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<blockquote data-quote="jydog1" data-source="post: 5838343" data-attributes="member: 48156"><p><strong>Session #55 - February 27, 2012 - The Smaller They Come, the Harder They Fall</strong></p><p></p><p>Notes: You can plan all you want, you can work together flawlessly as a team, you can come up with new and clever ways to attack your foe, but the real key to success is making your saves. Seriously. The next time I make up a character - which won't be for a while, as the campaign I'm running starts next week (!) - I'm going to grab all the save feats. I'll print out the saves made, but in the final battle we only missed a couple. Essentially, we got all the breaks and were able to take the Big Bad down with only one near-death. Actually, things were a little hairy in the fights beforehand, but at the end of our Mokmorian fight I had exactly one 1st level spell slot, one 4th level slot, and one 5th level slot left. Running on empty is an understatement. Plus most of my 4th level casting were used on lower level spells - for Grezz it was all about buffing and Dispel Magic in this fight. I'm not sure what Mokkie's SR was but I didn't even bother.</p><p></p><p>Dinner was hot dogs, homemade coleslaw, and half of Idaho converted into tater tots. I was roundly mocked for the copious amount I made and by the time all the savages were done with them there were exactly 6 left. Ahem.</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Grezzalik M'Rethen, Baron of Turtleback Ferry and Jorgenfist:</p><p></p><p>So, afterwards Londis was kind enough to explain to me what a GraveKnight was. He said to imagine a lich designed for melee instead of tossing spells, and there you are. Well, whatever it was, the thing was brutal and along with a group of undead ogres that liked to explode when re-killed made life difficult for us. Tofa dove past the mooks to get at the big guy and he greeted her with a savage hello [OOC]66 points of damage[/OOC] and gave the same greeting to Londis as well. They were resolute, though, and with a little help from Pho's <em>Flame Strike</em> the horrible thing finally fell to one of Londis' strikes. True to form, the barely standing Korvosian then pointed a finger at Tofa and said, "And that's how you do it!" Which of course set off another round of bickering and sniping at one another. By Shelyn's Grace, I wish the two of them would just jump one another's bones and get it out of the way already. Although then I'm sure we'd have to listen about which one had better prowess in bed. I don't need to know that.</p><p></p><p>We took the nasty weapons with us and moved along through the partially collapsed complex. It was odd in that the halls were all cylindrical. Thasselonian runes were everywhere. I know I'm a little slow on the uptake but this place was special. Trixie rode over to me on Shotsie and gave me a poke. "Can you read this stuff, or did you screw up that class too?", she said with a grin.</p><p></p><p>"Yeah. This is an important place. Once we get Mokmorian out of here I'm going to have to spend some time studying to hopefully find some info on what's behind all these attacks. It would be nice to actually go after someone instead of just reacting."</p><p></p><p>"Maybe." She sniffed. "I'm just sick of all these damn giants."</p><p></p><p>We wandered to a massive round door that appeared to be made of brass. In the center there was an oddly shaped indentation with a sihedron rune. The frame that surrounded it was covered with Thasselonian runes that I realized were a summoning ward. "If you try to do anything except use the correct key to open the door it summons a . . ." I squinted, trying to make out the exact phrasing - " . . . a 'shining child,' whatever that is. Does anyone know what that is?"</p><p></p><p>There was a chorus of shrugs. Then, from a rubble-filled corridor off to our right, there was a small red bead streaking in our direction. There was no time to shout a warning as the fireball detonated in our midst. The illusion of the rubble flicked off and a small figure, maybe a gnome, stood about a hundred feet away with some truly horrible-looking dog-like creatures behind him. "So," he yelled, "these are the mighty heroes, come to slay us. You don't look like much."</p><p></p><p>As we patted off flames Tofa shouted, "You are not the first person to say that who was soon dead. Happened to one of your friends, da?"</p><p></p><p>He laughed. "Jack of the Laughing Bones isn't frightened by scary words!"</p><p></p><p>"Your name is Jack?", I asked.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't be sure with the distance between us but he appeared to scowl. "No, I'm THE Jack. And these are my friends." He gestured with his hand, and something weird happened. The dogs seemed to flatten and vanish, and suddenly they were among us, snapping away and fixing us with a gaze that I knew carried some ill effect. Trixie yelped and cursed as one sort of folded her up for a few seconds. Grabbing at my chest bandolier, I settled a hand around my rod of selectivity and cranked out a massive lightning ball right in the middle of the battle. [OOC]rolled really well, too. like high 40s or something[/OOC] My friends looked with wide eyes as the electricity arced all around but did not harm to them. the dog things weren't as lucky, with one simply exploding while the others were badly hurt and quickly finished off. One of Linc's arrows proved the Jack to be an illusion - not afraid of us, eh? </p><p></p><p>At the end of the hall we found a warded room that was probably the kennel for those things. A pair of massive doors sat on the other side, and as we discussed what to do they creaked open. The head of the scanderig popped out, looked at us, and then ducked back in while closing the doors again. This was repeated a couple of times before we finally just said the hell with it and opened them ourselves.</p><p></p><p>And there waited our foe. Mokmorian. He really was pretty runty for a giant, maybe 10 feet tall, hiding across the massive room behind a windwall and next to a table with the head from that GraveKnight sitting on it, encased in ice. Of course he had a bellyful of yapping to do, calling us insignificant worms who had been allowed to get this far and our bones were going to be paste and blah blah blah ye gods these meglomaniacs like to hear themselves talk! Before I could retort he tossed a<em> fireball</em> over, which was pretty rude, and followed that up with a <em>solid fog</em>. But Trixie scampered out of the entryway and up the back wall, brandished her Rod of Wonder, and <em>blew the solid fog away</em>. [OOC]I <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> you not on this, she rolled the gale force wind needed to blow the thing away. One of our very lucky moments of the night[/OOC]. I had cast a couple of protection spells on myself [OOC]okay - I already had up <em>Mage Armor</em> and<em> Prot/Arrows</em>, but in addition I cranked out the following: <em>Prot Evil</em> (and one for Trixie as well); <em>See Invisible; Shield; Mirror Image;</em> and<em> Elemental Body II. </em>No wonder I was out of spells[/OOC] and I flew in and dropped a <em>Haste </em>on everyone. It was pretty much chaos and I focused on Jack, who might have been invisible but wasn't to me. Tofa tore into the scanderig and her crazy-ass sword threw an ice ring over at Mokmorian. Linc shot arrows that somehow made it through to hit the runt but from they didn't seem to do much to the fire-wreathed giant aside from pissing him off - although I knew what the black glow that shot from his finger was. The <em>disintegration</em> hit link and the elf glowed for a second . . and dropped to a knee, gasping in pain [OOC]He made his save versus death right on the nose. i mean, we had a back-up with trixie and her lucky halfling feat which would have given him another save chance, but man, it was close)[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>meanwhile Jack tossed some sort of bomb at me that missed and I countered by blasting him with a trio of shocking rays. He screamed and tried to scramble away, but Linc's wolf made short work of him as another hastily thrown bomb sailed by to explode by Tofa as she killed the scanderig right after it disgorged magma all over the place [OOC]15d6 if you blow the save - yeesh[/OOC]. Whatever was int he bomb set Tofa to coughing and hacking, but I had no time for that as I turned to Mokmorian. </p><p></p><p>"So. Done hiding and letting others do your fighting?"</p><p></p><p>He sneered, cast something at me that made one of my doppelgangers vanish. "Fool! Worm! I will crush you!"</p><p></p><p>I tossed a Dispel Magic at him, peeled off something. "Right. You're kind of puny for a giant. Is that why your wife threw you out? Because you're not just puny in height? Boy, I bet if I had a wife who told everyone I was lousy in bed I would have killed her too. You know, if I were a loser. like you."</p><p></p><p>His face turned purple and he sputtered some colorful curses at me. Trixie sent her spiritual weapon after him but it wasn't getting through. He started to cast something else at me but Linc drilled him and ruined the spell. I canceled another of his protective spells as Trixie dropped his windwall. He flew backward as Londis charged across the room on his griffin - and smacked solidly into an invisible barrier. I dropped that as well and flew toward the enraged Mokmorian. </p><p></p><p>"Really? is this the best you have?" I took off another of his spells [OOC]My rolls were phenomenal[/OOC] and laughed. "I mean, seriously, I'm starting to get annoyed here. I have IMPORTANT WORK to get done in Turtleback Ferry and I came all the way up here for this? It's like a training exercise!" </p><p></p><p>He howled in fury and pain and Linc put 5 arrows into him, then swung at me with a nasty looking club. It popped another of my images but just made me laugh again, even louder when his juiced up <em>magic missiles</em> splashed harmlessly against my <em>shield</em> spell. Linc shot him up again as Mokmorian first trapped Londis in a <em>forcecage</em> before nailing Linc with his club. The elf grunted and Mokmorian looked a little healthier, and Linc's situation worsened as he stepped into some sort of gravity trap that left him dangling upside down. He still put another arrow into the giant. [OOC]Linc did the majority of the damage with some incredible luck - at times his arrows are being forced to get through 20% and 30% concealment rolls each time, and he never missed. He reduced <em>stoneskin</em> to nothing and just kept drilling him with <em>gravity-bowed</em> arrows that I'd <em>flame arrowed</em> as well[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>I kept taunting the twerp, but he was more concerned with Linc and brought him near death. Londis was trapped in the forcecage, but I spotted Tofa trying to make her way over via <em>Levitation</em> and knew that wasn't good enough. Swooping over to her - I do very much enjoy being an air elemental - I gave her the ability to fly and her mouth set in a tight grin as she roared off after Mokmorian. </p><p></p><p>It didn't take her long. She damn near cleaved his head off, but the body didn't fall, instead glowing with a sinister light. An otherworldly voice came from the corpse.</p><p></p><p><em>So, worms, you think you've won. Worms! Every one of my losses has been a sacrifice, every sihidron-marked kill you've made bringing me back to life. And now, swine, you shall understand the power of Karzoug, Runelord of Greed, you will suffer greatly when I crush you under my heel!</em></p><p></p><p>then it was gone, without even an opportunity for me to mock him back. Mokmorian's body dissolved into goo on the floor and we looked around the chamber, empty except for us. Still standing, yet again.</p><p></p><p>Loot: (so far, we didn't get to the mother lode description yet)</p><p>2 Runechill Battleaxes (+1 battleaxe, 1 per day 1d6 neg energy on hit for 5 rounds, DC12 Fort save or lose 1 STR)</p><p>7 Large masterwork shields</p><p>4 large suits of half-plate</p><p>3 large full suits of plate</p><p></p><p>more notes: Mokmorian had over 400 hits and was casting two spells per round (quickened). Grezz didn't cast a single offensive spell at him as I doubted I could punch his SR, but the others were more than up to the task. Trixie and I didn't get touched much but the others took a beating, especially Linc. We now have an incredible library at our fingertips and we out-of-game killed everything else and Grezz raised his banner over the Dark Tower (the giants think the place is cursed and left - no word on whether any of them are coming down by us). I will list what treasure we know of below but we ran 5.5 hours and finished up at 12:30 so the ending was a bit abrupt. Below are the spells we peeled off him with Dispel Magicks and the saves we made(some of which I missed in the write-up, of course) - also there was another spell Linc canceled with a delayed-action shot. He was scary and we were very lucky - but also very well prepared. I might take some creative liberties with some other bits of cleanup but will be focusing on the new campaign for a while - It'll be centered on Jade Regent and the site for it is here: <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/kit-jade-regent" target="_blank">kit jade regent | Obsidian Portal</a></p><p>We'll work through the entire first book plus whatever I add in before returning to this campaign - gives Grezz plenty of time to study!</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Saves and spells:</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Solid Fog – Cancelled by trix and the rod of wonder[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Reverse Graveity – Dispelled[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Wind Wall – Dispelled[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Fire shield – dispelled and destroyed via trix/tofa combo[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Contingency – Dispelled[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Stoneskin – Dispelled[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Cat’s Grace – Dispelled[/FONT]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Linc was on fire. For the first 3 rounds every arrow he fired had a 30% miss, then another 20% miss. After that every arrow had a 20% miss. And he still hit with 5 arrows every round. Simply ridiculous rolling. [/FONT]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Spells used on party:[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Fireball – Everyone – 2 party members fail[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Stone to Flesh – Trixie (saved)[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Disintegrate - Link (saved)[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Baleful polymormph – Ruined by Linc’s readied action[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Baleful Polymormph – Link – Saved[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Scandering Slag Eruption – Link Evaded, Londis, griffon and Pho burn. [/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Forcecage – Londis FAIL[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Fireball #2 – Trixie fail, everyone else succeed[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Nausea bomb – Tofa fail, londis, Pho, Linc and griffon succeed[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Magic Missile – Grezz. Blocked by Shield spell[/FONT]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><span style="color: #1f497d">[FONT=&quot]Maximized Magic Missile – Link -> eat 25 damage[/FONT]</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jydog1, post: 5838343, member: 48156"] [b]Session #55 - February 27, 2012 - The Smaller They Come, the Harder They Fall[/b] Notes: You can plan all you want, you can work together flawlessly as a team, you can come up with new and clever ways to attack your foe, but the real key to success is making your saves. Seriously. The next time I make up a character - which won't be for a while, as the campaign I'm running starts next week (!) - I'm going to grab all the save feats. I'll print out the saves made, but in the final battle we only missed a couple. Essentially, we got all the breaks and were able to take the Big Bad down with only one near-death. Actually, things were a little hairy in the fights beforehand, but at the end of our Mokmorian fight I had exactly one 1st level spell slot, one 4th level slot, and one 5th level slot left. Running on empty is an understatement. Plus most of my 4th level casting were used on lower level spells - for Grezz it was all about buffing and Dispel Magic in this fight. I'm not sure what Mokkie's SR was but I didn't even bother. Dinner was hot dogs, homemade coleslaw, and half of Idaho converted into tater tots. I was roundly mocked for the copious amount I made and by the time all the savages were done with them there were exactly 6 left. Ahem. From the journal of Grezzalik M'Rethen, Baron of Turtleback Ferry and Jorgenfist: So, afterwards Londis was kind enough to explain to me what a GraveKnight was. He said to imagine a lich designed for melee instead of tossing spells, and there you are. Well, whatever it was, the thing was brutal and along with a group of undead ogres that liked to explode when re-killed made life difficult for us. Tofa dove past the mooks to get at the big guy and he greeted her with a savage hello [OOC]66 points of damage[/OOC] and gave the same greeting to Londis as well. They were resolute, though, and with a little help from Pho's [I]Flame Strike[/I] the horrible thing finally fell to one of Londis' strikes. True to form, the barely standing Korvosian then pointed a finger at Tofa and said, "And that's how you do it!" Which of course set off another round of bickering and sniping at one another. By Shelyn's Grace, I wish the two of them would just jump one another's bones and get it out of the way already. Although then I'm sure we'd have to listen about which one had better prowess in bed. I don't need to know that. We took the nasty weapons with us and moved along through the partially collapsed complex. It was odd in that the halls were all cylindrical. Thasselonian runes were everywhere. I know I'm a little slow on the uptake but this place was special. Trixie rode over to me on Shotsie and gave me a poke. "Can you read this stuff, or did you screw up that class too?", she said with a grin. "Yeah. This is an important place. Once we get Mokmorian out of here I'm going to have to spend some time studying to hopefully find some info on what's behind all these attacks. It would be nice to actually go after someone instead of just reacting." "Maybe." She sniffed. "I'm just sick of all these damn giants." We wandered to a massive round door that appeared to be made of brass. In the center there was an oddly shaped indentation with a sihedron rune. The frame that surrounded it was covered with Thasselonian runes that I realized were a summoning ward. "If you try to do anything except use the correct key to open the door it summons a . . ." I squinted, trying to make out the exact phrasing - " . . . a 'shining child,' whatever that is. Does anyone know what that is?" There was a chorus of shrugs. Then, from a rubble-filled corridor off to our right, there was a small red bead streaking in our direction. There was no time to shout a warning as the fireball detonated in our midst. The illusion of the rubble flicked off and a small figure, maybe a gnome, stood about a hundred feet away with some truly horrible-looking dog-like creatures behind him. "So," he yelled, "these are the mighty heroes, come to slay us. You don't look like much." As we patted off flames Tofa shouted, "You are not the first person to say that who was soon dead. Happened to one of your friends, da?" He laughed. "Jack of the Laughing Bones isn't frightened by scary words!" "Your name is Jack?", I asked. I couldn't be sure with the distance between us but he appeared to scowl. "No, I'm THE Jack. And these are my friends." He gestured with his hand, and something weird happened. The dogs seemed to flatten and vanish, and suddenly they were among us, snapping away and fixing us with a gaze that I knew carried some ill effect. Trixie yelped and cursed as one sort of folded her up for a few seconds. Grabbing at my chest bandolier, I settled a hand around my rod of selectivity and cranked out a massive lightning ball right in the middle of the battle. [OOC]rolled really well, too. like high 40s or something[/OOC] My friends looked with wide eyes as the electricity arced all around but did not harm to them. the dog things weren't as lucky, with one simply exploding while the others were badly hurt and quickly finished off. One of Linc's arrows proved the Jack to be an illusion - not afraid of us, eh? At the end of the hall we found a warded room that was probably the kennel for those things. A pair of massive doors sat on the other side, and as we discussed what to do they creaked open. The head of the scanderig popped out, looked at us, and then ducked back in while closing the doors again. This was repeated a couple of times before we finally just said the hell with it and opened them ourselves. And there waited our foe. Mokmorian. He really was pretty runty for a giant, maybe 10 feet tall, hiding across the massive room behind a windwall and next to a table with the head from that GraveKnight sitting on it, encased in ice. Of course he had a bellyful of yapping to do, calling us insignificant worms who had been allowed to get this far and our bones were going to be paste and blah blah blah ye gods these meglomaniacs like to hear themselves talk! Before I could retort he tossed a[I] fireball[/I] over, which was pretty rude, and followed that up with a [I]solid fog[/I]. But Trixie scampered out of the entryway and up the back wall, brandished her Rod of Wonder, and [I]blew the solid fog away[/I]. [OOC]I :):):):) you not on this, she rolled the gale force wind needed to blow the thing away. One of our very lucky moments of the night[/OOC]. I had cast a couple of protection spells on myself [OOC]okay - I already had up [I]Mage Armor[/I] and[I] Prot/Arrows[/I], but in addition I cranked out the following: [I]Prot Evil[/I] (and one for Trixie as well); [I]See Invisible; Shield; Mirror Image;[/I] and[I] Elemental Body II. [/I]No wonder I was out of spells[/OOC] and I flew in and dropped a [I]Haste [/I]on everyone. It was pretty much chaos and I focused on Jack, who might have been invisible but wasn't to me. Tofa tore into the scanderig and her crazy-ass sword threw an ice ring over at Mokmorian. Linc shot arrows that somehow made it through to hit the runt but from they didn't seem to do much to the fire-wreathed giant aside from pissing him off - although I knew what the black glow that shot from his finger was. The [I]disintegration[/I] hit link and the elf glowed for a second . . and dropped to a knee, gasping in pain [OOC]He made his save versus death right on the nose. i mean, we had a back-up with trixie and her lucky halfling feat which would have given him another save chance, but man, it was close)[/OOC] meanwhile Jack tossed some sort of bomb at me that missed and I countered by blasting him with a trio of shocking rays. He screamed and tried to scramble away, but Linc's wolf made short work of him as another hastily thrown bomb sailed by to explode by Tofa as she killed the scanderig right after it disgorged magma all over the place [OOC]15d6 if you blow the save - yeesh[/OOC]. Whatever was int he bomb set Tofa to coughing and hacking, but I had no time for that as I turned to Mokmorian. "So. Done hiding and letting others do your fighting?" He sneered, cast something at me that made one of my doppelgangers vanish. "Fool! Worm! I will crush you!" I tossed a Dispel Magic at him, peeled off something. "Right. You're kind of puny for a giant. Is that why your wife threw you out? Because you're not just puny in height? Boy, I bet if I had a wife who told everyone I was lousy in bed I would have killed her too. You know, if I were a loser. like you." His face turned purple and he sputtered some colorful curses at me. Trixie sent her spiritual weapon after him but it wasn't getting through. He started to cast something else at me but Linc drilled him and ruined the spell. I canceled another of his protective spells as Trixie dropped his windwall. He flew backward as Londis charged across the room on his griffin - and smacked solidly into an invisible barrier. I dropped that as well and flew toward the enraged Mokmorian. "Really? is this the best you have?" I took off another of his spells [OOC]My rolls were phenomenal[/OOC] and laughed. "I mean, seriously, I'm starting to get annoyed here. I have IMPORTANT WORK to get done in Turtleback Ferry and I came all the way up here for this? It's like a training exercise!" He howled in fury and pain and Linc put 5 arrows into him, then swung at me with a nasty looking club. It popped another of my images but just made me laugh again, even louder when his juiced up [I]magic missiles[/I] splashed harmlessly against my [I]shield[/I] spell. Linc shot him up again as Mokmorian first trapped Londis in a [I]forcecage[/I] before nailing Linc with his club. The elf grunted and Mokmorian looked a little healthier, and Linc's situation worsened as he stepped into some sort of gravity trap that left him dangling upside down. He still put another arrow into the giant. [OOC]Linc did the majority of the damage with some incredible luck - at times his arrows are being forced to get through 20% and 30% concealment rolls each time, and he never missed. He reduced [I]stoneskin[/I] to nothing and just kept drilling him with [I]gravity-bowed[/I] arrows that I'd [I]flame arrowed[/I] as well[/OOC] I kept taunting the twerp, but he was more concerned with Linc and brought him near death. Londis was trapped in the forcecage, but I spotted Tofa trying to make her way over via [I]Levitation[/I] and knew that wasn't good enough. Swooping over to her - I do very much enjoy being an air elemental - I gave her the ability to fly and her mouth set in a tight grin as she roared off after Mokmorian. It didn't take her long. She damn near cleaved his head off, but the body didn't fall, instead glowing with a sinister light. An otherworldly voice came from the corpse. [I]So, worms, you think you've won. Worms! Every one of my losses has been a sacrifice, every sihidron-marked kill you've made bringing me back to life. And now, swine, you shall understand the power of Karzoug, Runelord of Greed, you will suffer greatly when I crush you under my heel![/I] then it was gone, without even an opportunity for me to mock him back. Mokmorian's body dissolved into goo on the floor and we looked around the chamber, empty except for us. Still standing, yet again. Loot: (so far, we didn't get to the mother lode description yet) 2 Runechill Battleaxes (+1 battleaxe, 1 per day 1d6 neg energy on hit for 5 rounds, DC12 Fort save or lose 1 STR) 7 Large masterwork shields 4 large suits of half-plate 3 large full suits of plate more notes: Mokmorian had over 400 hits and was casting two spells per round (quickened). Grezz didn't cast a single offensive spell at him as I doubted I could punch his SR, but the others were more than up to the task. Trixie and I didn't get touched much but the others took a beating, especially Linc. We now have an incredible library at our fingertips and we out-of-game killed everything else and Grezz raised his banner over the Dark Tower (the giants think the place is cursed and left - no word on whether any of them are coming down by us). I will list what treasure we know of below but we ran 5.5 hours and finished up at 12:30 so the ending was a bit abrupt. Below are the spells we peeled off him with Dispel Magicks and the saves we made(some of which I missed in the write-up, of course) - also there was another spell Linc canceled with a delayed-action shot. He was scary and we were very lucky - but also very well prepared. I might take some creative liberties with some other bits of cleanup but will be focusing on the new campaign for a while - It'll be centered on Jade Regent and the site for it is here: [URL="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/kit-jade-regent"]kit jade regent | Obsidian Portal[/URL] We'll work through the entire first book plus whatever I add in before returning to this campaign - gives Grezz plenty of time to study! [COLOR=DimGray]Saves and spells: [/COLOR][COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Solid Fog – Cancelled by trix and the rod of wonder[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Reverse Graveity – Dispelled[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Wind Wall – Dispelled[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Fire shield – dispelled and destroyed via trix/tofa combo[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Contingency – Dispelled[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Stoneskin – Dispelled[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Cat’s Grace – Dispelled[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Linc was on fire. For the first 3 rounds every arrow he fired had a 30% miss, then another 20% miss. After that every arrow had a 20% miss. And he still hit with 5 arrows every round. Simply ridiculous rolling. [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Spells used on party:[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Fireball – Everyone – 2 party members fail[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Stone to Flesh – Trixie (saved)[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Disintegrate - Link (saved)[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Baleful polymormph – Ruined by Linc’s readied action[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Baleful Polymormph – Link – Saved[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Scandering Slag Eruption – Link Evaded, Londis, griffon and Pho burn. [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Forcecage – Londis FAIL[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Fireball #2 – Trixie fail, everyone else succeed[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Nausea bomb – Tofa fail, londis, Pho, Linc and griffon succeed[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Magic Missile – Grezz. Blocked by Shield spell[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][COLOR=#1f497d][FONT="]Maximized Magic Missile – Link -> eat 25 damage[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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