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<blockquote data-quote="Bill T." data-source="post: 6980344" data-attributes="member: 6795693"><p><strong>Adventure IV: Get Out Of Jail</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Adventure IV: Get Out Of Jail</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Dramatis Personae</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong>Amelia</strong>, a human spellthieving acetomancer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong>Erielle</strong>, an half-orc (formerly elven) archer ranger</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong>Kjolmar</strong>, a dour dwarven dungeoncrashing deepwarden</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong>Jinis</strong>, proxy for Duke Gallo</li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Getting Past The Guards</span></p><p></p><p>After a bit of last-minute spellcasting on Eriel's part, the heroes settle in for a restless sleep. In the morning, Eriel prays for healing magic to heal the near-lethal wounds Amelia acquired when a sphinx pounced on her from the air. They then have a long discussion regarding how to escape. Amelia favors subterfuge -- she wants to pretend to be choking in hopes of getting the guards to come into the cell and help her. Kjolmar favors a more direct approach: Using a loose cell bar, he prys open the lock to their cell. Amelia takes the opportunity to thoroughly search the empty cells, coming up with a stray bit of leather hidden in the straw. Combined with one of Jinis' knives and a bit of greasy bacon from breakfast -- oh, and a serious application of brute strength to her manacle and gag -- she has all the components she needs to make the most of her magic.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>They got pretty clever about the material components. Bacon from breakfast was a slick way to get the component for Grease. I let them decide what they found when Amelia searched the cells -- giving everyone but poor Jinis Mage Armor gave them a big step up in the battle.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>Time to get this show on the road! Eriel takes off her wool sack, which they fill with straw and tuck into a corner to make it appear she's still in the cell so she can hide in the cell nearest the guard room with the freed cell bar in hand. Amelia and Jinis are able to swap cells so that Amelia has a barrier between her and the guards. The guards approach and eventually notice that Jinis isn't who they were expecting in that cell. The fight's on!</p><p></p><p>Jinis flings the door open so that Kjolmar can barrel into the prelate, which he does. Jinis then suprises everyone by moving to Kjolmar's side, while Eriel quietly checks the guard room for more guards and Amelia conjures a cloud of knives. "Hey, where's my grease?" demands Kjolmar.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>Had I been thinking, I'd have added a lone guard in the guard chamber as a reward for Eriel's forethought to check the guard room for more guards.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>The battle continues, with more spellcasting (like Grease!) on both sides, with all the prison guards brought down by lethal damage, slipping in the grease, or the flail Kjolmar "picked up" from a guard (in that order). Prone and surrounded by well-armed prisoners, the prelate and the remaining guard surrender. Amelia takes the opportunity to steal healing and other spells from the prelate, as well as the Magic Circle vs Chaos she noticed that a guard was protected by.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Where's The Exit?</span></p><p></p><p>They move on, find their equipment, the rope ladder in the storage room, and, eventually, Balan's body. Amelia rushes in and grabs the book resting on his torso. They then start to free him from the table until Kjolmar points out that he's not breathing, and that not breathing means he's dead.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>You can take the mage out of wizard school, but you can't take the love of books out of the mage, I guess. And yes, Kjolmar really did have to point out that people who aren't breathing are unlikely to be alive.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> I figured it made more sense to have the rope ladder in the equipment room rather than the torture chamber.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>Amelia searches the grate for traps and then Kjolmar uses his handy crowbar to slowly and heavily pry the grate beneath the table hard enough to break the latch on the grate -- springing the trap. Jutras is on the loose, and he's <strong>hungry</strong>! No matter, although he does manage to grapple Eriel briefly, Jinis pulls him free, and none of his tonguing manages to leave anyone quivering unmoving on the floor. Eventually, he ends up a shattered mass of bones and entrails on the floor right outside his little closet. Jinis then exclaims, "Oh, that's Jutras!" and explains the history of Jutras. Since Jinis is being so brave, they decide that he should be using Balan's magic shortsword.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>Well, they haven't given it to his next of kin <strong>yet</strong>.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>Kjolmar leads the way down from the torture chamber. When he sees the vicious creatures grabbing and biting from the ice in the cave beneath the prison, he tries poking one with his pike --only to have it grab his pike away! Offended, he jumps down and starts beating up iced zombies, but realizes there's a more efficient approach: Amelia offers to enlarge him, and, using a length of chain from his backpack, he wanders into the mass of frozen zombies and, with his allies holding the other end of the chain, flails the chain like a jump rope, clearing out swaths of zombies. Two or three iterations and he's cleared a path for everyone to walk to the cave's exit unthreatened. Amelia takes the opportunity to use a stolen Cure Moderate Wounds spell that the prelate had metamagicked into a ray to heal Kjolmar while he's smashing zombies, then scurries up the rope ladder so she can detach it before Kjolmar has a chance to come back and pick up Balan's remains in hopes of having his brought back to life.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>Clever Kjolmar! A ton of Power Attack certainly helped shatter the pitted zombies. I appreciate how he's playing the big tough fighter to the hilt, and hope that the other players pay attention to how play a high-strength, high-constitution warrior.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><p>At this point, they flee the prison and Steppengard, bypassing the tower in the graveyard and only stapping in Macon long enough for Amelia to pick up some horses. Sadly, Amelia is a poor judge of horseflesh and the horses she gets are basically some leftover nags from the village, although she does manage to wheedle feed for the horses out of the townsfolk. After traveling for the day, they find a barn to sleep in for the night. Amelia tries to amuse herself by reading the notebook left on Balan's body, but has to step outside to vomit because she's so disgusted by what the inquistor did to Balan.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em>I'll post Torrax's notes soon, but I was quite pleased with how appalled Amelia was by the notes.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill T., post: 6980344, member: 6795693"] [b]Adventure IV: Get Out Of Jail[/b] [SIZE=2][B]Adventure IV: Get Out Of Jail[/B] Dramatis Personae [/SIZE] [LIST] [*] [B]Amelia[/B], a human spellthieving acetomancer [*] [B]Erielle[/B], an half-orc (formerly elven) archer ranger [*] [B]Kjolmar[/B], a dour dwarven dungeoncrashing deepwarden [*] [B]Jinis[/B], proxy for Duke Gallo [/LIST] [SIZE=2]Getting Past The Guards[/SIZE] After a bit of last-minute spellcasting on Eriel's part, the heroes settle in for a restless sleep. In the morning, Eriel prays for healing magic to heal the near-lethal wounds Amelia acquired when a sphinx pounced on her from the air. They then have a long discussion regarding how to escape. Amelia favors subterfuge -- she wants to pretend to be choking in hopes of getting the guards to come into the cell and help her. Kjolmar favors a more direct approach: Using a loose cell bar, he prys open the lock to their cell. Amelia takes the opportunity to thoroughly search the empty cells, coming up with a stray bit of leather hidden in the straw. Combined with one of Jinis' knives and a bit of greasy bacon from breakfast -- oh, and a serious application of brute strength to her manacle and gag -- she has all the components she needs to make the most of her magic. [INDENT] [i]They got pretty clever about the material components. Bacon from breakfast was a slick way to get the component for Grease. I let them decide what they found when Amelia searched the cells -- giving everyone but poor Jinis Mage Armor gave them a big step up in the battle.[/i] [/INDENT] Time to get this show on the road! Eriel takes off her wool sack, which they fill with straw and tuck into a corner to make it appear she's still in the cell so she can hide in the cell nearest the guard room with the freed cell bar in hand. Amelia and Jinis are able to swap cells so that Amelia has a barrier between her and the guards. The guards approach and eventually notice that Jinis isn't who they were expecting in that cell. The fight's on! Jinis flings the door open so that Kjolmar can barrel into the prelate, which he does. Jinis then suprises everyone by moving to Kjolmar's side, while Eriel quietly checks the guard room for more guards and Amelia conjures a cloud of knives. "Hey, where's my grease?" demands Kjolmar. [INDENT] [i]Had I been thinking, I'd have added a lone guard in the guard chamber as a reward for Eriel's forethought to check the guard room for more guards.[/i] [/INDENT] The battle continues, with more spellcasting (like Grease!) on both sides, with all the prison guards brought down by lethal damage, slipping in the grease, or the flail Kjolmar "picked up" from a guard (in that order). Prone and surrounded by well-armed prisoners, the prelate and the remaining guard surrender. Amelia takes the opportunity to steal healing and other spells from the prelate, as well as the Magic Circle vs Chaos she noticed that a guard was protected by. [SIZE=2]Where's The Exit?[/SIZE] They move on, find their equipment, the rope ladder in the storage room, and, eventually, Balan's body. Amelia rushes in and grabs the book resting on his torso. They then start to free him from the table until Kjolmar points out that he's not breathing, and that not breathing means he's dead. [INDENT] [i]You can take the mage out of wizard school, but you can't take the love of books out of the mage, I guess. And yes, Kjolmar really did have to point out that people who aren't breathing are unlikely to be alive. I figured it made more sense to have the rope ladder in the equipment room rather than the torture chamber.[/i] [/INDENT] Amelia searches the grate for traps and then Kjolmar uses his handy crowbar to slowly and heavily pry the grate beneath the table hard enough to break the latch on the grate -- springing the trap. Jutras is on the loose, and he's [b]hungry[/b]! No matter, although he does manage to grapple Eriel briefly, Jinis pulls him free, and none of his tonguing manages to leave anyone quivering unmoving on the floor. Eventually, he ends up a shattered mass of bones and entrails on the floor right outside his little closet. Jinis then exclaims, "Oh, that's Jutras!" and explains the history of Jutras. Since Jinis is being so brave, they decide that he should be using Balan's magic shortsword. [INDENT] [i]Well, they haven't given it to his next of kin [b]yet[/b].[/i] [/INDENT] Kjolmar leads the way down from the torture chamber. When he sees the vicious creatures grabbing and biting from the ice in the cave beneath the prison, he tries poking one with his pike --only to have it grab his pike away! Offended, he jumps down and starts beating up iced zombies, but realizes there's a more efficient approach: Amelia offers to enlarge him, and, using a length of chain from his backpack, he wanders into the mass of frozen zombies and, with his allies holding the other end of the chain, flails the chain like a jump rope, clearing out swaths of zombies. Two or three iterations and he's cleared a path for everyone to walk to the cave's exit unthreatened. Amelia takes the opportunity to use a stolen Cure Moderate Wounds spell that the prelate had metamagicked into a ray to heal Kjolmar while he's smashing zombies, then scurries up the rope ladder so she can detach it before Kjolmar has a chance to come back and pick up Balan's remains in hopes of having his brought back to life. [INDENT] [i]Clever Kjolmar! A ton of Power Attack certainly helped shatter the pitted zombies. I appreciate how he's playing the big tough fighter to the hilt, and hope that the other players pay attention to how play a high-strength, high-constitution warrior.[/i] [/INDENT] At this point, they flee the prison and Steppengard, bypassing the tower in the graveyard and only stapping in Macon long enough for Amelia to pick up some horses. Sadly, Amelia is a poor judge of horseflesh and the horses she gets are basically some leftover nags from the village, although she does manage to wheedle feed for the horses out of the townsfolk. After traveling for the day, they find a barn to sleep in for the night. Amelia tries to amuse herself by reading the notebook left on Balan's body, but has to step outside to vomit because she's so disgusted by what the inquistor did to Balan. [INDENT] [i]I'll post Torrax's notes soon, but I was quite pleased with how appalled Amelia was by the notes.[/i] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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