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<blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1922218" data-attributes="member: 224"><p>More of <span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Session #45</strong>: “All we have to do is follow this path? This’ll be easy!” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Real life: evening of November 24th, 2004</span></p><p></p><p><em>from the Journals of Rowan, Aldersborn</em></p><p></p><p>We moved along the 3 foot-wide corridor. Its floor was carved to look like an ornate carpet, with narrow borders along the side. We all guessed this was the “path” Slythia was talking about. Mor’Elandi took extra time to study it’s pattern and markings – hoping, I guess, that he’ll be able to spot any changes the desecrators of Alderslook may have made. No doubt they’ll try to lead us astray.</p><p></p><p>The hall opened into a semi-circular room with many exits. Four corridors, four doors, and a blank archway directly ahead indicated exits. The path was clear, it went to (and under!) the stone wall and the wall was, we noted, newer than the rest. The arch had been defaced -- all the symbols chiseled away. The rest of the room was similarly defaced, as nearly everything we have encountered here had been. I sometimes wonder what it must have been like before.</p><p></p><p>In any case, our path led through the stone wall. We settled on the stone path to wait as Torsten began bashing through the wall with his adamantine hammer. It took a while, but he got through. Behind the stone wall, there was..... an iron wall. </p><p></p><p>Torsten took a bit longer to get a hole hacked through the iron wall. As he got an opening large enough to see that there was another stone wall behind, a magical rune was exposed...and then everything went dark for me. Tieran also succumbed to the magic. Everyone else resisted its effects.</p><p></p><p>Then Tieran’s spirit seemed to rise from his body. </p><p></p><p>Tieran’s spirit began casting, and was hit by Kytum-up and Mor’Elandi. The spirit lost his spell and Torsten dealt a blow that sent him back to his body. </p><p></p><p>Torsten returned to wall bashing, while the rest tried to bring me around. After awhile I awoke; Tieran took longer. He wasn’t wounded from our battle with his “spirit”, but he did say he had a terrible headache. </p><p></p><p>After Torsten cleared the barriers, we moved into the next room, through a long passageway. This chamber was large, circular, and had corridors leading from all directions. The floor had been chiseled away, the path impossible to see, at least to my eye. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi, however, looked at the floor for a long time. Then, he began to move, following the path that lay beneath the defaced stone floor, somehow, he could still see it, as if the magic of the place were still there, glowing within the stone itself, showing us the path that those who defaced this place had worked so hard to hide. </p><p></p><p>We followed Mor’Elandi through one of the many defaced archways and found ourselves on a wider path, passing through a chasm. The path itself was fifteen feet wide, with steep drops on either side down into magical darkness. The chamber was wide enough that we could not see to the outer walls. We moved forward, glad that the path was wide and easy to traverse, confident that things were finally going well for us. </p><p></p><p>Suddenly, directly in front of Mor’Elandi and Torsten, a huge creature rose out of the rock of the path itself! An Earth Elemental, and a big one at that. Tieran acted first, casting Enlarge on Torsten. The Elemental pushed Mor’Elandi, knocking him prone, though Torsten got a strike in as it went past. Another rose from the walkway, and knocked me back.</p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi regained his feet, even as the elemental struck him. Torsten attacked and connected with one of his attacks, chipping the creature, slightly. I wildshaped into an eagle and took off, moving upward. </p><p></p><p>Tieran cast his Elemental Gem to the ground, calling out the command word as he stepped to the side. An Earth Elemental rose from the gem, this one on our side. It hit the one nearest Tieran. Kytum-up stepped back from the elemental in front of him; his attacks seemed useless. The first elemental struck at our elemental, but missed, the second struck at Kytum-up and also missed. Then <u>another</u> earth elemental appeared and pushed Mor’Elandi off the path. He tumbled down the steep embankment and came to a stop just before impaling himself upon the razor sharp stone spikes that covered the floor of the cavern. </p><p></p><p>He stood, looking up through the murky light and shot an arrow, narrowly missing one of the elementals. Torsten, still above, hit the first elemental four times in rapid succession. A few more chips fell off of it. </p><p></p><p>Flying above, I began casting, planning to begin raining lightning bolts down. Tieran cast greater invisibility on himself and Kytum-up missed on his attack as our elemental smacked the newly arrived one. </p><p></p><p>Torsten and one of the elementals traded blows. Meanwhile our elemental was being pounded by one of the others and the third hostile one tried to bull rush Kytum-up off the path. He failed, the little Kobold standing resolute on the path. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi took a five foot step along the base of the path, trying to find the right angle to shoot from. Torsten, with a mighty effort, attacked the one he was fighting and it crumbled into a pile of rock and earth. I flew over and hit the one at the rear with a lightning bolt. Our earth elemental was able to take the second hostile one down. There was one left. Kytum-up hit the third and moved away.</p><p></p><p>The remaining hostile elemental attacked ours and hit it with mighty blows. </p><p></p><p>I was still flying and heard the sound of wind right before a whirlwind nearly sucked me up. Another large elemental, this one of air, was moving toward the group on the bridge. Tieran threw a <em>thunderball</em> at it, but it kept coming. Meanwhile the earth elemental pushed Kytum-up off the path, sending him tumbling down the bank on the opposite side from Mor’Elandi. Torsten hit that elemental hard, I threw lightning at it, while Tieran cast magic missiles into it. It crumbled under our combined effort. </p><p></p><p>Kytum-up picked himself up and, drawing his crossbow, moved in the direction we had been moving, paralleling the path. </p><p></p><p>The air elemental sucked up Torsten and the still-invisible Tieran and began whirling them around. Then Mor’Elandi, with three well placed arrows, destroyed the air elemental. </p><p></p><p>Torsten pulled Mor’Elandi and Kytum-up back onto the path and we moved forward again, alert to any further attack. None came, but we did come to an area where a fifteen foot chunk of the path was gone. </p><p></p><p>I flew over, Torsten jumped. The rest crossed with ropes and Torsten’s help. There was some talk of tossing Tieran across, since he is so small now (a gnome!), but he chose to cross via the rope instead. We moved through a narrow corridor to the next room. </p><p></p><p>After we crossed the gap in the walkway, we noticed that nothing on this side was defaced. I turned back to human form, since we still have that communication problem when I’m an animal. </p><p></p><p>The path was clear in this room, a raised stone walkway leading through a roughly rectangular chamber. The walls were covered with arcane symbols. Tieran followed us, trying not to look at the symbols, but still seeing the powerful spells inscribed into the walls. A few hours of study would teach him so much, he muttered. ....But we moved on though, none of us deviating from our task. As we left the room, I heard a sigh from Tieran and a whispered comment about returning. </p><p></p><p>As we moved along, through another corridor, narrow with a low ceiling, we saw light ahead. As we drew closer, the light grew brighter. Soon, we were aware that there was a large light source ahead in the room we were approaching. From the flickering, it looked like fire. </p><p></p><p>We could see a door on the far side of the room as we moved to the door of the fire-lit room. The path turned left, following the left-hand wall. The door out of the room was straight ahead...I guess if we had left the path, we could get through the room more quickly....so much for the quick and easy way. </p><p></p><p>We moved into the room, following the path. In the center of the room stood a woman made of fire. A fire elemental we thought. She spoke as we came in, first in Celestial, then in Common: “Come in, come in! We should talk.” Her voice was the whisper of flame. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi cast protection from fire on himself. The rest of us, foolishly, did not.</p><p></p><p>“Now,” the flame-woman continued “there’s no need for any of that! I have much to offer you. I could infuse your weapons with power—come here and I’ll show you!”</p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi looked over and asked if she could come to us, on the path. She moved to stand near him, as he stood on the path. She spoke to him, trying to convince him that we can help one another. She would give us power, for our weapons, improving our armor, and in return, some day in the future, we would owe her a favor. Mor’Elandi began to move on, followed by Torsten and the rest of us in turn. The woman, her name was Feirvida, REALLY wanted to help us though. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi, sensing danger, moved quickly, reaching the far door via the path very quickly. Feirvida looked at Torsten and informed him that she was going to help him. Suddenly, his hammer seemed to have a mind of its own and hit him. </p><p></p><p>I ran then, trying to make the door. Feirvida wanted to help me as well and she hit me and I caught on fire. Tieran, who was now invisible, moved behind me, but she clearly knew where he was and hit him too. Invisible people are much easier to see when they are on fire. </p><p></p><p>Kytum-up moved then, and Feirvida missed him. Torsten struggled as he moved, dragging his recalcitrant weapon along with him. Feirvida hit him, but his clothing proved resistant to the fire. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi fired three arrows at Feirvida, missing with all three. She moved forward to forcibly enchant Kytum-up’s items. He deftly dodged her, so then she attacked me and Tieran. She hit both of us. Tieran, casting defensively, teleported to an area just behind Mor’Elandi, on the path outside Feirvida’s room. I ran, taking another hit from Feirvida, but I got out of the room. </p><p></p><p>Torsten was still fighting his weapon for control, but he moved and managed to avoid her attacks. Kytum-up moved quickly out of the room. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi moved out of the room and began helping Tieran put out the flames on his robes and hair. I put out the flames on myself, then moved on farther down the corridor. Feirvida sent flames into the corridor, starting Tieran on fire again. Tieran slumped to the floor, but Kytum-up was near and was able to stabilize him and while Mor’Elandi put out the flames. </p><p></p><p>Torsten moved out of the room as well, regaining control of his weapon as he moved out of the room. We heard Feirvida give a scream of rage as we all left. </p><p></p><p>We found a relatively safe area of hallway and set up a sort of camp. We needed to rest and we needed to get ourselves healed before we could handle any more of the denizens of Alder’s Look. </p><p></p><p><strong>August 15th</strong></p><p>We rested for the day, spending most of our time in sleep or meditation. We needed a lot of healing. </p><p></p><p><strong>August 16th</strong></p><p>We moved on, healed and ready to see what lay in store for us. </p><p></p><p>Ahead of us, we saw a split in the path. It moved around something, a small island in the center of the two halves, like a road cut around a tree. In the center, on a small stone platform stood a medium size figure. He looked like a muscular human, but from the waist down he seemed to be made out of wintry winds and blowing snow. Tieran whispered that this was a Djinni, from some elemental plane of cold. Very dangerous.</p><p></p><p>The djinni asked us to help him. He said that he had been there for quite a long time and would be grateful if we would free him. He said that he would grant each of us a wish if we would do it. </p><p></p><p>The only catch: to free him one of us would have to step off the path. Uh-huh.</p><p></p><p>Tieran and Torsten began discussing ways to free him without stepping off the path. Menawhile Torsten talked with the Djinni, who said that he had been bound here by three mages, long, long ago. He didn’t know how long; he lost track after the first thousand years. He had no great regard for Slythia, though he did know she was dead. </p><p></p><p>We felt sorry for him, but in the end, we needed to move on, to hew to our purpose which was the path. We promised to come back, if we could to help him. He did not think we could, but we will try. </p><p></p><p>We moved past him and into another narrow, tunnel-like corridor. </p><p></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>End of Session #45</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nail, post: 1922218, member: 224"] More of [size=3][b]Session #45[/b]: “All we have to do is follow this path? This’ll be easy!” [/size] [size=1]Real life: evening of November 24th, 2004[/size] [i]from the Journals of Rowan, Aldersborn[/i] We moved along the 3 foot-wide corridor. Its floor was carved to look like an ornate carpet, with narrow borders along the side. We all guessed this was the “path” Slythia was talking about. Mor’Elandi took extra time to study it’s pattern and markings – hoping, I guess, that he’ll be able to spot any changes the desecrators of Alderslook may have made. No doubt they’ll try to lead us astray. The hall opened into a semi-circular room with many exits. Four corridors, four doors, and a blank archway directly ahead indicated exits. The path was clear, it went to (and under!) the stone wall and the wall was, we noted, newer than the rest. The arch had been defaced -- all the symbols chiseled away. The rest of the room was similarly defaced, as nearly everything we have encountered here had been. I sometimes wonder what it must have been like before. In any case, our path led through the stone wall. We settled on the stone path to wait as Torsten began bashing through the wall with his adamantine hammer. It took a while, but he got through. Behind the stone wall, there was..... an iron wall. Torsten took a bit longer to get a hole hacked through the iron wall. As he got an opening large enough to see that there was another stone wall behind, a magical rune was exposed...and then everything went dark for me. Tieran also succumbed to the magic. Everyone else resisted its effects. Then Tieran’s spirit seemed to rise from his body. Tieran’s spirit began casting, and was hit by Kytum-up and Mor’Elandi. The spirit lost his spell and Torsten dealt a blow that sent him back to his body. Torsten returned to wall bashing, while the rest tried to bring me around. After awhile I awoke; Tieran took longer. He wasn’t wounded from our battle with his “spirit”, but he did say he had a terrible headache. After Torsten cleared the barriers, we moved into the next room, through a long passageway. This chamber was large, circular, and had corridors leading from all directions. The floor had been chiseled away, the path impossible to see, at least to my eye. Mor’Elandi, however, looked at the floor for a long time. Then, he began to move, following the path that lay beneath the defaced stone floor, somehow, he could still see it, as if the magic of the place were still there, glowing within the stone itself, showing us the path that those who defaced this place had worked so hard to hide. We followed Mor’Elandi through one of the many defaced archways and found ourselves on a wider path, passing through a chasm. The path itself was fifteen feet wide, with steep drops on either side down into magical darkness. The chamber was wide enough that we could not see to the outer walls. We moved forward, glad that the path was wide and easy to traverse, confident that things were finally going well for us. Suddenly, directly in front of Mor’Elandi and Torsten, a huge creature rose out of the rock of the path itself! An Earth Elemental, and a big one at that. Tieran acted first, casting Enlarge on Torsten. The Elemental pushed Mor’Elandi, knocking him prone, though Torsten got a strike in as it went past. Another rose from the walkway, and knocked me back. Mor’Elandi regained his feet, even as the elemental struck him. Torsten attacked and connected with one of his attacks, chipping the creature, slightly. I wildshaped into an eagle and took off, moving upward. Tieran cast his Elemental Gem to the ground, calling out the command word as he stepped to the side. An Earth Elemental rose from the gem, this one on our side. It hit the one nearest Tieran. Kytum-up stepped back from the elemental in front of him; his attacks seemed useless. The first elemental struck at our elemental, but missed, the second struck at Kytum-up and also missed. Then [u]another[/u] earth elemental appeared and pushed Mor’Elandi off the path. He tumbled down the steep embankment and came to a stop just before impaling himself upon the razor sharp stone spikes that covered the floor of the cavern. He stood, looking up through the murky light and shot an arrow, narrowly missing one of the elementals. Torsten, still above, hit the first elemental four times in rapid succession. A few more chips fell off of it. Flying above, I began casting, planning to begin raining lightning bolts down. Tieran cast greater invisibility on himself and Kytum-up missed on his attack as our elemental smacked the newly arrived one. Torsten and one of the elementals traded blows. Meanwhile our elemental was being pounded by one of the others and the third hostile one tried to bull rush Kytum-up off the path. He failed, the little Kobold standing resolute on the path. Mor’Elandi took a five foot step along the base of the path, trying to find the right angle to shoot from. Torsten, with a mighty effort, attacked the one he was fighting and it crumbled into a pile of rock and earth. I flew over and hit the one at the rear with a lightning bolt. Our earth elemental was able to take the second hostile one down. There was one left. Kytum-up hit the third and moved away. The remaining hostile elemental attacked ours and hit it with mighty blows. I was still flying and heard the sound of wind right before a whirlwind nearly sucked me up. Another large elemental, this one of air, was moving toward the group on the bridge. Tieran threw a [i]thunderball[/i] at it, but it kept coming. Meanwhile the earth elemental pushed Kytum-up off the path, sending him tumbling down the bank on the opposite side from Mor’Elandi. Torsten hit that elemental hard, I threw lightning at it, while Tieran cast magic missiles into it. It crumbled under our combined effort. Kytum-up picked himself up and, drawing his crossbow, moved in the direction we had been moving, paralleling the path. The air elemental sucked up Torsten and the still-invisible Tieran and began whirling them around. Then Mor’Elandi, with three well placed arrows, destroyed the air elemental. Torsten pulled Mor’Elandi and Kytum-up back onto the path and we moved forward again, alert to any further attack. None came, but we did come to an area where a fifteen foot chunk of the path was gone. I flew over, Torsten jumped. The rest crossed with ropes and Torsten’s help. There was some talk of tossing Tieran across, since he is so small now (a gnome!), but he chose to cross via the rope instead. We moved through a narrow corridor to the next room. After we crossed the gap in the walkway, we noticed that nothing on this side was defaced. I turned back to human form, since we still have that communication problem when I’m an animal. The path was clear in this room, a raised stone walkway leading through a roughly rectangular chamber. The walls were covered with arcane symbols. Tieran followed us, trying not to look at the symbols, but still seeing the powerful spells inscribed into the walls. A few hours of study would teach him so much, he muttered. ....But we moved on though, none of us deviating from our task. As we left the room, I heard a sigh from Tieran and a whispered comment about returning. As we moved along, through another corridor, narrow with a low ceiling, we saw light ahead. As we drew closer, the light grew brighter. Soon, we were aware that there was a large light source ahead in the room we were approaching. From the flickering, it looked like fire. We could see a door on the far side of the room as we moved to the door of the fire-lit room. The path turned left, following the left-hand wall. The door out of the room was straight ahead...I guess if we had left the path, we could get through the room more quickly....so much for the quick and easy way. We moved into the room, following the path. In the center of the room stood a woman made of fire. A fire elemental we thought. She spoke as we came in, first in Celestial, then in Common: “Come in, come in! We should talk.” Her voice was the whisper of flame. Mor’Elandi cast protection from fire on himself. The rest of us, foolishly, did not. “Now,” the flame-woman continued “there’s no need for any of that! I have much to offer you. I could infuse your weapons with power—come here and I’ll show you!” Mor’Elandi looked over and asked if she could come to us, on the path. She moved to stand near him, as he stood on the path. She spoke to him, trying to convince him that we can help one another. She would give us power, for our weapons, improving our armor, and in return, some day in the future, we would owe her a favor. Mor’Elandi began to move on, followed by Torsten and the rest of us in turn. The woman, her name was Feirvida, REALLY wanted to help us though. Mor’Elandi, sensing danger, moved quickly, reaching the far door via the path very quickly. Feirvida looked at Torsten and informed him that she was going to help him. Suddenly, his hammer seemed to have a mind of its own and hit him. I ran then, trying to make the door. Feirvida wanted to help me as well and she hit me and I caught on fire. Tieran, who was now invisible, moved behind me, but she clearly knew where he was and hit him too. Invisible people are much easier to see when they are on fire. Kytum-up moved then, and Feirvida missed him. Torsten struggled as he moved, dragging his recalcitrant weapon along with him. Feirvida hit him, but his clothing proved resistant to the fire. Mor’Elandi fired three arrows at Feirvida, missing with all three. She moved forward to forcibly enchant Kytum-up’s items. He deftly dodged her, so then she attacked me and Tieran. She hit both of us. Tieran, casting defensively, teleported to an area just behind Mor’Elandi, on the path outside Feirvida’s room. I ran, taking another hit from Feirvida, but I got out of the room. Torsten was still fighting his weapon for control, but he moved and managed to avoid her attacks. Kytum-up moved quickly out of the room. Mor’Elandi moved out of the room and began helping Tieran put out the flames on his robes and hair. I put out the flames on myself, then moved on farther down the corridor. Feirvida sent flames into the corridor, starting Tieran on fire again. Tieran slumped to the floor, but Kytum-up was near and was able to stabilize him and while Mor’Elandi put out the flames. Torsten moved out of the room as well, regaining control of his weapon as he moved out of the room. We heard Feirvida give a scream of rage as we all left. We found a relatively safe area of hallway and set up a sort of camp. We needed to rest and we needed to get ourselves healed before we could handle any more of the denizens of Alder’s Look. [b]August 15th[/b] We rested for the day, spending most of our time in sleep or meditation. We needed a lot of healing. [b]August 16th[/b] We moved on, healed and ready to see what lay in store for us. Ahead of us, we saw a split in the path. It moved around something, a small island in the center of the two halves, like a road cut around a tree. In the center, on a small stone platform stood a medium size figure. He looked like a muscular human, but from the waist down he seemed to be made out of wintry winds and blowing snow. Tieran whispered that this was a Djinni, from some elemental plane of cold. Very dangerous. The djinni asked us to help him. He said that he had been there for quite a long time and would be grateful if we would free him. He said that he would grant each of us a wish if we would do it. The only catch: to free him one of us would have to step off the path. Uh-huh. Tieran and Torsten began discussing ways to free him without stepping off the path. Menawhile Torsten talked with the Djinni, who said that he had been bound here by three mages, long, long ago. He didn’t know how long; he lost track after the first thousand years. He had no great regard for Slythia, though he did know she was dead. We felt sorry for him, but in the end, we needed to move on, to hew to our purpose which was the path. We promised to come back, if we could to help him. He did not think we could, but we will try. We moved past him and into another narrow, tunnel-like corridor. [size=2][b]End of Session #45[/b][/size] [/QUOTE]
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