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<blockquote data-quote="jydog1" data-source="post: 5785116" data-attributes="member: 48156"><p><strong>Session 51 - January 16, 2012 - Elementary, My Dear Grezzalik</strong></p><p></p><p>notes: nothing motivates this group like treasure. There was some Grezz heroics (heroics = stupidity) and elementals galore. The conversation between Trixie and Grezz was actually conducted (more or less) between myself and Trixie's player the next day on IM, which speaks volumes about our productivity levels at work. Linc's player is fitting in rather well and starting to assert himself into the group dynamic a bit more. We've made it to 11th level and at least one excruciating choice is being made for me due to the NPC shuffle. Still plenty to agonize over.</p><p></p><p>I'd also like to say how very, very nice it is to find the d20 that won the roll-off from the pound o' dice (it appears the Gorram Cat had taken it as a toy) as my rolling was disturbingly good. Dinner was GM made Irish Sausage and Potatoes (and bacon) which was pretty damn good.</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'Rethen:</p><p></p><p>For fook's sake, will I ever understand women?</p><p></p><p>After resting up, we backtracked toward the chasm. Along the way we found the back door, so to speak, and I was falling more and more in love with the idea of claiming this place for myself after all this was done. Once we reached the chasm i volunteered to be the scout, so to speak, as Trixie took one look down and said, "yeah, I've already done my turn of 'Okay, I'll go up there where it should be safe' for the day." She did cast <em>Heroism</em> on me as I buffed up with a number of spells, including <em>Mirror Image</em>. Londis gave (!) me the Pathfinder Compass, which instantly allowed me to see in the dark. That made it easy to see as he glowered at me and said, "Don't lose that."</p><p></p><p>I descended with the aid of a <em>Fly</em> spell until i reached a point where the dark out darked my Darkvision. I did a little magic detecting [OOC]the first of a couple of natural 20s for the night[/OOC] and was able to blunder over to a big sphere known as a Black Luminescence. Once I turned that off I was able to look down and see a bright glow below. As I got closer it got hotter, and I realized it was a lake of boiling or near boiling water.</p><p></p><p>You know, i think that gargoyle who threw me in here meant me no good.</p><p></p><p>I flew down to the lake, which was part of a large cave, about 300 feet across. Lava was bubbling up in the middle, and beyond that was a mount of treasure, the likes of which I'd never seen before. No, seriously, it was a lot of coins. I started in that direction but something made of magma popped up and said, "HALT! YOU ARE NOT APPROVED BY THE MASTER!" At least it was speaking draconian. Behind it I saw an air elemental swirling around.</p><p></p><p>"I'm not approved?" I yelled back. "Of course I'm approved, Longtooth sent me here to check on the horde!" [OOC]29 on the bluff check[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>The magma thing hesitated. "I KNOW NOTHING OF THIS."</p><p></p><p>"Well, imagine that, the Master didn't bother to inform an underling of every little detail. Look, I'm going to check out the horde. If you want to complain to Longtooth you can do so shortly. In any case, quit wasting my time." [OOC]28 intimidation. Like I said, good rolling night[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>"YOU MAY CHECK THE HORDE," said a somewhat flustered lava guy. I took a cruise over and confirmed yes, it was a huge pile of money. Enormous. The air elemental watched me the entire time and I reminded myself I really needed to learn how to speak Auran. </p><p></p><p>Back by the shaft, I looked over at the magma and smiled. "Oh, by the way, we killed your master." I punctuated this message by enclosing it in a hemisphere of ice. </p><p></p><p>The air elemental streaked over and tried to engulf me in a whirlwind, but I slipped away and shot up the shaft, noticing the magma elemental appearing outside the ice. Dammit.</p><p></p><p>I raced to the top but wasn't followed, and after quickly filling the others in we cast <em>Fly</em> on just about everyone except Trixie, who tied herself to me and climbed on my back. Down we went to face . . . a whole bunch of elementals. Earth, fire, air, magma, water, mud. Quite the eclectic mix. And really, with a few well placed spells from myself and Trixie (including her confusing the hell out of some of them by making an image of their master appear and yell at them) and the usual chop and slash from Tofa and Londis aided by Linc filling the foes with shafts, we handled them quite efficiently.</p><p></p><p>Well, there was this one thing. Right as we heade dinto battle I saw a little card with a little red dragon on it appear before me. it spun in place and the dragon huffed smoke at me before it vanished, and for a while after that I felt pretty damn dazed. I assumed it was a special defense the dragon had left behind and forgot about it until we were digging through the ridiculous pile of coins - what else would you call over 400,000 coins? - and Trixie cleared her throat before saying in a small voice, "Uhm, I have to tell you guys something."</p><p></p><p>It turned out that Trixie had been given a deck of cards from Master Pho, who thought she might find them surprising (of course). It was a harrowing deck, and before we headed down Trixie had secretly done a reading - for all of us. There was some concern from the others but i think their brains had been overloaded by the sheer magnitude of coinage. Londis even checked the deck for evil without tossing them into the lake. Trixie then began to rail on Pho with great venom. I listened for a while then asked, "Wait. Didn't you say he gave you these cards?"</p><p></p><p>She glared at me. "Yes. The cards and a book. And we almost got killed because he gave us the thing."</p><p></p><p>"What? Okay, doesn't the book say there might be bad results? Like with your rod of Wonder?"</p><p></p><p>Londis' head popped up from a pile of platinum. "Oh no, does she have it out?"</p><p></p><p>"No. Go back to counting money." Trixie rolled her eyes at me. "I skimmed the book and nothing leaped out at me. I mean, it might say something, but I didn't see it. But it's his fault for giving me the things. Look what they almost did!" As Trixie's voice rose Shotsie, who had climbed down the shaft after we gave him the all clear sign, came over and nuzzled her hand.</p><p></p><p>I was trying to keep in mind that Trixie was a little younger than be, maybe 19 or 20 or so. But in the past six months I'd had both a barony and a 16 year old daughter dropped on my shoulders, and considering all I had to deal with along with trying to keep peace among our own merry band of loons her refusal to take responsibility was rubbing me the wrong way. "No, you need to understand that no matter what Pho did or didn't tell you, it was still your choice to keep the deck from us AND to use it on us without our knowledge or permission."</p><p></p><p>Here eyes got big and her lower lip started to tremble. "Don't you think I feel bad enough?" she yelled as she burst into tears. Spinning on her heels she stomped away through the pile of cash. I followed her and kept talking although it was clear she was steadfastly ignoring me. "You should feel bad, because what you did was wrong. If you didn't feel bad I'd be concerned. It's remorse, and that's good. Everyone seems to have forgiven you, so what you do after this point is up to you. If you feel the need to focus anger on Pho that's up to you, but I imagine those cards have a tremendous upside as well. I, for one, feel like Shelyn smiles on me when -"</p><p></p><p>Shotsie bumped against me. "Man, she is not listening to a word you say, you know that, right?" </p><p></p><p>I sighed, watching her shoulders heave. "Yeah, I know." I turned around and almost knocked over Eurayle, who glanced at Trixie and then back at me. "Uhm, can I talk to you about something, Dad?"</p><p></p><p>"Sure." I sat on a chest loaded with mithril bars. "What's up? Need ideas on what to do with your share?"</p><p></p><p>She looked uncomfortable. "No, Dad, it's just, uhm, I think maybe I want to go home for a while, if that's okay with you. I kinda miss Mom and my friends and I feel like I need to work on my magic some." She paused. "It's kind of dangerous around you and your friends."</p><p></p><p>I smiled. "Fair enough. I will ask one favor, though. Think you can teach me how to teleport?"</p><p></p><p>Treasure: </p><p>360,055 copper</p><p>23145 silver</p><p>3403 gold</p><p>125 platinum</p><p>water opal 1000gp</p><p>blue diamond 1600gp</p><p>53 gems - 3500 gp</p><p>mithril ingots - 9000 gp</p><p>4 silver idols - rider/wyvern; centaur in plate; human warrior standing on demon; leaping fish. 600 gp each</p><p>platinum statue of Karzugh - 5000gp</p><p>iridescent blue Ioun Stone +2 wisdom - Londis</p><p>+2 heavy steel sihedron shield of blinding - Tofa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jydog1, post: 5785116, member: 48156"] [b]Session 51 - January 16, 2012 - Elementary, My Dear Grezzalik[/b] notes: nothing motivates this group like treasure. There was some Grezz heroics (heroics = stupidity) and elementals galore. The conversation between Trixie and Grezz was actually conducted (more or less) between myself and Trixie's player the next day on IM, which speaks volumes about our productivity levels at work. Linc's player is fitting in rather well and starting to assert himself into the group dynamic a bit more. We've made it to 11th level and at least one excruciating choice is being made for me due to the NPC shuffle. Still plenty to agonize over. I'd also like to say how very, very nice it is to find the d20 that won the roll-off from the pound o' dice (it appears the Gorram Cat had taken it as a toy) as my rolling was disturbingly good. Dinner was GM made Irish Sausage and Potatoes (and bacon) which was pretty damn good. From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'Rethen: For fook's sake, will I ever understand women? After resting up, we backtracked toward the chasm. Along the way we found the back door, so to speak, and I was falling more and more in love with the idea of claiming this place for myself after all this was done. Once we reached the chasm i volunteered to be the scout, so to speak, as Trixie took one look down and said, "yeah, I've already done my turn of 'Okay, I'll go up there where it should be safe' for the day." She did cast [I]Heroism[/I] on me as I buffed up with a number of spells, including [I]Mirror Image[/I]. Londis gave (!) me the Pathfinder Compass, which instantly allowed me to see in the dark. That made it easy to see as he glowered at me and said, "Don't lose that." I descended with the aid of a [I]Fly[/I] spell until i reached a point where the dark out darked my Darkvision. I did a little magic detecting [OOC]the first of a couple of natural 20s for the night[/OOC] and was able to blunder over to a big sphere known as a Black Luminescence. Once I turned that off I was able to look down and see a bright glow below. As I got closer it got hotter, and I realized it was a lake of boiling or near boiling water. You know, i think that gargoyle who threw me in here meant me no good. I flew down to the lake, which was part of a large cave, about 300 feet across. Lava was bubbling up in the middle, and beyond that was a mount of treasure, the likes of which I'd never seen before. No, seriously, it was a lot of coins. I started in that direction but something made of magma popped up and said, "HALT! YOU ARE NOT APPROVED BY THE MASTER!" At least it was speaking draconian. Behind it I saw an air elemental swirling around. "I'm not approved?" I yelled back. "Of course I'm approved, Longtooth sent me here to check on the horde!" [OOC]29 on the bluff check[/OOC] The magma thing hesitated. "I KNOW NOTHING OF THIS." "Well, imagine that, the Master didn't bother to inform an underling of every little detail. Look, I'm going to check out the horde. If you want to complain to Longtooth you can do so shortly. In any case, quit wasting my time." [OOC]28 intimidation. Like I said, good rolling night[/OOC] "YOU MAY CHECK THE HORDE," said a somewhat flustered lava guy. I took a cruise over and confirmed yes, it was a huge pile of money. Enormous. The air elemental watched me the entire time and I reminded myself I really needed to learn how to speak Auran. Back by the shaft, I looked over at the magma and smiled. "Oh, by the way, we killed your master." I punctuated this message by enclosing it in a hemisphere of ice. The air elemental streaked over and tried to engulf me in a whirlwind, but I slipped away and shot up the shaft, noticing the magma elemental appearing outside the ice. Dammit. I raced to the top but wasn't followed, and after quickly filling the others in we cast [I]Fly[/I] on just about everyone except Trixie, who tied herself to me and climbed on my back. Down we went to face . . . a whole bunch of elementals. Earth, fire, air, magma, water, mud. Quite the eclectic mix. And really, with a few well placed spells from myself and Trixie (including her confusing the hell out of some of them by making an image of their master appear and yell at them) and the usual chop and slash from Tofa and Londis aided by Linc filling the foes with shafts, we handled them quite efficiently. Well, there was this one thing. Right as we heade dinto battle I saw a little card with a little red dragon on it appear before me. it spun in place and the dragon huffed smoke at me before it vanished, and for a while after that I felt pretty damn dazed. I assumed it was a special defense the dragon had left behind and forgot about it until we were digging through the ridiculous pile of coins - what else would you call over 400,000 coins? - and Trixie cleared her throat before saying in a small voice, "Uhm, I have to tell you guys something." It turned out that Trixie had been given a deck of cards from Master Pho, who thought she might find them surprising (of course). It was a harrowing deck, and before we headed down Trixie had secretly done a reading - for all of us. There was some concern from the others but i think their brains had been overloaded by the sheer magnitude of coinage. Londis even checked the deck for evil without tossing them into the lake. Trixie then began to rail on Pho with great venom. I listened for a while then asked, "Wait. Didn't you say he gave you these cards?" She glared at me. "Yes. The cards and a book. And we almost got killed because he gave us the thing." "What? Okay, doesn't the book say there might be bad results? Like with your rod of Wonder?" Londis' head popped up from a pile of platinum. "Oh no, does she have it out?" "No. Go back to counting money." Trixie rolled her eyes at me. "I skimmed the book and nothing leaped out at me. I mean, it might say something, but I didn't see it. But it's his fault for giving me the things. Look what they almost did!" As Trixie's voice rose Shotsie, who had climbed down the shaft after we gave him the all clear sign, came over and nuzzled her hand. I was trying to keep in mind that Trixie was a little younger than be, maybe 19 or 20 or so. But in the past six months I'd had both a barony and a 16 year old daughter dropped on my shoulders, and considering all I had to deal with along with trying to keep peace among our own merry band of loons her refusal to take responsibility was rubbing me the wrong way. "No, you need to understand that no matter what Pho did or didn't tell you, it was still your choice to keep the deck from us AND to use it on us without our knowledge or permission." Here eyes got big and her lower lip started to tremble. "Don't you think I feel bad enough?" she yelled as she burst into tears. Spinning on her heels she stomped away through the pile of cash. I followed her and kept talking although it was clear she was steadfastly ignoring me. "You should feel bad, because what you did was wrong. If you didn't feel bad I'd be concerned. It's remorse, and that's good. Everyone seems to have forgiven you, so what you do after this point is up to you. If you feel the need to focus anger on Pho that's up to you, but I imagine those cards have a tremendous upside as well. I, for one, feel like Shelyn smiles on me when -" Shotsie bumped against me. "Man, she is not listening to a word you say, you know that, right?" I sighed, watching her shoulders heave. "Yeah, I know." I turned around and almost knocked over Eurayle, who glanced at Trixie and then back at me. "Uhm, can I talk to you about something, Dad?" "Sure." I sat on a chest loaded with mithril bars. "What's up? Need ideas on what to do with your share?" She looked uncomfortable. "No, Dad, it's just, uhm, I think maybe I want to go home for a while, if that's okay with you. I kinda miss Mom and my friends and I feel like I need to work on my magic some." She paused. "It's kind of dangerous around you and your friends." I smiled. "Fair enough. I will ask one favor, though. Think you can teach me how to teleport?" Treasure: 360,055 copper 23145 silver 3403 gold 125 platinum water opal 1000gp blue diamond 1600gp 53 gems - 3500 gp mithril ingots - 9000 gp 4 silver idols - rider/wyvern; centaur in plate; human warrior standing on demon; leaping fish. 600 gp each platinum statue of Karzugh - 5000gp iridescent blue Ioun Stone +2 wisdom - Londis +2 heavy steel sihedron shield of blinding - Tofa [/QUOTE]
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