Game 7, it was over so early
Posted 1st May 2009 at 05:49 AM by HardcoreDandDGirl
OK, so we started with a bang… Coming off of the last weeks hobgoblin room we come into this dead end that I swear DM dave tricked us into going down. It lead to the Gelatinous cube, and two undead thingies that ripped pieces of themselves off and chucked them at us.
It started with a hallway, and us doing the dumest thing ever…splitting up. For the record there is an ad on the wizard web pages that even says “Never split the party” But we thought we were going to just look down both hall ways, when Renard got engulfed. Meanwhile in the same surprise roll me and cap got taped by exploded undead flesh for 10+ damage and weakens (save ends)…then we rolled for initiative.
Just to recap the beginning of this battle 2 weakened PCs, and an engulfed/dazed ranged striker. Tor went first, and decided to oath and attack the cube. He planed to use his at will that drags the target. However it was the worst thing any avenger could expect, 2 1’s. Then came Cap, and he charged one of those undead things, and it got worse. These things have aura’s of negative to hit. So he missed. Then he just made his save, not that it helped. Then came Renard, and his fail to escape the grab. Then came Lucan, and he summons his spirit next to an undead thing, making it unable to shift out of threatening. The undead go next, and the one ingaged shifts so cap isn’t threatening, but the spirit is, then one tags him, the other tags Lucan. So now we have three weakened, and the cube is up. The damn cube moves into Tor, daze/engulfing two strikers. Up next is Syl and me. I went first, and I marked the cube, and threw my Incendiary Sword and got lucky, the only type of luck our group is known for at moments like this…BAD. I missed both.
Yea, it gets worse, when we finally started hitting these things, they regen. This fight was a little more tough then I think it was ment to be. I think it was most likely only 1 of those undead things, but the fact that there were 6 of us made DM Dave put the second. I also wonder if they were elites since they blew up when they died, had a weaken effect, and regen.
That pushed us into our next encounter, or lack there of. 4 traps in one room, three statues and the world pool thing. Syl being the only person with thievery, we mostly let her handle most of this. I will be honest, I went out for a smoke during this encounter. I was told later Renard figured out a skill to use to ‘aid’ but I don’t remember what it was.
Then came the undead. 2 ghouls, and 15 zombies (some minions some not, but he used the same mini, we could not tell them apart pre attack.). You would think this fight would be worse then the other right, WRONG. Round 3 we were down to 1 ghoul, and 3 zombies. Now I will admit we also had an almost dead controller, and Cap was out of healing again.
In the aftermath of the fight we had found a bag of holding, some ritual scrolls, and some more gold.
That fight alone put us up a level. For those keeping up at home is level 4. And now the feature creep starts. I went to start updating, and I was told I needed to look at Arcane Power. I was told I ‘had’ to swap out for this new vortex power for level 3, but I like my exploding sword spell. Then I had been thinking about Intelligent Blademaster, but now I was told I should improve my aura. I really hate being told what I ‘have’ to choose.
We could have kept going, it was not that late, but I guess with two encounters left we thought a full rest, and have the battle mats for next week. We also were told that I guess WotC put this whole mod out for free this week, and it has been changed. So DM dave is going to try to figure out if he wants to run his idea’s or if he should use there mods.
We also started putting something together. Tor and Lucan are both Divine empowered (being Invoker and Avenger), and My back story (mostly me but with some Dave add ons) seams to indicate the raven queen has taken some intrest in me. Renard has some sorta big thing about Asmodus directly in his background (Even though he is fey pact??!?) although Jim didn’t spill his whole back story.
So I think that (and most of us agree) that we are moveing toward some big show down, and we think there is something about the divine war at the dawn of time. I think Orcus is a primordial (I think) so this whole adventure might be his way of starting this whole story.
It started with a hallway, and us doing the dumest thing ever…splitting up. For the record there is an ad on the wizard web pages that even says “Never split the party” But we thought we were going to just look down both hall ways, when Renard got engulfed. Meanwhile in the same surprise roll me and cap got taped by exploded undead flesh for 10+ damage and weakens (save ends)…then we rolled for initiative.
Just to recap the beginning of this battle 2 weakened PCs, and an engulfed/dazed ranged striker. Tor went first, and decided to oath and attack the cube. He planed to use his at will that drags the target. However it was the worst thing any avenger could expect, 2 1’s. Then came Cap, and he charged one of those undead things, and it got worse. These things have aura’s of negative to hit. So he missed. Then he just made his save, not that it helped. Then came Renard, and his fail to escape the grab. Then came Lucan, and he summons his spirit next to an undead thing, making it unable to shift out of threatening. The undead go next, and the one ingaged shifts so cap isn’t threatening, but the spirit is, then one tags him, the other tags Lucan. So now we have three weakened, and the cube is up. The damn cube moves into Tor, daze/engulfing two strikers. Up next is Syl and me. I went first, and I marked the cube, and threw my Incendiary Sword and got lucky, the only type of luck our group is known for at moments like this…BAD. I missed both.
Yea, it gets worse, when we finally started hitting these things, they regen. This fight was a little more tough then I think it was ment to be. I think it was most likely only 1 of those undead things, but the fact that there were 6 of us made DM Dave put the second. I also wonder if they were elites since they blew up when they died, had a weaken effect, and regen.
That pushed us into our next encounter, or lack there of. 4 traps in one room, three statues and the world pool thing. Syl being the only person with thievery, we mostly let her handle most of this. I will be honest, I went out for a smoke during this encounter. I was told later Renard figured out a skill to use to ‘aid’ but I don’t remember what it was.
Then came the undead. 2 ghouls, and 15 zombies (some minions some not, but he used the same mini, we could not tell them apart pre attack.). You would think this fight would be worse then the other right, WRONG. Round 3 we were down to 1 ghoul, and 3 zombies. Now I will admit we also had an almost dead controller, and Cap was out of healing again.
In the aftermath of the fight we had found a bag of holding, some ritual scrolls, and some more gold.
That fight alone put us up a level. For those keeping up at home is level 4. And now the feature creep starts. I went to start updating, and I was told I needed to look at Arcane Power. I was told I ‘had’ to swap out for this new vortex power for level 3, but I like my exploding sword spell. Then I had been thinking about Intelligent Blademaster, but now I was told I should improve my aura. I really hate being told what I ‘have’ to choose.
We could have kept going, it was not that late, but I guess with two encounters left we thought a full rest, and have the battle mats for next week. We also were told that I guess WotC put this whole mod out for free this week, and it has been changed. So DM dave is going to try to figure out if he wants to run his idea’s or if he should use there mods.
We also started putting something together. Tor and Lucan are both Divine empowered (being Invoker and Avenger), and My back story (mostly me but with some Dave add ons) seams to indicate the raven queen has taken some intrest in me. Renard has some sorta big thing about Asmodus directly in his background (Even though he is fey pact??!?) although Jim didn’t spill his whole back story.
So I think that (and most of us agree) that we are moveing toward some big show down, and we think there is something about the divine war at the dawn of time. I think Orcus is a primordial (I think) so this whole adventure might be his way of starting this whole story.
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So did you take what you wanted for powers and feats, or succumb to peer pressure?
~Posted 1st May 2009 at 07:42 AM by fissionessence
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I have not decided yet. Tonight Jon is opening his pools (yes plural) so we are all having a pool/cook out party. We figured those of us who didn’t update yet would update then.
In fact as I type this I have to pick out a bathing suit. I have three different bikinis I can wear, (I have one off white bikini I can only wear when I know there are limited people around,
)and 1 one piece. I am left wondering what type of mood I am in… Green 2 piece that is nice and proper, red white and blue not too skimpy, or gold that is one step above a thong, or the nice solid black one piece my brother gave me last year (Telling me he has a problem with MY choices of suits).
Anyway once I get it figured out and pack my back pack, I will drive over there. I will post the updated sheets once Dave finishes with them on his builder. Have I mentioned that the new updates to this tool is really makeing me consider getting a DDI account for a few months.Posted 2nd May 2009 at 09:36 PM by HardcoreDandDGirl - So which bathing suit did you choose?
As far as the DDI subscription, if you're at all interested in reading the magazines, they recently announced that there will be more player-focused content in the future. That could be an incentive.
~Posted 3rd May 2009 at 09:21 AM by fissionessence -
Well I chose the patriotic look, and went for the red white and blue two piece. It is red and white stripes on the left breast, and blue with white starts on the right, and the bottom is a nice flag. It was a good thing I did too, because all of the girls (For the record 98+% of us are games so not that many girls) were in little two pieces. I would look out of place all prudish. All in all there were about 30 guys and 5 woman there, only Jon’s friend from work isn’t a gamer (Well RPGer), and Jim’s date wasn’t any type of gamer, in fact she most likely couldn’t read a whole rpg book (not enough pictures), and she was wearing a piece of string or two that makes my most daring bathing suit look like one of the ones from the 20’s with full legs. (I think I have flossed my teeth with more material then the top). How ever the wardrobe surprise of the night was DM dave getting into the hot top with Kelly. Just to set this up for you Jon has a rule (and a sign posted) no tops in the hot tub. (Before you ask yes I went in it but not with the full party going on, late after most people left I may not be a prude, but I do have some dignity). Now Kelly going topless to get in will seam amazing to the guys, but I almost fainted when Dave took off his shirt. I have known him a couple years, I have been to the beach with him, and to the pools, heck we even both crashed at the same place one night, but never once have I seen him with out a shirt. He is just too self conscious. But I guess his GF being in the tub with Jim and bimbet (Who can remember her name?!?!? ) got him to do it. It was his first time in any hot tube he said too.
As for the characters We all finished up, and Dave is going to email me copies after this weeks game so I can post us at level 4, he did say even if we do a lot of kick but role playing we wont hit 5th after the fight. (Not that most of us were expecting to, but I guess this mod has a pretty tough high xp end encounter) Just FYI I went with Int blademaster after all. (I never was one for pier pressure)
As per our normal parties we talked about all the important stuff, New terminator movie, new wolverine movie, Angels and Demons, new TV show on Comedy called Krav Mangon, you know the real hot button topics. We then moved on to edtion wars, and talking about our characters. (By the way bimbet didn’t even know the new star trek was a relaunch, she thought it was just number 8 or something…yea he defiantly chose her for her mind
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We did also discuss the DDi thing, and I think if this week is cool I will bite the bullet and admit 4e may have not killed babies and kicked puppy’s. I mean I still am not 100% about everything, but heck that is what house rules are for. SO long and short of it is my next big pay check I think I will buy a couple month sub.
Although I do have one problem, since Jim made sure Dave’s nephew saw me in the hot tub, so I am sure the looks are not going away any time soon, especially since he told me afterwards he liked my piercing. I did get back at Jim though when I let it slip about his ‘medical condition’ to bimbet before I left. Posted 5th May 2009 at 06:55 AM by HardcoreDandDGirl - Well it sounds like everyone had fun at the party And yeah, it's good you didn't wear the one-piece, since you wouldn't have been able to get in the hot tub! (Or is there some kind of work-around?)
And I'm glad you didn't give in to the peer pressure
~Posted 5th May 2009 at 10:34 PM by fissionessence
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