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<blockquote data-quote="TarionzCousin" data-source="post: 5176482" data-attributes="member: 31304"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>The Defrosters - May 2, 2010</strong></span></p><p></p><p><u>Present</u></p><p><strong>Felonius </strong>– Tiefling Warlock and Brazen Bluffer</p><p><strong>Flurge </strong>– Eladrin Wizard and Frost Flinger</p><p><strong>Grommit </strong>– Dwarven Fighter and Butt Burnee</p><p><strong>Vixten </strong>– Elven Cleric and Contraption Controller</p><p><strong>Zanen </strong>– Deva Avenger and Bonebag Breaker</p><p></p><p><u>Absent</u></p><p><strong>Arvin </strong>– Token Human Rogue and Shadowy Sleeper</p><p><strong>Marcus </strong>– Half-Elf Bard and Wandering Wanderer</p><p></p><p><u>Location </u></p><p>The Shadowfell, on Shade isle, Belendithus’ Army Headquarters on the Stormy Seas.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Seven Seas</strong></span></p><p>The party’s shadow ship circled Shade Isle, searching for an alternate path into the center of the island in vain. Aside from the river, the entire isle consisted of steep cliffs of black glass surrounding a smoky volcanic peak. Several dark draconic shapes circled the volcano, keeping an eye out for intruders. Grommit remarked that this place was “like the Undead Riviera.” Images of the dwarf dressed only in a speedo, avidly displaying his hairy body trampled through everyone’s mind’s eye. This revealed a side of Grommit that nobody had previously suspected, nor did they ask to know more.</p><p></p><p>Vixten saw many large menacing shapes deep in the water, so he ruled out scuba-diving as a way to pass the time. Instead the group sailed alongside the outermost guard boat capable of sailing up the river. Vixten stealthily snuck on board while Felonius claimed he was “Peledisus,” an envoy of Belendithus. The crew gladly gave up their boat to such esteemed servants of Her Dusky Badness.</p><p></p><p>Arvin guided the Shadow Ship to a remote location and went back to sleep. Apparently his Level 9 Utility Power is “Power Nap.” Everyone else of consequence sailed up the river, rowing in perfect unison to Vixten’s chanting and drum-beating. After long enough to take a brief rest, they beached the ship short of an army camp on the right side of the river. On this side of the river were a stockade full of prisoners (but no Marcus the Wanderer), some sort of large machine, and at least a dozen soldiers. </p><p></p><p>On the other side were more soldiers and the path that lead up to the volcano. “Pelendisus” commandeered a boat and the party set off across the river. A soldier notified their captain who wasn’t very happy about the whole thing and shouted out “You Idiot! Intruders!” The alarm sounded and villains moved in to position to be killed.</p><p></p><p>The party landed up near the path and disembarked, prepared to fight. They were swarmed by many soldiers and two extremely un-handsome shadowborn lieutenants with glowing red eyes and worms in their teeth. </p><p></p><p>Vixten called down a strike of flames and offed two mooks. Zanen charged one lieutenant and dealt him a heavy blow. But the lieutenant’s eyes shot out black necrotic energy and he healed himself. That’s cheating! Flurge slew three soldiers who were sneaking up behind the group on a boat on a river. Grommit (wait for it) charged and impaled one unhappy mook on his new helm. Felonious fired away and all of the bad guys rushed forward at the heroes.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Bedbugs and Ballyhoo</strong></span></p><p>Across the river, the machine began making noises and a soldier climbed up inside it. The contraption chugged and clanked and fired a thick bolt of white lightning onto Grommit’s butt. A lieutenant stepped past Grommit, laughed, and was hit by two opportunistic attacks. The tiefling summoned a nasty bowling ball of coldness and scattered the clump of bad guys. Flurge’s fireball splattered one wormy lieutenant and Zanen slew the other, finishing off the split.</p><p></p><p>The elven cleric promptly paddled the boat back across the river and began breaking in to the contraption. Meanwhile the machine blasted Grommit’s other buttcheek, completing his much-needed microderm abrasion treatment. Vixten broke in, killed the soldier inside, and took his place. The Captain of the camp arrived and was immediately introduced to the tiefling’s bitterly cold (and shrunken) ball. He teleported and became insubstantial to escape. Flurge teleported near to the Captain and, exhibiting strange Lawful-Good behavior, told him “Surrender or my warlock friend will kill you!” Refer to the betting pool for the odds on the eladrin becoming a paladin.</p><p></p><p>Zanen sprinted over and sliced the distracted leader into two pieces. Vixten blasted one unlucky soldier into ashes before the battle was over. But that didn’t stop him. He turned and lobbed lightning bolts past the prison and slowly fried the last few prison guards—all the while cackling gleefully about his new toy.</p><p></p><p>Searching the camp area provided only a million bedbugs, some wormy dentures (given to the dwarf), and a single black pearl on the captain’s corpse. Questioning the prisoners revealed that the higher value prisoners were kept inside the volcano. Promising to free them when they returned, the party sauntered carefully up the path. </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Never Stop</strong></span></p><p>In front of a cave mouth surrounded by higher ground, four soldiers halted the party’s advance. “Pelendisus” convinced them that he was supposed to interrogate an important prisoner named Marcus for Belendithus.</p><p></p><p>“You have the secret mark to get past the guardian, right?” One guard asked.</p><p></p><p>“Of course we do,” the tiefling lied. </p><p></p><p>With that the group walked boldly forward two whole steps before they heard a horrible roar come from within the cave.</p><p></p><p>“You don’t have the mark! I can’t believe adventurers we’ve never seen before would lie to us!” the guards wailed and attacked.</p><p></p><p>Three skeletons wreathed in arcane fire appeared on the higher ground. Grommit immediately climb-charged two of them—nobody even knew that was possible. The soldiers milled about until they were dispatched by Felonius, Flurge and Zanen. At that point, a loud roar and a cloud of pungent stench emanated from the mouth of the cave as a large brutish zombie rushed forward and jumped into the ring. Vixten hung back at the ropes and retaliated with some holy hits. Zanen blazed with lunar glory, damaging one flaming skeleton and pulling it off the ramp to its final end. Zanen danced like a butterfly with his arms above his head, declaring “I am rrrrrrready to rrrrrrrumble!”</p><p></p><p>Felonius went toe to toe with the big zombie, trading blows until he was knocked down but still providing flanking for Zanen. Vixten had climbed the cliff and was lancing away at the flaming bone-bags alongside Grommit’s burning butt. Flurge teleported up the cliffside so he, too, could lie prone near an enemy to provide flanking. Resorting to repeated uses of Ray of Frost, Flurge finally hit the skeleton right between the eyeholes to destroy it.</p><p></p><p>The Deva and Tiefling’s tag-team technique eventually knocked El Zombo Grande down for the count. They moved to the cliff’s edge to help with the last blazing skeleton, but before they could climb, the big zombie arose from the (un)dead. It leapt up and roared the worst halitosis ever experienced. While it was preoccupied with posing, the good guys hit it with a folding chair and dropped it with a sense of finality.</p><p></p><p>Everyone gathered around the last remaining enemy, but Flurge’s Ray of Frost/Grommit’s hammer combo shattered it before everyone could gang up. Skeletor exploded in icy-flaming chunks that landed on Grommit and (finally) extinguished his burning ass. Grommit held the Championship Belt high above his head and danced a dwarfy little jig as the crowd went wild.</p><p></p><p><em>--End Session</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Zanen vs. Blazing Skeleton: 49 points of radiant damage = 54 points, plus 2d10 for the fall = One Shot Kill. A new party record!</p><p></p><p><u>Loot from This Session</u></p><p>A <strong>black pearl </strong>worth 500 gold pieces.</p><p></p><p><u>Experience Points</u></p><p>+5850 XP. New Total: 19,728.03</p><p>Level 10: 20,500.27</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TarionzCousin, post: 5176482, member: 31304"] [SIZE="4"][B]The Defrosters - May 2, 2010[/B][/SIZE] [U]Present[/U] [B]Felonius [/B]– Tiefling Warlock and Brazen Bluffer [B]Flurge [/B]– Eladrin Wizard and Frost Flinger [B]Grommit [/B]– Dwarven Fighter and Butt Burnee [B]Vixten [/B]– Elven Cleric and Contraption Controller [B]Zanen [/B]– Deva Avenger and Bonebag Breaker [U]Absent[/U] [B]Arvin [/B]– Token Human Rogue and Shadowy Sleeper [B]Marcus [/B]– Half-Elf Bard and Wandering Wanderer [U]Location [/U] The Shadowfell, on Shade isle, Belendithus’ Army Headquarters on the Stormy Seas. [SIZE="4"][B]Seven Seas[/B][/SIZE] The party’s shadow ship circled Shade Isle, searching for an alternate path into the center of the island in vain. Aside from the river, the entire isle consisted of steep cliffs of black glass surrounding a smoky volcanic peak. Several dark draconic shapes circled the volcano, keeping an eye out for intruders. Grommit remarked that this place was “like the Undead Riviera.” Images of the dwarf dressed only in a speedo, avidly displaying his hairy body trampled through everyone’s mind’s eye. This revealed a side of Grommit that nobody had previously suspected, nor did they ask to know more. Vixten saw many large menacing shapes deep in the water, so he ruled out scuba-diving as a way to pass the time. Instead the group sailed alongside the outermost guard boat capable of sailing up the river. Vixten stealthily snuck on board while Felonius claimed he was “Peledisus,” an envoy of Belendithus. The crew gladly gave up their boat to such esteemed servants of Her Dusky Badness. Arvin guided the Shadow Ship to a remote location and went back to sleep. Apparently his Level 9 Utility Power is “Power Nap.” Everyone else of consequence sailed up the river, rowing in perfect unison to Vixten’s chanting and drum-beating. After long enough to take a brief rest, they beached the ship short of an army camp on the right side of the river. On this side of the river were a stockade full of prisoners (but no Marcus the Wanderer), some sort of large machine, and at least a dozen soldiers. On the other side were more soldiers and the path that lead up to the volcano. “Pelendisus” commandeered a boat and the party set off across the river. A soldier notified their captain who wasn’t very happy about the whole thing and shouted out “You Idiot! Intruders!” The alarm sounded and villains moved in to position to be killed. The party landed up near the path and disembarked, prepared to fight. They were swarmed by many soldiers and two extremely un-handsome shadowborn lieutenants with glowing red eyes and worms in their teeth. Vixten called down a strike of flames and offed two mooks. Zanen charged one lieutenant and dealt him a heavy blow. But the lieutenant’s eyes shot out black necrotic energy and he healed himself. That’s cheating! Flurge slew three soldiers who were sneaking up behind the group on a boat on a river. Grommit (wait for it) charged and impaled one unhappy mook on his new helm. Felonious fired away and all of the bad guys rushed forward at the heroes. [SIZE="4"][B]Bedbugs and Ballyhoo[/B][/SIZE] Across the river, the machine began making noises and a soldier climbed up inside it. The contraption chugged and clanked and fired a thick bolt of white lightning onto Grommit’s butt. A lieutenant stepped past Grommit, laughed, and was hit by two opportunistic attacks. The tiefling summoned a nasty bowling ball of coldness and scattered the clump of bad guys. Flurge’s fireball splattered one wormy lieutenant and Zanen slew the other, finishing off the split. The elven cleric promptly paddled the boat back across the river and began breaking in to the contraption. Meanwhile the machine blasted Grommit’s other buttcheek, completing his much-needed microderm abrasion treatment. Vixten broke in, killed the soldier inside, and took his place. The Captain of the camp arrived and was immediately introduced to the tiefling’s bitterly cold (and shrunken) ball. He teleported and became insubstantial to escape. Flurge teleported near to the Captain and, exhibiting strange Lawful-Good behavior, told him “Surrender or my warlock friend will kill you!” Refer to the betting pool for the odds on the eladrin becoming a paladin. Zanen sprinted over and sliced the distracted leader into two pieces. Vixten blasted one unlucky soldier into ashes before the battle was over. But that didn’t stop him. He turned and lobbed lightning bolts past the prison and slowly fried the last few prison guards—all the while cackling gleefully about his new toy. Searching the camp area provided only a million bedbugs, some wormy dentures (given to the dwarf), and a single black pearl on the captain’s corpse. Questioning the prisoners revealed that the higher value prisoners were kept inside the volcano. Promising to free them when they returned, the party sauntered carefully up the path. [SIZE="4"][B]Never Stop[/B][/SIZE] In front of a cave mouth surrounded by higher ground, four soldiers halted the party’s advance. “Pelendisus” convinced them that he was supposed to interrogate an important prisoner named Marcus for Belendithus. “You have the secret mark to get past the guardian, right?” One guard asked. “Of course we do,” the tiefling lied. With that the group walked boldly forward two whole steps before they heard a horrible roar come from within the cave. “You don’t have the mark! I can’t believe adventurers we’ve never seen before would lie to us!” the guards wailed and attacked. Three skeletons wreathed in arcane fire appeared on the higher ground. Grommit immediately climb-charged two of them—nobody even knew that was possible. The soldiers milled about until they were dispatched by Felonius, Flurge and Zanen. At that point, a loud roar and a cloud of pungent stench emanated from the mouth of the cave as a large brutish zombie rushed forward and jumped into the ring. Vixten hung back at the ropes and retaliated with some holy hits. Zanen blazed with lunar glory, damaging one flaming skeleton and pulling it off the ramp to its final end. Zanen danced like a butterfly with his arms above his head, declaring “I am rrrrrrready to rrrrrrrumble!” Felonius went toe to toe with the big zombie, trading blows until he was knocked down but still providing flanking for Zanen. Vixten had climbed the cliff and was lancing away at the flaming bone-bags alongside Grommit’s burning butt. Flurge teleported up the cliffside so he, too, could lie prone near an enemy to provide flanking. Resorting to repeated uses of Ray of Frost, Flurge finally hit the skeleton right between the eyeholes to destroy it. The Deva and Tiefling’s tag-team technique eventually knocked El Zombo Grande down for the count. They moved to the cliff’s edge to help with the last blazing skeleton, but before they could climb, the big zombie arose from the (un)dead. It leapt up and roared the worst halitosis ever experienced. While it was preoccupied with posing, the good guys hit it with a folding chair and dropped it with a sense of finality. Everyone gathered around the last remaining enemy, but Flurge’s Ray of Frost/Grommit’s hammer combo shattered it before everyone could gang up. Skeletor exploded in icy-flaming chunks that landed on Grommit and (finally) extinguished his burning ass. Grommit held the Championship Belt high above his head and danced a dwarfy little jig as the crowd went wild. [I]--End Session[/I] Zanen vs. Blazing Skeleton: 49 points of radiant damage = 54 points, plus 2d10 for the fall = One Shot Kill. A new party record! [U]Loot from This Session[/U] A [B]black pearl [/B]worth 500 gold pieces. [U]Experience Points[/U] +5850 XP. New Total: 19,728.03 Level 10: 20,500.27 [/QUOTE]
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