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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3123980" data-attributes="member: 30035"><p><strong>The Ziggurat of Doom</strong></p><p></p><p>I swallowed a potion and felt some of my wounds close. Outside the leader of the warforged, the one I'd knocked off the roof of the rail cart, was still shouting about the schema. </p><p></p><p>The human yelled back that we didn't have it anymore, to which the warforged replied that he'd have to take us all to see someone called the Lord of Blades. The artificer showed more backbone than I would've expected and declared that we weren't going anywhere with the warforged.</p><p></p><p>I jumped across to the cart my companions occupied and joined them. There was something odd going on in the middle of the cart with Kylara, but our foes were massing at the other end of the cart and I didn't stop to find out what it was.</p><p></p><p>The warforged weren't very good tacticians for having been made as soldiers. They all attacked from one end of the cart. I slew three of them. Grinner and the human were facing their leader, so I leaped behind him. He decided to withdraw and took a slash at me as he ran. Coward.</p><p></p><p>The gnome had cast her spell that gave us all great speed, but we still weren't fast enough to stop the halflings from picking up the leader and flying off with him. I'm sure we'll see him again.</p><p></p><p>The lightning rail wasn't going anywhere, so we settled down to rest a bit after determining that the vampire didn't have anywhere to go. The nearest shelter other than the rail carts was a ruined hobgoblin ziggurat about a mile away.</p><p></p><p>At midday we made our way to the ruin. The human cast a spell to let us walk on water so we could cross the stagnant lake that had formed around the structure. </p><p></p><p>When we got to the top and started to enter the place something happened that I don't recall clearly. I remember running, but not where I was going. Then the gnome spoke to me, and for a while my memory was just a blank. I stuck close to Dalia after that.</p><p></p><p>There were some creatures that looked like living black cloaks, but I didn't need to do much when they attacked. </p><p></p><p>The whole structure is rather unsettling. It's dedicated to some demon or monster from Xoriat.</p><p></p><p>We found a room where the walls were set with emeralds, though Dalia said they weren't greatly valuable. A skeletal undead beast attacked us. My blow destroyed it. </p><p></p><p>Going down into the bowels of the ziggurat, we found a flooded room inhabited by a nasty beast with tentacles. It smelled foul. It kept catching hold of us so we couldn't hit it. I finally managed to kill it and for good measure the homonculus set the carcass on fire.</p><p></p><p>The half-orc found a hidden door, and I pried it open. It led into a burial chamber, partly flooded. The half-orc had discovered that this place had something to do with the Dhakaani breastplate we'd recovered - there was a sword and a shield connected to the breastplate, and all of them were supposed to have some great power. The shield was in one of the sarcophagi we now faced!</p><p></p><p>Before we could get to the shield an oozy shapeless thing attacked from under the water. When I slashed through it the pieces moved on their own. I had to resort to the flail I'd acquired in the Mournlands. </p><p></p><p>After we finished it off Dalia went to open the sarcophagus and get the shield. The water started rising rapidly. Then the door shut. I could hear Kylara and Valirdryn pounding on the other side. I managed to heave it open again, and the human courageously dived under the water to find a way to stop the flood from rising. </p><p></p><p>After we'd got the shield, Grinner detected the vampire up above somewhere. We went back upstairs and found him in a great hall, sitting on a black throne beneath a statue of a demon.</p><p></p><p>This is the sort of adventure that is worthy of my ancestor's memory!</p><p>____________________________________________________________</p><p></p><p><strong>Quips & Quotes</strong>:</p><p></p><p><u>patv</u>: "I stick the black sword in the bed point first."</p><p><u>Devo</u>: "The bed dies."</p><p></p><p><u>DH</u>: "Xil can't let go of the sword."</p><p><u>patv</u>: "Well, going to the bathroom is going to be a butch." (yes, he actually said "butch")</p><p><u>Hedrin</u>: "Not for long!"</p><p></p><p><u>sniffles</u>: "'My wand is out! I forgot to put it on the charger!'"</p><p></p><p><u>DH </u> (after Grinner killed one of the warforged): "'Leave one alive - but not that one!'"</p><p></p><p><u>Zora</u>: "How do you know the wand doesn't work? Does it go limp?"</p><p><u>DH</u>: "Give that wand some Viagra!"</p><p></p><p><u>Hedrin</u>: "It's silhouetted by the glowing ziggurat - it's a ziggurat lighter."</p><p></p><p><u>DH</u>: "It lands in the copse of trees."</p><p><u>Zora</u>: "The cops arrest it."</p><p></p><p><u>Hedrin</u>: "I'm wearing sturdy boots."</p><p><u>Zora</u>: "And Artemis is wearing dirty boots."</p><p></p><p><u>DH</u>: "The undead minotaur's flesh oozes off the bones."</p><p><u>patv</u>: "Ew! Five foot step away!"</p><p></p><p><u>Hedrin</u>: "Dais ex machina. The ghost in the shelf."</p><p></p><p><u>patv</u>: "It smells like the vampire's deodorant."</p><p><u>sniffles</u>: "<em>Old Must</em>."</p><p></p><p><u>Devo</u>: "I wet my pants all the time. I mean, I get my pants wet all the time."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 3123980, member: 30035"] [b]The Ziggurat of Doom[/b] I swallowed a potion and felt some of my wounds close. Outside the leader of the warforged, the one I'd knocked off the roof of the rail cart, was still shouting about the schema. The human yelled back that we didn't have it anymore, to which the warforged replied that he'd have to take us all to see someone called the Lord of Blades. The artificer showed more backbone than I would've expected and declared that we weren't going anywhere with the warforged. I jumped across to the cart my companions occupied and joined them. There was something odd going on in the middle of the cart with Kylara, but our foes were massing at the other end of the cart and I didn't stop to find out what it was. The warforged weren't very good tacticians for having been made as soldiers. They all attacked from one end of the cart. I slew three of them. Grinner and the human were facing their leader, so I leaped behind him. He decided to withdraw and took a slash at me as he ran. Coward. The gnome had cast her spell that gave us all great speed, but we still weren't fast enough to stop the halflings from picking up the leader and flying off with him. I'm sure we'll see him again. The lightning rail wasn't going anywhere, so we settled down to rest a bit after determining that the vampire didn't have anywhere to go. The nearest shelter other than the rail carts was a ruined hobgoblin ziggurat about a mile away. At midday we made our way to the ruin. The human cast a spell to let us walk on water so we could cross the stagnant lake that had formed around the structure. When we got to the top and started to enter the place something happened that I don't recall clearly. I remember running, but not where I was going. Then the gnome spoke to me, and for a while my memory was just a blank. I stuck close to Dalia after that. There were some creatures that looked like living black cloaks, but I didn't need to do much when they attacked. The whole structure is rather unsettling. It's dedicated to some demon or monster from Xoriat. We found a room where the walls were set with emeralds, though Dalia said they weren't greatly valuable. A skeletal undead beast attacked us. My blow destroyed it. Going down into the bowels of the ziggurat, we found a flooded room inhabited by a nasty beast with tentacles. It smelled foul. It kept catching hold of us so we couldn't hit it. I finally managed to kill it and for good measure the homonculus set the carcass on fire. The half-orc found a hidden door, and I pried it open. It led into a burial chamber, partly flooded. The half-orc had discovered that this place had something to do with the Dhakaani breastplate we'd recovered - there was a sword and a shield connected to the breastplate, and all of them were supposed to have some great power. The shield was in one of the sarcophagi we now faced! Before we could get to the shield an oozy shapeless thing attacked from under the water. When I slashed through it the pieces moved on their own. I had to resort to the flail I'd acquired in the Mournlands. After we finished it off Dalia went to open the sarcophagus and get the shield. The water started rising rapidly. Then the door shut. I could hear Kylara and Valirdryn pounding on the other side. I managed to heave it open again, and the human courageously dived under the water to find a way to stop the flood from rising. After we'd got the shield, Grinner detected the vampire up above somewhere. We went back upstairs and found him in a great hall, sitting on a black throne beneath a statue of a demon. This is the sort of adventure that is worthy of my ancestor's memory! ____________________________________________________________ [B]Quips & Quotes[/B]: [U]patv[/U]: "I stick the black sword in the bed point first." [U]Devo[/U]: "The bed dies." [U]DH[/U]: "Xil can't let go of the sword." [U]patv[/U]: "Well, going to the bathroom is going to be a butch." (yes, he actually said "butch") [U]Hedrin[/U]: "Not for long!" [U]sniffles[/U]: "'My wand is out! I forgot to put it on the charger!'" [U]DH [/U] (after Grinner killed one of the warforged): "'Leave one alive - but not that one!'" [U]Zora[/U]: "How do you know the wand doesn't work? Does it go limp?" [U]DH[/U]: "Give that wand some Viagra!" [U]Hedrin[/U]: "It's silhouetted by the glowing ziggurat - it's a ziggurat lighter." [U]DH[/U]: "It lands in the copse of trees." [U]Zora[/U]: "The cops arrest it." [U]Hedrin[/U]: "I'm wearing sturdy boots." [U]Zora[/U]: "And Artemis is wearing dirty boots." [U]DH[/U]: "The undead minotaur's flesh oozes off the bones." [U]patv[/U]: "Ew! Five foot step away!" [U]Hedrin[/U]: "Dais ex machina. The ghost in the shelf." [U]patv[/U]: "It smells like the vampire's deodorant." [U]sniffles[/U]: "[I]Old Must[/I]." [U]Devo[/U]: "I wet my pants all the time. I mean, I get my pants wet all the time." [/QUOTE]
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