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<blockquote data-quote="pizzaboy_15" data-source="post: 3342419" data-attributes="member: 40856"><p><strong>Session four (as promised)</strong></p><p></p><p>Well this week we had another new addition to the group. So the party consists of:</p><p>Nym CN Half-elf Ranger 3</p><p>Rondel CN Half-elf Rogue 3</p><p>Harley CG Gnome War Mage 2/ Barbarian 1</p><p>Vaakku CN Human Necromancer 3</p><p>Tyrae Vermillion CG Sun Elf Bard 3</p><p></p><p>Back to the story:</p><p></p><p>After the fight, Nym feeling slightly drowsy after the injury sustained from the Owlbear, the party decided to rest. Harley rapidly closed the door and they rapped Nym up in the Owlbear so that he could go to sleep and rest up hopefully to a good degree. Harley took the first watch and Rondel took the second as Vaakku and whichever one of the two was on their break to sleep amongst the fallen Owlbear. This continued until Nym awoke where the rest were he drank one of the party potions to help his healing.</p><p></p><p>When the party were all ready they headed out into the main hall where all of the rotting dead lay. Harley leading the group through the door, they entered a room that seemed to have seats that seemed to flow into a comfortable curve that were long enough to lie down comfortably upon. This was when Harley noticed a door to the right of them and within the room they were not alone.</p><p></p><p>Rondel taking initiative moved up and attacked the closest opponent, which happened to be a Hobgoblin Zombie, not managing to pierce the studded leather armour. Nym moved into the corner of the small room and attacked the Skeleton also in the corner and narrowly missed the spine of the skeleton. The nearest skeleton to Nym struck out but Nym easily dodged the skeletons sword. The skeleton in the far corner charged Harley yet missed the little barbarian. Vaakku noting the two undead furthest away he cast Control Undead and gets the zombie that Rondel tried to attack. Harley moved out of danger and cast a Suddenly Maximised Hail of Stone destroying the skeleton that had been attacked by Nym and the other one that was moving towards Nym. The Zombie under the control of Vaakku attacks the remaining Skeleton and misses it with the sword it was holding. The other zombie swung at Harley with it’s longsword but again missed the hardy little gnome.</p><p></p><p>Tyrae in the room, to the right of the party, hears the commotions and jumps from his hiding place and runs through the door grasping his halberd as he opened the door he quickly assessed the situation and realised that the undead were the biggest threat and swung his halberd at the zombie unfortunate enough to place itself five feet away from him which was sharply repaid with the blade of the halberd in shoulder and then lifted up out of it. Rondel, in a moment of pure, instinct moved up to the controlled zombie and skeleton it was fighting and stabbed at the ribs of a skeleton yet forgetting about the lack of vital organs between the ribs. Nym move closer to the uncontrolled zombie and swung at it yet the searing pain from his previous fight made him fall to his knees and miss. The final skeleton swung with its scimitar at Rondel who quickly ducked the attack. Vaakku realising the possibility to gain another undead to help out the parties cause, he cast his second Control Undead of the day, which quickly got the skeleton under his control. Harley realising the end of the fight was near drew her great axe and charged the final opposing zombie and struck the zombies head, that lead to the head being removed.</p><p></p><p>Tyrae looked around the room, looking at each of the members and ending on Nym, of whom he fell in love with at first sight. Harley moved up looking critically at the sun elf in front of her.</p><p>“Thank you for helping us. Now why were you helping us?” Harley asked quizzically.</p><p>“Oh, hello.” Tyrae spoke to Nym. Nym waved nervously back.</p><p>“Excuse me.” Rondel asked getting the elf’s attention, “thank you for helping us. How did you get here?”</p><p>“Oh I fell asleep in a big ring and found myself here. And being the purveyor of pretty things that I am, I came here obviously because this tower is pretty and found this shiny rock!” Tyrae pulled out a shiny crystalline rock that seemed to glow slightly, “Look I want to get out of here now can I join you guys?”</p><p>“I don’t see why not.” Vaakku said admiring his new ‘companions’. </p><p>“Me neither.” Came Rondel.</p><p>“What?” Harley seemingly objected. I’m sorry but we don’t know anything about him.”</p><p>“None of us know much about each others pasts. Just that we will fight together.” Vaakku keenly replied. </p><p>“That’s not the point!” Harley exclaimed.</p><p>“No, yes it is.” Rondel pointed out.</p><p>“Fine. Now can we loot these bodies please?” Nym pointed out, seemingly off guard. Looting the bodies Tyrae found a silver chain between the ribs of one of the skeletons that he rapidly put through her shiny stone and gave it as a wristband to Nym as they were looking for anything else. The party found nothing else that was of decent value. So they decided to head through the door that Tyrae came through. Once they entered the next room there was a beautiful crystal fountain that was designed to look as though sunlight was shining off of the flowing water. With the edges carved into seats so that people could sit and by the educated guess of Tyrae, whom had been hiding in the room, it was a set of baths for the Star elves and their guests. In the pool at the base of the fountain the water was a pinkie tinge due to the two hobgoblin bodies lying dead at the edge of the water. Noting a trail of blood leading from the pool around the two hobgoblin bodies heading to a door in the centre of the wall. Deciding that it was probably not the best idea to go in that door the group decided to go to the door to the right of it. As they passed through the door to right they quickly discovered that it was a staircase and decided to prevent themselves from being attacked from behind, Vaakku’s idea, they decided to check the other door.</p><p></p><p>As they opened the door they saw it. There sat a dead hobgoblin, from what Nym could gather it was a hobgoblin that had been horribly mutilated. The clothes and armour had been removed and the skin had been stripped back and its face was stuck in a horrified pose with all of the organs and muscle exposed. He was in a pool of blood, presumably it’s own. Once in the room Vaakku cast Detect Magic. He viewed that there were two magical objects in the room. One of which was a longsword next to the body and there was a strong necromantic aura underneath the clothes of the fallen hobgoblin. Vaakku moved towards the sword in awe of the prospect of having a magical sword was over enticing. The two undead moved with him as ‘bodyguards’. After reaching half-way across the room, the pile of clothes erupted to reveal a Forsaken Shell, which charged the zombie and missed it narrowly.</p><p></p><p>Harley started by casting Fist of Stone as she moved over to the edge of the room. Tyrae charged the Forsaken Shell using his extended reach tried to strike it from a distance however it was easily dodged by the sloughed skin heap. Vaakku moves up and picks up the sword and admires it completely oblivious to the Forsaken Shell. The skeleton struck the sloughing skin causing damage to it. The zombie followed up and dealt it a deep gash. Rondel moved up and used the point of the rapier to slash at the creature. The Forsaken Shell smashed the skeleton, which fell to bits…</p><p></p><p><strong>DM's Comments</strong></p><p></p><p>Well as promised the session has been put up. Now I'm up to date. But sorry for the snappy length of the session, it's just that we had a new player that we sorted out at the beginning of the session. This cut down our time but everyone played well and with the addition of Tyrae and his love of Nym things may start getting sligthly weird...</p><p></p><p>The party is doing well and are doing well while fighting the Forsaken shell. I'm not surprised that Nym's player isn't wanting to get involved in the combat as she did take a critical hit last time and this one is bigger and tougher than the owlbear. Enjoy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pizzaboy_15, post: 3342419, member: 40856"] [b]Session four (as promised)[/b] Well this week we had another new addition to the group. So the party consists of: Nym CN Half-elf Ranger 3 Rondel CN Half-elf Rogue 3 Harley CG Gnome War Mage 2/ Barbarian 1 Vaakku CN Human Necromancer 3 Tyrae Vermillion CG Sun Elf Bard 3 Back to the story: After the fight, Nym feeling slightly drowsy after the injury sustained from the Owlbear, the party decided to rest. Harley rapidly closed the door and they rapped Nym up in the Owlbear so that he could go to sleep and rest up hopefully to a good degree. Harley took the first watch and Rondel took the second as Vaakku and whichever one of the two was on their break to sleep amongst the fallen Owlbear. This continued until Nym awoke where the rest were he drank one of the party potions to help his healing. When the party were all ready they headed out into the main hall where all of the rotting dead lay. Harley leading the group through the door, they entered a room that seemed to have seats that seemed to flow into a comfortable curve that were long enough to lie down comfortably upon. This was when Harley noticed a door to the right of them and within the room they were not alone. Rondel taking initiative moved up and attacked the closest opponent, which happened to be a Hobgoblin Zombie, not managing to pierce the studded leather armour. Nym moved into the corner of the small room and attacked the Skeleton also in the corner and narrowly missed the spine of the skeleton. The nearest skeleton to Nym struck out but Nym easily dodged the skeletons sword. The skeleton in the far corner charged Harley yet missed the little barbarian. Vaakku noting the two undead furthest away he cast Control Undead and gets the zombie that Rondel tried to attack. Harley moved out of danger and cast a Suddenly Maximised Hail of Stone destroying the skeleton that had been attacked by Nym and the other one that was moving towards Nym. The Zombie under the control of Vaakku attacks the remaining Skeleton and misses it with the sword it was holding. The other zombie swung at Harley with it’s longsword but again missed the hardy little gnome. Tyrae in the room, to the right of the party, hears the commotions and jumps from his hiding place and runs through the door grasping his halberd as he opened the door he quickly assessed the situation and realised that the undead were the biggest threat and swung his halberd at the zombie unfortunate enough to place itself five feet away from him which was sharply repaid with the blade of the halberd in shoulder and then lifted up out of it. Rondel, in a moment of pure, instinct moved up to the controlled zombie and skeleton it was fighting and stabbed at the ribs of a skeleton yet forgetting about the lack of vital organs between the ribs. Nym move closer to the uncontrolled zombie and swung at it yet the searing pain from his previous fight made him fall to his knees and miss. The final skeleton swung with its scimitar at Rondel who quickly ducked the attack. Vaakku realising the possibility to gain another undead to help out the parties cause, he cast his second Control Undead of the day, which quickly got the skeleton under his control. Harley realising the end of the fight was near drew her great axe and charged the final opposing zombie and struck the zombies head, that lead to the head being removed. Tyrae looked around the room, looking at each of the members and ending on Nym, of whom he fell in love with at first sight. Harley moved up looking critically at the sun elf in front of her. “Thank you for helping us. Now why were you helping us?” Harley asked quizzically. “Oh, hello.” Tyrae spoke to Nym. Nym waved nervously back. “Excuse me.” Rondel asked getting the elf’s attention, “thank you for helping us. How did you get here?” “Oh I fell asleep in a big ring and found myself here. And being the purveyor of pretty things that I am, I came here obviously because this tower is pretty and found this shiny rock!” Tyrae pulled out a shiny crystalline rock that seemed to glow slightly, “Look I want to get out of here now can I join you guys?” “I don’t see why not.” Vaakku said admiring his new ‘companions’. “Me neither.” Came Rondel. “What?” Harley seemingly objected. I’m sorry but we don’t know anything about him.” “None of us know much about each others pasts. Just that we will fight together.” Vaakku keenly replied. “That’s not the point!” Harley exclaimed. “No, yes it is.” Rondel pointed out. “Fine. Now can we loot these bodies please?” Nym pointed out, seemingly off guard. Looting the bodies Tyrae found a silver chain between the ribs of one of the skeletons that he rapidly put through her shiny stone and gave it as a wristband to Nym as they were looking for anything else. The party found nothing else that was of decent value. So they decided to head through the door that Tyrae came through. Once they entered the next room there was a beautiful crystal fountain that was designed to look as though sunlight was shining off of the flowing water. With the edges carved into seats so that people could sit and by the educated guess of Tyrae, whom had been hiding in the room, it was a set of baths for the Star elves and their guests. In the pool at the base of the fountain the water was a pinkie tinge due to the two hobgoblin bodies lying dead at the edge of the water. Noting a trail of blood leading from the pool around the two hobgoblin bodies heading to a door in the centre of the wall. Deciding that it was probably not the best idea to go in that door the group decided to go to the door to the right of it. As they passed through the door to right they quickly discovered that it was a staircase and decided to prevent themselves from being attacked from behind, Vaakku’s idea, they decided to check the other door. As they opened the door they saw it. There sat a dead hobgoblin, from what Nym could gather it was a hobgoblin that had been horribly mutilated. The clothes and armour had been removed and the skin had been stripped back and its face was stuck in a horrified pose with all of the organs and muscle exposed. He was in a pool of blood, presumably it’s own. Once in the room Vaakku cast Detect Magic. He viewed that there were two magical objects in the room. One of which was a longsword next to the body and there was a strong necromantic aura underneath the clothes of the fallen hobgoblin. Vaakku moved towards the sword in awe of the prospect of having a magical sword was over enticing. The two undead moved with him as ‘bodyguards’. After reaching half-way across the room, the pile of clothes erupted to reveal a Forsaken Shell, which charged the zombie and missed it narrowly. Harley started by casting Fist of Stone as she moved over to the edge of the room. Tyrae charged the Forsaken Shell using his extended reach tried to strike it from a distance however it was easily dodged by the sloughed skin heap. Vaakku moves up and picks up the sword and admires it completely oblivious to the Forsaken Shell. The skeleton struck the sloughing skin causing damage to it. The zombie followed up and dealt it a deep gash. Rondel moved up and used the point of the rapier to slash at the creature. The Forsaken Shell smashed the skeleton, which fell to bits… [B]DM's Comments[/B] Well as promised the session has been put up. Now I'm up to date. But sorry for the snappy length of the session, it's just that we had a new player that we sorted out at the beginning of the session. This cut down our time but everyone played well and with the addition of Tyrae and his love of Nym things may start getting sligthly weird... The party is doing well and are doing well while fighting the Forsaken shell. I'm not surprised that Nym's player isn't wanting to get involved in the combat as she did take a critical hit last time and this one is bigger and tougher than the owlbear. Enjoy [/QUOTE]
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