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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2817733" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Seven, “Tavern Battle”, August 5th, 1018 6:30 P.M. </strong> </p><p></p><p>Fiona and Silas Junior fly over the town, seeing noting out of the ordinary other than an unknown merchant ship being docked in the harbor. She lands at the tavern, and they enter. Inside is a table of unknown adventurers, comprised of two fighters, two clerics, two mages, and a thief; all are human except for a half-ogre fighter; all are male except for one of the mages. Luekia, Blip, and Freyland are sitting at another table. Guice is at the bar, and Jerry is behind the bar. Fiona has Silas Junior stay near a window to keep an eye on the pegasus, and she approaches the bar. </p><p></p><p>Fiona discreetly informs both Jerry and Guice of what has transpired. Jerry approaches the table with Luekia, Blip and Freyland and discreetly notifies them. The halfling Blake enters the tavern, and goes to the bar as well. Jerry approaches the other table of adventurers, and asks them about their meal, and the male mage asks directions to the outhouse. The mage exits for the back door. Silas Junior heads outside via the front door to watch the Pegasus. Jerry returns to the bar, and sends one of the tavern employees to go get Isaiah. Guice decides to go get some of the ship’s crew. Jerry heads towards the kitchen, just as the mage returning from the outhouse opens up the door, and starts casting a spell. </p><p></p><p>Jerry charges at the man, and Freyland flings a dagger that misses. The spell goes off before Jerry connects, resulting in a large Web extending from the bar to the two front doors, and encompassing all of the party except for Jerry. The other six enemy adventurers stand in unison. The female mage and one of the clerics begin casting spells. Guice becomes enthralled by her Color Spray spell. Blake and Fiona successfully save from a Hold Person. Jerry manages to knock the male mage out of the doorway, and onto the ground. Outside, Jerry starts pummeling him, to prevent any further spell usage. Fiona lets loose with a Magic Missile into the enemy leader. </p><p></p><p>Freyland is the first to break free of the web, climbing under it and approaching the foes. Blip similarly manages to break free of the web, also traveling under it for cover. Luekia draws her nunchucks , and uses them to break the web holding her, then uses her Boots of Levitation to travel upward. The enemy thief tosses his two sai daggers at her. She manages to catch both of them, throwing one back into the enemy female mage. The thief disappears under the web. The lead enemy fighter casually draws his crossbow, targeting Luekia. </p><p></p><p>Blake tries to break free, but is held fast by the web. The spell-casting cleric targets Luekia, who successfully saves. She tosses her nunchucks at him, preventing another spell from getting off (with the DM making an unintentional play-on-words about The Flying Nunchucks). The female mage yells to the group “Surrender or I’ll fireball the room.” “Good, that will get rid of the web,” is Freyland’s reply. Blip hits her with a Blindness spell, essentially taking her out of the action. Fiona then gets struck by a Hold Person from the cleric. </p><p></p><p>Outside of the tavern Jerry manages to get the mage onto the ground, where the enemy mage spends the next three rounds trying to regain his footing with the annoying gnome attached to his shoulders, striking the man’s head and face with his fists. The players debate if this situation bears closer resemblance to a Three Stooges episode or a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Silas Junior notices what is going on inside the tavern, and throws a large rock through the front window, showering the half-ogre and the other enemy cleric with glass. This other "cleric", who has so-far thrown no spells now draws a shortsword. The half-ogre starts heading towards the door. Silas Junior climbs upon Fiona’s Pegasus, and coaxes her into flying them up onto the tavern roof. </p><p></p><p>Blip catches the attention of the half-ogre, which tries to draw a two-handed sword, striking the ceiling in the process. Blip yells out “Hey Roger, appear” casting an Improved Phantasmal Force Spell, which creates an illusionary half-hill-giant fighter with sword. The half-ogre engages his newfound foe. The enemy leader gets one crossbow shot off at Luekia. She unsuccessfully tries to catch it, and gets hit for five points of damage. Freyland then engages the man in battle, the fighter drawing a longsword. They fight for multiple rounds, until Freyland assesses that he is no match for the guy, and retreats under a table and then beneath the web. The man with the shortsword, who had pretended to be a cleric, also disappears beneath the web. </p><p></p><p>Jerry and the Mage continue their rather comical wrestling match. The mage charges into the wall, dislodging Jerry from his shoulder. The mage then tries to run back to the tavern door, but Jerry grabs his feet, dropping him again to the ground. Luekia breaks Fiona free of the hold, and helps her out of the web, then up onto and then behind the bar. She telepathically signals her pegasus to fly Silas Junior to the ship Silver Moon to get the crew. Luekia spots the thief beneath the hole in the web where Fiona had been, and tosses the other sai into him. The thief had moved over to Guice, striking him with the poison he had planned for Fiona, which paralyzes him. </p><p></p><p>Blake finally breaks free of the web and climbs under it, only to run into the same thief and get struck by the poison, also becoming paralyzed. The thief then turns invisible. Blip has climbed up to the window, where he is still controlling the movement of the illusionary fighter. Freyland has emerged from the web at the opposite end of the room, and starts firing arrows into the enemy leader who has now targeted Blip with his crossbow. The arrows strike the man, who fires back at Freyland instead of Blip, missing him. </p><p></p><p>From behind the bar, Fiona targets the female enemy mage, and both fighters, letting loose a lightning bolt into them and the far window. The half-ogre is barely scratched by it, although he continues to take much damage from the illusionary half-hill-giant. The bolt kills the female mage, and the other enemy is hurt. Luekia sees the door to the area behind the bar opening by itself, and tosses a dagger at the area where she assumes an invisible enemy is. Blip hops out the window, going to Jerry’s aid. Blip and Jerry both strike the mage until he is unconscious. </p><p></p><p>Once Blip has exited the building, Freyland decides that departure sounds like a good idea, and heads towards the side door to the inn. Just as he turns, he sees the enemy with a shortsword directly behind him, the man having moved in for a backstab. The two exchange blows, both missing, and Freyland scoots out the door into the inn. He runs off at top speed, with the man behind him. Freyland exits out of the inn’s front door, and disappears into the woods to the north. The enemy pursues him for a while before eventually giving up, and heading back to the tavern. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Blip’s illusionary fighter disappears, leaving the half-ogre down over sixty hit points. Jerry and Blip decide to take the mage prisoner, and start dragging him away towards the forests northwest of the tavern. </p><p></p><p>Fiona and Luekia are now the only party members within the room, and the two become the immediate target of both enemy fighters. Fiona hits the leader with a magic missile spell, which throws off his aim, and also reduces him to a mere five hit points. He orders the half-ogre to attack the women. The half-ogre starts breaking through the web as if it was not there. Fiona casts a Grease spell, which causes the half-ogre to trip and fall. They try to exit into the kitchen, only to have Fiona now be attacked by the invisible thief, reducing her to fewer than two hit points. Luekia does an “open hand” attack on the man, Kris rolling a natural “20”, which drops him unconscious. She then finishes him off. The two exit through the kitchen, and out of the tavern, using the nearest building to the south as cover. </p><p></p><p>Just as Jerry and Blip are entering the woods as the half-ogre rushes out of the tavern, prompting the two gnomes to move quicker and out of sight. Their thieving skills are successful, and they evade being spotted by the enemy fighter. There is also a parameter battalion of hobgoblins and bugbears in the forests outside of town, which the two gnomes also manage to evade, continuing westward with their prisoner. Their destination is Freyland’s well concealed home, three miles away, dug into the hillside at the base of the Island’s mountain. Half a mile to the north, Freyland also evades capture by the hobgoblins and bugbears (harder to do without thieving abilities), with his destination also being his home. </p><p></p><p>Fiona and Luekia head south, using the back of the other buildings in the town as cover. They witness that the enemies have overtaken the ship, with Silas Junior and Fiona’s Pegasus being captured. Fiona and Luekia disappear into the forests southwest of the town, with Luekia’s destination being a hidden shoreline cave, where the entrance can only reached underwater, although getting Fiona’s cat familiar to voluntarily go there could prove to be challenging. </p><p></p><p></p><p><em>The DM congratulates the group, stating that he is amazed that five of the seven playing characters actually managed to escape a scenario where the deck was so greatly stacked against them. He comments that the eight games played in the module, comprised of three nights of continent politics and then five nights of “flashback battles“, were all just the module’s set-up. He states that now the “real module” can begin. “Good, we can finally start winning,” one of the player’s states. The DM replies, “Hey, you managed to break even tonight.” </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 2817733, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Seven, “Tavern Battle”, August 5th, 1018 6:30 P.M. [/B] Fiona and Silas Junior fly over the town, seeing noting out of the ordinary other than an unknown merchant ship being docked in the harbor. She lands at the tavern, and they enter. Inside is a table of unknown adventurers, comprised of two fighters, two clerics, two mages, and a thief; all are human except for a half-ogre fighter; all are male except for one of the mages. Luekia, Blip, and Freyland are sitting at another table. Guice is at the bar, and Jerry is behind the bar. Fiona has Silas Junior stay near a window to keep an eye on the pegasus, and she approaches the bar. Fiona discreetly informs both Jerry and Guice of what has transpired. Jerry approaches the table with Luekia, Blip and Freyland and discreetly notifies them. The halfling Blake enters the tavern, and goes to the bar as well. Jerry approaches the other table of adventurers, and asks them about their meal, and the male mage asks directions to the outhouse. The mage exits for the back door. Silas Junior heads outside via the front door to watch the Pegasus. Jerry returns to the bar, and sends one of the tavern employees to go get Isaiah. Guice decides to go get some of the ship’s crew. Jerry heads towards the kitchen, just as the mage returning from the outhouse opens up the door, and starts casting a spell. Jerry charges at the man, and Freyland flings a dagger that misses. The spell goes off before Jerry connects, resulting in a large Web extending from the bar to the two front doors, and encompassing all of the party except for Jerry. The other six enemy adventurers stand in unison. The female mage and one of the clerics begin casting spells. Guice becomes enthralled by her Color Spray spell. Blake and Fiona successfully save from a Hold Person. Jerry manages to knock the male mage out of the doorway, and onto the ground. Outside, Jerry starts pummeling him, to prevent any further spell usage. Fiona lets loose with a Magic Missile into the enemy leader. Freyland is the first to break free of the web, climbing under it and approaching the foes. Blip similarly manages to break free of the web, also traveling under it for cover. Luekia draws her nunchucks , and uses them to break the web holding her, then uses her Boots of Levitation to travel upward. The enemy thief tosses his two sai daggers at her. She manages to catch both of them, throwing one back into the enemy female mage. The thief disappears under the web. The lead enemy fighter casually draws his crossbow, targeting Luekia. Blake tries to break free, but is held fast by the web. The spell-casting cleric targets Luekia, who successfully saves. She tosses her nunchucks at him, preventing another spell from getting off (with the DM making an unintentional play-on-words about The Flying Nunchucks). The female mage yells to the group “Surrender or I’ll fireball the room.” “Good, that will get rid of the web,” is Freyland’s reply. Blip hits her with a Blindness spell, essentially taking her out of the action. Fiona then gets struck by a Hold Person from the cleric. Outside of the tavern Jerry manages to get the mage onto the ground, where the enemy mage spends the next three rounds trying to regain his footing with the annoying gnome attached to his shoulders, striking the man’s head and face with his fists. The players debate if this situation bears closer resemblance to a Three Stooges episode or a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Silas Junior notices what is going on inside the tavern, and throws a large rock through the front window, showering the half-ogre and the other enemy cleric with glass. This other "cleric", who has so-far thrown no spells now draws a shortsword. The half-ogre starts heading towards the door. Silas Junior climbs upon Fiona’s Pegasus, and coaxes her into flying them up onto the tavern roof. Blip catches the attention of the half-ogre, which tries to draw a two-handed sword, striking the ceiling in the process. Blip yells out “Hey Roger, appear” casting an Improved Phantasmal Force Spell, which creates an illusionary half-hill-giant fighter with sword. The half-ogre engages his newfound foe. The enemy leader gets one crossbow shot off at Luekia. She unsuccessfully tries to catch it, and gets hit for five points of damage. Freyland then engages the man in battle, the fighter drawing a longsword. They fight for multiple rounds, until Freyland assesses that he is no match for the guy, and retreats under a table and then beneath the web. The man with the shortsword, who had pretended to be a cleric, also disappears beneath the web. Jerry and the Mage continue their rather comical wrestling match. The mage charges into the wall, dislodging Jerry from his shoulder. The mage then tries to run back to the tavern door, but Jerry grabs his feet, dropping him again to the ground. Luekia breaks Fiona free of the hold, and helps her out of the web, then up onto and then behind the bar. She telepathically signals her pegasus to fly Silas Junior to the ship Silver Moon to get the crew. Luekia spots the thief beneath the hole in the web where Fiona had been, and tosses the other sai into him. The thief had moved over to Guice, striking him with the poison he had planned for Fiona, which paralyzes him. Blake finally breaks free of the web and climbs under it, only to run into the same thief and get struck by the poison, also becoming paralyzed. The thief then turns invisible. Blip has climbed up to the window, where he is still controlling the movement of the illusionary fighter. Freyland has emerged from the web at the opposite end of the room, and starts firing arrows into the enemy leader who has now targeted Blip with his crossbow. The arrows strike the man, who fires back at Freyland instead of Blip, missing him. From behind the bar, Fiona targets the female enemy mage, and both fighters, letting loose a lightning bolt into them and the far window. The half-ogre is barely scratched by it, although he continues to take much damage from the illusionary half-hill-giant. The bolt kills the female mage, and the other enemy is hurt. Luekia sees the door to the area behind the bar opening by itself, and tosses a dagger at the area where she assumes an invisible enemy is. Blip hops out the window, going to Jerry’s aid. Blip and Jerry both strike the mage until he is unconscious. Once Blip has exited the building, Freyland decides that departure sounds like a good idea, and heads towards the side door to the inn. Just as he turns, he sees the enemy with a shortsword directly behind him, the man having moved in for a backstab. The two exchange blows, both missing, and Freyland scoots out the door into the inn. He runs off at top speed, with the man behind him. Freyland exits out of the inn’s front door, and disappears into the woods to the north. The enemy pursues him for a while before eventually giving up, and heading back to the tavern. Meanwhile, Blip’s illusionary fighter disappears, leaving the half-ogre down over sixty hit points. Jerry and Blip decide to take the mage prisoner, and start dragging him away towards the forests northwest of the tavern. Fiona and Luekia are now the only party members within the room, and the two become the immediate target of both enemy fighters. Fiona hits the leader with a magic missile spell, which throws off his aim, and also reduces him to a mere five hit points. He orders the half-ogre to attack the women. The half-ogre starts breaking through the web as if it was not there. Fiona casts a Grease spell, which causes the half-ogre to trip and fall. They try to exit into the kitchen, only to have Fiona now be attacked by the invisible thief, reducing her to fewer than two hit points. Luekia does an “open hand” attack on the man, Kris rolling a natural “20”, which drops him unconscious. She then finishes him off. The two exit through the kitchen, and out of the tavern, using the nearest building to the south as cover. Just as Jerry and Blip are entering the woods as the half-ogre rushes out of the tavern, prompting the two gnomes to move quicker and out of sight. Their thieving skills are successful, and they evade being spotted by the enemy fighter. There is also a parameter battalion of hobgoblins and bugbears in the forests outside of town, which the two gnomes also manage to evade, continuing westward with their prisoner. Their destination is Freyland’s well concealed home, three miles away, dug into the hillside at the base of the Island’s mountain. Half a mile to the north, Freyland also evades capture by the hobgoblins and bugbears (harder to do without thieving abilities), with his destination also being his home. Fiona and Luekia head south, using the back of the other buildings in the town as cover. They witness that the enemies have overtaken the ship, with Silas Junior and Fiona’s Pegasus being captured. Fiona and Luekia disappear into the forests southwest of the town, with Luekia’s destination being a hidden shoreline cave, where the entrance can only reached underwater, although getting Fiona’s cat familiar to voluntarily go there could prove to be challenging. [I]The DM congratulates the group, stating that he is amazed that five of the seven playing characters actually managed to escape a scenario where the deck was so greatly stacked against them. He comments that the eight games played in the module, comprised of three nights of continent politics and then five nights of “flashback battles“, were all just the module’s set-up. He states that now the “real module” can begin. “Good, we can finally start winning,” one of the player’s states. The DM replies, “Hey, you managed to break even tonight.” [/I] [/QUOTE]
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