 18 CON save each of you
DESTROYERBILL: we are so lo
chris107: "RRRRAARRGGHHHHHH!"
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 20, (+11) = 31
Smon: /roll 10d6
Smon rolls 10d6 and gets: 5, 2, 1, 4, 1, 5, 3, 4, 2, 2, = 29
chris107: "BONDORR!"
Smon: not a good roll
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 3, (+8) = 11
Smon: You both take half damage - H for saving, SB for Totem, so 14 dmg
Smon: your goes
chris107: 72/221
DESTROYERBILL: 55/172
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
7 (+10) = 17
5 (+10) = 15
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
17 (+10) = 27
11 (+10) = 21
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+11x6 and gets:
3 (+11) = 14
19 (+11) = 30
10 (+11) = 21
4 (+11) = 15
2 (+11) = 13
5 (+11) = 16
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
3 (+10) = 13
5 (+10) = 15
chris107: 1 hit
Smon: AC 18 yup
chris107 rolls 1d8+8 and gets: 8, (+8) = 16
Smon: 2 hits from SB
chris107 rolls 1d8 and gets: 4,
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d12+9x2 and gets:
11 (+9) = 20
8 (+9) = 17
DESTROYERBILL rolls 4d6 and gets: 3, 4, 5, 5, = 17
DESTROYERBILL: 54 damge
Smon: It's taken 94 dmg, not 'bloodied' yet...
Smon: /roll 2d6
Smon rolls 2d6 and gets: 6, 3, = 9
Smon: The others fail a Morale check & decide to stay well back down the corridor.
Smon: Next round...
chris107: others?!
chris107: Cripes!
Smon: (your friends!) whirlwind recharge 5-6 check:
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
chris107: (Phew!)
Smon: 1-3 finger of death 4-6 bite
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
Smon: bite, 1-3 H 4-6 SB
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
Smon: Its head coalesces into a swarm of boneshard fangs and it lunges at SB...
Smon: /roll d20+9x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+9x2 and gets:
12 (+9) = 21
3 (+9) = 12
Smon: /roll 3d8+5
Smon rolls 3d8+5 and gets: 1, 2, 3, (+5) = 11
Smon: 11/2 = 5 physical dmg +
Smon: /roll d4
Smon rolls 1d4 and gets: 3,
Smon: -3 STR > 15
chris107: eek
Smon: DC 17 CON save or paralysed
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 11, (+8) = 19
Smon: not paralysed
chris107: phew
Smon: DC 19 CON save or diseased.
chris107: cripes!
chris107: These things are horrid!
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 3, (+8) = 11
chris107:
Smon: SB's skin blackens where the ghoul-thing bit him.
Smon: OK your goes.
DESTROYERBILL: hellp
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
8 (+10) = 18
19 (+10) = 29
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+11x6 and gets:
6 (+11) = 17
13 (+11) = 24
11 (+11) = 22
5 (+11) = 16
14 (+11) = 25
17 (+11) = 28
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
18 (+10) = 28
1 (+10) = 11
chris107 Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
1 (+10) = 11
18 (+10) = 28
chris107 rolls 3d8+12 and gets: 3, 1, 1, (+12) = 17
Smon: SB at +9, still hits
chris107 rolls 3d8 and gets: 7, 8, 8, = 23
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d12+7x3 and gets:
1 (+7) = 8
12 (+7) = 19
3 (+7) = 10
DESTROYERBILL rolls 6d6 and gets: 6, 4, 2, 4, 1, 6, = 23
DESTROYERBILL: 59 damage
Smon: thx
chris107: 28
DESTROYERBILL: hellp
Smon: Seeing that both the creature and yourselves are weakening, your friends burst in to join the attack...
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzaKuOEXHkzdJWvYtJQQbdiO0raXtI9Jny9pdLRI2474FpVTmLD-vvLe5wYNjCg-3bLx78rkCom7Dam62WwpwsdKIT5RBvQfAP-7NbBOX1FkABB9CvnWL0BGIei4CKQj_qT1DDdCUzb6t/s320/0+Epicaste.jpg
chris107: (If it whirlwinds now they are all dead  )
Smon: Epicaste:
Smon: /roll d20+5x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
19 (+5) = 24
11 (+5) = 16
Smon: 1 hit
Smon: /roll d6+3
Smon rolls 1d6+3 and gets: 3, (+3) = 6
Smon: 6/2=3 dmg, it has 11...
Smon: Vuthrik the Last Deathwalker
Smon: /roll d20+5x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
1 (+5) = 6
6 (+5) = 11
Smon: misses
Smon: Ajax shoots a fire bolt
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 15,
Smon: hit
Smon: /roll 2d10
Smon rolls 2d10 and gets: 7, 10, = 17
Smon: It explodes!
Smon: Yaay Ajax
chris107: Yay!
Smon: The choking deadly dust falls back to the ground.
DESTROYERBILL: good job
Smon: You are victorious, but sore wounded.
chris107: "That was a thing of great evil!"
chris107: 72/221 HP
DESTROYERBILL: so heal
chris107: 4 rages down
Smon: Ajax: "Don't mention it."  Rosa comes in: "You two look sore wounded..."
chris107: 12 Strength
DESTROYERBILL: 55/172
DESTROYERBILL: 1 rage left
chris107: "A bit of a breather may be welcome..."
Smon: The creature stat block doesn't mention any recovery, I will treat as Shadow...
chris107: "Let's hang back and rest if we may before pressing on."
chris107: (Don't know what they were but Jeez!)
Smon: GM STR recovery on short rest
DESTROYERBILL: short rest to recover
Smon: CR 12 bonepowder ghouls
Smon: Rosa: "Some kind of undead guardians, set by the Immortal King..."
chris107: Not nice.
DESTROYERBILL: run
Smon: The ghoul room is foul, so you retreat back to the room of broken pots to rest?
DESTROYERBILL: thats ironic
chris107: yes
Smon: OK encounter check...
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
DESTROYERBILL: few
Smon: Lucky - as you rest you think you hear sounds in the distance, like lots of lizardmen on the march, but none enter the hidden tomb and you complete an SR
chris107: all out now. 10 remaining healing dice.
Smon: SB's STR recovers.
chris107 Rolls 1d12+5x10 and gets:
9 (+5) = 14
7 (+5) = 12
2 (+5) = 7
9 (+5) = 14
5 (+5) = 10
5 (+5) = 10
4 (+5) = 9
4 (+5) = 9
5 (+5) = 10
2 (+5) = 7
chris107: 100
chris107: = 172/221
DESTROYERBILL rolls 4d12+12 and gets: 10, 12, 9, 2, (+12) = 45
chris107: 2 rages left.
chris107: no healing dice left
Smon: SB on 95 hp, also 2 rages left, no healing dice.
chris107: Strength recovered?
Smon: yup
chris107: "Then we press on." Hakeem is in a grim mood.
chris107: "I will not fail."
DESTROYERBILL: im going back to my wife she can heal me for 80
chris107: "This time Prince Shieldbiter, we finish the First King for good!"
chris107: (That's a lot of wandering monsters)
DESTROYERBILL: no
chris107: (With few rages left...)
Smon: Epicaste: "We may have to fight our way back through more lizardmen - I heard movement..."
chris107: "Come, let's finish this."
DESTROYERBILL: were not going in on barley over half hitpoins and 1 rage
chris107: "Then I go alone. It's been a pleasure Prince Shieldbiter."
Smon: She grips her sword grimly. "This has been a strange day. Sent to investigate a Beastman uprising in Huvat Vex, now I find myself in the future a thousand years fighting the Dragon Lords..."
chris107: Hakeem stalks into the coridor. His destiny clear.
DESTROYERBILL: your gona die going on alone
chris107: "I do not fear death."
Smon: Epicaste looks grimly to Vuthrik. He nods and goes to accompany Hakeem.
chris107: "Bondorr is with me." Hakeem is fey.
DESTROYERBILL: i will not die on a faithful idiots will
Smon: Rosa: "Shieldbiter, if you don't go with Bondorr... I mean with Hakeem... he'll fail. That's why he failed the second battle - he had the Sword but he tried to face the King alone."
chris107: Hakeem walks on
Smon: Hakeem crosses the threshold of the second corridor and walks on, into the Light...
DESTROYERBILL: we will all die if we go in
DESTROYERBILL: but i will come with
Smon: Epicaste grins: "C'mon Shieldbiter, it's a good day to die!"
chris107: He prepares to summon all his hate, all his will, all the love of his family.
Smon: "The lizardmen will likely kill us anyway..."
DESTROYERBILL: may bondor and the dragon gods reguvanate us
Smon: Rosa gives SB an encouraging slap on the back.
chris107: Crackle-crackle
Smon: You both have Inspiration now.
chris107: I had inspiration, does it count twice now?
Smon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys
Smon: no you can only ever have it or not
chris107: okay, Bondorr be with us then.
Smon: (The Verhoeven Starship Troopers are more like the Neo-Nerath, but it's still a good day to die)
chris107:
chris107: "Death in battle against a worthy foe is an honour!"
Smon: GM: The ancient redstone tunnel runs north 80', your companions are behind you as you come out into a great vaulted sepulchre...
chris107: Hakeem is totaly inhabited by the spirit of Bondorr now. Only death or glory will suffice.
Smon: Black basalt columns carved with dragons... walls draped in ancient rotted finery rise to the arched ceiling high above.
chris107: He grins widly when he sees his dear friend Prince Shieldbiter.
Smon: The sepulchre is 40' n-s, but 90' e-w. Standing on a basalt pedestal at the east end of the chamber is a giant, mummified reptilian, 10' tall with huge, parchment-like bat wings springing from its scaly but withered back.
Smon: It is entirely encased within a transparent green crystal, glowly softly.
chris107: where do we enter please?
Smon: The creature is gargoyle-like and emanates a sense of evil, though apparently long dead.
Smon: At the base of the 3' high pedestal are draconic runes wreathed in blue flame.
chris107: Hakeem marches towards it
chris107: not climbing the pedastel though
Smon: Hakeem moves forward to the pedestal.
Smon: The mummified dragon lord corpse remains unmoving, eyes closed in death.
chris107: every sense alert for danger
chris107: "Anyone read these runes?"
Smon: Hakeem notes the stitched wound in its breast, the size matching perfectly a thrust from the sword he wields.
Smon: Shieldbiter comes up and reads the draconic runes.
Smon: "Awaken the Past with the Blood of My People, and You Shall Be Justly Rewarded."
DESTROYERBILL: whats up with that
chris107: "Dragonsblood will bring him back?"
Smon: (Playing Sabaton now)
Smon: Rosa nods: "His people - the Dragon Lords... dragon blood? I don't know if lizardmen would count?"
Smon: Epicaste: "Or kobolds?"
chris107: "You chaps want to pop back and get one?"
Smon: Vuthrik eyes Shieldbiter meaningfully. "Looks pretty draconic to me..."
chris107: (OOC - I didn't want to mention it  )
DESTROYERBILL: nope
DESTROYERBILL: lets just dismember his body and burn it
chris107: "Well if you think we can?"
chris107: "But will that kill his spirit eternally?"
Smon: The glowing green crystal encases his body like a coffin.
chris107: "Or do we just shunt this problem to our children?"
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
DESTROYERBILL: lets just make it imposible for anything to put ther blood on it or even tuch it
Smon: LOL
DESTROYERBILL: shit
chris107: "I think it is our destiny to fight him, Prince Shieldbiter. For good or ill. It falls to us. Here, now."
Smon: GM: In the distance you hear lizardmen roaring and the sound of many running feet.
Smon: Rosa: "He's calling his people to him..."
chris107: "Here come the blood we need then."
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107: Epicaste, Vuthrik?
Smon: Vuthrik: "We're trapped here... We must sell our lives dearly!"
chris107: Can you hold them off
DESTROYERBILL:      
DESTROYERBILL: just as lizards
Smon: Vuthrik and Epicaste nod and go to the sepulchre entrance.
Smon: Epicaste: "We'll hold them - hurry!"
chris107: "Can you spare a drop Prince Shieldbiter? Sooner we start..."
DESTROYERBILL: fine
chris107: Crackle-crackle
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
chris107: H prepares to leap at the First King, raging and with the Berserk of Bondorr upon him.
chris107: At the first signs of life/ force field gone.
DESTROYERBILL: me to
Smon: Ajax: "I can only haste one of you..."
DESTROYERBILL: remember lightning doeas not work on the first king
chris107: "Haste my friend."
Smon: OOC I've taken off 2 slots fr Ajax for the x2 haste earlier which was my mistake, was thinking Gracyone
chris107: "Prince Shieldbiter is destined to land the killer blow."
Smon: Ajax nods: "Soon as that screen goes down..."
DESTROYERBILL: no you are rember i cant kill him
chris107: "He must not escape this time. It is why you have that big sword my friend."
DESTROYERBILL: just i do more damage
Smon: You hear the sounds of approaching lizardman, only about 18 seconds away.
chris107: "Let's do this. Now!"
chris107: "BONDORRRRRRRRRRR!"
DESTROYERBILL: i cut my finger and place a drop of blood on the crstal
Smon: 94 hp left...
Smon: As the dragonblood of the Dragonborn Prince touches the crystal cyst, it melts away - and the Lich's eyes blink open.
DESTROYERBILL: i attak
chris107: "RRRAARRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Smon: Black pools regard you... roll init but you have Surprise on him until his init
chris107: Rage!
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 6, (+4) = 10
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
5 (+2) = 7
9 (+2) = 11
DESTROYERBILL: rage
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 5, (+1) = 6
chris107: H attacks
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
13 (+14) = 27
9 (+14) = 23
Smon: ok H roll your attacks w advtg
Smon: AC 20
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
6 (+14) = 20
7 (+14) = 21
Smon: 2 hits
Smon: Your sword cuts into withered flesh
chris107: you want lightning damage seperately Simon?
DESTROYERBILL: imune
Smon: The lightning is ineffective but the bonus vs dragonblood applies
chris107: cool!
chris107 rolls 2d8+24 and gets: 2, 7, (+24) = 33
chris107 rolls 6d6 and gets: 4, 2, 5, 4, 3, 3, = 21
Smon: 51 dmg
Smon: The King starts to rise, his wings unfurl.
Smon: (surprise ended)
Smon: SB can attack, Hasted so 3 attacks.
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+12x6 and gets:
12 (+12) = 24
7 (+12) = 19
15 (+12) = 27
8 (+12) = 20
11 (+12) = 23
3 (+12) = 15
Smon: SB attacks Recklessly.
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d12+10x3 and gets:
5 (+10) = 15
2 (+10) = 12
7 (+10) = 17
DESTROYERBILL: 44
DESTROYERBILL rolls 6d6 and gets: 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, = 27
Smon: 71 dmg.
Smon: The creature snarls and spits a gout of acid at you.
Smon: /roll 6d6
Smon rolls 6d6 and gets: 3, 3, 6, 3, 3, 2, = 20
chris107: resistance to acid
DESTROYERBILL: =10
Smon: DEX save DC 19 for half
Smon: both of you
chris107 Rolls 1d20+8x2 and gets:
16 (+8) = 24
11 (+8) = 19
Smon: h takes 5
chris107: so 5HP?
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
4 (+6) = 10
18 (+6) = 24
Smon: SB takes 5 too
DESTROYERBILL: 5
chris107: 167/221
Smon: Next round - the lizardmen arrive...
Smon: lizardman init
Smon: /roll d20
chris107: Berserk
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 13,
Smon: GM: The lizardmen Bullrush Epicaste & Vuthrik
Smon: /roll d20+2x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+2x4 and gets:
6 (+2) = 8
13 (+2) = 15
10 (+2) = 12
9 (+2) = 11
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 2, (+4) = 6
Smon: /roll d20+5
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 17, (+5) = 22
Smon: Vuthrik stands firm, but Epicaste is knocked back into the Sepulchre by the onrushing horde.
DESTROYERBILL: a little hellp her bondor/dragon gods pls hellp
Smon: /roll d20+4x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x4 and gets:
16 (+4) = 20
19 (+4) = 23
13 (+4) = 17
4 (+4) = 8
Smon: /roll 2d6+4
Smon rolls 2d6+4 and gets: 5, 2, (+4) = 11
Smon: /roll d20+4x4
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x4 and gets:
1 (+4) = 5
1 (+4) = 5
13 (+4) = 17
9 (+4) = 13
Smon: /roll d6+2
Smon rolls 1d6+2 and gets: 4, (+2) = 6
Smon: E&V still stand, stabbing and slicing heroically.
chris107: yay
Smon: /roll d20+5x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x6 and gets:
9 (+5) = 14
8 (+5) = 13
15 (+5) = 20
11 (+5) = 16
14 (+5) = 19
13 (+5) = 18
Smon: /roll d6+3
Smon rolls 1d6+3 and gets: 1, (+3) = 4
Smon: /roll 3d8+6
Smon rolls 3d8+6 and gets: 2, 6, 8, (+6) = 22
Smon: Vuthrik kills a lizardman warrior.
chris107: yay
Smon: He moves into the corridor, spear dancing.
DESTROYERBILL: good
DESTROYERBILL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg
Smon: Behind them, Ajax retreats in your direction and flings 4 magic missiles at the Immortal King.
chris107: Great music, Bill
DESTROYERBILL: your welcome#
Smon: Apparently the IK does not have Shield... he roars as 4 glowing energy darts strike home.
chris107: yay!
Smon: /roll 4d4+4
Smon rolls 4d4+4 and gets: 2, 3, 3, 4, (+4) = 16
Smon: Hakeem your turn.
DESTROYERBILL: thats dum
chris107: reckless this ime
chris107: berserk
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
15 (+14) = 29
2 (+14) = 16
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
3 (+14) = 17
8 (+14) = 22
Smon: AC 20
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
3 (+14) = 17
15 (+14) = 29
chris107: 3 hits!
Smon: The Immortal King speaks in your minds:
chris107 rolls 3d8+36 and gets: 2, 5, 5, (+36) = 48
chris107 rolls 9d6 and gets: 3, 4, 3, 6, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, = 26
Smon: "Fools! You have awakened me! Now I go to awaken my people..."
DESTROYERBILL: he says f### you
chris107: "KILL IT SHIELDBITER!"
DESTROYERBILL: or not
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+12x6 and gets:
10 (+12) = 22
5 (+12) = 17
11 (+12) = 23
16 (+12) = 28
3 (+12) = 15
9 (+12) = 21
Smon: Hakeem plants the Sword of Bondorr firmly in the foul wight's breast, right where Bondorr did so many aeons before... 74 dmg. It screams in agony, writhing on the sword tip.
chris107: 197 so far to it...
DESTROYERBILL: 3 hit
chris107: yay! Nice one Bill!
Smon: SB hacks away enthusiastically, tearing great rents in the withered body.
DESTROYERBILL: i take the head
DESTROYERBILL: now
Smon: Before the Immortal King can Teleport away, SB swings the Dragonblade, cleaving the head free from the corpse.
chris107: "ROSA! WHAT MUST WE DO?"
Smon: It hits the ground.
chris107: YES!
DESTROYERBILL: i take it
DESTROYERBILL: to show to the lizard men
Smon: Rosa and Ajax are running towards you as dozens of lizardmen pour into the chamber, a mighty robed High Priest among them.
chris107: To keep his rage and berserk H will spring at the lizardmen "RRRAARRRRHHHHHH!"
Smon: They stop, staring in abject horror at the desecration.
DESTROYERBILL: your imortal king turns out not to be imortal huh fals tital
Smon: LOL
chris107: At the Priest if he can?
DESTROYERBILL: i drop it at ther feet
Smon: SB make a CHA+Prof check w advtg
DESTROYERBILL: follow me or die like your mortal king
Smon: Lizardmen guards spring to defend their High Priest.
Smon: /roll d20+4x16
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x10 and gets:
7 (+4) = 11
16 (+4) = 20
15 (+4) = 19
6 (+4) = 10
18 (+4) = 22
10 (+4) = 14
4 (+4) = 8
20 (+4) = 24
12 (+4) = 16
15 (+4) = 19
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
9 (+5) = 14
8 (+5) = 13
chris107: AC22
Smon: /roll d20+4x6
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x6 and gets:
15 (+4) = 19
2 (+4) = 6
18 (+4) = 22
11 (+4) = 15
13 (+4) = 17
18 (+4) = 22
DESTROYERBILL: join or die
DESTROYERBILL: the mortal king saw my wrath you wont want to
Smon: /roll 6d6+10
Smon rolls 6d6+10 and gets: 6, 6, 5, 3, 6, 6, (+10) = 42
Smon: Hakeem takes 42/2=21 dmg, H make an Athletics check to reach the HP
chris107: 146/221
DESTROYERBILL: i am your king now lizard men
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 16, (+11) = 27
DESTROYERBILL: or
DESTROYERBILL: die
Smon: GM: SB you can tell the lizardmen are currenty distracted by Hakeem.
DESTROYERBILL: i ty to stop hakeem
DESTROYERBILL: oops
Smon: lizard hp init check
Smon: /roll d20+1
Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
DESTROYERBILL: join or die now raa
Smon: Hakeem reaches the robed High Priest before SB can stop him.
chris107: "Soz, Shieldbiter. I'll just slay this troublesome priest. The rest are yours!"
chris107: "Rrrararararararaararar"
Smon: H can attack
Smon: AC 15
DESTROYERBILL: i plant my sword in the ground and my wings show gloriasly
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x3 and gets:
13 (+14) = 27
4 (+14) = 18
12 (+14) = 26
DESTROYERBILL: your preits are weong and will die
DESTROYERBILL: dont follow them
chris107 rolls 6d8+36 and gets: 4, 5, 5, 3, 3, 5, (+36) = 61
chris107 rolls 9d6 and gets: 5, 6, 2, 5, 6, 2, 5, 4, 2, = 37
Smon: you do lightning + draconic dmg
DESTROYERBILL: go on hakeem i grin
Smon: Hakeem rips the high priest apart.
Smon: The lizardmen blanch and quail to see their god and their high priest struck down.
chris107: "Listen to him..." He points his gory blade at Shieldbiter
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
16 (+5) = 21
4 (+5) = 9
chris107: But is ready to slay them all without mercy if they fail to surrender... NOW
Smon: The lizardmen fall to their knees before Shieldbiter!
chris107: YAY!
DESTROYERBILL: i am your king now my loyal folwars
Smon: Epicaste & Vuthrik extract themselves from the mass of lizardmen and go to SB's side, followed by Rosa and Ajax as he spreads his wings wide.
DESTROYERBILL: i show my wings in glory
Smon: "Oh great Dragon Lord! Tell us how we may serve you!"
Smon: OOC Looks like SB has that army he wanted.
chris107: It sure does
DESTROYERBILL: go tell the other lizard men ther king is dead and they shall have a better one
DESTROYERBILL: me
chris107: They look suitably cowed?
DESTROYERBILL: i shall treat you justly
DESTROYERBILL: i will come with you
DESTROYERBILL: and bring the head
chris107: H pokes around with his sword in the remains of the HP
Smon: You get 19000 XP
DESTROYERBILL: cool
Smon: They look cowed.
chris107: And then goes to look for this massive treasure he saw. Looks like Prince Shieldbiter has an army. Hakeem has school fees to find.
chris107: Wow! 19000! That's level 19 I think
DESTROYERBILL: i dont level
Smon: GM: It looks as if any treasure was illusory.
Smon: SB has the massive severed mummified head of the Immortal King.
DESTROYERBILL: i say come with me lizard men and show the other lizard men
chris107: Secret rooms? Anything onthe HP?
Smon: "We shall tell the people a new King has come! What is your name, oh Great One?"
DESTROYERBILL: and they ill join us
DESTROYERBILL: shiald biter
Smon: Hakeem can make INT+Prof investigate roll.
chris107: "Hail! KING Shieldbiter!"
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 5, (+6) = 11
chris107: Bah!
DESTROYERBILL: pass?
chris107:
chris107: "Help me search Rosa?"
chris107: "You're the clever one."
Smon: The HP has silver jewelry worth 100 gp.
Smon: "Shield biter! Shield biter!" chant the lizardmen nervously,
Smon: some try chewing on their spiked shields.
chris107: Yay!
Smon: Rosa looks around:
chris107: hehe
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 17, (+6) = 23
chris107: Clever girl!
Smon: Rosa: "Well these chalcedony inlays could be stripped... and that's mother of pearl. We could probably get a few thousand out of this room, eventually."
chris107: Hakeem looks sadly at her. "Nothing more....portable?"
DESTROYERBILL: well im off to spread my new leadership
DESTROYERBILL: just not evil
chris107: "Ah well. We did what we came for. That is enough for me. Should we burn this thing?" He points at the body
DESTROYERBILL: sure
chris107: Nicely done Bill!
DESTROYERBILL: i keep the head
chris107: King Shieldbiter!
DESTROYERBILL: yeah
DESTROYERBILL: ill spread it to the other lizard men
Smon: GM: The high priest also has a small vial which Rosa IDs as a potion of rebuke undead, 4 bags of powders, 4 sacred rocks...
chris107: "You will make a fine King, my friend."
DESTROYERBILL: you to (grining)
Smon: a mummified human hand, 6 dwarf & elf teeth, 20 divining sticks, 6 strips of dried human flesh and a human jawbone.
chris107: "That potion may help Queen Artimisia against her Spectre?"
chris107: hehe
Smon: Rosa nods: "Worth a try. Do you want it Hakeem?"
chris107: Hakeem groans at the thought of paying for young Hassan's schooling!
DESTROYERBILL: im off to spread mt royal decree
Smon: She offers it to H.
chris107: "Good luck King Shieldbiter! Yes please Rosa."
chris107: "Bring your forces to us if you can! The final battle is not far off!"
DESTROYERBILL: i go to the other lizard men
DESTROYERBILL: how many do i have with me
Smon: She hands it over - handling it a few mins you get a sense of it - lets imbiber turn undead as a cleric.
chris107: "Epicaste, Vushik? Would you stay with us? You are free to go your own way of course."
Smon: GM: The lizardmen escort you back through the halls of the Dragon Lord temple, turning right/south up a long tunnel to caves above.
chris107: "Thanks Rosa, this could really help the Queen."
Smon: Eventually an hour or so later you emerge from Thracia to a starlit night sky.
Smon: You see the wyvern still crouched atop the rotunda.
chris107: "Your Queen awaits!"
Smon: "Most of tribe are in the marshes - north side of city."
DESTROYERBILL: i fly up
Smon: says a helpful lizardman.
DESTROYERBILL: ill go ther after
DESTROYERBILL: i hug my wife
chris107: "You need any help, Shieldbiter?"
DESTROYERBILL: sure
Smon: Shieldbiter approaches by wing and sees burned lizardman corpses scattered around the base of the rotunda. His wife Freya is still up there, but now with 2 strange humans, a male wizard and a female fighter.
chris107: Hakeem will go with his friend then
Smon: "Hello dear!" says Freya, giving SB a big hug.
DESTROYERBILL: who are they
DESTROYERBILL: i hug her back
Smon: "These two are Lorius and Jane - and the dwarf behind the wyvern is Kogor. I saved them from some lizardmen."
Smon: The three adventurers wave at SB cheerily.
Smon: Freya: "You look sick! Allow me..."
DESTROYERBILL: i now rule some lizard men
Smon: Freya lays on hands & heals 80 hp.
DESTROYERBILL: thanks
DESTROYERBILL: thanks sweetie
DESTROYERBILL: i show her the dragon lords head
chris107: (309,196/305,000 by the way. 19th level. The highest level D&D character I have ever had  )
Smon: Freya smiles. "You're welcome!" SB at 169/172
DESTROYERBILL: the imortal king not so imortal after all
Smon: "That's great dear!" GM I'm giving SB a bonus so he just hits 16 & we'll stop there.
chris107: "You would have been proud of him, Freya."
Smon: SB still has the disease but Freya can hopefully stop him dying from it.
chris107: Very nice!
Smon: You need to get a long rest though!
chris107: wow
chris107: hope so!
DESTROYERBILL: yep
chris107: We do!
Smon: It's pretty deadly.
chris107: Where though?
Smon: Your choice.
DESTROYERBILL: then ill do deplomcy
chris107: "Get well soon, Shieldbiter."
DESTROYERBILL: i will long rest
chris107: Thusia to start?
DESTROYERBILL: then show the lizard men
Smon: SB can talk to his people in the swamp, a couple hundred lizardmen, and explain he's their new King.
DESTROYERBILL: the kings head
DESTROYERBILL: i will
chris107: Then we can decide, Highhaven to help the Queen or whatever?
Smon: You could return to Thusia yuop.
DESTROYERBILL: yeah then that
chris107: That sounds good to me:)
chris107: Nice game, thanks Simon. Cheers Bill, well done on becoming the new King!
Smon: SB is best staying w the lizardmen right now to consolidate his rule though.
DESTROYERBILL: but first i tell the couple hundred lizard men im ther new king showing the kings head
chris107: Where to put the +2? hmmmmmm
DESTROYERBILL: me to
Smon: Suggest SB stay w the lizardmen a week, H could rest in Selatine then you all go to Thusia?
DESTROYERBILL: hmmm
chris107: Okay, that's fine with me.
chris107: Next game Friday at 19:00?
chris107: L3 game on Saturday?
Smon: yup
Smon: Likely be just political Friday
chris107: That will please Kyle

ep 35 14-21/2/4447 Sandor & Ursa at Highhaven (1200 XP)

Lvl 8 XP 1200+42470=43670/48,000

Sandor Sunneson: For tonights mission, Sandor thinks it's better just to try and get the Queen a bit more focused in leadership and not thinking it is her destiny to die etc, regards getting laid, well if it happens, good for her
Sandor Sunneson: they were there this morning
chris107:
Smon:
chris107: Ursa will tag along as usual and hit things that get in the way.
Smon: Been a great 3 sessions in Thracia last week
Smon: I think you should use avg dmg vs lizardmen if it auto-kills them
chris107: Really enjoyed them!
Smon: w the draconic bonus Hakeem dmg is crazy
chris107: And it looks like the next one is the Last King
Sandor Sunneson: On what date does the Dry season start? I looked at the various stories and Sandor and Ursa are about a week behind Hak and Ajax in time?
Smon: Fergus are you free Wed or Fri?
Smon: yes
Sandor Sunneson: I'm in France
Smon: Dry season traditional start day is 1st of M4
Sandor Sunneson: tomorrow till Sunday
Smon: No wifi in France I guess.
Smon: 1/4 is when the Altanian Clan Moot gathers for the war season.
Sandor Sunneson: It's a family holiday Simon, big get together post Mum,
Smon: ok thx
Smon: Well I'm sure Ajax's Haste will be appreciated.
Sandor Sunneson: there is wifi, but to dissapear for a few hours to the tourist info wouldn't look good for me,
Sandor Sunneson: Use Ajax like you want
Smon: Dr Piercemuller: "Just be sure not to let the First King get a spell off. The second time Bondor fought him, that's how he escaped..."
chris107: (I think in 5e, interupting spells is nearly impossible?)
Sandor Sunneson: Is there any sort of email/thread playing that we can play out whilst I;m away?
Smon: (yup) SB can do 2 hits + dragon breath, H hasted 4 hits I count
chris107: + riposte
Smon: yup
Sandor Sunneson: cast anti magic shell on caster? Caster gives first king big hug so he can't escape out of it, basically wrestles him to ground/
Sandor Sunneson: ??
chris107: 5 hits ">@ 2d8+3d6+60+ any crits
Sandor Sunneson: you'll no doubt roll two 1s Chris
Smon: Lots of spells are spoken-only so even pinning won't stop.
Smon: You pretty much just have to whack them.
Sandor Sunneson: Ajax in nearly at L9 too!
Smon: yup
chris107: 10d8+15d6+60 is not bad damage. Then Shirldbiter's HUGE sword
Smon: If he survives I'm levelling him up even w/out you Fergus
Smon: I promised Bill.
chris107: With a 14d6 Lightning bolt to start..
Sandor Sunneson: Sure
chris107 rolls 10d8 and gets: 8, 3, 8, 1, 6, 2, 2, 2, 8, 5, = 45
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, Sandor/Ursa?
Smon: Being able to maintain rage prior to fight start may come in handy...
chris107 rolls 15d6+60 and gets: 3, 6, 3, 5, 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 5, 1, 5, 3, (+60) = 116
Sandor Sunneson: Hakeem attacks:
Sandor Sunneson Rolls 1d20x2 and gets:
13 = 13
18 = 18
Sandor Sunneson: not bad Chris, setting the tone
chris107: It feels good rolling lots of dice
Smon: GM: 14/2/4447 - Thusia Ursa & Sandor rise bright and early, Usa having spent the night with the buxom Buedra at the Sun & Stars.
chris107: But priority tonight is not to get castrated by 100 Amazon Guards..
Smon: After breakfast you rendezvous with Rasgar Skarrison, Lord Namelin Bronze & Anna Bronze.
Smon: Namelin: "So, we're flying off to see the amazons before Dyson comes with us to Hara?"
chris107: "Mornin'" Says a cheerful Ursa. Tucking into the bacon and fried slice.
Sandor Sunneson: Think the mission for this folks should be to persuade the Queen to stop her negativity and lead the warriors against the Dark Sun, if she gets laid, well guess that's a bonus for her.
chris107: "Just following him." He gestures at Sandor
chris107: He spits out some sausage at the getting layed bit. "Nothing to do with me."
chris107: "And my Lord Hakeem knows nothing of it either."
Sandor Sunneson: If folk don't see it as important, we can always try something else, or wait for Dyson? But if it increases our chances of beating the dark sun, is it not worth a go?
Sandor Sunneson: Glad Ursa didn't swallow the sausage!!
chris107:
Smon: Rasgar: "I was just telling Lord Namelin the importance of Queen Artemisia loosin' her virginity, so as to defeat the Black Sun, right?"
chris107: "Wouldn't killing the Orcs and this Spectre have the same result as raping one of our gratest allies? I'm no tactician but..."
Sandor Sunneson: Yes, the fates go on about them wanting a virgin to be sacarificed, but we don't want to end up being accused of setting up a bordillo where the Queen gets raped with the war just round the corner
Smon: Namelin shrugs. "All I care about is getting Dyson safely to Hara. This is an unwelcome diversion."
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, shall we focus on Dyson then?
Smon: Anna is combing out her long blonde hair. "Sandor..." she sighs.
chris107: "From what I can tell no one is been sacrificed. She just knows she will fall in battle against the spectre?"
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, lets go for the orcs and spectres then
Smon: Namelin nods to Ursa: "That's what I heard... You have my gratitude for helping us get Dyson, but unless this is vital I would prefer we return to Hara right away."
chris107: "You're in charge, your call Sandor. "
Smon: Princess Laurana saunters over from the bar. "Remember boys, I need you at Highhaven within two weeks."
Sandor Sunneson: I'll do what's best for defeating the black sun, you are their enemy
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, lets get back to Hara then
Smon: Map - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfM2uhi1R-jjKxB2qv27Lch5sC2j6StmJJPuUuiUmNXsqjUCWsisB9QTyBzWA4UseRBnRTMGXM-XLxCytEr_LtU-xBIf_aYjfrNoZUCZgXTkJcHnup9hlD_L55MMzYa3QvYLVrucn_abE/s640/Ghinarian%252BHills.jpg
chris107: "And the Orcs? Your promise to Laurana?"
Smon: You are at Thusia, Laurana is returning SW to Highhaven, Bronze wants to go N to Hara.
chris107: "The spectre hanging over our ally the Queen?"
Sandor Sunneson: Highhaven then
Smon: OOC you also need a long rest sometime soon
chris107: Ursa is confused.
Smon: Laurana: "Dyson can drop you off at Highhaven then take the Bronzes north."
chris107: "We have two weeks to get to Highhaven, right?"
Sandor Sunneson: I hear through the grapevine that even Hakeem is expected to be in more than one place at once......I now know what it feels like
Smon:
Smon: Namelin: "Fine. Let's go to Highhaven."
Sandor Sunneson: (can we get a Tardis or Wells's time machine??)
Smon: GM: You bid farewell to Thusia, Malenn of Mitra comes out and gives Ursa and Sandor a packed lunch (with egg).
Sandor Sunneson: (controlled by Tom Baker the Tardis)
chris107: "Why don't we see Dyson and the Bronzes of to Hara while we rest here for a week? Then get Laurana to fly us to Highhaven on her Griffon to battle the Orcs and slay this spectre?"
chris107: (Oh, sorry. Was typing not watching
Smon: Dyson the gargantuan brass dragon stretches out on the green. "All aboard who's getting aboard!"
Sandor Sunneson: https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://images.amcnetworks.com/bbcamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tombakertall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/07/how-to-dress-like-the-fourth-doctor&h=510&w=239&tbnid=wp1NGem4-nCdTM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=87&usg=__UtHT1wPzwx0KOJy0n_uMa4VocBw=&vet=10ahUKEwjlipXhkdzUAhXMVRQKHZbpAkQQ_B0IgQEwCg..i&docid=WjjSMWrtNhLV9M&itg=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlipXhkdzUAhXMVRQKHZbpAkQQ_B0IgQEwCg&ei=LFJRWeXENcyrUZbTi6AE
chris107: "Thanks Lady Malenn."
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will climb aboard, thank you LM, nice to meet you
Smon: Laurana: "Okay... Sandor & Ursa on Goldmane with me then."
chris107: (Tom's a nice guy  )
Smon: Namelin seems happy it's decided he can go straight to Highhaven.
Sandor Sunneson: (had they done the LOTR films correctly, he would have made an excellent Tom Bombadill)
Smon: Rasgar seems sad he'll not get to impregnate any amazon queens.
chris107: "That frees up Dyson to make plans for our defence here in the North."
Sandor Sunneson: Impregnate? Sandor thought it was lay with consent......
Smon: The three Bronzes get on Dyson, bid you farewell and fly north towards Hara, while a heavy-laden Goldmane gets airborne and flies SW towards Highhaven.
Smon: Laurana: "Hope we don't meet any Vrocks - we'll never outrun them like this..."
chris107: (OOC we do need a long rest at some stage Fergus)
chris107: Ursa looks down nervously
Smon: /roll d6
Sandor Sunneson: (whilst flying on the dragon? like being on a plane in business class??)
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 1,
chris107: (We are not on a dragon)
chris107: (That's gone north to Hara)
Sandor Sunneson: oh,
Sandor Sunneson: so it has
chris107:
Sandor Sunneson: (yes we do need a rest soon)
Smon: Dyson disappears from view flying north. The 60 miles SW in Griffon-class pass swiftly, and that afternoon you see the clifftop fortress village of Highhaven nestling in the mountains ahead.
Smon: Two more amazon griffon riders escort you to land on a dusty landing strip near the griffion stables.
chris107: Ursa will kiss the ground, Pope like. When they land.
Smon: As you set down rather heavily, you see Queen Artemisia in a white bear-cloak and crown come out from her Hall to greet you, accompanied by her dark-haired Weaponmaster and several guards.
Smon: Artemisia: "Welcome, my friends... Laurana."
Smon: Laurana smiles wryly and salutes. "Hail, my Queen!"
Sandor Sunneson: Ma'am, good to see you again
chris107: Ursa bows.
Smon: "Good to see you too, Lord Sandor, Ursa. Come, we have much to discuss..."
Smon: "This is Bricis, my Weaponmaster."
Sandor Sunneson: We do,
chris107: Ursa trails on behind the great Lords and Ladies.
Smon: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPTC603FwNooNGfEFTrmDPCLF4n4d6QvDRHK1FpAs5-lD5AVGzXc1d69McprOEk0cnb59B8CZKgvQkJql8GfcwEq7aad79kFq5VJeKfpx0mstBjuishYIXaHf_C7sasW8vI6iZxI6z34/s320/amazon+scout.jpg
Sandor Sunneson: (enter link to lady with big mammories Simon)
chris107:
Smon: Bricis, whose mammaries are merely average, nods cordially.
chris107:
Sandor Sunneson: GM getting in the spelling correction too, miaow
Smon: Most of the amazons are of athletic rather than voluptuous build, though their evolutionary strategy does depend on seducing human males so they are all rather attractive.
chris107: (Ursa is sure that Sandor's rape plan has given him several silver streaks in his beard)
Sandor Sunneson: (consensual, think orgy)]
Sandor Sunneson: A fine place you have here your majesty
Smon: Once in Artemisia's hall, the three amazons and you two are soon drinking white wine and eating grapes from the amazon's mountain vineyards.
Smon: Artemisia: "Highhaven is small, but excellently defended... Laurana told you the news from Hakeem?"
chris107: Ursa listens from the back.
Smon: Laurana nods: "Aye. My queen, the Nerathi Namelin Bronze has secured the great dragon-sage Dyson Logos. They are taking it to Hara."
Sandor Sunneson: No?
Smon: Artemisia: "No?"
Smon: "Lord Hakeem's seer sent a letter - a vision, that Highhaven will fall to an army of Orcs, led by a foul Undead..."
Smon: "Her vision of the Spectre matches my dream..."
Smon: /roll d8
Smon rolls 1d8 and gets: 7,
chris107: Ursa listens closely
Smon: Artemisia glances out the window. "Already the rains are ending - early this year. I fear the orcs could strike soon, within weeks..."
chris107: Sure that Lord Sandor has a plan.
Sandor Sunneson: Ah, the dream, well dreams don't always come true, I heard that the Thrabian fighter was meant to inherit some great sword or something, but he passed on his way to getting there
Smon: Laurana: "If we had that dragon I'm sure we'd have nothing to fear. Or Hakeem... Lady Meda expects him back soon."
Sandor Sunneson: Artmesia, you are a Queen of these fine warriors, help lead them to victory over this evil scum.
Sandor Sunneson: Think of your legacy when this victory occurs.
Smon: Artemisia: "You both look exhausted. Rest here in my Hall. We'll talk again when you're recovered from your battles at Dyson's Delve."
Smon: GM: Are you going to long rest at Highhaven?
chris107: Ursa looks for the bar
Sandor Sunneson: (chris? yes to LR here?)
chris107: OOC Yes please.
Sandor Sunneson: Yes
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will go and chat to Laurana
Sandor Sunneson: and ask if she thinks that went well?
Smon: Ursa could have LR'd at Thusia and spent a week in the arms of Buedra, severely impeding her bar services... instead he's at the remarkably austere amazon fortress town, which smells strongly of Griffon.
chris107: During our rest he will examin the stonework and defences here at Highhaven. In case he can improve them in any way.
Smon: Laurana: "Hmm... Artemisia wants to get to know you, I suppose..."
chris107: (I think if you read upthread he did suggest that  )
Smon: make a CHA check Sandor.
Smon: (not forcefully enough)
Sandor Sunneson rolls 1d20 and gets: 18,
chris107: (Sandor is the boss)
Sandor Sunneson: He's the Daddy
chris107:
Smon: Laurana is not an easy person to get to know, but she seems to like Sandor - maybe her time with her brother Hakeem & his dwarf had a good effect on her.
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will ask Laurana that as she feels she would inherit a blown up post war kingdom, if she would help post war leaving this place and helping Sandor getting his Jarldom back, Sandor would then reward her with a title of her own and land so she can rule herself
Smon: Ursa inspects the defences - crude by dwarven standards, but definitely efficient. The single trail up is fully exposed. The skulls of many fallen besiegers line the path on wooden stakes.
chris107: he nods his pleasure at the skulls of their enemies.
Smon: Artemisia to Ursa: "There at the gate is where Yusan breached, where Laurana's mother Queen Khelara fell."
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will say just think about it, no rush regards response is required
Smon: "We left a hundred of his men dead that day, for eight amazons."
Sandor Sunneson: Girl Power!
Smon: Sandor is chatting with Laurana on a tower top a couple days into his rest.
chris107: "Your warriors are legend Queen Artemisia. We will stop the Orcs. Or give my life trying."
Smon: Laurana: "Sandor - you have a kingdom to rule. So do I - one day. I cannot leave Highhaven."
Smon: L to S: "If you want my help, when this war is over you shall have it. But my place is here."
Sandor Sunneson: You inherit this place through gritted teeth, like it is being forced upon you
Smon: Artemisia nods and smiles at Ursa. "I owe you my life, friend Ursa - more..."
Sandor Sunneson: (Go Ursa, pop the cherry)
Smon: Laurana smiles bitterly, looks sidewise at Sandor. "To rule Highhaven is all I ever wanted."
chris107: (You're incorrigable Fergus!  )
Smon: Laurana glances down the bleak mountainside to the grain fields and vineyards below.
Smon: "When my mother Queen Khelara fell... part of me.... part of me was glad. That now I would rule. But they chose ...her."
Smon: "Since then, whenever Artemisia rode into battle, or when she vanished..." Laurana sighs.
chris107: "My life belongs to my Lord, my Queen. But I know he would have me lay it down to defend you and Highhaven. This spectre hangs over you. Allow me to stand by your side and fight it with you?"
Sandor Sunneson: Laurana, the offer will be there, it's a big world out there, lots of places to make a legacy.
Sandor Sunneson: Who was they? Why did they choose her?
Smon: L to S: "And now she will give it to me, by sacrificing herself against her Spectre."
Smon: L to S: "When a Queen dies, all amazons choose the new Queen. They said Artemisia was strongest."
Sandor Sunneson: They don't deserve you,
Smon: Artemisia looks to Ursa. "I fear it is the sorcery of Crowfinger, that none can stand against it... I do not wish you to die, Ursa."
chris107: "I feel that Grond here (he taps the enchanted hammer), was made just for this battle."
Smon: L to S: "Ha! I am sure you are right. Nevertheless, they are my people."
chris107: "I think even my masterknows that it will be Crowfinger or he at the end. If I can smash one of the Necromancer's hands, even as he reaches it out to snatch you. Then my work is done."
Smon: Artemisia looks thoughtful. "Laurana told you of my plan, to send the children and nursing mothers away?"
chris107: "She did."
Smon: "You and Sandor would be well suited to guarding them, on the dangerous journey to Thusia."
Sandor Sunneson: True, but why rule straight away? Live your life, come back when ready. Look at me, yes I am in line to rule, but having been away from home for months, I will be stronger and wiser and be a better ruler for it. I will come back when ready, be it tomorrow or next year or whenever,
Sandor Sunneson: The leadership skills you learn and develop in Sodersfjord will make you a better ruler when you do return here
Smon: http://i45.tinypic.com/24b5b8o.jpg Laurana
chris107: "I am just a smelly old Dwarf, Queen Artamisia. I would not presume to understand great matters. But if you would have my thoughts?"
Smon: Laurana: "Aye, but it has been four years, Sandor - and I have had many adventures already. At Ractuan I even saved Hakeem from an undead purple worm! Can you believe that? Something sent by Crowfinger, no doubt."
Smon: A to U: "Aye, of course friend Ursa."
Sandor Sunneson: Anyway, that is your choice, you are a leader in waiting Laurana,
Smon: L to S: "I do not wish to rule in your world - but if you need my blade, I will aid you as I can. After all, you saved my Queen!" she grins.
Sandor Sunneson: 4 years? Your defining moment hasn't come yet.
Sandor Sunneson: Dyson's Delve wasn't built in a Day Laurana (he grins back,)
Smon: GM: Laurana is agreed that when the Black Sun war is over, she'll help Sandor regain his birthright.
chris107: "Your own warriors will guard their kin better than we ever can. If you send a squad of your finest you benefit two fold. Firstly they will protect the young and such but secondly...if...things fail here, you will have some of your best to rebuild. Sandor and I may be a poor substitute but we will defend you. I really believe that the three of us can triumph over Crowfinger's magic and give a great victory to Lord Hakeem."
Sandor Sunneson: (That's it Ursa, slip it up her)
Smon: Artemisia nods thoughtfully. "You make a persuasive case. You see my thinking is to lure the Black Sun into a trap here - to make destiny work for us, and inflict such losses on their orcs that Hakeem will be aided in his final victory. But you are right, my people must survive."
chris107: "Perhaps?"
Sandor Sunneson: Anyway, maybe you as a beautiful woman should talk to your Queen about the joys of companionship and the benefits that this would bring her.
Smon: Laurana raises an eyebrow at Sandor. "She's not really my type."
chris107: "Perhaps leading the young and birth mothers would suit Laurana? I know she will not like it but....."
Smon: A to U: "No, I have already told Laurana she must survive, to lead the people when I am gone."
chris107: Ursa shrugs, letting the implications of that last sink in..
Smon: A to U: "She did not like it... I think sometimes she would prefer to put a sword in me herself, than to be given the crown." Artemisia smiles.
Sandor Sunneson: Meant more with men, Rasgar is here.....
Smon: OOC Rasgar & co are not here.
chris107: "Either way. I will stand by your side and Grond will battle this Spectre while there is life in my body."
Sandor Sunneson: Meant more with a local man Laurana, not with you
Smon: Laurana: "No, but you are here, Sandor." She smiles, a twinkle in her eye. "And you are definitely her type!"
Smon: GM: The night grows chill, you go indoors.
Sandor Sunneson: Well sometimes it's not the fault of the person if he likes someone else Laurana.
Smon: A week passes, the rains still fall most days and thunder rolls from the high mountain peaks.
Sandor Sunneson: Somebody with a bit more spine and no pun intended balls....
Smon: You complete a Long Rest, hp & rages restored.
Sandor Sunneson: good,
chris107: yay!
chris107: Ursa thinks about Bear a lot.
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will go and see the Queen
Smon: Sandor continues to spend time with Laurana, who unlike most of the amazons is a pretty heavy drinker.
chris107: He makes sacrifices to the Bear God of his long dead people.
Smon: >>it's not the fault of the person if he likes someone else << who was Sandor thinking of?
chris107: He knows he will need the Spirit of the Bear with him in the coming battle.
Sandor Sunneson: Laurana
Smon: Make a WIS+prof check Ursa
Sandor Sunneson: hence why he said it to her
Smon: ok thought so.
chris107 rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 3, (+5) = 8
chris107:
Smon: Laurana seems to like Sandor a lot, but she's also a tightly coiled spring.
Sandor Sunneson: :), too much ale
Smon: Ursa makes his sacrifices - sadly on his mountain roamings he just missed finding the ancient cave bear skull that would have Inspired him.
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor is going to chat to the Queen,
Sandor Sunneson: requests some of her time,
chris107: Such is life
Sandor Sunneson: lol
Sandor Sunneson: and heads back to the alehouse
Smon: 21/2/4447
Smon: GM: Artemisia calls Sandor Ursa & Laurana to her hall.
Smon: "News from Lady Meda!"
chris107: Ursa goes happily.
Smon: She indicates a raven perched on the windowsill.
Smon: "Lord Hakeem has returned to Selatine, aboard a ship of Rallu!"
Sandor Sunneson: It's a raven!
chris107: "This is good news!"
Smon: "Yes, one of her messenger ravens... sorcery. Lady Jana Vex reports that Hakeem has gone to Thracia, to seek the First King of the Dragon Lords and destroy him."
chris107: "I prefer chicken, Sandor" whispers the dwarf
Sandor Sunneson: This is good news, he will suceed
chris107: "He will!"
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will look round looking for positivity,
Sandor Sunneson: Your Majesty, may I be honest with you?
Smon: Artemisia: "Yes?"
chris107: Ursa groans inwardly
Smon: Artemisia looks at the tiny note: "Apparently Hakeem succeeded on Three Sword Isle, alongside Prince Shieldbiter, who now wields a flaming sword of Bondor...."
Sandor Sunneson: I feel this dream you are having, about your destiny, you are focusing on it too much. I want you to survive the war, lead your people and become a great Queen that your people can then say with Pride 'Artmesia lead us through the war to victory, Long live our Queen', cos she is alove
chris107: "The Gods be praised!"
Sandor Sunneson: alive
Smon: make a CHA+Prof check sandor
Sandor Sunneson: Dreams do not always come true, look at the story of the Thrabian who was destined to have a great sword
Sandor Sunneson rolls 1d20 and gets: 19,
Smon: wow
chris107: NICE!
Sandor Sunneson: (yes, get in!_
chris107:
Sandor Sunneson: Please Ma'am, lead your subjects to victory, and take the credit
Smon: Artemisia nods. "Yes... but my fear Lord Sandor is that my death is fore-ordained. I can make it count for something, or I can die miserably and be forgotten. Yet..."
Smon: Laurana: "The survival of Highhaven should come first, my Queen. If you are the best one to ensure our survival, you must survive. Even at the cost of living a long time and dying later an ignominious death."
Smon: Laurana seems to like the idea of that.
Sandor Sunneson: It was fore-ordained that the Thrabian would get the sword too
Sandor Sunneson: exactly, we will all die in this room, even you Ursa !! But not when the forces of darkness come to us,
Sandor Sunneson: Do what you can to destroy the prophecy, counter act it!
Sandor Sunneson: (see Chris, that's how you say politely, go out and get laid)
chris107: "Aye! You are right Lord sandor! You and I will destroy this shade of Crowfinger sent against the Queen!"
Smon: Artemisia nods. "Very well. I will do as you say."
Sandor Sunneson: Sometimes new destiny's are born when existing ones are not met.
Smon: "Laurana, in 9 days you will lead the children to Thusia. 10 of the Guard will accompany you."
Smon: "Ursa, Sandor, you are mighty warriors. You will stay here with me, to face the Orcs and the Spectre of Thanatos."
Sandor Sunneson: How many orcs are expected based on your dream?
Smon: "All of them."
chris107: "YES! Our chance to die a glorious death Lord Sandor! Isn't that great?!"
Sandor Sunneson: Can we not set traps for them? Use our resources? Catapults, ballistic missiles?
Sandor Sunneson: All? thousands? Millions? 73?
chris107: "Their bones shall litter the approach to Highhaven for a thousand years!"
Smon: A: "That is the plan - deadfalls, snares, covered pits..."
Smon: "All the Arang-Tok. Thousands, I suppose."
Sandor Sunneson: Good, the Queen is coming out of her shell
Smon: "I have a plan for an avalanche on the eastern slopes..."
chris107: "You hear that Sandor? Thousands of Orc skulls to smash! Oh the joy!"
Smon: Artemisia does sound increasingly animated.
chris107: "Or perhaps you could talk them into going home?" he jests
Smon: Laurana though looks pretty glum at being the Designated Survivor.
Sandor Sunneson: They are not hobgoblins Ursa
chris107: hehe
Sandor Sunneson: Goblins even
chris107: "Your silver tongue is legend my lord. I'm sure you'd soon have them heading back to their caves!2
Sandor Sunneson: How many warriors do you have Ma'am?
Smon: Artemisia smiles warmly: "You bring joy to my heart, friends. Warriors? Every Amazon is a warrior..."
Sandor Sunneson: Well it got Dyson on our side!
Sandor Sunneson: What can you tell us about this spectre?
Sandor Sunneson: From your visions?
Smon: "But we have 90 of the Guard, with 16 Griffons. Another 180 who can fight."
Sandor Sunneson: So we need to kill at a ratio of 10:1
Smon: Artemisia's face falls again. "The vision shifts a little in each dream... Sometimes it is man-sized. Sometimes it looms over me, gargantuan. Sometimes my surroundings are strange. I am helpless, bound. Or I am fighting, my sisters beside me..."
chris107: "And now mighty Lord sandor beside you!"
Smon: "I have spoken with Lady Meda. She believes I have visions of many Worlds and Times... but always the ending is the same."
Sandor Sunneson: And Ursa too
Smon: OOC Fergus google Lana Clarkson murder if you want the full tale.
chris107: Ursa blushes. Delighted at Sandor's praise
Sandor Sunneson: We need to keep you alive at all costs, you must survive to ensure the survival of your people, even if you loose the battle, the war will be won
Smon: Artemisia: "Thank you. Who knows - perhaps the vision of Hakeem's seer can change Fate... the note says her name is Rosa. She must be a remarkable woman."
Smon: "We will fight together. For now, you're dismissed."
Sandor Sunneson: Have some griffons in hiding, they can then be used to get you out of here if required#
chris107: Ursa is happy to go to his bed.
Smon: Princess Laurana eyes Sandor as the three of you leave the throneroom.
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will smile back at her
Smon: You leave the Hall. Laurana "You know, Sandor, if you plan works, I may never be Queen. She will go On and On and On..."
Smon: "...You may have doomed my hopes."
Sandor Sunneson: Well not in this place anyway, sure there would be some people somewhere who would benefit from having you rule over them.
Smon: Sandor can make Insight WIS+prof roll
Sandor Sunneson rolls 1d20 and gets: 18,
Smon: LOL
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor is feeling the wisdom tonight
chris107: You're on fire tonight Fergus!
Smon: Laurana is definitely testing him, and there is an acerbic wryness in her tone.
Smon: You can tell she never wanted to become queen this way anyway.
Smon: She also seems to like Sandor, though she still seems unsure - perhaps mostly of herself.
Sandor Sunneson: The offer is always there Laurana, you don't need to try so hard either. You never wanted to be Queen this way anyway.
Smon: "Walk with me, Sandor Sunneson."
Sandor Sunneson: (Ok Ursa)
Sandor Sunneson:
chris107:
Sandor Sunneson: Sandor will go for a walk with Laurana
Smon: Ursa can see he's a Third Wheel here - Laurana walks with Sandor up to the battlements, where the fierce mountain wind whips her dark hair.
chris107: Ursa retires for the night
Smon: She breathes deeply, enjoying the icy blast from the snow-swept western peaks.
Smon: "What do you want, Sandor? Really?"
Sandor Sunneson: Really? From whom? Dark sun defeated, then get home and look at getting back my Jarldom#
Smon: "I heard Meda offered to send you home already - why should you care about our troubles here?"
Sandor Sunneson: I'm not ready to get my kingdom back, I'm still developing my knowledge and prowess here. And the people of this world have been good to me, and I want to repay them that at least.
Smon: "Hmm."
Smon: "I heard ...I heard Sergeant Clenderi is pregnant with your child?"
Sandor Sunneson: The people of my world think I'm dead, killed by my stepmother, she is dead too.
Sandor Sunneson: You know that is true.
Sandor Sunneson: My child will be looked after whatever, I had a Father who didn't do me justice, that will not be happening with him or her.
Smon: Laurana nods. "If it is a son, she will present him to you. You will be expected to care for him - or leave him to die. It is the Amazon way."
Smon: (x-post)
Smon: She nods. "I see."
Sandor Sunneson: Yes, a rather backward tradition is it not?
Smon: Laurana fishes a lock of windblown hair from her mouth.
Smon: "It is how we survive. If we raised our sons, in time they would enslave us, too."
Sandor Sunneson: The son is left to die through no fault of his own, pathetic. That depends on how you bring them up.
Sandor Sunneson: We? how many children are you wanting Laurana?
Smon: "Life is nor fair... Whaever Lady Meda's god says...." Laurana blushes. "Oh! I didn't mean..." she seems disconcerted, really for the first time since Sandor has met her.
Smon: OOC if that misinterpretation was deliberate it was fiendishly clever.
Sandor Sunneson: The culture needs to evolve, not even the God's are always right.
chris107:
Smon: "Children, I... " she looks down. "I never thought of..."
Sandor Sunneson:
Sandor Sunneson: Ursa, the Queen and I need to survive this battle, the war will go on whether this town falls or not. We should have griffens hidden away so we can escape if required.
Smon: With some difficulty, Laurana looks up, grits her teeth. "...I suppose I never thought of anyone wanting me. ...Not like Artemisia or the others. They say I am not ...pleasant, I suppose."
Smon: "Griffons? Yes, of course."
Sandor Sunneson: You are a Leader, your time will come. You have let your frustration knock your own confidence
Smon: She turns away, looking out across the darkling sky. "We'll make sure the griffons are ready."
Smon: "Oh, I have plenty of confidence." (bitter note again). "I convinced Artemisia of our battle tactics at Yusan's Fall. I killed Yusan - my own father. Stole the kill from dear brother Hakeem."
Sandor Sunneson: Do not feel the odd one out Laurana, we all have our own missions to play in this war, we will come out of it together.
Smon: Laurana clenches a small fist. "With me to lead them we would crush our enemies, enslave the...."
Sandor Sunneson: You can build on that yourself, look at Ursa, killer of Fion, we all chopped at her, he get the vital blow. He takes the credit, the group claim the victory
Smon: Laurana glances over at Sandor, chin arched, eyes narrowed.
Smon: ...
Smon: She seems to be waiting.
Sandor Sunneson: Shall we go indoors Laurana? Got the fire going in my room?
Sandor Sunneson: Nice bottle of wine there too?
Smon: LOL
chris107:
Smon: The moment passes. She shakes her head. "No thank you. I need to attend to Goldmane's victuals. I'll see you in the morning."
Smon: Laurana turns with a swish of her cape, and walks away.
Smon: OOC I like Laurana.
Sandor Sunneson: You are so beautiful when stubborn Laurana, even more lovely than normal!
chris107: You blew it there mate!
Sandor Sunneson: See you in the morning darling!!
Smon: Sandor calls after Laurana's retreating back, she waves her hand without looking back.
Smon: Downstairs, Sandor finds Ursa in the room set aside for them.
Sandor Sunneson: anyway, bigger picture! got the escape route planned!
Smon: He looks a lot less enticing than Laurana.
Smon:
chris107: Ursa farts noisily.
chris107: Guzzling whatever booze the Big Women left behind.
Sandor Sunneson: Too much ale my short arsed friend?
Smon: OOC a lot of swords & sorcery ladies act like men would like fantasy women to act. I think Laurana acts closer to how women *actually* act.
chris107: "No such thing my softly spoken Barbarian friend."
chris107: "Drink?"
Sandor Sunneson: See you in the morning, we'll have griffens set up to get out of here if required, bigger picture and all that
chris107: "Bah! Death or glory! DEATH OR GLORY!" Ursa, last of a lost tribe laughs himself to sleep.
Sandor Sunneson: cheers Ursa, here's to those who aren't with us, victory will be dedicated to them, to Kane and all!!
Smon: OOC I'm sure IRL I'd have blown it w Laurana too.  OK I'm thinking you are at a good stopping point for these two - it will be a week or so before Laurana leaves with the children & mothers.
Smon: Fergus when are you back from France again?
Sandor Sunneson: 2nd July
Sandor Sunneson: Sunday, but late
Smon: hmm, so next game you can do is next Monday?
Sandor Sunneson: I'll have to wait for my schedule, they've put me provisionally on a long run for Monday :(, which I'm pissed off about for first day back, but hey ho. And very short run on Tuesday#
Smon: Talking of Tuesday, chris you want me for Redstar tomorrow?
Sandor Sunneson: So Mon you could prov do Hakeem and Ursa?
Smon: ok
Sandor Sunneson: and Ajax even?
chris107: No game tomorrow Simon. Holidays have crept upon us and two of the guys are away.
chris107: A week tomorrow I think we are back together.
Sandor Sunneson: things do change, could anything be done by messageboard or email?
Smon: ok
Sandor Sunneson: to keep things ticking along? Seems to be pretty much non combat for the week?
Smon: I can prob do amazon stuff and Bratanis L3 stuff on the board
Sandor Sunneson: with L8 group?
chris107: Plenty of combat coming up
Smon: I think Sandor needs to find an amazon dating coach.
Sandor Sunneson: and negotiation
Sandor Sunneson: She'll still be around
Smon:  OK put down next Monday for L8
Sandor Sunneson: the high CHR di roll has set the tone
chris107: Will do.
chris107: You were rolling like a demon tonight Fergus!
Smon: (I never thought of Laurana as sexy when I created her, she was more the semi-villainous contrast to Artemisia - but everyone likes her better!)
Sandor Sunneson: Thought it's Ajax and Hak on Monday as I'll be on a long run?
Smon: (People like the bad girls...)
Sandor Sunneson: if my schedule does change, I'll let you know
Sandor Sunneson: was her father a bad guy?
Smon: Yeah. The worst (except Crowfinger) - Yusan.
Smon: Hakeem's dad too.
Sandor Sunneson: yeah, so she needs to be proud that she dealt the blow that killed him
Smon: Yusan the warlord. Rapist-murderer of the Red Tiger clan's Psychic Defender. Scourge of the Vale.
Smon: Killer of hundreds.
chris107: The late Yusan...
Smon: Technically it was Goldmane who killed him.
Smon: And Hakeem who took 90% of his hp.
chris107: Okay guys, I got to go make supper. Thanks for the game
Smon: Cheers chris, see you Wed.
Sandor Sunneson: So what's she mope-ing on about? silly moo!
Smon: LOL
chris107: I'll watch the thread for next game dates.
chris107: G'night

Session 119 18/2/47 to 7.30pm Halls of the First King (2100 XP)

XP
Exploration 1000 each

24 lizardmen 2400
2 lizard guards 400
lizard priest 500
Total 3300/3 = 1100

Total: 2100 each

Hakeem L18 2100+288,096=290,196/305,000
Shieldbiter L15 2100+171,591=173,691/195,000
Ajax L8 2100+45,225=47,325/48,000 (cast
+Epicaste the Golden Falcon
+Vuthrik the Deathwalker
+Dr Rosa Piercemuller
   


6:08pm  2017-6-24 Smon Has entered the room
6:16pm  2017-6-24 chris107 Has entered the room
chris107: Evening Simon
Smon: Hi chris
Smon: better get Bill's sausages out
chris107: Kyle will be late unfortunately. It's 1960' weekend in the village where we live and his boss has asked him to work late
chris107: He said to paly what ever we want as he may not get done untl late.
Smon: oh ok
chris107: He sends his apologies.
Smon: Bill is up for playing H & SB after dinner?
chris107: sure
Smon: ok we're just gonna eat then ready in 10 mins
chris107: No rush, I'm in for the evening.
6:37pm  2017-6-24 Smon Has exited the room
6:37pm  2017-6-24 Smon Has entered the room
Smon: Hi chris sorry for delay
chris107: no probs, just grabbing a drink, 2 mins
6:39pm  2017-6-24 DESTROYERBILL Has entered the room
DESTROYERBILL: hello
chris107: hey Bill
DESTROYERBILL: hey
Smon: http://smons.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/session-118-18247-to-6pm-thracia.html
Smon: morning's session
chris107: Thanks, I* think we did okay Bill
Smon: GM: You complete a short rest, the mighty Shieldbiter sees no need to patch the trivial wound he suffered from the feeble skeletons.
chris107: Poor Hakeem requires a further 4 HD
Smon: Epicaste seems very interested in Shieldbiter "We have old legends of the Arkhosian War - of how Dythan's Legion liberated us from the Demonbrood Empire - before the Rain of Fire..."
chris107 rolls 4d12+20 and gets: 5, 1, 9, 8, (+20) = 43
chris107: 221/221
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: "Perhaps our ancestors fought together a thousand years ago - two thousand, I mean... alongside the Altani under Bondor..." she looks over at Hakeem.
Smon: You get the impression she's seeking to find common ground.
chris107: Hakeem is starting to understand
DESTROYERBILL: me to
Smon: Rosa: "So little is known of the 3rd and 4th Millenium... I'd be fascinated to know what you can tell me about the Demonbrood - Angall of the Perpetual Void, the Second Orichalan Empire - Bael Turath, some call it..."
Smon: Epicaste looks at Rosa. "Those are ancient legends! A thousand years gone."
Smon: Rosa sighs. "Hmm, well, perhaps about your own era then... though I suppose it will have to wait until later."
chris107: "We do have some killing to do..."
Smon: /roll d20+7
Smon rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 12, (+7) = 19
DESTROYERBILL: yep
Smon: Ajax is searching the frost vault: "I can't find any secret door here..."
DESTROYERBILL: well try harder then
chris107: "Yet you were sure Mistress Epicaste?"
Smon: Epicaste stands up, nods. "North end of the west wall - I'm sure there's a void - but I couldn't find a catch, or break it down."
Smon: Rosa: "Could just be a cavity?"
Smon: Wrapping Hakeem's wolf cloak around her bare torso, Rosa enters the Frost Vault and joins the search.
chris107: "Let's go look."
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 15, (+6) = 21
Smon: "There you are!" says Rosa smugly.
chris107: "Clever woman." Hakeem nods his appreciation.
Smon: There's a click, and part of the wall swings open, revealing narrow steps leading down.
DESTROYERBILL: good thanks
Smon: "I am quite." says Rosa with a wink.
chris107: "Shieldbiter?"
DESTROYERBILL: yes what
chris107: "You want to go first or shall I?"
Smon: The stairs are about 4' wide, single file.
chris107: "Too big for your huge blade my friend."
chris107: Hakeem sparks up his sword and stalks down.
Smon: GM The stairway widens as you descend a good distance, until two can walk abreast.
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
Smon: The steps are initially slippery with ice, but the temperature warms as you leave the Frost Vault behind, until the stairs end at an intersection - 10' corridors to n and s,
chris107: "Shoulder to shoulder, Prince Shieldbiter. "
Smon: to the w a few more stairs down open out into a large chamber, square-cut in the limestone but so old that stalagmites are growing from the flagstone floor.
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: Any sound, smell or light from either way?
Smon: Your entry is at the s end of the east wall, the chamber looks 50' across e-w and you can see double doors in a 20x20 alcove toward the s end of the w wall.
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: You can make WIS+Prof checks
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 7, (+8) = 15
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 14, (+6) = 20
Smon: SB is +6 so 13
Smon: The air is cool, still but not stale.
Smon: H senses a faint reptilian musk in the air.
DESTROYERBILL: me?
chris107: From the ancient chamber?
Smon: Hm, not sure where from.
Smon: Could be SB
chris107: Dhehe
DESTROYERBILL: thats what i said
chris107: "Stay back Dr. P. "
DESTROYERBILL: dr pepper?
chris107: "My friend, Prince Shieldbiter, are you ready?"
DESTROYERBILL: yep
chris107: H stalks down the steps into the ancient chamber.
chris107: His sword lighting the way
DESTROYERBILL: mine to ignite
Smon: GM You enter the ancient 50x90' chamber, stalagmites clustered thickly in the SW and NE corners.
Smon: Too damp for dust, but it seems long disused.
chris107: H goes north and works his way around the edge of the chamber towards the doors
Smon: Now you can see there are two sets of ancient bronze double doors in 2 20x20 alcoves in the w wall.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 5,
chris107: Keeping an eye out for stone monsters..
Smon: Your keen hearing picks up sounds from beyond the doors!
chris107: picks up?
Smon: It sounds like low sonorous chanting, and the movement of many pairs of feet in procession.
Smon: you hear
Smon: w passive perception dc 15
chris107:
chris107: H makes his way towards the door.
chris107: s
Smon: SB detects the language - the degenerate Draconic of the lizard-folk!
Smon: It sounds like a procession approaching from the right/north.
DESTROYERBILL: i tell hakeem that
chris107: (OOC - Bondorr's sword has damage agin Draconics. Does this include lizardmen?)
chris107: "Thanks Shieldbiter."
chris107: Listen for 1 minute, still feet?
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: (maybe - try focusing on killing dragons)
chris107: (Oh, I intend to  )
Smon: After about 30 seconds it sounds as if the procession is directly opposite the door.
chris107: (But if we have to cut our way through an army...)
Smon: The sound is a bit muffled though, as if by intervening matter.
Smon: The procession stops, and falls silent.
Smon: Keep listening?
chris107: H strains to hear moe.
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 20, (+6) = 26
chris107: "There has been too much illusion." he whispers
Smon: For a minute all is silent. Then Hakeem hears a hissing voice calling out in Draconic.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 15, (+6) = 21
Smon: SB understands most of what is being said: "Loyal and Glorious Followers of the True King!"
Smon: "He has called us here to serve Him! His awakening iss sssoon at hand!"
Smon: "Rejoice, for today we ssacrifice the lasst of the Human Deathwalkerss to hiss dark Majessty!"
chris107: (Well H wanted rid of them...)
DESTROYERBILL: for once we dont wat deathwarlkers to die
DESTROYERBILL: for now
chris107: "Then let's go spoil their party!"
DESTROYERBILL: yeah
chris107: Kick the door in.
DESTROYERBILL: hello dead lizards
chris107: "Rrrrarrrrrrrr!"
DESTROYERBILL: raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107: 1 min, quick loo break
Smon: GM: The doors open towards you - you tear them open, and see your view almost entirely obscured by blocking stalagmites.
chris107: back
Smon: Beyond you can just make out the vastness of the Grand Temple of the Reptile Race, easily 120' across e-w and far more n-s, floor thick with dust except a well-trod 20' processional.
DESTROYERBILL: killlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Smon: Two dozen cloaked and hooded lizardmen are about 60' away, just to your left, in front of wide steps that lead up to a large raised area with sacrificial altar.
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
Smon: An ornately robed lizard priest stands before the altar, and two burly lizardmen are strapping down a muscular human male with the black & white-skeleton body paint of the Deathwalkers.
Smon: Many stalagmites grow from floor, and descend from the high vaulted ceiling above.
chris107: Can we get through the intervening stalagmites without hinderence?
Smon: Along the 30' high ceiling are 3 large domes painted to depict sun, moon and world.
chris107: If so...
Smon: No the stalagmites block your passage, only a bird could get through.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 1,
Smon: The lizard priest looks in your direction, sees the glowing blades, raises a claw.
Smon: "Intrudersss!"
chris107: H hacks at the stalagmites
Smon: However there is a second door in just 80' away to n.
DESTROYERBILL: life will not come to this temple only death
Smon: ok you have surprise and can attack the pillars.
chris107: "DEATH OR GLORY!"
DESTROYERBILL: killllllllllllll
Smon: You hit, roll a round's worth of damage but -6 each blow.
chris107 rolls 4d8+4 and gets: 5, 1, 7, 4, (+4) = 21
chris107: RAGE!
chris107: (3rd)
DESTROYERBILL: rage 3rd mbye?
Smon: The pillar is unaffected by lightning (or fire) so 6+4=10 dmg
Smon: SB do you want to hack at stone or go round to north doors?
Smon: Looks from here that they are unblocked.
7:29pm  2017-6-24 Sandor Sunneson Has entered the room
Sandor Sunneson: evening gents
chris107: Hey Fergus
Sandor Sunneson: sorry I'm late
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d12+2 and gets: 9, 11, (+2) = 22
Sandor Sunneson: off to St Andrews tomorrow, so 6pm finish lol
chris107: (You playing?)
Sandor Sunneson: how's it going tonight ?
chris107: (At St Andrews  )
Smon: Hi Fergus we are playing Hakeem Shieldbiter & Ajax in Thracia
Sandor Sunneson: (tour)
Smon: (as no Kyle for lvl 3)
Sandor Sunneson: cool, ok,
Smon: This morning Ajax fireballed 20 skeletons & a disembodied mouth.
chris107: (You're just in time for a huge fight!)
Sandor Sunneson: think fireball, gutted you cast one in my honour yesterday
Sandor Sunneson: this morning evening
Sandor Sunneson: I read it at lunch
Smon: cool
Sandor Sunneson: between how many folk on each side?
chris107: Theirs = Lots
chris107: Ours...
chris107:
Sandor Sunneson: humans?
chris107: (Lizardmen)
Smon: You just went down steps from the frost vault into a room, opened door into huge temple w lizardmen sacrificing a deathwalker (the last one), H & SB are hacking at stalagmites to try to get to them.
Smon: 27 of them
Smon: GM: SB hacks furiously at the stalagmites, you've done 32 dmg - need 28 more to break through.
Smon: End of surprise round...
Smon: roll init
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, can Ajax cast mage armour and shield on himself so he has some kind of protection
chris107: "Grrrrrrrrrr!" RAGE!
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
10 (+2) = 12
18 (+2) = 20
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 7, (+1) = 8
Sandor Sunneson rolls 1d20 and gets: 10,
Sandor Sunneson: +2=12
Smon: lizardmen
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 3,
Smon: ok you all go first
DESTROYERBILL: ha
Smon: Ajax you are with Dr Rosa and the beautiful Thracian warrior-woman Epicaste.
chris107 rolls 2d8+12 and gets: 7, 2, (+12) = 21
chris107: (Raging now)
Smon: Coming down the stairs across a + junction you enter a chamber and see H & SB trying to hack through stalactites into a vast hall beyond.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d12+2 and gets: 4, 2, (+2) = 8
Smon: the barrier had 7 hp left, SB breaks through!
chris107: Yay!
Smon: Then wisely falls back as the lizardmen start to advance on you.
chris107: NOW KILL THEM ALL!
chris107: Rrrrarararararararararararararar!
Smon: The lizardmen close on your position, forming a semicircle and readying their weapons.
chris107: Is it possible to leap over them using the boots and slay the priest?
Smon: Suddenly a dark jagged dagger forms in the air above you and lunges down...
Sandor Sunneson: will cast shield on himself
Smon: You could run in & leap over them to the foot of the stairs.
Smon: (you don't need to it's a Reaction Fergus)
Smon: You have a 2nd mage armour up
chris107: that is what he will do then.
Smon: /roll d2
Smon rolls 1d2 and gets: 1
Sandor Sunneson: so I can still cast a spell?
chris107: Hakeem is single minded in his intent.
Smon: (sure) The dagger lunges at H
Smon: /roll d20+5
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 8, (+5) = 13
Smon: It bounces off.
chris107: ac22
Sandor Sunneson: Will cast wall of fire on the lizardmen
Sandor Sunneson: to the back of them so it doesn't singe Hak and co
Smon: GM: Ajax peers over H's shoulder and suddenly a sweeping swathe of fire crosses the lizardmen in a semicircle before you.
Smon: Their group is 30' across & 4 deep.
Smon: 30x20
Smon: Fireball might be better than Wall?
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, will do,
Sandor Sunneson: FB
Smon: level 4 slot? You are down 2 level 3 slots so far (fly + fb)
Smon: Also these guys are tough
Sandor Sunneson: I'll wall of fire as I only have 1 L3 left
Smon: l3 8d6 or l4 9d6?
Smon: ??
Smon: You can use your level 4 slots!
chris107: ??
Smon: For more damage
Sandor Sunneson: Ok, sorry I'm not use to playing MU, I need to ask Chris for help
Sandor Sunneson: L4 one
Sandor Sunneson rolls 9d6 and gets: 4, 6, 4, 5, 5, 2, 5, 2, 5, = 38
chris107: Nice
Smon: Flames consume the 24 lizardmen cultists...
chris107: Yay!
Smon: DC 15 saves, at +0
Smon: /roll 24d20
Smon rolls 24d20 and gets: 1, 19, 13, 19, 3, 14, 19, 14, 3, 18, 9, 3, 16, 4, 19, 9, 3, 16, 7, 1, 5, 18, 13, 16 = 262
Sandor Sunneson: If this charrs them we could use the meat to ensure we don't starve to death assuming we survive
Smon: 9 survive, 15 are incinerated.
Sandor Sunneson: Ajax will shout, finish them fighters
Smon: The pitiful horribly burned survivors stagger back, mewling horribly.
Sandor Sunneson: morale check
Sandor Sunneson: ??
DESTROYERBILL: join me or die like your comrads raaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Smon: They throw javelins at H & SB who still have cover (+2 AC)
Smon: /roll d2x3
Smon Rolls 1d2x3 and gets:
2 = 2
2 = 2
1 = 1
Smon: 1 at H
Smon: /roll d20+4
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 6, (+4) = 10
Sandor Sunneson: I notice that you call them Lizardmen Simon, the traditional name, and not Lizardfolk
Smon: 2 at SB AC 20
Smon: /roll d20+4x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x2 and gets:
13 (+4) = 17
17 (+4) = 21
Smon: SB is hit! And not raging
DESTROYERBILL: raaaaaa
Smon: /roll d6+2
Smon rolls 1d6+2 and gets: 5, (+2) = 7
Smon: 159/172
Smon: Next round, your goes
Smon: H & SB first
chris107: H is within bounding distance of the priest now?
DESTROYERBILL: i pull ot the javalin in me and frow it back
Smon: H can run in and leap to foot of stairs, but no attack this round
Smon: Too far away, but you can run up the stairs
chris107: (I honestly thought that's what he did last round?0
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 19, (+10) = 29
chris107: Then he does so, bringing on a berserk frenzy
Smon: hit
DESTROYERBILL: if i was a fighter woiuld be crit
Sandor Sunneson: I'm going to go all Gracyone, I'll cast a minor illusion of a Hungry Giant Eagle, looking for Lizardmen to eat
Smon: The lizardman goes down, javelin in his chest.
DESTROYERBILL: join me or die like him NOW
Smon: you can't actually make creatures w that spell
Smon: Don just ignored the descriptions.
DESTROYERBILL: live or die your choice
chris107: it's too big
Smon: /roll 2d6
Smon rolls 2d6 and gets: 3, 4, = 7
Sandor Sunneson: I'll magic missile them, tis easier
Smon: ok
Smon: Hakeem races up the steps,
DESTROYERBILL: what abot my statments
DESTROYERBILL: live or die your choice
Smon: the two lizard guards charge down at him, spiked clubs swinging.
DESTROYERBILL: charisma
Smon: Make CHA+prof roll SB
Smon: +5
chris107: "Rrrarararararraraararararraarararararargagaghahhaahrrrararar!"
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 8, (+5) = 13
Smon: They don't surrender.
DESTROYERBILL: what to pass
Smon: 18
Smon: attacks on H
Smon: /roll d20+5x4
Sandor Sunneson rolls 4d4 and gets: 2, 4, 4, 4, = 14
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x4 and gets:
8 (+5) = 13
2 (+5) = 7
18 (+5) = 23
19 (+5) = 24
Smon: one is good...
Smon: /roll 2d8+6
Smon rolls 2d8+6 and gets: 3, 5, (+6) = 14
Smon: 14/2=7 dmg H
chris107: riposte
Smon: The flying dagger follows him and attacks too
chris107: 214/221
Smon: /roll d20+5
Smon rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 10, (+5) = 15
chris107 rolls 1d20+14 and gets: 17, (+14) = 31
Smon: hit, AC 15
chris107 rolls 2d8+12 and gets: 7, 5, (+12) = 24
Smon: can add draconic bonus
chris107 rolls 3d6 and gets: 6, 5, 6, = 17
chris107: Ouch!
Smon: He is cut in two.
Smon: The lizard priest's eyes go wide, he chants a spell of paralysis...
chris107: attacks?
Smon: save WIS DC 13
chris107 Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
20 (+6) = 26
5 (+6) = 11
chris107: (Magic Res - armour of bondorr)
Sandor Sunneson: Can I magic missile the priest?
Sandor Sunneson: no, will get the burnt warriors first
Sandor Sunneson: no will get priest
Smon: no Ajax you are stuck behind SB. You can see 2 burned lizards could mm them
DESTROYERBILL: dont
Smon: OK your missiles lance out, the two lizardmen crumple
Smon: Next round
Smon: Hakeem your go
Sandor Sunneson: sorry Bill
chris107: Can he reach the priest?
Smon: If you suck up 2 op atts
chris107: He will do that
Smon: /roll d20+5x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+5x2 and gets:
8 (+5) = 13
20 (+5) = 25
Smon: crit
Smon: /roll 2d8+3
Smon rolls 2d8+3 and gets: 2, 1, (+3) = 6
Smon: lol
Smon: 3 dmg to H
chris107: 211/221
Smon: He bounds past the guard and reaches the priest.
chris107: 3 attacks on the wretched priest
chris107: reckless
Smon: It is hissing at him angrily.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
19 (+14) = 33
12 (+14) = 26
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
4 (+14) = 18
9 (+14) = 23
Smon: AC 13
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
10 (+14) = 24
3 (+14) = 17
Smon: berserking?
chris107 rolls 6d8+36 and gets: 5, 2, 5, 2, 6, 7, (+36) = 63
chris107: Yup, upthread some way
chris107 rolls 9d6 and gets: 4, 1, 1, 5, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, = 20
Smon: OK you tear the wretched creature apart.
Smon: As the guard runs up you cut him down too.
chris107: "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAARRRRRGGHHHHH!"
Smon: Silence falls.
chris107: H looks around for other enemies.
Smon: 27 lizardmen lie dead. Chained to the altar the black-painted, shaven-headed Deathwalker regards you.
Smon: "Unstrap me from this infernal altar before you kill me, Altanian!"
chris107: No other enemies survive?
Sandor Sunneson: what is a deathwalker? sounds like something from Star wards
chris107: "Bondorr does not slay the helpless, dog!"
chris107: He cuts the bonds of the last of the Deathwalkers.
Smon: "The degenerate last remnants of ancient Thracia & the evil Thanatic Altani who conquered them" says Rosa.
Smon: You all hurry up to join Hakeem up the steps at the altar as H cuts the Deathwalker free.
chris107: His jangling nerves calm.
Smon: The young warrior casts off his bonds and rises from the altar, rubbing his wrists.
chris107: "Dr. P? Have we stopped them raising the First King?"
Smon: "Thank you. I am Vushik, brother of Kushik."
Smon: Rosa looks around: "Doubt it."
chris107: "You are welcome Vushik, brother of Kushik."
Smon: Vushik: "They have been sacrificing us for months... I am the last. After me they will start on the surface people."
chris107: "Will you join us to slay those who would have sacrifid you?"
Smon: He shrugs, taking a war spear & shield from a fallen guard. "aye, so long as I live."
chris107: "It would seem we have more work to do friends."
chris107: Hakeem slumps down besides the alter and laughs aloud.
chris107: "Vushik, any idea where we will find the leaders of this scum?"
Smon: Looking around, you can't see the north side of the vast temple, dotted with stalagmites, but there seem to be a series of double doors along the w wall as well as several sets on the e wall.
Smon: You came through the second up from s on the e wall.
Sandor Sunneson: Did they have any sort of horde we can relieve them off too?
chris107: (My map is well out by now I'm afraid  )
Smon: There are ancient crumbling tapestries lining the south wall, 30' behind the altar block.
Smon: They had spears and shields and crudely woven robes.
Smon: Also crude javelins.
chris107: H - 211/221HP, used 8 healing dice, 3 rages, 1 berserk.
Smon: The priest wears some jewelry.
Smon: H currently has 1 level exhaustion
Sandor Sunneson: Ajax will take it from him and try it on
Smon: 54gp of silver jewelry
Smon: the headband doesn't fit but the armlets are ok
chris107: "Let us rest a while. How many minions must we slay before this First King will show himself?!"
Smon: Rosa is inspecting the ancient rotted tapestries along the curved southern wall.
chris107: "Should we go back to the Sphinx?"
Smon: "Could one of you boys hold a light up here?"
chris107: H groans and lays down to rest his aching limbs
Smon: "Shieldbiter? A light?"
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: SB approaches the tapestry.
Sandor Sunneson: can cast cantrip light?
Smon: You can make out faint faded images of vast dragon-winged forms.
Smon: SB's flaming sword lights up rotted scenes of ancient Dragon Lords battling against humans wielding energy weapons.
Smon: You see an heroic Dragon Lord leading his people to victory, enslaving the red-skinned humans, establishing a vast empire.
Smon: Then there are scenes of war with horned demon-things across an icy waste.
DESTROYERBILL: disgusting
Smon: In the last images you see a dark, sinister armoured figure with a huge diamond in his breastplate battling the heroic dragonlord-king, and wounding him/
Smon: The brave king's loyal retainers carry him from the field.
chris107:
Smon: As he bids them farewell in underground halls not unlike this one, he promises them a refuge lit by a strange red sun - and a better day, when they will arise to claim the surface once more!
chris107: "That will be me then?" Laughs Hakeem pointing at the sinister figure.
Smon: Disgusted by the scene, SB turns away.
Smon: At that moment an errant spark from his blade alights on the tapestry...
Smon: WHOOSH!
Smon: The ancient fabrics burn brightly.
chris107: "Good riddens."
DESTROYERBILL: thank goodness
Smon: Rosa yells and leaps back as the burning tapestry fragments, falling away to reveal the concealed doorway beyond...
Sandor Sunneson: no miss
Smon: OOC Bondor gave you that one.
chris107: Grrooaannnnnnn
Smon: GM: You complete your rest (7pm)
DESTROYERBILL: cool
Smon: Rosa looks at the door. "Hmm..."
chris107: Hakeem drags himsef to his feet. Determined to see this to the end or perish trying.
Smon: can spend any hd desired now
Sandor Sunneson: Does Ajax get any spells back after short rest?
chris107: 1HD and recover 1 exhaustion
chris107 rolls 1d12+5 and gets: 7, (+5) = 12
chris107: 221/221
Smon: SB is on 168/172 w 4 hd left
chris107: coffee. 1 min please
Smon: Yes Fergus you have a 1/day recovery power
Smon: You can recover up to 4 levels of slots
Smon: You are down 4 lvl 1 2 lvl 3 1 lvl 4
chris107: back
Smon: what do you want back?
Sandor Sunneson: Lvl 4
Smon: ok
Smon: When you're ready, Epicaste tries the door (she has been regarding Vuthik curiously).
Smon: The door swings open to a chamber that would seem enormous, were it not dwarfed by the Grand Temple.
Smon: 70x70', with double doors opposite, walls covered in flaking plaster.
Sandor Sunneson: would be a nice place for the Church of Hakeem, but could do with a lick of paint
Smon: Images of reptilian creatures - humanoid, winged, centaurlike varieties - gathered in worship of the moon beneath a starry sky.
chris107: "Not my colour Ajax. I prefer red." Smiles a resigned Hakeem.
Smon: A depiction of a giant winged lizardman/dragon-lord with golden crown directs lizard-men towards a glowing portal.
chris107: He strides in, sword aloft and cracling.
Smon: Looking left you also see a small door on the east wall.
chris107: got it.
Smon: There are several shallow bowl-like depressions on the floor, as might hold water.
Smon: Ajax can roll INT+Prof
Sandor Sunneson rolls 1d20 and gets: 11,
Smon: Ajax detects faint remnants of divination magic from the depressions - were they once scrying pools?
chris107: Are the double doors opposite impressive?
Smon: Yes, they are ornate bronze.
Smon: Rosa: "I sense we are getting close... I'm getting a bit of a headache, actually."
chris107: "Let's see what lurks behind that little door. Thn hope this First King is close to hand."
Smon: Hakeem tries the west door.
chris107: If no one else does he will go look behind the little door.
Smon: It is very stiff - are you pushing it open?
chris107: yes
DESTROYERBILL: ill hellp
DESTROYERBILL: 1 2 3 go
chris107: push!
chris107: "Thanksd Shieldbiter."
DESTROYERBILL: your welcome
Smon: The door bursts open with a shower of rock fragments into a vast circular chamber, largely obscured by the back of a massive obsidian statue.
Smon: The statue turns to face you...
Smon: You look up to the face of the 10' tall statue, a regal man wearing a black crown, eyes and mouth burning with orange flame.
Smon: The crown is set with three massive violet gems.
DESTROYERBILL: its a trap
chris107: "Who are you?"
Smon: The statue looks down at you, but makes no move to attack.
Smon: Nor does it speak.
Smon: Epicaste: "The Stone King!"
Smon: She says, wondering-ly.
chris107: "Bah! This is not the First King. "
DESTROYERBILL: who
chris107: "You know this thing Epicaste?"
Smon: "Made by the wizard Horden Cain to guard his treasure vaults!"
chris107: "Well, we are not here for treasure. Not now at any rate."
Smon: "After he died, it slew all who sought to control it, until a young priestess of Aphrodite discerned the name of Horden's lost love..."
Smon: "Then it was set to serve the People, to guard the Hall of Statuary for all eternity."
chris107: "Then let's leave it to it's duty? And find the first King."
Smon: Ajax's nape prickles. There are powerful arcane energies in this chamber (+1 to level of spells cast here).
chris107: H points to the ornate bronze doors.
chris107: "Dr.P. That way you think?"
Smon: Beyond the King you see violet lit stairs steeply rising 50' to a door far above - it looks familiar (back side of door in Hall of Statuary)
chris107: Cool, the one covered in rough plaster?
Smon: (yup) Rosa nods: "Aye, let's try the bronze doors."
chris107: "Good juob we didn't nick the gems on the statues!"
Smon: The Stone King regards you equably.
Smon: Epicaste: "Indeed!"
Smon: "I had forgotten the story until just now... "
chris107: "Then this is it my friends."
Smon: Vuthik goes to the bronze doors and flings them open...
chris107: "Only Prince Shieldbiter and I have to be here. We will not judhge those who would prefer to sit this out."
Smon: Beyond is a 20x30 landing and 20 stairs leading down to the s.
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
Smon: Rosa: "How about we follow at a distance?"
DESTROYERBILL: i get ready
DESTROYERBILL: to not get suprised
Sandor Sunneson: Is he resistant to magic attacks?
chris107: Crackle-crackle
Smon: GM Hakeem & SB head down the stairs, the rest following at a distance (30'?)
chris107: "I have no idea, friend Ajax"
Sandor Sunneson: Ajax will polymorph him into a garden snail
chris107: 20' apart Bill?
Sandor Sunneson: (shame Ursa and Sandor ain't here)
Smon: At the bottom a wide 20' corridor leads east maybe 220' or so.
chris107: (Aye)
Smon: Ending at a second pair of bronze doors,
DESTROYERBILL: we soild stick closer 20 feet aint gona seprate a fire ball
chris107: Can we go each to one wall?
Smon: these swing open at your touch, and you see a 30 e-w by 40 n-s chamber, the floor full of pottery shards and a few unbroken urns.
chris107: Okay, shoulder to shoulder it shall be.
chris107: "Good luck my friend."
DESTROYERBILL: yep
DESTROYERBILL: good luck
Smon: There is a lot of ash on the floor too - these look like the remains of funerary urns.
chris107: "Thanks"
Smon: Only 4 small urns remain unbroken among the mounds of debris.
Sandor Sunneson: Can caste haste on Hak?
chris107: and SB
chris107: But not just yet...
Smon: There are no obvious exits.
DESTROYERBILL: pls
chris107: Enter together and approach the urns?
Smon: H & SB enter.
chris107: "How's your head Rosa?"
Smon: The urns are quite exquisite, decorated with images of soaring winged Dragon Lords.
Smon: Rosa & co enter behind once it seems safe.
DESTROYERBILL: i smash them
Smon: Rosa: "Throbbing..."
Smon: SB's heavy foot smashes the last of the Dragon Lord burial urns.
chris107: Seeing his friend go to work, Hakeem also starts to smash the remaining urns
Smon: All 4 break easily, their ashes joining the rest on the floor.
Smon: Need to stop at 10.
chris107: using the sword of Bondorr
chris107: sure
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
Smon: Epicaste glances behind you - all seems quiet.
Smon: Rosa: "This can't be it... there must be a way on!"
Sandor Sunneson: Do all the ashes join together and rise?
Smon: LOL no
Sandor Sunneson: No
chris107: "Could it be we have stopped the ceremony?"
Smon: You notice the walls are smeared with a mineral/stalactite glaze of congealed limestone.
Smon: /roll d20+6
Smon rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 19, (+6) = 25
chris107: "There have been many illusions here. Maybe the First King hided behind one last illusion?"
Sandor Sunneson: oooooooooooooooh
Smon: Rosa points out the door half-huidden by the glaze.
Smon: OOC feel free to say "I search the walls" THracia has a million secret doors!
Smon: On the north wall you make out the outline of a door.
chris107: "That way it is then."
Smon: OOC 10pm stopping there!
Smon: Rosa nods: "I think this is it..."
DESTROYERBILL: okAY
chris107: So close!
chris107: Nice ones guys
Smon: Final battle Wednesday I reckon
chris107: Thanks Simon