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DM's Log of Session Twenty Nine - Part One
Waking on Nightal 9th after an undisturbed nights rest, the group started down the deep stairwell that the map on the wall showed linked the Citadel layer where they were, to the main habitation layer much deeper down in the mountains. For more than 2 hours, the group worked their way down seemingly endless staircases, which wound around and around, like a gigantic corkscrew sunk into the earth.
After a while, Jebodiahs knowledge of dwarf holds and his peoples construction habits paid off, and he let the others know they were nearing the bottom of the stairwell. Fully expecting a battle at the bottom with more of the clockwork horrors like the one they had examined the previous night, the group girded themselves in spells and protections. Whilst Jebodiah lit the heroism pipe they had recovered from Wolfhill House and smoked it, passing it around for all to benefit, both Aeron and Gylippus clad themselves in Mage Armor, bolstering that with added protection from arrows, the investigation of the destroyed horror having yielded the information that the things possessed a dart launcher. Ash cast a Protection from Evil on himself, while Zamtap's prayers clad him in a Magical Vestment.
So armoured, the group continued their descent to the foot of the stairs, whereupon both Zamtap and Ki activated their Shield of Faith brooches that the cleric had made back in Calimport, while Gylippus and Ash resumed their effective partnership, the rogue checking the floors and walls for traps, the paladin moving forward when the all clear was given, keeping himself and his nimble partner covered behind his vast shield.
Whilst effective however, this method did have one distinct drawback... it was slow going, and so while that pair continued their cautious advance into a large irregular shaped hall entering it from the bottom left corner, Jebodiah muttered something about "This is taking too long" and strode right past them to the first door he could see, getting shot twice for his troubles as darts were launched from several of the arrow holes high up on the walls of the hall, an electrum horror stationed behind each.
And then another volley of darts soared out of the darkness, another sinking into the dwarf through a break in his armour. At this Ash saw that he would be best placed providing cover for the door,.so Gylippus could get it open, and he ran up to stand between where the darts were coming from and the blundering barbarian, only to run right across a trap, the floor opening and depositing him 20' down in a spiked pit, though a fortunate fall ensured he remained unimpaled. Ki then broke from the rest of the group and ran up to beside Jebodiah. Zamtap activated his sunrod, so that everyone could see what was going on, the arrow slits and the majority of the hall snapping into view, as well as casting Wield Skill on Gylippus to bolster his lockpicking abilities. ducking behind his shield, Jebodiah swigged back a needed healing potion. Rolling his eyes and shaking his head at the sword swingers antics, Aeron calmly strolled up to the edge of the pit, and yanked Ash up out of it with his innate levitation power, setting him down on the pits edge where he had intended to put himself.
Another hail of darts was launched at Jebodiah and Ash, the dwarf grimacing as he got shot again, whilst the sound of clanging announced them pinging off Ash's shield leaving him unharmed. Zamtap chanted and created a Magic Circle against Evil around himself, moving up to be with the rest of the group then so that all might benefit from its warding magic. Drinking back another potion of healing, Jebodiah got out of the way of the door, so Gylippus could get to the lock to pick it, though his efforts to do so were thwarted by Ki's attempts to help.
Another round of clanging accompanied the rogues efforts, as more darts bounced off Ash's shield and armour, the paladin hunkered down behind his shield, standing as a living wall between the arrow holes and the rest of the group. without the darts to worry about, and no longer distracted by Ki's interference, Gylippus was easily able to get the lock open.
As yet more darts pinged off Ash's armour, a grunt of pain was heard, one of the horrors having shot at Aeron and hit the wizard, slightly wounding him. With the door unlocked and Ash busy on providing defense, the role of door opener went to Ki who duly opened it and the group peered around the framework into a short corridor which turned a slight corner and ended at another door. Entering this first corridor, Ki and Gylippus checked for traps as they went, neither finding or setting off any. Zamtap responded to Jebodiahs call for healing, using a charge from his Wand of Cure Light Wounds to help mend some of the many perforations the darts had put in the dwarf, the barbarian then ducking into the corridor, swiftly joined by Aeron.
Zamtap and Ash came under fire again, as another volley of darts was launched at them, the priest escaping unscathed, but for the first time a dart found a chink in the paladins armour and wounded him. Still covering for the others, he waited until Zamtap had entered the corridor, only then stepping through the doorway himself, even as Zamtap again tapped Jebodiah with his wand. Ki and Gylippus kept advancing towards the next door, cautiously looking for traps as they moved forwards, but finding none, finally reaching the door and finding it unlocked. Ki immediately opened it and found himself looking into another stretch of corridor, 20' long and ending in another door... as well as a pair of electrum horrors in the corridor, both of which opened fire, shooting their darts at him, neither hitting anything more than the doorframe though.
"Finally!! Something to fight" growled Jebodiah as he shoved his way past Ki and Gylippus and ran into battle, his fearsome axe slicing into one of the automated beetle-like creatures, the horrors own efforts to attack him back easily deflected by the dwarves axe and armour. Ash then joined the melee, his sword damaging the other horror, whilst Ki's efforts to get in on the action ended in faulire as he tried to somersault over the pair of horrors, getting stopped short as one reared up and lashed out with its fixed razor saw, slicing into the monk. After asking who was in need of any healing, Zamtap walked up behind Ash and saw to the Sunite's minor injuries, as Jebodiah finished the task of clearing a route to the next door, smashing aside both horrors, reducing them to scrap.
While Ki used his healing wand to patch himself up, and Zamtap busily gathered up some of the pieces of the smashed horrors for use as Gondsman components, Gylippus strolled up to the next door, and opened it, getting shot at by another brace of el;ectrum horrors, though he easily ducked out of the way of the launched projectiles. Seeing this new threat, Ash calmly advanced into combat though didn't manage to so much as scratch the horrors bodywork with his swordblow, the creature scuttling aside. Jebodiah rushed up, his axe brought down from overhead in a devastating arc to impact on the horror before him, and not even dent it, the blow sending vibrations back up his arms.
The horror he hit though was better at placing its blow and the razor saw sliced open the barbarians left leg, though the other one failed to find any gap in Ash's armour to exploit, unlike Ash who deftly jabbed his sword into its clockwork innards, mangling some of the workings. "Lets try this again" muttered Ki, leaping up and over the horrors and landing safely behind them this time, jabbing at one horror with one of his daggers and missing it completely! Seeing the blood on the floor from the wound in Jebodiah's leg, Zamtap used another charge from his wand to heal him, whilst at the back of the group Aeron and Gyllipus watched the chaos ahead with bemusement, adding commentary at times.
The battle continued with neither of the horrors able to get past their foes defences, the first being dispatched by Ash. Ki stabbed a dagger into the remaining horror, and Zamtap drew his warhammer, wading into the fray, but failing to hit the scuttling automaton, and getting cut by its razor saw too in the process. And then everyones ears rang, as in the close confines of the corridor Jebodiah brough Stormcleaver down on the electrum horror, annihilating the creatuire in a deafening peal of thunder as the axe's formidible thundering power activated, reminding everyone of just how aptly it was named. As most of the group brushed srpings, cogs and other pieces of shrapnel off themselves, Ash strode to the door at the end of this now cleared corridor section and opened it, looking into a small room with no other visible exits... a dead end.
Heading into the room, Gylippus, Ki and Aeron working together, run their hands over every inch of the walls and floor, eyes searching intently for any signs of a hidden doorway, and finding nothing. Heading back the way they came, the group assemble behind Ash at the door back into the main hall, the paladin opening the door and heading across the the next visible door, a storm of darts accompanying him entering the hall, one getting past his armour cladding and wounding him in the right shoulder. Zamtap activated his brooch of Lesser Vigor, and with Ash now in position to shield him, Gylippus dashed across the hall to the door, checking it over for traps and finding none.
Waking on Nightal 9th after an undisturbed nights rest, the group started down the deep stairwell that the map on the wall showed linked the Citadel layer where they were, to the main habitation layer much deeper down in the mountains. For more than 2 hours, the group worked their way down seemingly endless staircases, which wound around and around, like a gigantic corkscrew sunk into the earth.
After a while, Jebodiahs knowledge of dwarf holds and his peoples construction habits paid off, and he let the others know they were nearing the bottom of the stairwell. Fully expecting a battle at the bottom with more of the clockwork horrors like the one they had examined the previous night, the group girded themselves in spells and protections. Whilst Jebodiah lit the heroism pipe they had recovered from Wolfhill House and smoked it, passing it around for all to benefit, both Aeron and Gylippus clad themselves in Mage Armor, bolstering that with added protection from arrows, the investigation of the destroyed horror having yielded the information that the things possessed a dart launcher. Ash cast a Protection from Evil on himself, while Zamtap's prayers clad him in a Magical Vestment.
So armoured, the group continued their descent to the foot of the stairs, whereupon both Zamtap and Ki activated their Shield of Faith brooches that the cleric had made back in Calimport, while Gylippus and Ash resumed their effective partnership, the rogue checking the floors and walls for traps, the paladin moving forward when the all clear was given, keeping himself and his nimble partner covered behind his vast shield.
Whilst effective however, this method did have one distinct drawback... it was slow going, and so while that pair continued their cautious advance into a large irregular shaped hall entering it from the bottom left corner, Jebodiah muttered something about "This is taking too long" and strode right past them to the first door he could see, getting shot twice for his troubles as darts were launched from several of the arrow holes high up on the walls of the hall, an electrum horror stationed behind each.
And then another volley of darts soared out of the darkness, another sinking into the dwarf through a break in his armour. At this Ash saw that he would be best placed providing cover for the door,.so Gylippus could get it open, and he ran up to stand between where the darts were coming from and the blundering barbarian, only to run right across a trap, the floor opening and depositing him 20' down in a spiked pit, though a fortunate fall ensured he remained unimpaled. Ki then broke from the rest of the group and ran up to beside Jebodiah. Zamtap activated his sunrod, so that everyone could see what was going on, the arrow slits and the majority of the hall snapping into view, as well as casting Wield Skill on Gylippus to bolster his lockpicking abilities. ducking behind his shield, Jebodiah swigged back a needed healing potion. Rolling his eyes and shaking his head at the sword swingers antics, Aeron calmly strolled up to the edge of the pit, and yanked Ash up out of it with his innate levitation power, setting him down on the pits edge where he had intended to put himself.
Another hail of darts was launched at Jebodiah and Ash, the dwarf grimacing as he got shot again, whilst the sound of clanging announced them pinging off Ash's shield leaving him unharmed. Zamtap chanted and created a Magic Circle against Evil around himself, moving up to be with the rest of the group then so that all might benefit from its warding magic. Drinking back another potion of healing, Jebodiah got out of the way of the door, so Gylippus could get to the lock to pick it, though his efforts to do so were thwarted by Ki's attempts to help.
Another round of clanging accompanied the rogues efforts, as more darts bounced off Ash's shield and armour, the paladin hunkered down behind his shield, standing as a living wall between the arrow holes and the rest of the group. without the darts to worry about, and no longer distracted by Ki's interference, Gylippus was easily able to get the lock open.
As yet more darts pinged off Ash's armour, a grunt of pain was heard, one of the horrors having shot at Aeron and hit the wizard, slightly wounding him. With the door unlocked and Ash busy on providing defense, the role of door opener went to Ki who duly opened it and the group peered around the framework into a short corridor which turned a slight corner and ended at another door. Entering this first corridor, Ki and Gylippus checked for traps as they went, neither finding or setting off any. Zamtap responded to Jebodiahs call for healing, using a charge from his Wand of Cure Light Wounds to help mend some of the many perforations the darts had put in the dwarf, the barbarian then ducking into the corridor, swiftly joined by Aeron.
Zamtap and Ash came under fire again, as another volley of darts was launched at them, the priest escaping unscathed, but for the first time a dart found a chink in the paladins armour and wounded him. Still covering for the others, he waited until Zamtap had entered the corridor, only then stepping through the doorway himself, even as Zamtap again tapped Jebodiah with his wand. Ki and Gylippus kept advancing towards the next door, cautiously looking for traps as they moved forwards, but finding none, finally reaching the door and finding it unlocked. Ki immediately opened it and found himself looking into another stretch of corridor, 20' long and ending in another door... as well as a pair of electrum horrors in the corridor, both of which opened fire, shooting their darts at him, neither hitting anything more than the doorframe though.
"Finally!! Something to fight" growled Jebodiah as he shoved his way past Ki and Gylippus and ran into battle, his fearsome axe slicing into one of the automated beetle-like creatures, the horrors own efforts to attack him back easily deflected by the dwarves axe and armour. Ash then joined the melee, his sword damaging the other horror, whilst Ki's efforts to get in on the action ended in faulire as he tried to somersault over the pair of horrors, getting stopped short as one reared up and lashed out with its fixed razor saw, slicing into the monk. After asking who was in need of any healing, Zamtap walked up behind Ash and saw to the Sunite's minor injuries, as Jebodiah finished the task of clearing a route to the next door, smashing aside both horrors, reducing them to scrap.
While Ki used his healing wand to patch himself up, and Zamtap busily gathered up some of the pieces of the smashed horrors for use as Gondsman components, Gylippus strolled up to the next door, and opened it, getting shot at by another brace of el;ectrum horrors, though he easily ducked out of the way of the launched projectiles. Seeing this new threat, Ash calmly advanced into combat though didn't manage to so much as scratch the horrors bodywork with his swordblow, the creature scuttling aside. Jebodiah rushed up, his axe brought down from overhead in a devastating arc to impact on the horror before him, and not even dent it, the blow sending vibrations back up his arms.
The horror he hit though was better at placing its blow and the razor saw sliced open the barbarians left leg, though the other one failed to find any gap in Ash's armour to exploit, unlike Ash who deftly jabbed his sword into its clockwork innards, mangling some of the workings. "Lets try this again" muttered Ki, leaping up and over the horrors and landing safely behind them this time, jabbing at one horror with one of his daggers and missing it completely! Seeing the blood on the floor from the wound in Jebodiah's leg, Zamtap used another charge from his wand to heal him, whilst at the back of the group Aeron and Gyllipus watched the chaos ahead with bemusement, adding commentary at times.
The battle continued with neither of the horrors able to get past their foes defences, the first being dispatched by Ash. Ki stabbed a dagger into the remaining horror, and Zamtap drew his warhammer, wading into the fray, but failing to hit the scuttling automaton, and getting cut by its razor saw too in the process. And then everyones ears rang, as in the close confines of the corridor Jebodiah brough Stormcleaver down on the electrum horror, annihilating the creatuire in a deafening peal of thunder as the axe's formidible thundering power activated, reminding everyone of just how aptly it was named. As most of the group brushed srpings, cogs and other pieces of shrapnel off themselves, Ash strode to the door at the end of this now cleared corridor section and opened it, looking into a small room with no other visible exits... a dead end.
Heading into the room, Gylippus, Ki and Aeron working together, run their hands over every inch of the walls and floor, eyes searching intently for any signs of a hidden doorway, and finding nothing. Heading back the way they came, the group assemble behind Ash at the door back into the main hall, the paladin opening the door and heading across the the next visible door, a storm of darts accompanying him entering the hall, one getting past his armour cladding and wounding him in the right shoulder. Zamtap activated his brooch of Lesser Vigor, and with Ash now in position to shield him, Gylippus dashed across the hall to the door, checking it over for traps and finding none.
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