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<blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 1595306" data-attributes="member: 18635"><p><strong>Session 2: </strong> Wherein the party decide to open the great stone double doors leading into the hill. The party spend 4 hours attempting to open the doors before deciding to wait until nightfall to see if any Drow emerge. They wait over night…nothing happens. The next day they again spend hours attempting to open the doors, eventually they manage to force them open.. Inside a corridor stretches off.. on the floor are five dead Drow. They examine these bodies and deduce that three of the Drow died by wounds inflicted by small crossbow quarrels and the other two were killed by blows from blunt weapons. Each has been stripped of arms and armor but each still wore a black tabard emblazoned with a silver spiderweb insignia. Zarathrustra scalps one of the Drow and then uses Animates dead on them, he commands them to proceed ahead of the party. They come to a door which they open, it leads into a large room, they enter.. a glyph flashes on the floor and 2 celestial dire lions appear and attack, these prove tougher than expected but the party slay them. The room is a tomb and contains several bodies, the party find loot!. They come to another door in the corridor and Zarathrustra commands one of his Drow zombies to open the door. When the zombie touches the door it falls down. Undeterred the party enter the room. The vaults most prominent feature was a large stone statue of a regal-looking woman dressed in a long elegant gown. As the party enter the statue seems to animate.. It appears to talk to them but none in the party understand its words. Suddenly a ghostly woman materializes, her mere look drains Lipput of strength, dexterity and constitution.. Initially Chandos refuses to fight the Ghost, claiming he dosen’t fight intelligent undead, however , as various party members are drained by the ghost Chandos decides to step in. The ghost disappears and they decide to smash up the statue..Mr Brownstone doing a particularly good job. The area opens into caverns, graves are cut into the walls, Zarathrustra sends in one of his zombie slaves to check the graves in the walls.. the party see spores fly into the air.. Brownstone and Lipput don their “mask of the bees” (immune to airborne poisons ) and search the area. They come into another cavern that has a marble statue that depicts a gaunt, alien-looking creature with bulbous eyes, an insects mandibles, and a elongated oval head. They spend quite a while checking this statue out, but find nothing. They proceed on through the chamber and are attacked by a Roper, but after Hairbear, Brownstone and Chandos sneak attack/critical it is nomore. They decide to rest but are attacked by a Maurezhi, it manages to paralyze Lipput, Chandos, Hairbear.. Just before Brownstone is paralyzed he manages to shout and awaken a sleeping Zarathrustra who amazingly rebukes this creature. They carry on searching more caverns and get attacked by a few Drow and spiders.. They are also attacked from behind by two Bebiliths which prove fearsome creatures, Zarathrustra gains control of a wraith spider and sends it into battle. Once the Bebilith are slain Zarathrustra eats some of them and they retrace their steps and find a illusory wall. They proceed through and see what appears to be a Drow elf being attacked by a spider creature…the party go to aid of the elf, but are instead attacked by both creatures which turn out to be two Aranea (drow-spider things). After a few illusory walls the party encounter a band of 5 drow who attack the party.. The drow consist of a female cleric, a spellguard and noble guards. The party defeats these. Zarathrustra uses Speak with dead and they glean the following information.</p><p>Why the raids? ‘To get supplies.’ Why the expulsion? ‘Because we follow the Spider Queen. </p><p>Lolth has gone silent. Followers of the White Banshee have control.’</p><p>Zarathrustra animates 5 dead drow again, Brownstone coats his blade with drow poison and they are attacked again by the Maurezhi, Hairbear proves his worth and it dies. They resume searching the Dordrien Crypts and finally come to a wall of stone with a hole going down infront of it.</p><p>Timeline: Chandos, Lipput, Hairbear, Zarathrustra, Mr Brownstone: Day 4</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tariff, post: 1595306, member: 18635"] [B]Session 2: [/B] Wherein the party decide to open the great stone double doors leading into the hill. The party spend 4 hours attempting to open the doors before deciding to wait until nightfall to see if any Drow emerge. They wait over night…nothing happens. The next day they again spend hours attempting to open the doors, eventually they manage to force them open.. Inside a corridor stretches off.. on the floor are five dead Drow. They examine these bodies and deduce that three of the Drow died by wounds inflicted by small crossbow quarrels and the other two were killed by blows from blunt weapons. Each has been stripped of arms and armor but each still wore a black tabard emblazoned with a silver spiderweb insignia. Zarathrustra scalps one of the Drow and then uses Animates dead on them, he commands them to proceed ahead of the party. They come to a door which they open, it leads into a large room, they enter.. a glyph flashes on the floor and 2 celestial dire lions appear and attack, these prove tougher than expected but the party slay them. The room is a tomb and contains several bodies, the party find loot!. They come to another door in the corridor and Zarathrustra commands one of his Drow zombies to open the door. When the zombie touches the door it falls down. Undeterred the party enter the room. The vaults most prominent feature was a large stone statue of a regal-looking woman dressed in a long elegant gown. As the party enter the statue seems to animate.. It appears to talk to them but none in the party understand its words. Suddenly a ghostly woman materializes, her mere look drains Lipput of strength, dexterity and constitution.. Initially Chandos refuses to fight the Ghost, claiming he dosen’t fight intelligent undead, however , as various party members are drained by the ghost Chandos decides to step in. The ghost disappears and they decide to smash up the statue..Mr Brownstone doing a particularly good job. The area opens into caverns, graves are cut into the walls, Zarathrustra sends in one of his zombie slaves to check the graves in the walls.. the party see spores fly into the air.. Brownstone and Lipput don their “mask of the bees” (immune to airborne poisons ) and search the area. They come into another cavern that has a marble statue that depicts a gaunt, alien-looking creature with bulbous eyes, an insects mandibles, and a elongated oval head. They spend quite a while checking this statue out, but find nothing. They proceed on through the chamber and are attacked by a Roper, but after Hairbear, Brownstone and Chandos sneak attack/critical it is nomore. They decide to rest but are attacked by a Maurezhi, it manages to paralyze Lipput, Chandos, Hairbear.. Just before Brownstone is paralyzed he manages to shout and awaken a sleeping Zarathrustra who amazingly rebukes this creature. They carry on searching more caverns and get attacked by a few Drow and spiders.. They are also attacked from behind by two Bebiliths which prove fearsome creatures, Zarathrustra gains control of a wraith spider and sends it into battle. Once the Bebilith are slain Zarathrustra eats some of them and they retrace their steps and find a illusory wall. They proceed through and see what appears to be a Drow elf being attacked by a spider creature…the party go to aid of the elf, but are instead attacked by both creatures which turn out to be two Aranea (drow-spider things). After a few illusory walls the party encounter a band of 5 drow who attack the party.. The drow consist of a female cleric, a spellguard and noble guards. The party defeats these. Zarathrustra uses Speak with dead and they glean the following information. Why the raids? ‘To get supplies.’ Why the expulsion? ‘Because we follow the Spider Queen. Lolth has gone silent. Followers of the White Banshee have control.’ Zarathrustra animates 5 dead drow again, Brownstone coats his blade with drow poison and they are attacked again by the Maurezhi, Hairbear proves his worth and it dies. They resume searching the Dordrien Crypts and finally come to a wall of stone with a hole going down infront of it. Timeline: Chandos, Lipput, Hairbear, Zarathrustra, Mr Brownstone: Day 4 [/QUOTE]
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