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<blockquote data-quote="jydog1" data-source="post: 5694141" data-attributes="member: 48156"><p><strong>Session #44 - September 26, 2011 - Yeah, Yeah, Belly of the Beast</strong></p><p></p><p>Notes: Missing one as Reznek's player had to cancel, but it was easy to fit within the framework of our mission. A good, fun session with my character in dire straits and other events unfolding as well. Londis' player has us cracking up all night. As the GM said, "You wield the truth like a big, horrible hammer!" This will probably be a post heavy on OOC.</p><p></p><p>Dinner was GM grilled chicken drumsticks and corn on the cob with cherry pie and homemade apple pie for dessert. Yums all around.</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'Rethen:</p><p></p><p>For one second, I saw the eerie, unearthly beauty of Myrannia that was still obvious despite her less-than-alive condition. </p><p></p><p>Then it all went black. Bloody hell. Blinded again. I heard Euryale yelp in surprise and Reznek yelling, so I knew I wasn't the only one. The ghost continued to berate us, but at least she wasn't attacking.</p><p></p><p>"You failed! You were supposed to stop the keep from falling, and save my beloved, but I was too late and you were too late and it's all your fault!"</p><p></p><p>"No," said Londis gravely, "It's <em>your</em> fault. You failed. You failed at saving your lover. It's not our fault at all. That terrible burden of guilt should fall on you."</p><p></p><p>"No, no!" she wailed. "He is a Tinvalluden, I can sense the taint on him!"</p><p></p><p>"Excuse me," I said in the direction of her voice, "Loric might have sired me, but I'm not his son and he's not my father. It's an accident of blood and nothing more." I sighed, tripping over something as moved in that direction. "As you don't see to be actively trying to destroy us, am I right that there's some we can do to help resolve all this? Is there something we can do to help you?"</p><p></p><p>"Yes, yes, betrayers, you can try to erase your stain and - "</p><p></p><p>"Stop that." Londis sounded like he was scolding a child. "Don't blame others for your failures. Now, your lover was some sort of abomination - an undead one, not a scaly one like Grezz's daughter -"</p><p></p><p>"Hey! Dad, did you hear that?"</p><p></p><p>"- that we, uhm, helped assume a less threatening form. Isn't that a good enough job of putting him to rest?"</p><p></p><p>"No, no, you must bring me his remains, only then can we have peace, only then can my lover be taken care of! You must do this!" She started sobbing again.</p><p></p><p>"Uhm, okay." I cleared my throat. "I can be up to Hook Mountain and back in a few hours, but I kind of need you to remove this blindness and -"</p><p></p><p>"I give you three days to accomplish this task, bring my lover back to me. Three days!"</p><p></p><p>I nodded, shrugged. "Okay. Three days, then." Under my breath I muttered, "Try not to get any more batshit crazy while we're gone."</p><p></p><p>We left her weeping in the glen and found a nervous Timminus waiting for us. "Well, that went better than I thought. Now I've arranged an escort through the swamp and - " he cut off as Londis grabbed him. The pixie turned invisible and the inquisitor's arm shot in multiple directions as it tried to break free. it was unsuccessful. I believe Londis even growled at it. He kept the little jerkweed close at hand.</p><p></p><p>[OOC]I had been willing to send Grezz up alone to quickly retrieve bones, but the GM was too smart to allow that. I'm forgetting way too much of Londis' hysterical conversation with the mad nymph ghost, but we laughed ourselves sick[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>Back in town we had Londis' new cleric heal us up. He had enough memorized to take care of Euryale and myself, but Reznek was going to have to wait until he could rememorize the spell [OOC]and thus an excuse is made to leave a PC behind![/OOC]. Between my fly spells and Londis' griffon - that used to be Tofa's and I just don't go there - we made it to Hook Mountain quickly and were soon inside the main cave. The blue dragon bones had been destroyed, and a closer examination showed that it appeared they had burst from the inside. The floor was covered with reptilian tracks we couldn't identify, and with a measure of caution we headed to the cauldron chamber.</p><p></p><p>The room was completely destroyed, bones strewn everywhere and spoor of some sort littering the place. We used a few spells to find and gather the Commander's bones from the long, large chamber with the large fissure in the ceiling.</p><p></p><p>Then a blue twelve-legged something came in and started rasping at us. It was the size of a puppy and almost cute as it ran over and began gnawing on Tofa's shoe. A few more rolled in and Euryale's face lit up with recognition. "They're behir, Dad. Little ones."</p><p></p><p>"Can you understand what they're saying?"</p><p></p><p>She nodded. "Yeah. They keep saying 'food.'" </p><p></p><p>Oh. A couple dozen more showed up and began to swarm all over Tofa, who grunted in annoyance. There were loud noises behind them. "I think their bigger siblings are coming, Dad."</p><p></p><p>I felt the same way and made a wall of ice through my staff to block the door opening just before two much larger ones arrived. They howled in anger and began blasting lightning at it. Meanwhile the ones on Tofa were staring to do actual damage as she flailed at them. </p><p></p><p>"Tofa! Hold still! I'll get them off of you!"</p><p></p><p>"Da! This would be gudt!"</p><p></p><p>I picked a spot just far enough away from her that the blast from a fireball would crisp the mini behir but barely singe her. In theory. As I started to cast one of the bigger ones blew a hole through the ice and hit me with a lightning bolt, which tickled a little. The fireball was, I must say, perfectly placed, and suddenly there were lots of dead burned critters. Trixie finsihed them off with a gem from her Fireball necklace, the final one she had. The behir on the other side of the ice let out an irritating wail. Next to me Euryale blanched. </p><p></p><p>"They're calling for reinforcements!"</p><p></p><p>Said reinforcement arrived immediately in the form of one ridiculously large behir coming through the fissure [OOC]hey, huge creature! Of COURSE our GM had the exact mini for a huge blue behir[/OOC]. I summoned a rhino and sent it charging in. It took a savage blow but still opened a large rent with its horn. Trixie let loose with her Rod and shot a steady stream of gems into the behir, with a few pinging off the rhino and taking it out. The giant lizard howled in outrage and let a huge bolt of lightning go that hit myself and Euryale. She yelped in pain and even I had felt that one. If only it wasn't lightning resistant! I knew the perfect spell for this situation but it was useless against it [OOC]against almost anything else I would have went with Detonate - 10d8 to the creature and while I take half, I have resist 20 and would have been okay. Instead I made what would prove to be a noble but poorly chosen move decision [/OOC]. Instead I Hasted everyone and ran away from Euryale and Trixie, hoping the monster would fix on me.</p><p></p><p>It did. Oops. Maybe I should have cast Mirror Image instead.</p><p></p><p>I was grabbed and squeezed. Both hurt. A spell of sound rang off the thing, but it grabbed Tofa as well and me, well, it gave me another squeeze when I couldn't break free and tossed me down its throat. </p><p></p><p>I wasn't happy about this at all. Suffice to say the inside of a behir is dark and gross and uncomfortable. I was barely coherent and had no hope of casting a spell in here, so I dug into my haversack with a desperate plan in mind. I'd found what I was after and was about to use it when Hidarga suddenly cut through skin and stomach and whatnot next to my face. I slid out, gasping for breath and gently cupping my unused compressed corrupted water elemental. Damn, that would have been interesting. I bet the eyes would have shot a good 40 feet. </p><p></p><p>We carved the thing up - Euryale had the good idea of saving not only the head, but skinning the whole body for a giant rug in my meeting room. There was also a <em>Decanter of Endless Water</em> in there as well, and Trixie and Tofa began planning tactics and making evil chuckles. We headed back to won, cleaned up, and took the bones to Myrannia, who turned off the 'let's blind the people I need to help me' thing and seemed appeased. She then reincarnated him (!) as a half-elf and named him the new Fey King leader of the Shimmerglens before fading away. A nice gift, I suppose. I opened diplomatic relations as best as I could given the situation, and off we went. </p><p></p><p>I figured it was time to drop in on the cadre of Pathfinder in the Storval Dam and was a little nervous at the sovereignty they seemed to expect. I was willing to let it slide for now because they were powering the dam, but they were also being a bit presumptuous. Then again they had the numbers to be that way, for the moment. </p><p></p><p>Back at home we had a meeting. Londis turned to me and said, "I would like to request a troop of Hellknights. I worry about the Ulfens and that they think themselves an independent nation."</p><p></p><p>"hellknights? Geez. Tofa, do they think that?" I asked.</p><p></p><p>"Da," she said, then held up a hand. "Well, on ships, yes. On land, they should obey laws. Unless they drink. Yhen they will fight and the guards will fight and everyone will have gudt time."</p><p></p><p>"See? Lawless barbarians! I need Hellknights for control."</p><p></p><p>Malgraves leaned over and whispered the mindset of an actual Hellnight to me. I tried not to let the horror show. "Hmm. They might be overkill, Londis, but as we are ruling together it might be worth talking about. Ow!" I glared at Trixie, who had kicked me under the table. 'What?"</p><p></p><p>"You're not 'ruling together,' you dope. You're the freaking <em>Baron</em>, Grezz. Didn't the mayor make that clear?"</p><p></p><p>"Uhm, he said I was the baron and that Londis was the military commander."</p><p></p><p>She gave an exasperated sigh. "Yes, the commander of <em>your</em> military, Grezz. He has to abide by your rulings."</p><p></p><p>"Well, within reason," protested Londis. Still, he didn't make any stronger objections. </p><p></p><p>"Okay. Well then, I'm not excited about the Hellknights. How about other elite troops?" The speed in which he provided other options led me to believe he knew the hellknights were a no go from the beginning. I asked him to step up scouting and patrols to the north and northwest, as I expected giant trouble sooner rather than later. For now I was content to watch the town getting rebuilt and repopulated.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and we also received an invitation to visit Sandpoint as they were planning to unveil a statue of us to commemorate the one year anniversary of us saving the town during the festival. Of course we'll go. What could possibly go wrong?</p><p></p><p>more notes: we made 10th level, so now I must struggle with the selection of my single 5th level spell. 1st option is Summon V (ankylosaurus!) and switching out Summon IV for Stone Shape. 2nd option is just taking a spell like Hold Person, Suffocate, Feeblemind, Teleport, or something else along those lines. Hold Person is the most tempting, but ANKYLOSAURUS!!!! I'm also going to spend my monies on more metamagic rods, probably Intensify and Selective (or even Empower). Or maybe some nice boots. Who knows? It'll take me forever to pick a spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jydog1, post: 5694141, member: 48156"] [b]Session #44 - September 26, 2011 - Yeah, Yeah, Belly of the Beast[/b] Notes: Missing one as Reznek's player had to cancel, but it was easy to fit within the framework of our mission. A good, fun session with my character in dire straits and other events unfolding as well. Londis' player has us cracking up all night. As the GM said, "You wield the truth like a big, horrible hammer!" This will probably be a post heavy on OOC. Dinner was GM grilled chicken drumsticks and corn on the cob with cherry pie and homemade apple pie for dessert. Yums all around. From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'Rethen: For one second, I saw the eerie, unearthly beauty of Myrannia that was still obvious despite her less-than-alive condition. Then it all went black. Bloody hell. Blinded again. I heard Euryale yelp in surprise and Reznek yelling, so I knew I wasn't the only one. The ghost continued to berate us, but at least she wasn't attacking. "You failed! You were supposed to stop the keep from falling, and save my beloved, but I was too late and you were too late and it's all your fault!" "No," said Londis gravely, "It's [I]your[/I] fault. You failed. You failed at saving your lover. It's not our fault at all. That terrible burden of guilt should fall on you." "No, no!" she wailed. "He is a Tinvalluden, I can sense the taint on him!" "Excuse me," I said in the direction of her voice, "Loric might have sired me, but I'm not his son and he's not my father. It's an accident of blood and nothing more." I sighed, tripping over something as moved in that direction. "As you don't see to be actively trying to destroy us, am I right that there's some we can do to help resolve all this? Is there something we can do to help you?" "Yes, yes, betrayers, you can try to erase your stain and - " "Stop that." Londis sounded like he was scolding a child. "Don't blame others for your failures. Now, your lover was some sort of abomination - an undead one, not a scaly one like Grezz's daughter -" "Hey! Dad, did you hear that?" "- that we, uhm, helped assume a less threatening form. Isn't that a good enough job of putting him to rest?" "No, no, you must bring me his remains, only then can we have peace, only then can my lover be taken care of! You must do this!" She started sobbing again. "Uhm, okay." I cleared my throat. "I can be up to Hook Mountain and back in a few hours, but I kind of need you to remove this blindness and -" "I give you three days to accomplish this task, bring my lover back to me. Three days!" I nodded, shrugged. "Okay. Three days, then." Under my breath I muttered, "Try not to get any more batshit crazy while we're gone." We left her weeping in the glen and found a nervous Timminus waiting for us. "Well, that went better than I thought. Now I've arranged an escort through the swamp and - " he cut off as Londis grabbed him. The pixie turned invisible and the inquisitor's arm shot in multiple directions as it tried to break free. it was unsuccessful. I believe Londis even growled at it. He kept the little jerkweed close at hand. [OOC]I had been willing to send Grezz up alone to quickly retrieve bones, but the GM was too smart to allow that. I'm forgetting way too much of Londis' hysterical conversation with the mad nymph ghost, but we laughed ourselves sick[/OOC] Back in town we had Londis' new cleric heal us up. He had enough memorized to take care of Euryale and myself, but Reznek was going to have to wait until he could rememorize the spell [OOC]and thus an excuse is made to leave a PC behind![/OOC]. Between my fly spells and Londis' griffon - that used to be Tofa's and I just don't go there - we made it to Hook Mountain quickly and were soon inside the main cave. The blue dragon bones had been destroyed, and a closer examination showed that it appeared they had burst from the inside. The floor was covered with reptilian tracks we couldn't identify, and with a measure of caution we headed to the cauldron chamber. The room was completely destroyed, bones strewn everywhere and spoor of some sort littering the place. We used a few spells to find and gather the Commander's bones from the long, large chamber with the large fissure in the ceiling. Then a blue twelve-legged something came in and started rasping at us. It was the size of a puppy and almost cute as it ran over and began gnawing on Tofa's shoe. A few more rolled in and Euryale's face lit up with recognition. "They're behir, Dad. Little ones." "Can you understand what they're saying?" She nodded. "Yeah. They keep saying 'food.'" Oh. A couple dozen more showed up and began to swarm all over Tofa, who grunted in annoyance. There were loud noises behind them. "I think their bigger siblings are coming, Dad." I felt the same way and made a wall of ice through my staff to block the door opening just before two much larger ones arrived. They howled in anger and began blasting lightning at it. Meanwhile the ones on Tofa were staring to do actual damage as she flailed at them. "Tofa! Hold still! I'll get them off of you!" "Da! This would be gudt!" I picked a spot just far enough away from her that the blast from a fireball would crisp the mini behir but barely singe her. In theory. As I started to cast one of the bigger ones blew a hole through the ice and hit me with a lightning bolt, which tickled a little. The fireball was, I must say, perfectly placed, and suddenly there were lots of dead burned critters. Trixie finsihed them off with a gem from her Fireball necklace, the final one she had. The behir on the other side of the ice let out an irritating wail. Next to me Euryale blanched. "They're calling for reinforcements!" Said reinforcement arrived immediately in the form of one ridiculously large behir coming through the fissure [OOC]hey, huge creature! Of COURSE our GM had the exact mini for a huge blue behir[/OOC]. I summoned a rhino and sent it charging in. It took a savage blow but still opened a large rent with its horn. Trixie let loose with her Rod and shot a steady stream of gems into the behir, with a few pinging off the rhino and taking it out. The giant lizard howled in outrage and let a huge bolt of lightning go that hit myself and Euryale. She yelped in pain and even I had felt that one. If only it wasn't lightning resistant! I knew the perfect spell for this situation but it was useless against it [OOC]against almost anything else I would have went with Detonate - 10d8 to the creature and while I take half, I have resist 20 and would have been okay. Instead I made what would prove to be a noble but poorly chosen move decision [/OOC]. Instead I Hasted everyone and ran away from Euryale and Trixie, hoping the monster would fix on me. It did. Oops. Maybe I should have cast Mirror Image instead. I was grabbed and squeezed. Both hurt. A spell of sound rang off the thing, but it grabbed Tofa as well and me, well, it gave me another squeeze when I couldn't break free and tossed me down its throat. I wasn't happy about this at all. Suffice to say the inside of a behir is dark and gross and uncomfortable. I was barely coherent and had no hope of casting a spell in here, so I dug into my haversack with a desperate plan in mind. I'd found what I was after and was about to use it when Hidarga suddenly cut through skin and stomach and whatnot next to my face. I slid out, gasping for breath and gently cupping my unused compressed corrupted water elemental. Damn, that would have been interesting. I bet the eyes would have shot a good 40 feet. We carved the thing up - Euryale had the good idea of saving not only the head, but skinning the whole body for a giant rug in my meeting room. There was also a [I]Decanter of Endless Water[/I] in there as well, and Trixie and Tofa began planning tactics and making evil chuckles. We headed back to won, cleaned up, and took the bones to Myrannia, who turned off the 'let's blind the people I need to help me' thing and seemed appeased. She then reincarnated him (!) as a half-elf and named him the new Fey King leader of the Shimmerglens before fading away. A nice gift, I suppose. I opened diplomatic relations as best as I could given the situation, and off we went. I figured it was time to drop in on the cadre of Pathfinder in the Storval Dam and was a little nervous at the sovereignty they seemed to expect. I was willing to let it slide for now because they were powering the dam, but they were also being a bit presumptuous. Then again they had the numbers to be that way, for the moment. Back at home we had a meeting. Londis turned to me and said, "I would like to request a troop of Hellknights. I worry about the Ulfens and that they think themselves an independent nation." "hellknights? Geez. Tofa, do they think that?" I asked. "Da," she said, then held up a hand. "Well, on ships, yes. On land, they should obey laws. Unless they drink. Yhen they will fight and the guards will fight and everyone will have gudt time." "See? Lawless barbarians! I need Hellknights for control." Malgraves leaned over and whispered the mindset of an actual Hellnight to me. I tried not to let the horror show. "Hmm. They might be overkill, Londis, but as we are ruling together it might be worth talking about. Ow!" I glared at Trixie, who had kicked me under the table. 'What?" "You're not 'ruling together,' you dope. You're the freaking [I]Baron[/I], Grezz. Didn't the mayor make that clear?" "Uhm, he said I was the baron and that Londis was the military commander." She gave an exasperated sigh. "Yes, the commander of [I]your[/I] military, Grezz. He has to abide by your rulings." "Well, within reason," protested Londis. Still, he didn't make any stronger objections. "Okay. Well then, I'm not excited about the Hellknights. How about other elite troops?" The speed in which he provided other options led me to believe he knew the hellknights were a no go from the beginning. I asked him to step up scouting and patrols to the north and northwest, as I expected giant trouble sooner rather than later. For now I was content to watch the town getting rebuilt and repopulated. Oh, and we also received an invitation to visit Sandpoint as they were planning to unveil a statue of us to commemorate the one year anniversary of us saving the town during the festival. Of course we'll go. What could possibly go wrong? more notes: we made 10th level, so now I must struggle with the selection of my single 5th level spell. 1st option is Summon V (ankylosaurus!) and switching out Summon IV for Stone Shape. 2nd option is just taking a spell like Hold Person, Suffocate, Feeblemind, Teleport, or something else along those lines. Hold Person is the most tempting, but ANKYLOSAURUS!!!! I'm also going to spend my monies on more metamagic rods, probably Intensify and Selective (or even Empower). Or maybe some nice boots. Who knows? It'll take me forever to pick a spell. [/QUOTE]
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