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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3329644" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 13: Defeating the Vecna Temple</strong></p><p></p><p><em>10th - 12th of Flocktime</em>. Alexander spent time crafting magical items (a wand and 3 scrolls). Others in the party spent time selling swag captured from the Erythnul temple in town. When Krastor the judge and cleric of Pelor learns that the party is back in town, he tracked them down for a status report. He asked them how things were going down in the mine and seemed pleased to learn about the party's success against the temple of Erythnul . He encouraged the party to continue destroying the evil cultists, but asked that they not leave town without contacting him first. He explained that he might need the some of the party members' testimony in the three ongoing trials he was presiding over (Filge, Smenk, and Dourstone). Alexander and Tarric placed orders for masterwork gloves and boots (respectively). Venelle told them that it will take about a week to fill the orders (which were pre-payed).</p><p> </p><p> <em>13th of Flocktime</em>. The party chose to descend back down to the evil temple complex about 2 hours before dusk. Killick saw that the Vecna door had been opened since the party left last time. Katawan entered the Erythnul temple and verified that the grimlock corpses were still where the party left them. After some listening and checking for traps, Alees was able to pick the lock on the Vecna temple door (just barely). This led to a short passage with a wooden door at the end. After more checking and listening, this door was opened, and the party filed into a 5 foot wide hallway. Thorash noticed that the high-quality stone masonry in this area is similar to the masonry in the Cathedral area. He concluded that the Vecna temple and the Cathedral were constructed at the same time, and the Hextor and Erythnul temples were added on later.</p><p></p><p> After a bit of exploring in the winding, labyrinthine passages, the party heard some mammalian squealing from two directions. A few seconds later, DIRE WEASELS emerged from the darkness to attack the party. As the party engaged them, walking bird men (known as KENKU) emerged from out of nowhere to attack the party. Sometimes they seem to come from areas that the party thought they had already cleared. The attack split the party in thirds with Killick and Katawan on the left side, Tarric and Thorash in the middle, and Alexander and Alees on the right. One of the DIRE WEASELS latched onto Killick and tries to rip his throat out, but Killick killed it before it was able to succeed. Tarric was faring well against the KENKU he faced and found himself looking for enemies to fight. Thorash got flanked by them. Alees got shot at by one of them. Suddenly a KENKU BOSS and a KENKU SORCEROR showed up from an area the party thought it had already explored on the party's right flank. The BOSS tore a bead off his necklace and threw it at Alexander and Alees, causing a fiery explosion. Alexander was hurt but Alees was unsinged. Then the SORCEROR smashed a feather token that turned into a disembodied whip which slashed at Alexander and got a tight grip on him that held him immobile. All of the KENKU had a visible shield of force (Shield of Faith) in front of them as they fought, and many of them threw Alchemist Fire at party members when at short range. When the whip constricted Alexander again, he fell unconscious. But the sorceror and the whip mysteriously moved away. Then the BOSS threw another (smaller, less powerful) bead of fireball at Alexander and Alees, causing Alexander further damage. Slowly, the other two fronts of the battle begin to get the upper hand over their KENKU opponents and started coming to Alees and Alexander's aid. Thorash and Katawan arrived first, followed by Tarric and Killick.</p><p></p><p> Katawan and Killick fought on opposite sides of the BOSS, trapping him. The BOSS exploded another fireball at his own feet, but no one took any damage this time. The SORCEROR reappeared and cast Grease at an intersection 10 feet in front of him. And the whip grabbed Alees. Alees broke out and slid Alexander out of the Greased area. Tarric moved across the Grease to threaten the SORCEROR. The SORC tried casting magic missile at Tarric, but his Brooch of Shielding absorbed the hit. Later, the SORC moved away from Tarric and casts Magic Missile at Thorash. At this point the BOSS was finally killed by Katawan, and the SORC was all alone trapped in a corner. He got off another Magic Missile at Alexander (ineffective due to Alexander's Shield), and yet another at Katawan, before finally succumbing to Alexander's Magic Missiles. While the rest of the party finished off the SORC, Thorash went around a corner to retrieve the BOSS's necklace. Thorash found it empty of beads. When Katawan joined him a couple rounds later, the KENKU BOSS's corpse appeared significantly different from the way he had left it. The corpse appeared desiccated.</p><p></p><p> With the fight over, the party looted the dead bodies and explored the labyrinth more systematically. The party eventually found two nest-rooms for the KENKU that contained a total of 600 gp as well as a pair of magical contact lenses. The desiccated body of the KENKU BOSS was found wearing masterwork studded leather and a masterwork light crossbow. The only thing of his that glowed magical were the three bottles of ointment that he was carrying on his belt.</p><p></p><p> While Thorash was praying to renew his spells (at dusk), Killick and Alees discovered 3 secret doors on the far labyrinth wall. They think a retreating KENKU might have gone through the door on the left, so at first the party went through that door. Thei found a storage room, filled with barrels and crates all bearing the mark of Smenk's Feral Dog tavern. When the party heard some kind of voice on the other side of the far door, they chose to attack from another direction. The entered the middle secret door and launched an attack. Tarric and Katawan were the first ones into a long room with pillars in the middle. The pillars were made of a strange marble whose green veins that seem to move and throb. The walls were a grey marble with large round protruding bumps at irregular intervals. When Katawan moved far enough to see through a 10 foot wide doorway into the Inner Sanctum, a VECNA ACOLYTE cast Web to keep him from moving any farther. Tarric opened another door into the Inner Sanctum, and the second VECNA ACOLYTE failed to hit him with a Scorching Ray. Moments later, the second ACOLYTE cast Web on the second doorway. Meanwhile, an ALLIP moved out of a wall to attack Katawan while he was stuck. Katawan smashed a flask of Alchemist Fire he had picked up from a dead Kenku in order to slowly burn his way out of the Web. While he waited for the web to burn away, he suffered multiple hits from the ALLIP that drained his Wisdom. A FIENDISH MONSTROUS CENTIPEDE emerged from the far side of the room to protect the ACOLYTES.</p><p> </p><p> The CENTIPEDE was dispatched quickly. Just then, the rest of the party heard the Allip mumbling. Tarric and Alexander were hypnotized by its insane ramblings. Meanwhile, Killick and Alees were stunned by 2 Color Sprays cast by the ACOLYTES. The last KENKU found the courage to return to the fight while 4 of the party members were stunned or hypnotized, and it commenced beating on defenseless Tarric. Another FIENDISH MONSTROUS CENTIPEDE appeared and joined the fight. By now, Katawan was free from the web that had trapped him at the beginning of the combat. He and Killick teamed up to flank the enormous magical insect. Eventually, the ACOLYTES had expended their magic and were reduced to attacking with daggers. They begged their master loudly to assist them, but a voice in another room just laughed. Alexander awoke from his hypnosis and ran in to a back room to confront the source of the laughter. It was the man described by Smenk as the FACELESS ONE. Alexander cast a Fireball that the Faceless One shrugged off. He replied with a Lightning Bolt of his own. After getting the worse of the magical exchange, Alexander moved away. The FACELESS ONE cast Web into the Inner Sanctum, immobilizing many of the party members. Katawan and Alees both used flasks of Alchemist Fire to burn the web away. The FACELESS ONE cast a Flaming Sphere at Katawan's feet, but he was able to avoid it rather easily. However, Tarric was hit by the Flaming Sphere as he moved to attack the FACELESS ONE. Katawan also move in to provide a flank for him. Thorash cast Hold Person and Cause Fear. Neither spell is effective against the Faceless One, who combat casts Lighting Bolt from a scroll, dropping Thorash. (Meanwhile, Alexander has destroyed the ALLIP with Magic Missiles from his wand.)</p><p></p><p> Realizing his danger, the FACELESS ONE tried to baracade himself in a laboratory behind the Inner Sanctum, but Katawan forced his way in. Alexander entered from the opposite side of the room and dropped the FACELESS ONE with Magic Missiles to the back (his non-Shielded side). With his parting words, the FACELESS ONE suggested that by killing him, the party had ensured the final triumph of the Ebon Triad. (Meanwhile, Killick stabilized Thorash with a Goodberry.) As life left the FACELESS ONE's broken body, the party felt a tremor in the earth. Something was happening! Quickly, Alees picked up the Wand of Cure Light and healed Thorash. Then Alees went off looking for things she could loot quickly. The rest of the party was concerned about the minor earthquake and the ominous warning given by the FACELESS ONE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3329644, member: 8951"] [b]Session 13: Defeating the Vecna Temple[/b] [I]10th - 12th of Flocktime[/I]. Alexander spent time crafting magical items (a wand and 3 scrolls). Others in the party spent time selling swag captured from the Erythnul temple in town. When Krastor the judge and cleric of Pelor learns that the party is back in town, he tracked them down for a status report. He asked them how things were going down in the mine and seemed pleased to learn about the party's success against the temple of Erythnul . He encouraged the party to continue destroying the evil cultists, but asked that they not leave town without contacting him first. He explained that he might need the some of the party members' testimony in the three ongoing trials he was presiding over (Filge, Smenk, and Dourstone). Alexander and Tarric placed orders for masterwork gloves and boots (respectively). Venelle told them that it will take about a week to fill the orders (which were pre-payed). [I]13th of Flocktime[/I]. The party chose to descend back down to the evil temple complex about 2 hours before dusk. Killick saw that the Vecna door had been opened since the party left last time. Katawan entered the Erythnul temple and verified that the grimlock corpses were still where the party left them. After some listening and checking for traps, Alees was able to pick the lock on the Vecna temple door (just barely). This led to a short passage with a wooden door at the end. After more checking and listening, this door was opened, and the party filed into a 5 foot wide hallway. Thorash noticed that the high-quality stone masonry in this area is similar to the masonry in the Cathedral area. He concluded that the Vecna temple and the Cathedral were constructed at the same time, and the Hextor and Erythnul temples were added on later. After a bit of exploring in the winding, labyrinthine passages, the party heard some mammalian squealing from two directions. A few seconds later, DIRE WEASELS emerged from the darkness to attack the party. As the party engaged them, walking bird men (known as KENKU) emerged from out of nowhere to attack the party. Sometimes they seem to come from areas that the party thought they had already cleared. The attack split the party in thirds with Killick and Katawan on the left side, Tarric and Thorash in the middle, and Alexander and Alees on the right. One of the DIRE WEASELS latched onto Killick and tries to rip his throat out, but Killick killed it before it was able to succeed. Tarric was faring well against the KENKU he faced and found himself looking for enemies to fight. Thorash got flanked by them. Alees got shot at by one of them. Suddenly a KENKU BOSS and a KENKU SORCEROR showed up from an area the party thought it had already explored on the party's right flank. The BOSS tore a bead off his necklace and threw it at Alexander and Alees, causing a fiery explosion. Alexander was hurt but Alees was unsinged. Then the SORCEROR smashed a feather token that turned into a disembodied whip which slashed at Alexander and got a tight grip on him that held him immobile. All of the KENKU had a visible shield of force (Shield of Faith) in front of them as they fought, and many of them threw Alchemist Fire at party members when at short range. When the whip constricted Alexander again, he fell unconscious. But the sorceror and the whip mysteriously moved away. Then the BOSS threw another (smaller, less powerful) bead of fireball at Alexander and Alees, causing Alexander further damage. Slowly, the other two fronts of the battle begin to get the upper hand over their KENKU opponents and started coming to Alees and Alexander's aid. Thorash and Katawan arrived first, followed by Tarric and Killick. Katawan and Killick fought on opposite sides of the BOSS, trapping him. The BOSS exploded another fireball at his own feet, but no one took any damage this time. The SORCEROR reappeared and cast Grease at an intersection 10 feet in front of him. And the whip grabbed Alees. Alees broke out and slid Alexander out of the Greased area. Tarric moved across the Grease to threaten the SORCEROR. The SORC tried casting magic missile at Tarric, but his Brooch of Shielding absorbed the hit. Later, the SORC moved away from Tarric and casts Magic Missile at Thorash. At this point the BOSS was finally killed by Katawan, and the SORC was all alone trapped in a corner. He got off another Magic Missile at Alexander (ineffective due to Alexander's Shield), and yet another at Katawan, before finally succumbing to Alexander's Magic Missiles. While the rest of the party finished off the SORC, Thorash went around a corner to retrieve the BOSS's necklace. Thorash found it empty of beads. When Katawan joined him a couple rounds later, the KENKU BOSS's corpse appeared significantly different from the way he had left it. The corpse appeared desiccated. With the fight over, the party looted the dead bodies and explored the labyrinth more systematically. The party eventually found two nest-rooms for the KENKU that contained a total of 600 gp as well as a pair of magical contact lenses. The desiccated body of the KENKU BOSS was found wearing masterwork studded leather and a masterwork light crossbow. The only thing of his that glowed magical were the three bottles of ointment that he was carrying on his belt. While Thorash was praying to renew his spells (at dusk), Killick and Alees discovered 3 secret doors on the far labyrinth wall. They think a retreating KENKU might have gone through the door on the left, so at first the party went through that door. Thei found a storage room, filled with barrels and crates all bearing the mark of Smenk's Feral Dog tavern. When the party heard some kind of voice on the other side of the far door, they chose to attack from another direction. The entered the middle secret door and launched an attack. Tarric and Katawan were the first ones into a long room with pillars in the middle. The pillars were made of a strange marble whose green veins that seem to move and throb. The walls were a grey marble with large round protruding bumps at irregular intervals. When Katawan moved far enough to see through a 10 foot wide doorway into the Inner Sanctum, a VECNA ACOLYTE cast Web to keep him from moving any farther. Tarric opened another door into the Inner Sanctum, and the second VECNA ACOLYTE failed to hit him with a Scorching Ray. Moments later, the second ACOLYTE cast Web on the second doorway. Meanwhile, an ALLIP moved out of a wall to attack Katawan while he was stuck. Katawan smashed a flask of Alchemist Fire he had picked up from a dead Kenku in order to slowly burn his way out of the Web. While he waited for the web to burn away, he suffered multiple hits from the ALLIP that drained his Wisdom. A FIENDISH MONSTROUS CENTIPEDE emerged from the far side of the room to protect the ACOLYTES. The CENTIPEDE was dispatched quickly. Just then, the rest of the party heard the Allip mumbling. Tarric and Alexander were hypnotized by its insane ramblings. Meanwhile, Killick and Alees were stunned by 2 Color Sprays cast by the ACOLYTES. The last KENKU found the courage to return to the fight while 4 of the party members were stunned or hypnotized, and it commenced beating on defenseless Tarric. Another FIENDISH MONSTROUS CENTIPEDE appeared and joined the fight. By now, Katawan was free from the web that had trapped him at the beginning of the combat. He and Killick teamed up to flank the enormous magical insect. Eventually, the ACOLYTES had expended their magic and were reduced to attacking with daggers. They begged their master loudly to assist them, but a voice in another room just laughed. Alexander awoke from his hypnosis and ran in to a back room to confront the source of the laughter. It was the man described by Smenk as the FACELESS ONE. Alexander cast a Fireball that the Faceless One shrugged off. He replied with a Lightning Bolt of his own. After getting the worse of the magical exchange, Alexander moved away. The FACELESS ONE cast Web into the Inner Sanctum, immobilizing many of the party members. Katawan and Alees both used flasks of Alchemist Fire to burn the web away. The FACELESS ONE cast a Flaming Sphere at Katawan's feet, but he was able to avoid it rather easily. However, Tarric was hit by the Flaming Sphere as he moved to attack the FACELESS ONE. Katawan also move in to provide a flank for him. Thorash cast Hold Person and Cause Fear. Neither spell is effective against the Faceless One, who combat casts Lighting Bolt from a scroll, dropping Thorash. (Meanwhile, Alexander has destroyed the ALLIP with Magic Missiles from his wand.) Realizing his danger, the FACELESS ONE tried to baracade himself in a laboratory behind the Inner Sanctum, but Katawan forced his way in. Alexander entered from the opposite side of the room and dropped the FACELESS ONE with Magic Missiles to the back (his non-Shielded side). With his parting words, the FACELESS ONE suggested that by killing him, the party had ensured the final triumph of the Ebon Triad. (Meanwhile, Killick stabilized Thorash with a Goodberry.) As life left the FACELESS ONE's broken body, the party felt a tremor in the earth. Something was happening! Quickly, Alees picked up the Wand of Cure Light and healed Thorash. Then Alees went off looking for things she could loot quickly. The rest of the party was concerned about the minor earthquake and the ominous warning given by the FACELESS ONE. [/QUOTE]
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