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<blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 2291126" data-attributes="member: 19617"><p><strong>DM's Log of Session Thirty One</strong></p><p></p><p>Jebodiah grunted in pain as another dart found its way past his armour, though none of the storm of projectiles had come anywhere near Aeron. Ki finally succeeded at providing a useful amount of healing to Ash with a touch of his wand, followed by Zamtap using a cure light wounds on the paladin. At that the cleric headed out into the main hall from the second corridor, and got lightning bolted by the gold horror up in the missile gallery for his troubles, though the bolt had no effect. Heading into the third corridor, Gylippus advanbced up to a bend and peeked around it, spying a gold and electrum horror a little distance away, and also a branching side passage. Jebodiah marched up behind him and peeked also, and then drank another of his healing potions, having emptied much of his potion belt by now. Aeron headed just inside the third corridor and leant against a wall to catch a breath as his sphere finally vanished.</p><p></p><p>Zamtap ignored the darts in the main hall as they bounced off his armour and spells. As the barrage ended and the whirr could be heard of the horrors reloading, so Ki and Ash dashed out of the second corridor across the hall towards the third, Zamtap walking past them and into the corridor to catch up with Gylippus and Jebodiah. Seeing that the rest of the group were close behind, Gylippus handed his everburning torch to Jebodiah and then crept across the corridor and darted into the mouth of the side passage. Jebodiah activated his Shield of Faith brooch as he readied himself for more combat.</p><p></p><p>Back in the main hall, the electrum horrors open fire at Ash but to no effect and many of them then abandon their positions behind the various arrow slits, heading along a back passageway towards the party. Ash and Ki ran into the corridor and move up to where Jebodiah and Zamtap are waiting, Ki walking out to get a better look down the corridor at the horrors waiting there, and getting shot at by the electrum, the dart narrowly missing him though. Zamtap cast a cure light light wounds on Jebodiah and handed off a potion of healing to Ash as the cleric did his best to get the group healthy again. Gylippus darted out from his hiding place and attacked the electrum horror with his rapier, but his blow failed to do more than scratch the constructs armoured shell, as Jebodiah moved up to join in the fight also, he glanced down the side passage that Gylippus had been hiding in, his excellent dwarven vision spotting another four electrums further down that way.</p><p></p><p>The electrums attacked Jebodiah with darts and Gyllipus with razor saw, but were unable to wound either of the pair. As ash swigged back the cure moderate potion that Zamtap had handed him, Ki joined Gyllipus in battle with the electrum, stabbing it with his claw bracer, but getting cut in return by the gold horror's razor saw as it launched itself into him.Zamtap then cast a spell on Ash to allow him to resist electricity, and he then walks up to beside Jebodiah. Gylippus fails again to stab the electrum he is fighting and steps back from it, allowing Jebodiah to take his place, but the barbarian is similarly unable to score a telling blow.</p><p></p><p>The same could not be said of his foe though, as the electrum jabbed its razor saw into Jebodiah's right shin wounding him. Ki and Zamtap remained unhurt by the efforts of the other electrums to harry them with saw and darts, the group of four remaining in their place in the side passage. As more horrors moved into the corridor from another side branch further along, so Ash flew over them and landed in their midst, concentrating his efforts on taking out a gold horror directing them, knowing that its lightning posed the greatest threat to his companions. Ki activates the second daily use of his Shield of Faith brooch, while Jebopdiah next to him neatly sidestepped the lunge of a gold horrors saw. Moving up behind the group, Zamtap cast Prayer to bolster their effectiveness, though it had little effect on the horrors in the corridor, their innate spell resistance rendering the spells negative aspect ineffective. Gylippus stepped back further, moving into the side passage, as Jebodiahs temper burst loose again, the dwarf raging, his anger increased if anything as his first hit clanged off the gold horrors shell, the second hitting but doing very little damage to the creature.</p><p></p><p>As more and more electrums appeared in the coirridor, the group of them that had been behind the arrow slits now scuttling towards the group, so the ones grouped around Ash faled to hit him, and those in the side passage were also unable to hit Gylippus with their darts. Ash further damages the gold horror he is fighting, and Ki tries twice to stab it but fails both times, the creature then lightning bolting Ki and Zamtap, but neither are hurt by the blast. The other gold horror lightning bolts Ash and Jebodiah hurting the barbarian. Zamtap casts Divine Power on himself and advances into the side passage to place himself between the electrums and Gylippus, shielding the roguish wizard who cast a Magic Missle on an electrum, the magic bolt unable to penetrate the automatons spell resistant carapace. Jebodiah was having more success though, his heightned strength paying divideneds as he smashed aside an electrum and gold horror in quick succession.</p><p></p><p>As another round of attacks by the various electrum horrors had no effect on the group, they pressed their attack, Ash destroying one electrum and Ki damaging another. Zamtap then charged down the side passage towards the group of four horrors, activating a ceiling pendulum which he dodged and a collapsing ceiling, which he didn't, the priest getting battered by falling stone blocks and debris, but still stumbling through it and smashing into an electrum with his warhammer. With the cleric having cleared a pathway, Gylippus nimbly followed in his steps and attacked another of the electrums, though his rapier point simply scratched the creatures shell. Jebodiah continued to clear a path through the swarm of electrum horrors, destroying one and badly damaging another.</p><p></p><p>Attacking Ash, Gylippus and Jebodiah in melee, the massed ranks of the electrums managed to wound the barbarian. At that Ash flew up and over the electrums again, to get at the remaining gold horror, but his sword blow failed to hit it. Ki stabbed an already damaged electrum twice, but his dagger and claw bracer did not do much damage to it. The gold horror then blasted Ash, Ki and Jebodiah with lightning, again shocking the dwarf. In the side passage, Zamtap bashed the electrum he had hit before again, further damaging it, while Gylippus stabbed his opponent, discharging the Scorching Ray from his rapier into its innards, but the fire was absorbed by the creature having no effect on it. Clearly enjoying the fight, Jebodiah continued to wreak havoc on the massed electrums, Stormcleaver hacking another two apart.</p><p></p><p>Attacking many of the group in melee, the horrors scored another hit on Jebodiah and wounded Ash also, the dwarf gritting his teeth as only his rage was keeping him standing now. Ash thrust his sword into the gold horror, damaging the creature but failing to drop it, as Ki attacked an electrum and nearly fell over, only his extraordinary agility keeping him on his feet. The gold horror hit and hurt Ash with its saw, as Jebodiah stepped to one side to get out of the fight, pulling a potion from his belt. With his attention elsewhere, an electrum gored him badly with its razor saw, and while the potion helped, the dwarf was still in a very bad way. In the side passage, neither Gylippus nor Zamtap were able to damage the electrums they were busy with.</p><p></p><p>Seeing the dwarf stagger, the electrums pressed their attacks, but were only barely able to wound him further and theit attacks did nothing at all to Ash, Ki and Gylippus. The gold horror neatly avoided Ash's clumsy sword thrusts, but its own attack went badly wrong, when Ash caught its razor saw on his shield, the weapon breaking much to the paladins amusement. Seeing Jebodiah in need of healing, Ki tumbled through the battle and tapped him with his healing wand, patching up some of the dwarfs many injuries, the dwarf responding by smashing another electrum aside. In the side corridor, Zamtap smashed one electrum and Gylippus damaged another.</p><p></p><p>Seeing an opportunity to take down one of the party, the electrums swarmed around Ki and hit him several times, badly wounding the acrobat, though he doesn't let this stop him, easily tumbling out of the mass of horrors to heal Jebodiah again with his wand, Ash joining in by flying over the electrums and handing his friend his last cure moderate wounds potion, which the dwarf duly swigs back.. The gold horror left with no weapon but its lightning, discharges a bolt at Ki which he easily avoids. As another electrum scuttled forwards to engage him in melee, so Zamtap bashed it with his warhammer, having more luck than Gylippus beside him who missed his foe.</p><p></p><p>The electrums again managed to wound Ash and Jebodiah as they swarmed around the group in the corridor, though they failed to hit Gylippus and Ki with their attacks. Ash then cast Divine Favour on himself, as Ki saw to his own severe wounds with his healing wand, and Jebodiah failed to hit any of the many foes around him. Zamtap's blow smacked harmlessly into the horrors carapace then, while Gylippus's slid neatly into his foes clockwork insides, mangling a couple of cogs.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>DM's Notes:</u></strong></p><p></p><p>And the battle continues, as we reach 46 rounds of consecutive combat now, the sheer attrition of the horrors tactics starting to wear down the party. I know they are now thinking of how to secure themselves a place to rest for a bit, as all the spellcasters are running low on magic and the partys wounds are now starting to accumulate faster than they can heal themselves up, especially given that their cleric is busy in melee some distance from the partys main fighters (which Gareth has admitted was not clever planning on his part). Since killing off the party is really no fun at all, I think I'll be merciful and allow them to do so if they have a good method for how to avoid being found while they rest</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brakkart, post: 2291126, member: 19617"] [b]DM's Log of Session Thirty One[/b] Jebodiah grunted in pain as another dart found its way past his armour, though none of the storm of projectiles had come anywhere near Aeron. Ki finally succeeded at providing a useful amount of healing to Ash with a touch of his wand, followed by Zamtap using a cure light wounds on the paladin. At that the cleric headed out into the main hall from the second corridor, and got lightning bolted by the gold horror up in the missile gallery for his troubles, though the bolt had no effect. Heading into the third corridor, Gylippus advanbced up to a bend and peeked around it, spying a gold and electrum horror a little distance away, and also a branching side passage. Jebodiah marched up behind him and peeked also, and then drank another of his healing potions, having emptied much of his potion belt by now. Aeron headed just inside the third corridor and leant against a wall to catch a breath as his sphere finally vanished. Zamtap ignored the darts in the main hall as they bounced off his armour and spells. As the barrage ended and the whirr could be heard of the horrors reloading, so Ki and Ash dashed out of the second corridor across the hall towards the third, Zamtap walking past them and into the corridor to catch up with Gylippus and Jebodiah. Seeing that the rest of the group were close behind, Gylippus handed his everburning torch to Jebodiah and then crept across the corridor and darted into the mouth of the side passage. Jebodiah activated his Shield of Faith brooch as he readied himself for more combat. Back in the main hall, the electrum horrors open fire at Ash but to no effect and many of them then abandon their positions behind the various arrow slits, heading along a back passageway towards the party. Ash and Ki ran into the corridor and move up to where Jebodiah and Zamtap are waiting, Ki walking out to get a better look down the corridor at the horrors waiting there, and getting shot at by the electrum, the dart narrowly missing him though. Zamtap cast a cure light light wounds on Jebodiah and handed off a potion of healing to Ash as the cleric did his best to get the group healthy again. Gylippus darted out from his hiding place and attacked the electrum horror with his rapier, but his blow failed to do more than scratch the constructs armoured shell, as Jebodiah moved up to join in the fight also, he glanced down the side passage that Gylippus had been hiding in, his excellent dwarven vision spotting another four electrums further down that way. The electrums attacked Jebodiah with darts and Gyllipus with razor saw, but were unable to wound either of the pair. As ash swigged back the cure moderate potion that Zamtap had handed him, Ki joined Gyllipus in battle with the electrum, stabbing it with his claw bracer, but getting cut in return by the gold horror's razor saw as it launched itself into him.Zamtap then cast a spell on Ash to allow him to resist electricity, and he then walks up to beside Jebodiah. Gylippus fails again to stab the electrum he is fighting and steps back from it, allowing Jebodiah to take his place, but the barbarian is similarly unable to score a telling blow. The same could not be said of his foe though, as the electrum jabbed its razor saw into Jebodiah's right shin wounding him. Ki and Zamtap remained unhurt by the efforts of the other electrums to harry them with saw and darts, the group of four remaining in their place in the side passage. As more horrors moved into the corridor from another side branch further along, so Ash flew over them and landed in their midst, concentrating his efforts on taking out a gold horror directing them, knowing that its lightning posed the greatest threat to his companions. Ki activates the second daily use of his Shield of Faith brooch, while Jebopdiah next to him neatly sidestepped the lunge of a gold horrors saw. Moving up behind the group, Zamtap cast Prayer to bolster their effectiveness, though it had little effect on the horrors in the corridor, their innate spell resistance rendering the spells negative aspect ineffective. Gylippus stepped back further, moving into the side passage, as Jebodiahs temper burst loose again, the dwarf raging, his anger increased if anything as his first hit clanged off the gold horrors shell, the second hitting but doing very little damage to the creature. As more and more electrums appeared in the coirridor, the group of them that had been behind the arrow slits now scuttling towards the group, so the ones grouped around Ash faled to hit him, and those in the side passage were also unable to hit Gylippus with their darts. Ash further damages the gold horror he is fighting, and Ki tries twice to stab it but fails both times, the creature then lightning bolting Ki and Zamtap, but neither are hurt by the blast. The other gold horror lightning bolts Ash and Jebodiah hurting the barbarian. Zamtap casts Divine Power on himself and advances into the side passage to place himself between the electrums and Gylippus, shielding the roguish wizard who cast a Magic Missle on an electrum, the magic bolt unable to penetrate the automatons spell resistant carapace. Jebodiah was having more success though, his heightned strength paying divideneds as he smashed aside an electrum and gold horror in quick succession. As another round of attacks by the various electrum horrors had no effect on the group, they pressed their attack, Ash destroying one electrum and Ki damaging another. Zamtap then charged down the side passage towards the group of four horrors, activating a ceiling pendulum which he dodged and a collapsing ceiling, which he didn't, the priest getting battered by falling stone blocks and debris, but still stumbling through it and smashing into an electrum with his warhammer. With the cleric having cleared a pathway, Gylippus nimbly followed in his steps and attacked another of the electrums, though his rapier point simply scratched the creatures shell. Jebodiah continued to clear a path through the swarm of electrum horrors, destroying one and badly damaging another. Attacking Ash, Gylippus and Jebodiah in melee, the massed ranks of the electrums managed to wound the barbarian. At that Ash flew up and over the electrums again, to get at the remaining gold horror, but his sword blow failed to hit it. Ki stabbed an already damaged electrum twice, but his dagger and claw bracer did not do much damage to it. The gold horror then blasted Ash, Ki and Jebodiah with lightning, again shocking the dwarf. In the side passage, Zamtap bashed the electrum he had hit before again, further damaging it, while Gylippus stabbed his opponent, discharging the Scorching Ray from his rapier into its innards, but the fire was absorbed by the creature having no effect on it. Clearly enjoying the fight, Jebodiah continued to wreak havoc on the massed electrums, Stormcleaver hacking another two apart. Attacking many of the group in melee, the horrors scored another hit on Jebodiah and wounded Ash also, the dwarf gritting his teeth as only his rage was keeping him standing now. Ash thrust his sword into the gold horror, damaging the creature but failing to drop it, as Ki attacked an electrum and nearly fell over, only his extraordinary agility keeping him on his feet. The gold horror hit and hurt Ash with its saw, as Jebodiah stepped to one side to get out of the fight, pulling a potion from his belt. With his attention elsewhere, an electrum gored him badly with its razor saw, and while the potion helped, the dwarf was still in a very bad way. In the side passage, neither Gylippus nor Zamtap were able to damage the electrums they were busy with. Seeing the dwarf stagger, the electrums pressed their attacks, but were only barely able to wound him further and theit attacks did nothing at all to Ash, Ki and Gylippus. The gold horror neatly avoided Ash's clumsy sword thrusts, but its own attack went badly wrong, when Ash caught its razor saw on his shield, the weapon breaking much to the paladins amusement. Seeing Jebodiah in need of healing, Ki tumbled through the battle and tapped him with his healing wand, patching up some of the dwarfs many injuries, the dwarf responding by smashing another electrum aside. In the side corridor, Zamtap smashed one electrum and Gylippus damaged another. Seeing an opportunity to take down one of the party, the electrums swarmed around Ki and hit him several times, badly wounding the acrobat, though he doesn't let this stop him, easily tumbling out of the mass of horrors to heal Jebodiah again with his wand, Ash joining in by flying over the electrums and handing his friend his last cure moderate wounds potion, which the dwarf duly swigs back.. The gold horror left with no weapon but its lightning, discharges a bolt at Ki which he easily avoids. As another electrum scuttled forwards to engage him in melee, so Zamtap bashed it with his warhammer, having more luck than Gylippus beside him who missed his foe. The electrums again managed to wound Ash and Jebodiah as they swarmed around the group in the corridor, though they failed to hit Gylippus and Ki with their attacks. Ash then cast Divine Favour on himself, as Ki saw to his own severe wounds with his healing wand, and Jebodiah failed to hit any of the many foes around him. Zamtap's blow smacked harmlessly into the horrors carapace then, while Gylippus's slid neatly into his foes clockwork insides, mangling a couple of cogs. [B][U]DM's Notes:[/U][/B] And the battle continues, as we reach 46 rounds of consecutive combat now, the sheer attrition of the horrors tactics starting to wear down the party. I know they are now thinking of how to secure themselves a place to rest for a bit, as all the spellcasters are running low on magic and the partys wounds are now starting to accumulate faster than they can heal themselves up, especially given that their cleric is busy in melee some distance from the partys main fighters (which Gareth has admitted was not clever planning on his part). Since killing off the party is really no fun at all, I think I'll be merciful and allow them to do so if they have a good method for how to avoid being found while they rest [/QUOTE]
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