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<blockquote data-quote="jydog1" data-source="post: 5803865" data-attributes="member: 48156"><p><strong>Session #52 - January 30th,, 2012 - Do I Tell You How to Torture People?</strong></p><p></p><p>Notes: And we're back - well, most of us anyway, as Tofa's player was ill and stayed home. With her being NPC'd we took care of some preparations, said a goodbye and a hello, and began our assault on the aerie of the slave lor - errm, the giants. There were some intra-party fireworks as Londis took exception to Grezz's conservative approach to spellcasting, but as he increases in power Grezz is getting less afraid of others.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of, 11th level brought the usual load of agonizing choices. In the end I took Teleport (5th), Stoneskin (4th), Flame Arrow (3rd) and Eagle's Splendor (2nd). For his feat he took Expanded Arcana again in his never-ending quest to basically be a spontaneous wizard and grabbed, after MUCH deliberation, Hungry Pit. The pit spells are just lovely. LOVELY.</p><p></p><p>Dinner was huge portions of chicken parm, spaghetti, and GM-made bread. Nom.</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Grezzalik M'Rethen: </p><p>My daughter proved quite adept at teaching me Teleport and soon we popped out of Longtooth's cavern and back to Magnadaar. While the others did some shopping and checked in on various things Eurayle and I popped up to Turtleback Ferry, she so she could gather her things and me so I could check in on my barony.</p><p></p><p>I was pretty obvious the barony was doing just fine without me and that my poking around and muttering was more of a hindrance to them than anything else. I contented myself with making notes about what would need to be done if, say, Malgreaves was let go and replaced by someone of my own choosing. Just a thought.</p><p></p><p>I'd spent some time with my mother, who actually seemed at ease. She liked the area and walking in the woods, which made me nervous until I confirmed from Jacundos that someone was always shadowing her in case an ogre or two was hanging around. After telling her I'd be back soon I was in my room hiding money when there was a knock on my door. Before I could answer Eurayle slipped in carrying her travel bags.</p><p></p><p>"So, I'm ready to go, Dad. Thanks for letting me tag along."</p><p></p><p>I shook my head. 'You didn't tag along. You more than held your own out there and I'm very proud of you."</p><p></p><p>She smiled and said, "I'm sorry to go now, but I need to get back. School starts soon. Plus I miss everyone." She came over and gave me a tight hug before stepping back and starting her teleport spell. Or maybe it was a dimension hopping one- I'm not sure where Avalon is. </p><p></p><p>"Tell you mother if she wants to see me she should show up as herself and not as a snake under a chair I didn't see," I said, half-joking.</p><p></p><p>"Oh! Okay! I'll tell Mom you want to see her! Bye, Dad!"</p><p></p><p>"No! That's not what . . ." She was gone. I sighed, gathered my things, and popped back to Magnidaar. Once there I grabbed Linc and headed up to Windsong Abbey. For some reason I felt like checking in with Master Pho and the group had a feeling we might be able to talk him into joining us. The garden of Surprises lived up to its name but Linc wasn't taken unawares, and soon we found Pho waiting for us, pretty much ready to go. In chatting I discovered the Fates are a huge deal to him. I imagine this makes me a person of special interest to him.</p><p></p><p>Teleport, rest and teleport again found us at the base of the cliff to the evil horrible valley. We were going to try to sneak in through the sewers, so to speak. I was flying while the others were climbing, but Tofa surprised us all when her ravens appeared and swarmed under her feet, lifting her up. [OOC]she got levitation as one of her Rage Prophet powers, and the ravens were a nice GM touch[/OOC] I was a little nervous about Tofa and her bugf*ck crazy sword, which lived to kill giants. If it won control over her we could find ourselves in a bad situation. Once we all made the entrance I studied her, seeing if she'd gotten the crazy eyes or not. She noticed and said, "Grezz, we have discussed, you are not my type. besides, you are too easily breakable."</p><p></p><p>"Geez, Grezz," chimed in Trixie, 'show some class. This isn't the place or time for that."</p><p></p><p>I shot her the hairy eyeball. Unless Tofa suddenly grew snakes out of her hair I wasn't afraid of her. Not that she was my type anyway, but . . . sigh. Sidetracked again.</p><p></p><p>The cave we were about to enter was a carpet of teeming insects, but a long long time ago I'd made numerous does of vermin repellent, which came in handy now. [OOC]made 'em at 3rd level, been toting them around ever since. felt good to use them. Now I just need something that requires alchemical solvent[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>Moving on, we began to see old webbing fallen into disrepair. In a large cavern we came upon a massive dead spider, easily 25 feet long. It was covered with countless spiders, and when Trixie used her pipes to clear a path the thing shuddered and rose - undead! I managed to get off a decent fireball before it webbed me. [OOC]I failed a DC14 save. really, d20? You thought this was a good time for a 1?[/OOC] I got free using some alchemical solvent [OOC]ha![/OOC] and finished the fight with a wall of flame. Afterwards, Londis started chastising me.</p><p></p><p>"Where was the haste, sorcerer? You always forget the haste."</p><p></p><p>"Why? So you would have been able to fail at it ineffectually with more speed? I'm not made of magic, Londis - well, okay, maybe I am, a little bit - but I can't waste spells. there wasn't much you or Tofa were going to be able to do to it."</p><p></p><p>He grumbled and stalked away, muttering something about boots. I did use haste not too much later when we were attacked by miserable little Redcaps, and Londis did something that caused a light to shine down from above and make a blow that should have hit Tofa miss her instead. After driving them off we continued down the tight fissure until Londis bade us stop. his sharp eyes had picked up something on the floor ahead of us - something shiny. We eased closer and saw it was a necklace, but we couldn't move it with our combined Mage Hands. I was thinking about a different approach when Londis started being all Londis-y and stalked forward. he had just reached it when a red gem flashed out of the darkness ahead, and the ensuing fireball set off the rest of the fireball contained on the necklace.</p><p></p><p>I felt the heat but avoided any burning. the same could not be said for Londis, who looked like a mess as the smoke cleared [OOC]brutal trap - 12 fireballs of varying strength. If the whole party had been there Grezz and Trixie surely would have died. Londis made 9 out of 12 saves and still took 76 points of damage[/OOC]. Up ahead was a fearsome and horrible . . . kobold. Just one, armed with a short sword and buckler. Londis first messed it up with his Terrible Remorse spell, then charged and clobbered it, [OOC]using his Boots of Haste, he did 94 points of damage[/OOC] at which point the kobold grinned and said, "Not good enough. Now Enga shows you how it's done."</p><p></p><p>And Enga did, dropping Londis with a single blow. Linc then put several arrows into it, and while it staggered Tofa rushed forward and almost cut it in twain. It fell with a surprised expression on its face. [OOC]This was a 15th level kobold barbarian in full rage, but Tofa critted 2 attacks and almost did an auto-kill - 20/20/19. the regular hacking was good enough, though.[/OOC] After we got Londis back on his feet (and listened to him bitch more about me not using spells) we discovered Enga's home - he was the ratcatcher - and two corridors that rang out with the voices of giants. We had a decision to make. Eying Hadarga, I hoped we'd be the ones doing the choosing.</p><p></p><p>Loot:</p><p>Greatsword +1</p><p>Halberd +2</p><p>Druid's Spell Staff with Rusted Grip (CL12)</p><p>+3 short sword - taken by Trixie - this is inscribed with decorations expected for a Thasselonian Noble</p><p>+1 buckler</p><p>+1 small steel breastplate</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jydog1, post: 5803865, member: 48156"] [b]Session #52 - January 30th,, 2012 - Do I Tell You How to Torture People?[/b] Notes: And we're back - well, most of us anyway, as Tofa's player was ill and stayed home. With her being NPC'd we took care of some preparations, said a goodbye and a hello, and began our assault on the aerie of the slave lor - errm, the giants. There were some intra-party fireworks as Londis took exception to Grezz's conservative approach to spellcasting, but as he increases in power Grezz is getting less afraid of others. Speaking of, 11th level brought the usual load of agonizing choices. In the end I took Teleport (5th), Stoneskin (4th), Flame Arrow (3rd) and Eagle's Splendor (2nd). For his feat he took Expanded Arcana again in his never-ending quest to basically be a spontaneous wizard and grabbed, after MUCH deliberation, Hungry Pit. The pit spells are just lovely. LOVELY. Dinner was huge portions of chicken parm, spaghetti, and GM-made bread. Nom. From the journal of Grezzalik M'Rethen: My daughter proved quite adept at teaching me Teleport and soon we popped out of Longtooth's cavern and back to Magnadaar. While the others did some shopping and checked in on various things Eurayle and I popped up to Turtleback Ferry, she so she could gather her things and me so I could check in on my barony. I was pretty obvious the barony was doing just fine without me and that my poking around and muttering was more of a hindrance to them than anything else. I contented myself with making notes about what would need to be done if, say, Malgreaves was let go and replaced by someone of my own choosing. Just a thought. I'd spent some time with my mother, who actually seemed at ease. She liked the area and walking in the woods, which made me nervous until I confirmed from Jacundos that someone was always shadowing her in case an ogre or two was hanging around. After telling her I'd be back soon I was in my room hiding money when there was a knock on my door. Before I could answer Eurayle slipped in carrying her travel bags. "So, I'm ready to go, Dad. Thanks for letting me tag along." I shook my head. 'You didn't tag along. You more than held your own out there and I'm very proud of you." She smiled and said, "I'm sorry to go now, but I need to get back. School starts soon. Plus I miss everyone." She came over and gave me a tight hug before stepping back and starting her teleport spell. Or maybe it was a dimension hopping one- I'm not sure where Avalon is. "Tell you mother if she wants to see me she should show up as herself and not as a snake under a chair I didn't see," I said, half-joking. "Oh! Okay! I'll tell Mom you want to see her! Bye, Dad!" "No! That's not what . . ." She was gone. I sighed, gathered my things, and popped back to Magnidaar. Once there I grabbed Linc and headed up to Windsong Abbey. For some reason I felt like checking in with Master Pho and the group had a feeling we might be able to talk him into joining us. The garden of Surprises lived up to its name but Linc wasn't taken unawares, and soon we found Pho waiting for us, pretty much ready to go. In chatting I discovered the Fates are a huge deal to him. I imagine this makes me a person of special interest to him. Teleport, rest and teleport again found us at the base of the cliff to the evil horrible valley. We were going to try to sneak in through the sewers, so to speak. I was flying while the others were climbing, but Tofa surprised us all when her ravens appeared and swarmed under her feet, lifting her up. [OOC]she got levitation as one of her Rage Prophet powers, and the ravens were a nice GM touch[/OOC] I was a little nervous about Tofa and her bugf*ck crazy sword, which lived to kill giants. If it won control over her we could find ourselves in a bad situation. Once we all made the entrance I studied her, seeing if she'd gotten the crazy eyes or not. She noticed and said, "Grezz, we have discussed, you are not my type. besides, you are too easily breakable." "Geez, Grezz," chimed in Trixie, 'show some class. This isn't the place or time for that." I shot her the hairy eyeball. Unless Tofa suddenly grew snakes out of her hair I wasn't afraid of her. Not that she was my type anyway, but . . . sigh. Sidetracked again. The cave we were about to enter was a carpet of teeming insects, but a long long time ago I'd made numerous does of vermin repellent, which came in handy now. [OOC]made 'em at 3rd level, been toting them around ever since. felt good to use them. Now I just need something that requires alchemical solvent[/OOC] Moving on, we began to see old webbing fallen into disrepair. In a large cavern we came upon a massive dead spider, easily 25 feet long. It was covered with countless spiders, and when Trixie used her pipes to clear a path the thing shuddered and rose - undead! I managed to get off a decent fireball before it webbed me. [OOC]I failed a DC14 save. really, d20? You thought this was a good time for a 1?[/OOC] I got free using some alchemical solvent [OOC]ha![/OOC] and finished the fight with a wall of flame. Afterwards, Londis started chastising me. "Where was the haste, sorcerer? You always forget the haste." "Why? So you would have been able to fail at it ineffectually with more speed? I'm not made of magic, Londis - well, okay, maybe I am, a little bit - but I can't waste spells. there wasn't much you or Tofa were going to be able to do to it." He grumbled and stalked away, muttering something about boots. I did use haste not too much later when we were attacked by miserable little Redcaps, and Londis did something that caused a light to shine down from above and make a blow that should have hit Tofa miss her instead. After driving them off we continued down the tight fissure until Londis bade us stop. his sharp eyes had picked up something on the floor ahead of us - something shiny. We eased closer and saw it was a necklace, but we couldn't move it with our combined Mage Hands. I was thinking about a different approach when Londis started being all Londis-y and stalked forward. he had just reached it when a red gem flashed out of the darkness ahead, and the ensuing fireball set off the rest of the fireball contained on the necklace. I felt the heat but avoided any burning. the same could not be said for Londis, who looked like a mess as the smoke cleared [OOC]brutal trap - 12 fireballs of varying strength. If the whole party had been there Grezz and Trixie surely would have died. Londis made 9 out of 12 saves and still took 76 points of damage[/OOC]. Up ahead was a fearsome and horrible . . . kobold. Just one, armed with a short sword and buckler. Londis first messed it up with his Terrible Remorse spell, then charged and clobbered it, [OOC]using his Boots of Haste, he did 94 points of damage[/OOC] at which point the kobold grinned and said, "Not good enough. Now Enga shows you how it's done." And Enga did, dropping Londis with a single blow. Linc then put several arrows into it, and while it staggered Tofa rushed forward and almost cut it in twain. It fell with a surprised expression on its face. [OOC]This was a 15th level kobold barbarian in full rage, but Tofa critted 2 attacks and almost did an auto-kill - 20/20/19. the regular hacking was good enough, though.[/OOC] After we got Londis back on his feet (and listened to him bitch more about me not using spells) we discovered Enga's home - he was the ratcatcher - and two corridors that rang out with the voices of giants. We had a decision to make. Eying Hadarga, I hoped we'd be the ones doing the choosing. Loot: Greatsword +1 Halberd +2 Druid's Spell Staff with Rusted Grip (CL12) +3 short sword - taken by Trixie - this is inscribed with decorations expected for a Thasselonian Noble +1 buckler +1 small steel breastplate [/QUOTE]
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