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
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