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<blockquote data-quote="jydog1" data-source="post: 5822561" data-attributes="member: 48156"><p><strong>Session #54 - February 13, 2012 - I Love What You've Done With the Place</strong></p><p></p><p>Notes: Looks like we have a real meatgrinder going on here, a nasty dungeon crawl to soften us up and burn up our spells and resources before we make it to the big bad guy. Trixie's player sat out the session and we sort of group NPC'd her. I can never understand discussion threads that call bards useless - her character is indispensable in so many ways. </p><p></p><p>Dinner was GM and GM wife chili and cornbread. Mmmmm.</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'rethen:</p><p></p><p>I felt someone kicking my foot and I started awake, confused to not be hearing the sounds of combat. I glared at Londis and said, "What?"</p><p></p><p>He jerked his head and said, "We have a problem." Following his gesture I saw Tofa covered with blood that she was serenely attempting to wipe off. Her sword was finally sheathed but it could hear it humming contentedly from here. I rubbed at my brown and muttered, "By Shelyn's Grace," as I scrambled to my feet. Then we headed to the barracks. Those were painted red with the blood of six slaughtered giant. At least they seemed to be young ones from what I could make of the pieces, but it was an unholy mess.</p><p></p><p>Tofa leaned against the cavern entrance with an expression like the cat who had found the open bottle of cream and lapped it all up.</p><p>[OOC]Tofa's will-vs will roll to keep Hadarga from going berserk on giants? A one. She Grezzed it![/OOC]</p><p>After hushed discussion and the discarding of tossing the bodies into the piss vats we had Pho do a little stone shaping to get rid of the bodies. Then we cleaned up and managed to make it back just before Conna showed up. Oh, and we managed to hide the NINE SHAVED NAKED DWARVES Tofa had freed. They were anxious to get out but not so anxious that they wished to head down with us. "For fook's sake, laddie," one said, "are ye daft?"</p><p></p><p>I'll spare you the details of our conversation with Conna (although I did manage to secure the right to return to do research in the library we were going to kill Mokmorian in. Easily. Way too easily. Clearly, we aren't expected to survive). Masked by illusion and moving under a silence spell we snuck by the temple, hearing the snore of dragons but not seeing the lamia matriarch - which might be a bad thing.</p><p></p><p>[OOC]As I'm doing this writeup I'm realizing we made an epically bad mistake here - if the dragons were asleep, we should have gone in and snuck attacked them while under the cover of silence. One round of flatfooted attacks by Tofa, Londis, and Linc might well have taken one out and not even woken up the other. Crap. I never even though of it. [/OOC]</p><p></p><p>We made it downstairs unnoticed, but that didn't last long. The war trolls were on duty but really, it didn't matter all that much. The first one feel in seconds as my rays were unusually accurate for once.[OOC]three attack rolls: 18, 19, 20 confirmed. Meanwhile Linc did 108 and 114 points of damage in his two rounds. Flame arrow sounds like a measly d6 of fire damage, but when he's cranking out rapid shot arrows it starts to add up. Plus Giants are his favored foe [/OOC]</p><p></p><p>After a while we put up a wall behind us with an escape hole just big enough for us. Soon we found ourselves at the edge of a large, very strange room. The walls were okay if you looked directly at them, but the ones to the side would seem to shimmer and fall away. While we were examining it what looked like a pair of very small giants suddenly got much larger. They were hideous things, covered in sickly-green colored glowing runes. Linc plunked one with an arrow and it nearly doubled in size. Wonderful.</p><p></p><p>Trix moved up to the edge of the room and said, 'Oh! It's a temporal trap! A Thorrassic Monk thing. Totally distorts time and direction." She poked me in the ribs. "You can disable it, unless that redhead was in that class as well."</p><p></p><p>Cute. As the battle rages I stepped forward and extended my senses, feeling for the magic. It was easy to see, and I went to work on unravelling the multi-layered web it was designed as. Tricky stuff, but once I had the right strand it was easy to pull it apart. [OOC]Rolling a 20 on my spellcraft check didn't hurt either.[/OOC] Masty stuff - in addition to everything else it would try to permanently shrink you if you entered the trap. [OOC]DC 24 Fort save. Geez.[/OOC] I finished it as combat ended, but as I watched it slowly began to weave itself together again. "We've got about 10 minutes before we don't want to be here any longer." </p><p></p><p>Opening the large double doors across the room, we discovered a pair of massive creatures standing next to an enormous smoking cauldron. I had turned myself into an air elemental and studied then a few feet in the air. "Look like ogres, I said, causing Trixie to snort. "Are you dense? they're stone golems." [OOC]Trixie rolled an 18 on the die for her knowledge check, while I rolled a . . . one. This led to me purposely doing something very dumb in the near future[/OOC] before I could answer something came from the rubble on the far side of the room, a horror I'd read about but hadn't really known existed - a Scanderig. A real forge fiend who immediately attacked Tofa and tried to eat her magic shield. I yelled and made a pit under it, and it hit bottom with a loud thump. Before I could gloat it vanished, and I looked back to the cauldron and the fire and decided the best thing to do was get a closer look because they REALLY looked like ogres to me [OOC]roleplaying that fumbled roll and hoping they didn't mush me[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>Nope. Stone golems. I got the hint when they rushed forward as I entered the room and tried to pulp me. One hit, and that wasn't fun. As battle broke out again Linc ran into the smoke coming from the kettle and dropped immediately, heaving. Pho raised a wind and swirled the mist away for the moment, but it was going to be a problem. I dropped one of the golems into a pit and Londis and Tofa battered away at the other.</p><p></p><p>Then Trixie came into the room, riding Shotsie as he walked on the ceiling. She started muttered the runes on the walls and the fire under the cauldron abruptly went out. [OOC]An insanely high Use Magic Device roll. Trixie's diversity makes her awesome. AWESOME.[/OOC] Once we finished off the golems I was able to really examine the thing, and with a laugh I called Trix over. "You're definitely not going to be Mokmorian's best buddy."</p><p></p><p>"Why?"</p><p></p><p>"This thing is a Runeslave Cauldron. He's using it to make dead giants into those runed things we fought in the trapped room."</p><p></p><p>"So what? All I did was make the fire go out. Surely mister big-shot wizard has a fire spell or two."</p><p></p><p>I tapped a series of runes on the side of the kettle, wincing as the necromantic energy stung my finger. "It takes a crazy list of ingredients to get the thing to ignite - gallons of water from several open graves, a heart harvested from a virgin of no less than 70 years taken at a crossroads at midnight during a thunderstorm . . . a nightmare to gather." I chucked again. "You screwed him over."</p><p></p><p>She shrugged and flashed a pretty smile. "Doesn't matter. He'll be dead soon anyway."</p><p></p><p>Pushing on to the next room we found a gruesome sight - the cooler in which Mokmorian kept his dead giants, waiting to be transformed. Then it got a little more gruesome as several proved to be not waiting to be changed but already processed, including one brute with no head but two huge axes . . . </p><p></p><p>Loot:</p><p>+ 2 Ranseur</p><p>+ 1 Giant breatplate</p><p></p><p><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jydog1, post: 5822561, member: 48156"] [b]Session #54 - February 13, 2012 - I Love What You've Done With the Place[/b] Notes: Looks like we have a real meatgrinder going on here, a nasty dungeon crawl to soften us up and burn up our spells and resources before we make it to the big bad guy. Trixie's player sat out the session and we sort of group NPC'd her. I can never understand discussion threads that call bards useless - her character is indispensable in so many ways. Dinner was GM and GM wife chili and cornbread. Mmmmm. From the journal of Baron Grezzalik M'rethen: I felt someone kicking my foot and I started awake, confused to not be hearing the sounds of combat. I glared at Londis and said, "What?" He jerked his head and said, "We have a problem." Following his gesture I saw Tofa covered with blood that she was serenely attempting to wipe off. Her sword was finally sheathed but it could hear it humming contentedly from here. I rubbed at my brown and muttered, "By Shelyn's Grace," as I scrambled to my feet. Then we headed to the barracks. Those were painted red with the blood of six slaughtered giant. At least they seemed to be young ones from what I could make of the pieces, but it was an unholy mess. Tofa leaned against the cavern entrance with an expression like the cat who had found the open bottle of cream and lapped it all up. [OOC]Tofa's will-vs will roll to keep Hadarga from going berserk on giants? A one. She Grezzed it![/OOC] After hushed discussion and the discarding of tossing the bodies into the piss vats we had Pho do a little stone shaping to get rid of the bodies. Then we cleaned up and managed to make it back just before Conna showed up. Oh, and we managed to hide the NINE SHAVED NAKED DWARVES Tofa had freed. They were anxious to get out but not so anxious that they wished to head down with us. "For fook's sake, laddie," one said, "are ye daft?" I'll spare you the details of our conversation with Conna (although I did manage to secure the right to return to do research in the library we were going to kill Mokmorian in. Easily. Way too easily. Clearly, we aren't expected to survive). Masked by illusion and moving under a silence spell we snuck by the temple, hearing the snore of dragons but not seeing the lamia matriarch - which might be a bad thing. [OOC]As I'm doing this writeup I'm realizing we made an epically bad mistake here - if the dragons were asleep, we should have gone in and snuck attacked them while under the cover of silence. One round of flatfooted attacks by Tofa, Londis, and Linc might well have taken one out and not even woken up the other. Crap. I never even though of it. [/OOC] We made it downstairs unnoticed, but that didn't last long. The war trolls were on duty but really, it didn't matter all that much. The first one feel in seconds as my rays were unusually accurate for once.[OOC]three attack rolls: 18, 19, 20 confirmed. Meanwhile Linc did 108 and 114 points of damage in his two rounds. Flame arrow sounds like a measly d6 of fire damage, but when he's cranking out rapid shot arrows it starts to add up. Plus Giants are his favored foe [/OOC] After a while we put up a wall behind us with an escape hole just big enough for us. Soon we found ourselves at the edge of a large, very strange room. The walls were okay if you looked directly at them, but the ones to the side would seem to shimmer and fall away. While we were examining it what looked like a pair of very small giants suddenly got much larger. They were hideous things, covered in sickly-green colored glowing runes. Linc plunked one with an arrow and it nearly doubled in size. Wonderful. Trix moved up to the edge of the room and said, 'Oh! It's a temporal trap! A Thorrassic Monk thing. Totally distorts time and direction." She poked me in the ribs. "You can disable it, unless that redhead was in that class as well." Cute. As the battle rages I stepped forward and extended my senses, feeling for the magic. It was easy to see, and I went to work on unravelling the multi-layered web it was designed as. Tricky stuff, but once I had the right strand it was easy to pull it apart. [OOC]Rolling a 20 on my spellcraft check didn't hurt either.[/OOC] Masty stuff - in addition to everything else it would try to permanently shrink you if you entered the trap. [OOC]DC 24 Fort save. Geez.[/OOC] I finished it as combat ended, but as I watched it slowly began to weave itself together again. "We've got about 10 minutes before we don't want to be here any longer." Opening the large double doors across the room, we discovered a pair of massive creatures standing next to an enormous smoking cauldron. I had turned myself into an air elemental and studied then a few feet in the air. "Look like ogres, I said, causing Trixie to snort. "Are you dense? they're stone golems." [OOC]Trixie rolled an 18 on the die for her knowledge check, while I rolled a . . . one. This led to me purposely doing something very dumb in the near future[/OOC] before I could answer something came from the rubble on the far side of the room, a horror I'd read about but hadn't really known existed - a Scanderig. A real forge fiend who immediately attacked Tofa and tried to eat her magic shield. I yelled and made a pit under it, and it hit bottom with a loud thump. Before I could gloat it vanished, and I looked back to the cauldron and the fire and decided the best thing to do was get a closer look because they REALLY looked like ogres to me [OOC]roleplaying that fumbled roll and hoping they didn't mush me[/OOC] Nope. Stone golems. I got the hint when they rushed forward as I entered the room and tried to pulp me. One hit, and that wasn't fun. As battle broke out again Linc ran into the smoke coming from the kettle and dropped immediately, heaving. Pho raised a wind and swirled the mist away for the moment, but it was going to be a problem. I dropped one of the golems into a pit and Londis and Tofa battered away at the other. Then Trixie came into the room, riding Shotsie as he walked on the ceiling. She started muttered the runes on the walls and the fire under the cauldron abruptly went out. [OOC]An insanely high Use Magic Device roll. Trixie's diversity makes her awesome. AWESOME.[/OOC] Once we finished off the golems I was able to really examine the thing, and with a laugh I called Trix over. "You're definitely not going to be Mokmorian's best buddy." "Why?" "This thing is a Runeslave Cauldron. He's using it to make dead giants into those runed things we fought in the trapped room." "So what? All I did was make the fire go out. Surely mister big-shot wizard has a fire spell or two." I tapped a series of runes on the side of the kettle, wincing as the necromantic energy stung my finger. "It takes a crazy list of ingredients to get the thing to ignite - gallons of water from several open graves, a heart harvested from a virgin of no less than 70 years taken at a crossroads at midnight during a thunderstorm . . . a nightmare to gather." I chucked again. "You screwed him over." She shrugged and flashed a pretty smile. "Doesn't matter. He'll be dead soon anyway." Pushing on to the next room we found a gruesome sight - the cooler in which Mokmorian kept his dead giants, waiting to be transformed. Then it got a little more gruesome as several proved to be not waiting to be changed but already processed, including one brute with no head but two huge axes . . . Loot: + 2 Ranseur + 1 Giant breatplate [IMG]https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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