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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4291491" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). </strong></p><p><strong>Night Eight of Eleven , May 12, 2002, Game # 815 </strong> </p><p></p><p><u>Cast of Characters</u></p><p>Ailsheir, male drow elf archer-ranger</p><p>Alton, male human druid </p><p>Aradyn, male elf archer-ranger </p><p>Benedict, male human cleric</p><p>Bitsey, female half-elf 2nd Edition bard </p><p>Blake, male halfling thief</p><p>Blip, female gnome illusionist/thief </p><p>Dennismore, male elf thief </p><p>Duegar, male dwarf fighter </p><p>Ebony Shadow, female hengeyokai (cat sub-race) archer-ranger </p><p>Fiona, female half-elf magic-user </p><p>Freyland, male gnome fighter</p><p>Furynick, male human fighter</p><p>Grun, male orc fighter/magic-user </p><p>Guice, male half-elf ranger </p><p>Harald, male human fighter </p><p>Hiroshi, male human magic-user </p><p>Isaiah, male human cleric </p><p>Jerry, male gnome thief </p><p>Ka’thudd, male half-orc fighter </p><p>Kharole, female elf magic-user</p><p>Kim-Sung, female half-dwarf druid </p><p>Lannon, male dwarf thief </p><p>Lono, male elf fighter/thief </p><p>Luekia, female human monk </p><p>Mark, male half-elf ranger </p><p>Min-Mae, female hengeyokai (owl sub-race) magic-user </p><p>Mojo, male elf fighter </p><p>Narg, male half-elf fighter </p><p>Opal Silversteel, female dwarf fighter/cleric </p><p>Ron Luther X5-0135, male human fighter</p><p>Ryan, male elf thief </p><p>Serita, female half-elf druid </p><p>Syrendal, female hengeyokai (falcon sub-race) ranger </p><p>Tiffany, female elf-like </p><p>Timothy, male human cleric </p><p>Toshiro, male human fighter </p><p>Troyan, male elf ranger</p><p>Vallessa, female elf archer-ranger </p><p>Vincenzo, male human cleric</p><p></p><p>March 27, 1019:</p><p></p><p>Narg tells the others about the Oxnardian clerics, and their attempt to find the rod. He emphasizes the danger to the younger versions of Alton, Cassie, Lono and Mark. Cassie comments that “Wait a minute. When we were at that place in the woods all Ixy stole from the General were the wine bottles, not a ring of Mordenkainen. Won’t leaving that with them then change history?” Ilma replies “Not really. I’ll just make sure that the fighter Dan is the one who retains possession of the ring, as he left you guys soon thereafter. His having it won’t have effected anything during the seven years since then, as the ring can only be used by a magic-user, which there aren’t any of back at his home at The Keep.” </p><p></p><p>Cassie has not-very-pleasant memories of both her magic-user and clerical magics not working right on the world where the fortress is, so agrees to stay behind to guard the six pieces of the Rod instead of going there. Eric, Patrick, Shamus, Skippy and Roddy agree to stay with her as added protection. Vallessa declares that her daughter Dani will also be staying behind, much to the girl’s chagrin. Tiffany decides to accompany them, pulling out a laser pistol that she had hidden on her back behind her cloak. The remaining characters split into five teams, with Narg deciding where each team should begin. </p><p></p><p>A team comprised of the four of the archer-rangers, Ailsheir, Aradyn, Ebony, and Vallessa, along with the fighter Harald, take up a position in the intact tower. Bitsey accompanies this group, to increase their success through her bardic singing. Situated near them are the Stone Giant with the wolves, and a group comprised of the three gnoll and five surviving orcs. </p><p></p><p>A team comprised of the six “space cadets”, namely Alton, Lono, Min-Mae, Ron and Syrendal in their space suits, and the space-elf Tiffany, take up a position in the other mostly intact tower, The nearest group of enemies are five frost giants. </p><p></p><p>A team comprised of Benedict, Blip, Grun, Hiroshi, Kim-Sung, Lannon, Narg, Timothy and Toshiro take up a position near the back wall, a short distance away from the quartet of clerics surrounded by skeleton. Also near them is the group comprised of bugbears.</p><p></p><p>A team comprised of Duegar, Fiona, Isaiah, Ka’thudd, Luekia, Mark, Ryan, Serita and Troyan take up position in the center of another wall, not far from the quartet of clerics surrounded by ogres. Also near them is the large group of hobgoblins, and both groups of goblins. </p><p></p><p>The final team, who it is decided will initiate the attack, are comprised of Blake, Dennismore, Freyland, Furynick, Guice, Jerry, Kharole, Mojo, Opal and Vincenzo. They arrive on the opposite side of the quartet of clerics surrounded by ogres than the team listed above. Also situated near them are the group of bugbears and a group of three hill giants. </p><p></p><p>The three thieves in the final team have been made invisible by Kharole, and head off towards the clerics. They are successful in all sneaking past the ogres, and each positioning for a backstab. Jerry gives a discreet signal for the attack, and the three thieves begin. Jerry is unsuccessful, his sword deflecting off of the cleric’s armor. Dennis is more successful, doing some damage to his foe. Blake has the most success, as his sword of sharpness slices through his foe’s torso, cutting the man in two. </p><p></p><p>The remaining seven members of their team had been watching and waiting for this, and as soon as the thieves become visible again, launch their own attacks. The four fighters each split into pairs, and charge the nearest monsters, to keep them away from the spellcasters. Mojo and Freyland charge at the hill giants, while Furynick and Guice charge the bugbears. Both Vincenzo and Opal begin Prayer spells, to aid their comrades. Kharole lets loose with a fireball, choosing the Blue Dragon as her target. </p><p></p><p>The party had been warned that magic worked unusually on this world, but she did not expect the result as the fireball explodes for twice its normal impact, in an irregular oval shape approximately forty feet long and twenty-five feet wide at its center. The fireball does considerable damage to both the dragon and blue devil, and kills three of the four blue ogres near it and two ogres from a group further away. It also catches the attention of everybody present. </p><p></p><p>With the fireball as the signal the five archers in the tower let loose their first volley of arrows as Bitsey begins her singing. All five target the same foe, namely the one trying to trace the path to Mordenkainen’s ring. Seven of the first ten arrows hit their mark, the accumulated damage being more than enough to drop the foe. Narg’s team also reacts following the fireball, charging en mass towards this same group of skeletons and clerics. Both Benedict and Timothy get ready to use their holy symbols to turn the skeletons while Hiroshi prepares a Push spells to disrupt one of the clerics. </p><p></p><p>When the group along the far wall see Blake sever one of the clerics they react. The DM asks “What do Fiona and Isaiah do?” Tim offers the suggestion “Decide it is the end of the world, and make wild passionate love to each other.” Guy says “Like Hell,” instead having Fiona let loose a Lightning Bolt into the assemblage of clerics and ogres. She throws high to avoid hitting her allies, but as with Kharole’s spell, it exceeds its normal spell effect, grazing both Jerry and Dennismore. It also proves fatal to two of the ogres as well as the cleric that Dennismore had backstabbed. The bolt continues past the group, striking one of the small brick buildings, which showers brick onto the a group of hobgoblins. </p><p></p><p>The remainder of Fiona’s team move out, staying clear of her ‘enhanced spells’. Luekia heads to the side, to then move in to the clerics. She is followed by Ka’thudd. Isaiah and Serita remain with Fiona back near the wall, as Serita is now into the 8th round of her casting a Call Lightning, and Isaiah has begun a Prayer spell. Duegar, Mark and Ryan move to attack ogres around the clerics while Troyan charges into the nearest group of goblins. </p><p></p><p>In the other tower, the six with the laser weapons fire into the giants, with only one scoring a successful hit for ten points. This also causes the giants to charge at them. Their next shots are more successful, with four of the energy weapons hitting the same foe, causing him to stagger, as the remaining four giants charge the tower. </p><p></p><p>Blake and Jerry continue to attack the clerics and ogres, supported by Mark and Ryan charging in from the other side who drop two more of the ogre guards. While no clerics drop this round, both have the spells that they were casting disrupted. Both then become held by a Hold Person spell from Isaiah. Fiona then hits one with a Magic Missile spell, further weakening him. Dennismore moves onto the other held one and slits his throat. </p><p></p><p>Luekia and Ka'thudd have their hands full as a wall of hobgoblins charge them to defend the clerics. Luekia strikes one unconscious as Ka'thudd drops another. Mark breaks off from his other opponents to go assist them. Duegar continues to attack the ogres. Troyan gets mobbed by goblins, dropping one, but having five others attack him, two hitting. </p><p></p><p>In the central group, Freyland, Furynick, Guice and Mojo all successfully strike their foes, with both Guice and Mojo being hit back. Vincenzo casts a Spiritual Hammer on one of the enemy clerics, to disrupt his spell.</p><p></p><p>The archers let go a volley of another five arrows, three of which strike the remaining three clerics in the closest group. Kharole also targets this same group of clerics. She centers the fireball further back, in anticipation that like the first fireball, this might be larger than usual. The player rolling percentile dice gets an even higher number this time, indicating twice normal size and damage. The forty-foot diameter fireball that results causes seventy points of damage, obliterating all of the skeletons and dropping two of the remaining three clerics with that group. It also catches and kills the blue dragon and blue devil, as well as several more ogres. </p><p></p><p>Four of the party members in Narg’s team, namely Blip, Lannon, Narg, and Timothy are also caught in it. As the enlarging fireball had swept towards them Toshiro had dived back, knocking his Uncle Hiroshi and Cousin Kim-Sung back to protect them. As the fireball ends Blip remains unmoving on the ground. The fireball also obliterates the second volley of arrows from the archers. </p><p></p><p>Serita is now able to call down a Lightning Bolt. Her own party members surround the cleric closest to her, so she instead targets the lone standing cleric that had just been fireballed. Unfortunately Kris’s percentile roll, to determine how effective the spell will work on this world, is incredibly low, and “02”, resulting in a very minor bolt of lightning doing only minimal damage. </p><p></p><p>Back on the other tower, one giant strikes the tower, causing Alton to fall twenty feet to the ground below. Fortunately for him, the space armor absorbs the impact of the fall. The others on the tower fire into the giants, with the wounded one from the prior round falling. Both mounted patrols from outside begin to ride into the structure, the centers from the side wall between the frost giants and goblins, and the human riders on the long wall where the gates had originally been. </p><p></p><p>Fiona notices a Wererat moving in to attack Serita, and lets fire a Melfs Acid Arrow into it. It stops the enemy, who will perish the next round. Serita comments “A Wererat! We haven’t run into one of those since we killed King Kohlorahdooh” (a comment that will turn out to be both very ironic and prophetic.) Isaiah casts a hold person, cutting off the large group of hobgoblins approaching Mark, Ka'thudd and Luekia. The two closest to Mark keep moving, and he cuts one down, while Ka'thudd decimates another. Those being the held ones just assume that those before them chose to stop, and decide that stopping looks like a good idea. Seeing no more advancing foes the three turn and head the other direction, seeing Duegar drop the remaining two ogres in the area. </p><p></p><p>The thieves continue to strike at the lone standing cleric, all missing, but then assisted by Luekia and who charges to their rescue, hitting the cleric and knocking him out. Dennis ensures that the cleric does not revive. </p><p></p><p>The person in desperate need of rescue is Troyan, who has dropped yet another goblin, as eight now swarm and attack him, three hitting. Luekia heads towards him, followed closely by Mark and Ka'thudd. </p><p></p><p>Ilma appears by Kharole, Opal, and Vincenzo, calling the two pairs of fighters to back up. Guice and Furynick reluctantly do, but Freyland and Mojo are too caught up in their battle with the Hill Giants to hear her. Ilma waves her sword, teleporting the five she is with out of there. Freyland and Mojo each score a successful hit on the giants, but are also hit in return. Mojo takes a second hit into his foe, dropping him. Behind where the giant falls he notices that one of the mounted humans by the far gate is dressed like a mage, and pointing a staff in their direction. He yells this out. The third giant moves in to take the place of his fallen ally, striking at Mojo. </p><p></p><p>Narg’s group can’t see this mage due to buildings and foes in between, but he does notice that Ilma has left Freyland and Mojo without any support fighting the giants, with a group of minotaurs moving in to support them. Narg and Toshiro charge off in that direction. The other seven members of Narg’s team pull together to decide what to do next. Meanwhile, both Benedict and Timothy administer emergency cures on Blip to keep her from dying. Lannon charges at the nearest foes, which happen to be orcs. Fortunately for Grun, Lannon is having a particularly lucid moment, so asks the orc ally to join him in killing orcs. Grun agrees, and accompanies the Dwarf. </p><p></p><p>In the nearby tower above the archers do not see any more clerical foes, and are too far away to have heard Mojo’s yell, so decide to support the team at the tower 200 feet away, firing arrows into the giants. Even at this distance, the size of the giants make for easy targets, and soon fill up with arrows. The space-suit group welcomes the support, as one giant strikes Syrendal, knocking her back into Min-Mae and Ron. Lono sees that Alton is about to be stomped on by a giant. As the giant lifts up his leg for the stomp, and is standing on only one foot, Lono decides to dive off the tower and into this foe. This works, as the off-balance giant is knocked back onto the group, which also cushions Lono’s fall. </p><p></p><p>At the nearby wall Serita has heard Mojo’s yell about the enemy mage. She deduces that since magic works unusually here, and since the skies are already filled with lightning, she could try to attempt to pull down another lightning bolt now rather than waiting the usual full turn. The DM allows this, stating that she must roll a high percentile for that to work. She rolls an “83”. He says a bolt comes down, which she centers on this mage. She rolls up eighty points of damage. The DM then has her roll another percentile, to determine in the planets magic will either enhance, keep the same, or reduce the effect of the damage. She rolls a “98”, which indicates triple damage. Thus, a bolt causing a record 240 points of damage strikes that part of the fortress, killing all of the foes in that area, including all of the riders and their mounts. This also causes the few enemy teams not already engaged in the fighting to think twice about joining the fray. </p><p></p><p>Ilma appears again by the group of Benedict, Blip, Hiroshi, Kim-Sung, Timothy. Lannon and Grun are called back from their fighting to join them, with Lannon swearing about her spoiling his fun. The group are teleported out. </p><p></p><p>The archer group continues to fire into the distant group of frost giants, as Min-Mae, Sytendal, Ron and Tiffany continue to fire into the same enemies. The combined attacks from both groups cause two giants to fall. Of the remaining two giants, the one nearest Alton becomes the recipient of a point blank laser shot. Lono’s strategy is similar, but even more effective. Since Lono is lying on this fallen giant’s stomach he simply jabs the barrel of the laser rife into the giant’s head, and blows his brains out. </p><p></p><p>The centaur’s a short distance away, including a powerful cleric, begin to move towards this same tower. Ilma appears again, popping Min-Mae, Sytendal, Ron and Tiffany away. Serita notices the centaurs, and tries again, but two more successful percentile rolls, the lightning this time striking for 115 points of damage. This drops all but two centaurs, who ride away. </p><p></p><p>This massive bolt of lightning is seen by all but two of the goblins attacking Troyan, who turn and run away in fear. Troyan assumes they are running from him, and chases after. The remaining two goblins are dropped by Ka'thudd and Mark. </p><p></p><p>Freyland, Mojo, Narg and Toshiro had managed to drop by Hill Giants, and are now fighting a quartet of minotaurs. The archers conclude that these four are doing fine on their own, and start to target the bugbears. Ilma arrives in the tower and teleports the archers out. </p><p></p><p>The fight with the minotaurs continues, with Narg getting in a couple of severs and Freyland also getting in a sever. Both Toshiro and Mojo do equally well. No other enemies decide to join the battle, with the only other fighting taking place being with Alton and Lono attacking the remaining wounded frost giant. </p><p></p><p>Ilma arrives in the center of the group of Dennismore, Duegar, Fiona, Jerry, Isaiah, Ka'thudd, Luekia, Mark, Ryan, Serita and Troyan. She calls them all together, with also coming over to join them. Serita notices that Mojo, Narg and Toshiro are oblivious to all but the minotaurs they are fighting, and rushes over in that direction with her boots of speed as Ilma teleports the rest out. </p><p></p><p>The pair of Alton and Lono finally finish off the last frost giant, concluding that space armor and laser weapons are fun toys. Ilma shows up and teleports the two of them out. Mojo and Toshiro team up on and drop the minotaur they are fighting. Narg misses his foe, the final minotaur, who Serita then casts a Rock to Mud on the stone floor beneath, causing the Minotaur to fall back. Narg yells at her for spoiling his fun. He then moves in to strike the fallen foe, but Ilma shows up first and teleports the last four members of the Silver Moon away. Narg yells at her for not letting him finish what he started. </p><p></p><p>They arrive back where they began, on what they assume is the Elemental Plane of Air. A quick survey shows that everyone is still intact, although some (like Blip) are in pretty rough shape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4291491, member: 8530"] [B]Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). Night Eight of Eleven , May 12, 2002, Game # 815 [/B] [U]Cast of Characters[/U] Ailsheir, male drow elf archer-ranger Alton, male human druid Aradyn, male elf archer-ranger Benedict, male human cleric Bitsey, female half-elf 2nd Edition bard Blake, male halfling thief Blip, female gnome illusionist/thief Dennismore, male elf thief Duegar, male dwarf fighter Ebony Shadow, female hengeyokai (cat sub-race) archer-ranger Fiona, female half-elf magic-user Freyland, male gnome fighter Furynick, male human fighter Grun, male orc fighter/magic-user Guice, male half-elf ranger Harald, male human fighter Hiroshi, male human magic-user Isaiah, male human cleric Jerry, male gnome thief Ka’thudd, male half-orc fighter Kharole, female elf magic-user Kim-Sung, female half-dwarf druid Lannon, male dwarf thief Lono, male elf fighter/thief Luekia, female human monk Mark, male half-elf ranger Min-Mae, female hengeyokai (owl sub-race) magic-user Mojo, male elf fighter Narg, male half-elf fighter Opal Silversteel, female dwarf fighter/cleric Ron Luther X5-0135, male human fighter Ryan, male elf thief Serita, female half-elf druid Syrendal, female hengeyokai (falcon sub-race) ranger Tiffany, female elf-like Timothy, male human cleric Toshiro, male human fighter Troyan, male elf ranger Vallessa, female elf archer-ranger Vincenzo, male human cleric March 27, 1019: Narg tells the others about the Oxnardian clerics, and their attempt to find the rod. He emphasizes the danger to the younger versions of Alton, Cassie, Lono and Mark. Cassie comments that “Wait a minute. When we were at that place in the woods all Ixy stole from the General were the wine bottles, not a ring of Mordenkainen. Won’t leaving that with them then change history?” Ilma replies “Not really. I’ll just make sure that the fighter Dan is the one who retains possession of the ring, as he left you guys soon thereafter. His having it won’t have effected anything during the seven years since then, as the ring can only be used by a magic-user, which there aren’t any of back at his home at The Keep.” Cassie has not-very-pleasant memories of both her magic-user and clerical magics not working right on the world where the fortress is, so agrees to stay behind to guard the six pieces of the Rod instead of going there. Eric, Patrick, Shamus, Skippy and Roddy agree to stay with her as added protection. Vallessa declares that her daughter Dani will also be staying behind, much to the girl’s chagrin. Tiffany decides to accompany them, pulling out a laser pistol that she had hidden on her back behind her cloak. The remaining characters split into five teams, with Narg deciding where each team should begin. A team comprised of the four of the archer-rangers, Ailsheir, Aradyn, Ebony, and Vallessa, along with the fighter Harald, take up a position in the intact tower. Bitsey accompanies this group, to increase their success through her bardic singing. Situated near them are the Stone Giant with the wolves, and a group comprised of the three gnoll and five surviving orcs. A team comprised of the six “space cadets”, namely Alton, Lono, Min-Mae, Ron and Syrendal in their space suits, and the space-elf Tiffany, take up a position in the other mostly intact tower, The nearest group of enemies are five frost giants. A team comprised of Benedict, Blip, Grun, Hiroshi, Kim-Sung, Lannon, Narg, Timothy and Toshiro take up a position near the back wall, a short distance away from the quartet of clerics surrounded by skeleton. Also near them is the group comprised of bugbears. A team comprised of Duegar, Fiona, Isaiah, Ka’thudd, Luekia, Mark, Ryan, Serita and Troyan take up position in the center of another wall, not far from the quartet of clerics surrounded by ogres. Also near them is the large group of hobgoblins, and both groups of goblins. The final team, who it is decided will initiate the attack, are comprised of Blake, Dennismore, Freyland, Furynick, Guice, Jerry, Kharole, Mojo, Opal and Vincenzo. They arrive on the opposite side of the quartet of clerics surrounded by ogres than the team listed above. Also situated near them are the group of bugbears and a group of three hill giants. The three thieves in the final team have been made invisible by Kharole, and head off towards the clerics. They are successful in all sneaking past the ogres, and each positioning for a backstab. Jerry gives a discreet signal for the attack, and the three thieves begin. Jerry is unsuccessful, his sword deflecting off of the cleric’s armor. Dennis is more successful, doing some damage to his foe. Blake has the most success, as his sword of sharpness slices through his foe’s torso, cutting the man in two. The remaining seven members of their team had been watching and waiting for this, and as soon as the thieves become visible again, launch their own attacks. The four fighters each split into pairs, and charge the nearest monsters, to keep them away from the spellcasters. Mojo and Freyland charge at the hill giants, while Furynick and Guice charge the bugbears. Both Vincenzo and Opal begin Prayer spells, to aid their comrades. Kharole lets loose with a fireball, choosing the Blue Dragon as her target. The party had been warned that magic worked unusually on this world, but she did not expect the result as the fireball explodes for twice its normal impact, in an irregular oval shape approximately forty feet long and twenty-five feet wide at its center. The fireball does considerable damage to both the dragon and blue devil, and kills three of the four blue ogres near it and two ogres from a group further away. It also catches the attention of everybody present. With the fireball as the signal the five archers in the tower let loose their first volley of arrows as Bitsey begins her singing. All five target the same foe, namely the one trying to trace the path to Mordenkainen’s ring. Seven of the first ten arrows hit their mark, the accumulated damage being more than enough to drop the foe. Narg’s team also reacts following the fireball, charging en mass towards this same group of skeletons and clerics. Both Benedict and Timothy get ready to use their holy symbols to turn the skeletons while Hiroshi prepares a Push spells to disrupt one of the clerics. When the group along the far wall see Blake sever one of the clerics they react. The DM asks “What do Fiona and Isaiah do?” Tim offers the suggestion “Decide it is the end of the world, and make wild passionate love to each other.” Guy says “Like Hell,” instead having Fiona let loose a Lightning Bolt into the assemblage of clerics and ogres. She throws high to avoid hitting her allies, but as with Kharole’s spell, it exceeds its normal spell effect, grazing both Jerry and Dennismore. It also proves fatal to two of the ogres as well as the cleric that Dennismore had backstabbed. The bolt continues past the group, striking one of the small brick buildings, which showers brick onto the a group of hobgoblins. The remainder of Fiona’s team move out, staying clear of her ‘enhanced spells’. Luekia heads to the side, to then move in to the clerics. She is followed by Ka’thudd. Isaiah and Serita remain with Fiona back near the wall, as Serita is now into the 8th round of her casting a Call Lightning, and Isaiah has begun a Prayer spell. Duegar, Mark and Ryan move to attack ogres around the clerics while Troyan charges into the nearest group of goblins. In the other tower, the six with the laser weapons fire into the giants, with only one scoring a successful hit for ten points. This also causes the giants to charge at them. Their next shots are more successful, with four of the energy weapons hitting the same foe, causing him to stagger, as the remaining four giants charge the tower. Blake and Jerry continue to attack the clerics and ogres, supported by Mark and Ryan charging in from the other side who drop two more of the ogre guards. While no clerics drop this round, both have the spells that they were casting disrupted. Both then become held by a Hold Person spell from Isaiah. Fiona then hits one with a Magic Missile spell, further weakening him. Dennismore moves onto the other held one and slits his throat. Luekia and Ka'thudd have their hands full as a wall of hobgoblins charge them to defend the clerics. Luekia strikes one unconscious as Ka'thudd drops another. Mark breaks off from his other opponents to go assist them. Duegar continues to attack the ogres. Troyan gets mobbed by goblins, dropping one, but having five others attack him, two hitting. In the central group, Freyland, Furynick, Guice and Mojo all successfully strike their foes, with both Guice and Mojo being hit back. Vincenzo casts a Spiritual Hammer on one of the enemy clerics, to disrupt his spell. The archers let go a volley of another five arrows, three of which strike the remaining three clerics in the closest group. Kharole also targets this same group of clerics. She centers the fireball further back, in anticipation that like the first fireball, this might be larger than usual. The player rolling percentile dice gets an even higher number this time, indicating twice normal size and damage. The forty-foot diameter fireball that results causes seventy points of damage, obliterating all of the skeletons and dropping two of the remaining three clerics with that group. It also catches and kills the blue dragon and blue devil, as well as several more ogres. Four of the party members in Narg’s team, namely Blip, Lannon, Narg, and Timothy are also caught in it. As the enlarging fireball had swept towards them Toshiro had dived back, knocking his Uncle Hiroshi and Cousin Kim-Sung back to protect them. As the fireball ends Blip remains unmoving on the ground. The fireball also obliterates the second volley of arrows from the archers. Serita is now able to call down a Lightning Bolt. Her own party members surround the cleric closest to her, so she instead targets the lone standing cleric that had just been fireballed. Unfortunately Kris’s percentile roll, to determine how effective the spell will work on this world, is incredibly low, and “02”, resulting in a very minor bolt of lightning doing only minimal damage. Back on the other tower, one giant strikes the tower, causing Alton to fall twenty feet to the ground below. Fortunately for him, the space armor absorbs the impact of the fall. The others on the tower fire into the giants, with the wounded one from the prior round falling. Both mounted patrols from outside begin to ride into the structure, the centers from the side wall between the frost giants and goblins, and the human riders on the long wall where the gates had originally been. Fiona notices a Wererat moving in to attack Serita, and lets fire a Melfs Acid Arrow into it. It stops the enemy, who will perish the next round. Serita comments “A Wererat! We haven’t run into one of those since we killed King Kohlorahdooh” (a comment that will turn out to be both very ironic and prophetic.) Isaiah casts a hold person, cutting off the large group of hobgoblins approaching Mark, Ka'thudd and Luekia. The two closest to Mark keep moving, and he cuts one down, while Ka'thudd decimates another. Those being the held ones just assume that those before them chose to stop, and decide that stopping looks like a good idea. Seeing no more advancing foes the three turn and head the other direction, seeing Duegar drop the remaining two ogres in the area. The thieves continue to strike at the lone standing cleric, all missing, but then assisted by Luekia and who charges to their rescue, hitting the cleric and knocking him out. Dennis ensures that the cleric does not revive. The person in desperate need of rescue is Troyan, who has dropped yet another goblin, as eight now swarm and attack him, three hitting. Luekia heads towards him, followed closely by Mark and Ka'thudd. Ilma appears by Kharole, Opal, and Vincenzo, calling the two pairs of fighters to back up. Guice and Furynick reluctantly do, but Freyland and Mojo are too caught up in their battle with the Hill Giants to hear her. Ilma waves her sword, teleporting the five she is with out of there. Freyland and Mojo each score a successful hit on the giants, but are also hit in return. Mojo takes a second hit into his foe, dropping him. Behind where the giant falls he notices that one of the mounted humans by the far gate is dressed like a mage, and pointing a staff in their direction. He yells this out. The third giant moves in to take the place of his fallen ally, striking at Mojo. Narg’s group can’t see this mage due to buildings and foes in between, but he does notice that Ilma has left Freyland and Mojo without any support fighting the giants, with a group of minotaurs moving in to support them. Narg and Toshiro charge off in that direction. The other seven members of Narg’s team pull together to decide what to do next. Meanwhile, both Benedict and Timothy administer emergency cures on Blip to keep her from dying. Lannon charges at the nearest foes, which happen to be orcs. Fortunately for Grun, Lannon is having a particularly lucid moment, so asks the orc ally to join him in killing orcs. Grun agrees, and accompanies the Dwarf. In the nearby tower above the archers do not see any more clerical foes, and are too far away to have heard Mojo’s yell, so decide to support the team at the tower 200 feet away, firing arrows into the giants. Even at this distance, the size of the giants make for easy targets, and soon fill up with arrows. The space-suit group welcomes the support, as one giant strikes Syrendal, knocking her back into Min-Mae and Ron. Lono sees that Alton is about to be stomped on by a giant. As the giant lifts up his leg for the stomp, and is standing on only one foot, Lono decides to dive off the tower and into this foe. This works, as the off-balance giant is knocked back onto the group, which also cushions Lono’s fall. At the nearby wall Serita has heard Mojo’s yell about the enemy mage. She deduces that since magic works unusually here, and since the skies are already filled with lightning, she could try to attempt to pull down another lightning bolt now rather than waiting the usual full turn. The DM allows this, stating that she must roll a high percentile for that to work. She rolls an “83”. He says a bolt comes down, which she centers on this mage. She rolls up eighty points of damage. The DM then has her roll another percentile, to determine in the planets magic will either enhance, keep the same, or reduce the effect of the damage. She rolls a “98”, which indicates triple damage. Thus, a bolt causing a record 240 points of damage strikes that part of the fortress, killing all of the foes in that area, including all of the riders and their mounts. This also causes the few enemy teams not already engaged in the fighting to think twice about joining the fray. Ilma appears again by the group of Benedict, Blip, Hiroshi, Kim-Sung, Timothy. Lannon and Grun are called back from their fighting to join them, with Lannon swearing about her spoiling his fun. The group are teleported out. The archer group continues to fire into the distant group of frost giants, as Min-Mae, Sytendal, Ron and Tiffany continue to fire into the same enemies. The combined attacks from both groups cause two giants to fall. Of the remaining two giants, the one nearest Alton becomes the recipient of a point blank laser shot. Lono’s strategy is similar, but even more effective. Since Lono is lying on this fallen giant’s stomach he simply jabs the barrel of the laser rife into the giant’s head, and blows his brains out. The centaur’s a short distance away, including a powerful cleric, begin to move towards this same tower. Ilma appears again, popping Min-Mae, Sytendal, Ron and Tiffany away. Serita notices the centaurs, and tries again, but two more successful percentile rolls, the lightning this time striking for 115 points of damage. This drops all but two centaurs, who ride away. This massive bolt of lightning is seen by all but two of the goblins attacking Troyan, who turn and run away in fear. Troyan assumes they are running from him, and chases after. The remaining two goblins are dropped by Ka'thudd and Mark. Freyland, Mojo, Narg and Toshiro had managed to drop by Hill Giants, and are now fighting a quartet of minotaurs. The archers conclude that these four are doing fine on their own, and start to target the bugbears. Ilma arrives in the tower and teleports the archers out. The fight with the minotaurs continues, with Narg getting in a couple of severs and Freyland also getting in a sever. Both Toshiro and Mojo do equally well. No other enemies decide to join the battle, with the only other fighting taking place being with Alton and Lono attacking the remaining wounded frost giant. Ilma arrives in the center of the group of Dennismore, Duegar, Fiona, Jerry, Isaiah, Ka'thudd, Luekia, Mark, Ryan, Serita and Troyan. She calls them all together, with also coming over to join them. Serita notices that Mojo, Narg and Toshiro are oblivious to all but the minotaurs they are fighting, and rushes over in that direction with her boots of speed as Ilma teleports the rest out. The pair of Alton and Lono finally finish off the last frost giant, concluding that space armor and laser weapons are fun toys. Ilma shows up and teleports the two of them out. Mojo and Toshiro team up on and drop the minotaur they are fighting. Narg misses his foe, the final minotaur, who Serita then casts a Rock to Mud on the stone floor beneath, causing the Minotaur to fall back. Narg yells at her for spoiling his fun. He then moves in to strike the fallen foe, but Ilma shows up first and teleports the last four members of the Silver Moon away. Narg yells at her for not letting him finish what he started. They arrive back where they began, on what they assume is the Elemental Plane of Air. A quick survey shows that everyone is still intact, although some (like Blip) are in pretty rough shape. [/QUOTE]
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