game 9, on the rd (Old kings rd)
Posted 15th May 2009 at 07:08 AM by HardcoreDandDGirl
So we started pretty RP heavy this week. With Lucen and Tor at point tracking, myself and cap at rear guard and renard and syl in the middle. Cap and I were talking about a bunch of non sense, old stories we had made up, and what we thought of what was going on, in front of us every time syl went to say something, and sometimes when she didn’t Renard would interrupt with “Just don’t”
But the prize goes to Tor and Lucen. They did this whole mochu my god is better posturing like two alpha dogs, but they did it civil, and almost matter of fact. It wasy pretty cool when Tor asked Lucen why he was doing this, since he NEW it wasn’t out of the kindness of his heart, and lucen turned it around with the old I could ask you the same thing. It was much cooler in person. It ended with both admitting that something felt off, and that they were both warriors of there gods, so they were looking to ‘fight the good fight’
Then Dm Dave through us a fun little choice. The hobgoblins had left old kings rd to travel through the cloak woods. This was odd because there were trade roads the whole way to the thunderspire. So of course we investigated. As we started through the woods we had our first real encounter of the night, a sniper. It started with 2 shortbow arrows slamming into Lucen. It was pretty crazy, we had a large battle matt set up as Forrest, and were all in the center, but no bad guys on the board. Talk about fog of war. So we rolled initiative, and Syl went first. She moved to the bushes for cover. Tor and Renard tied for next, and had different ides. Tor charged into the area the shots came from (and fell into a pit full of spikes. Renard teleported up into a tree on a branch and started looking around with active perception. The snipper went next and fired a third arrow into lucen (bloodying him) and one into me. As a reaction to Lucen getting bloodied these vines started to attack him. We were in the middle of a killing field. Arrows from unseen targets, blood sucking vines, and pit traps.
On Caps turn he moved to the pit and got out his rope. I on the other hand decied Tor had the right idea, I just went about it slower and more careful. Syl decided to stay hidden. Then Renard readied and action, and Tor held his. This time renard saw the shooter, so Dave put down his satyr archer mini and rolled two attack rolls on me. Crit and miss. Lucky for me I was still above bloodied. Then Renard reacts with an action point, and two eldritch blasts, both solid hits, bloodying our enemy and getting him attacked by his own vines.
The vines where an immobilize (save ends) and the monster was a lurker, so that pretty much ended the fight right there. Well we were looting the body, we found the money was from winterhaven, so either the hobgobs paid him, or he took it from them. It didn’t take long to realize this was there way of losing parties following them, so we headed back to the road. As we were leaving the Forrest Dave made sure to mention that cap got stung by a bee. It was an odd thing to be told in a d&D game, I bet it will be important later.
So back on the rd, we made it to the town of fellcrest before nightfall, and stopped to rest there. Cap talked to some contacts, and sure enough the hobgobs had come through only 3 days ahead of us, but they went right through without stopping.
It had taken 2 days to get from winterhaven to here, and would be another day+ to get to the spire. We left bright and early, and started out. Around noon we came across our second encounter of the game. Highwaymen. A dragonborn, two humans, and a half elf stood in our way and tried to take our money. It was almost funny, they abviusly didn’t know who they were dealing with. The half elf was some kinda caster, not that it mattered since Syl and Tor flanked him in round 1. Both humans were minons, the dragon born might have been a threat, but lucen summoned his angel of fire and me and it whooped him good. He had this weird power where he attacked, then left himself open to counter attack, then granted an ally and attack. I have to admite having three attackers on his turn slowed down combat a little.
The only really big problem was we blew all our encounters, then they all got back up as ghouls. It is not fun to have a second encounter less then a minute after another one. No short rest was a BITCH. It seams we may have pissed off some prince of undead, and his right hand man the king of ghouls, so this was not random. However the dragonborn (Who was some kinda NPC warlord) had a amulet that was perfect for cap. It adds +2 to all healing he does. Pretty hott if you ask me. We had just gotten to thunderspire when we had to call it a night, so next week we start by entering the spire after the hobgobs
But the prize goes to Tor and Lucen. They did this whole mochu my god is better posturing like two alpha dogs, but they did it civil, and almost matter of fact. It wasy pretty cool when Tor asked Lucen why he was doing this, since he NEW it wasn’t out of the kindness of his heart, and lucen turned it around with the old I could ask you the same thing. It was much cooler in person. It ended with both admitting that something felt off, and that they were both warriors of there gods, so they were looking to ‘fight the good fight’
Then Dm Dave through us a fun little choice. The hobgoblins had left old kings rd to travel through the cloak woods. This was odd because there were trade roads the whole way to the thunderspire. So of course we investigated. As we started through the woods we had our first real encounter of the night, a sniper. It started with 2 shortbow arrows slamming into Lucen. It was pretty crazy, we had a large battle matt set up as Forrest, and were all in the center, but no bad guys on the board. Talk about fog of war. So we rolled initiative, and Syl went first. She moved to the bushes for cover. Tor and Renard tied for next, and had different ides. Tor charged into the area the shots came from (and fell into a pit full of spikes. Renard teleported up into a tree on a branch and started looking around with active perception. The snipper went next and fired a third arrow into lucen (bloodying him) and one into me. As a reaction to Lucen getting bloodied these vines started to attack him. We were in the middle of a killing field. Arrows from unseen targets, blood sucking vines, and pit traps.
On Caps turn he moved to the pit and got out his rope. I on the other hand decied Tor had the right idea, I just went about it slower and more careful. Syl decided to stay hidden. Then Renard readied and action, and Tor held his. This time renard saw the shooter, so Dave put down his satyr archer mini and rolled two attack rolls on me. Crit and miss. Lucky for me I was still above bloodied. Then Renard reacts with an action point, and two eldritch blasts, both solid hits, bloodying our enemy and getting him attacked by his own vines.
The vines where an immobilize (save ends) and the monster was a lurker, so that pretty much ended the fight right there. Well we were looting the body, we found the money was from winterhaven, so either the hobgobs paid him, or he took it from them. It didn’t take long to realize this was there way of losing parties following them, so we headed back to the road. As we were leaving the Forrest Dave made sure to mention that cap got stung by a bee. It was an odd thing to be told in a d&D game, I bet it will be important later.
So back on the rd, we made it to the town of fellcrest before nightfall, and stopped to rest there. Cap talked to some contacts, and sure enough the hobgobs had come through only 3 days ahead of us, but they went right through without stopping.
It had taken 2 days to get from winterhaven to here, and would be another day+ to get to the spire. We left bright and early, and started out. Around noon we came across our second encounter of the game. Highwaymen. A dragonborn, two humans, and a half elf stood in our way and tried to take our money. It was almost funny, they abviusly didn’t know who they were dealing with. The half elf was some kinda caster, not that it mattered since Syl and Tor flanked him in round 1. Both humans were minons, the dragon born might have been a threat, but lucen summoned his angel of fire and me and it whooped him good. He had this weird power where he attacked, then left himself open to counter attack, then granted an ally and attack. I have to admite having three attackers on his turn slowed down combat a little.
The only really big problem was we blew all our encounters, then they all got back up as ghouls. It is not fun to have a second encounter less then a minute after another one. No short rest was a BITCH. It seams we may have pissed off some prince of undead, and his right hand man the king of ghouls, so this was not random. However the dragonborn (Who was some kinda NPC warlord) had a amulet that was perfect for cap. It adds +2 to all healing he does. Pretty hott if you ask me. We had just gotten to thunderspire when we had to call it a night, so next week we start by entering the spire after the hobgobs
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This was a pretty interesting session, as it's not from an adventure I've already read
Then again, I do like seeing how adventures I have read play out in your game, so I'm looking forward to next week
~Posted 15th May 2009 at 11:50 PM by fissionessence
- Fun! Thanks for the inspiration. Catching your posts has inspired me to start doing the same! I've enjoyed reading them. Keep it up!Posted 18th May 2009 at 07:00 AM by Krand's_Brother
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