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<blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 1644807" data-attributes="member: 18635"><p><strong>New Blood</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Session 9: New Blood</strong></p><p>Wherein the party decide to head back again to Daggerfalls. They ascend the spiderweb and proceed through the Dordrien Crypts without incident. Back at Daggerfalls Chandos trains in the ways of the warrior, this takes two weeks. During this break, the Necromancer Mortise once again comes to the Teshford Arms Inn and speaks with Chandos. Lipput enquires of the mage “Do you have the Magiks to upgrade this” he says holding up his greataxe. “I do, lets talk” replies Mortise. “I’m going to stay behind, I need to upgrade my weaponry” says the half-orc to the party. “I also will be abandoning the party for a time” says Hairbear. “there are some matters I must attend to”. “we will need others” says Chandos to Brownstone. “Judas!” shouts Brownstone in surprise. Across the room, sitting at a table is a human adorned in full plate mail. He is playing chess with a man opposite him who also wears a red cloak. A cleric of the Red Knight, thinks Chandos. “Checkmate” says the Cleric who looks up from the Lanceboard “Brownstone”. “There’s our cleric” says the assassin to the fighter.</p><p></p><p>Thein the Conjurer was a little shocked. He had teleported to Daggerfalls from a Thayan enclave, with the aid of scrying. The journey had not been smooth; he was sure he felt “travel sick”. He tries out a few mundane spells. Nope, they seem to work fine he says to himself.. Suspicious Thein visits the Inns of Daggerfalls to try to find another Wizard. He had just about given up when he spies a figure dressed in robes with a flowing beard coming ambling up the track toward Daggerfalls. Thein rushes out to meet him. The wizard is a little taken aback by the heavily tattooed Thein who is obviously much more powerful than himself. “Have you noticed anything wrong with your spells my friend?” asks Thein. “Nope, cant say I ave” replies the mage. “Not your teleport spells?” “dunno, aint tried. Mmm let me see, I have that memorized at the moment. Tell you what, ill try it out.. ill teleport over to that tree” he says, pointing to a tree 50ft away. “ok” says Thein. The wizard begins casting and disappears. Thein waits a while for him to appear by the tree. He continues to wait, and there is still no sign of the other wizard… “mmmm” says Thein. He begins to walk toward the tree pondering when he notices a dagger stuck in the base of the tree, its blade burning. Wrapped around its hilt was a message</p><p></p><p>The next phase of your journey begins. Now you are training for the circle. Join the adventuring party fighting the drow.</p><p></p><p>These markers where familiar to Thein, they had been part of his life for a long time. “Time to go to work” he says striding purposefully to the Teshford arms Inn.</p><p></p><p>“Yes, we could certainly use a wizard” says Chandos to Thein, “That would complete our party, we have a Assassin, a Cleric, a Wizard and a Main Tank!” he permits himself a small smile. Mr Brownstone and Chandos fill in Thein and Judas as to the current state of affairs. “Ahh Drow, what scum god do they bow too?” asks Judas “It seems Lolth has abandoned them, they now seem to bow to a god named Kiaransalee” replies Brownstone. “Lets go, their gods don’t interest me” states Chandos heading for the door.</p><p></p><p>They travel to the Dordrien crypts yet again on foot. The stone doors leading into the hill remain shut, but not barred. The party travel through the crypts, down the hole, and to the large spider web. “There’s several ways to go here, but we have unfinished business with a Roper” says Brownstone looking over the chasm into the depths below. “Lead on, with sound tactics we will avail anything” states Judas. They navigate their way down the web to the Bazaar level some 300ft below. They head straight for the room that contained the Roper. The party prepare, drinking some potions. Judas invokes his Domain Power (Nobility) Inspire Allies. Thein readies his Magic Missiles and Chandos flings open the door. The Roper is hit by the missiles but they fizzle on him ineffectively. In the small room there is a pool of something, round the edges, blocking the way to the Roper at the back of the room, Chandos notices Ochre Jellys. He leaps over one and confronts the Roper. Brownstone stands at the door and throws a thunderstone, the Roper resists its effects. Eleven tentacles shoot forth from the creature. The attacks are aimed at Chandos and Brownstone, but all the strands miss. Judas from behind Brownstone casts a Doom spell at the Roper, this too fizzles!. “Do we need wood?” jokes Brownstone “uh?” says Judas. Thein conjures up a flaming sphere and directs it at one of the oozes. Chandos hits the Roper with two almighty strikes slaying the beast. “Now why couldn’t you have done that the first time?” says Brownstone “Because Last Time” snarls Chandos “I was stuck in the door” The remaining Jellys advance on Brownstone and Chandos. Judas steps in and clouts one with his sword, it spits in two. “Doh” says Judas. Chandos gets wood!. Judas lends Brownstone a magical mace “use this” he says “I don’t think these destroy weapons” states Chandos. The jellys attempt to hit Brownstone, but he is too nimble, avoiding their strikes. Thein continues to control his flaming sphere, moving it into the oozes, the rest of the party engage in melee with them and soon destroy them. Thein directs his flaming sphere into the pool in the middle of the room. It fizzles out as it touches the liquid. Chandos bends down and touches the pool with his dagger.. The dagger begins to fizzle at its end.. Chandos withdraws it and wipes it on the floor “Acid” he says. A sickly violet light emanates from the pool. Judas leans over to view what is making the light. He sees the image of an unblinking lidless eye. Judas casts detect magic. “It’s a permanent magical symbol to the Deity Ghaunadaur” says the cleric “patron of oozes, slimes, jellys, outcasts, ropers and rebels. And incidently one of Lolth’s foes is Ghaunadaur. She really has fallen from favor here”. Judas casts Dispel Magic on the eye and it fades. In two clay urns in the room the party find some loot.</p><p></p><p>“Where to go now?” inquires Thein. “I believe the bottom cave, some 600ft down, must go deeper into the Underdark” says Chandos. “But we haven’t checked it out”. “What was that stone wall back up in the Dordrien Crypts?” asks Thein. “We don’t know” replies Brownstone “Hairbear determined it was a Wall of Stone spell, but that is all” “Lets go take another look” says Chandos.</p><p></p><p>The party ascends the huge web again. They go up the hole in the roof of the cavern and stand before the wall of stone. Chandos smashes through it in no time. They come out into another roughly hewn tunnel that is very dark. Thein, Chandos and Brownstone consume potions of Darkvision. Judas pulls down his visors of dark vision.. Brownstone scouts ahead first, checking for traps. He finds one. A large pit trap is covered by a illusory floor. “Nice one!” says Judas. Brownstone takes out his block of chalk and starts marking round the pit trap. A acrid, sulfurous odor fills the cavern probably emanating from the heap of filth in the far southwest corner. Suddenly Brownstone notices two large forms shaped like bloated spiders with a drows upper body crawl down from the walls and ceiling and attack.</p><p></p><p>“Driders!” shouts Judas just before Chandos is hit by two Lightning Bolts “Not again!” crys Chandos. Thein responds by using Magic Missiles on the Driders. Brownstone throws another Thunderstone at the Driders but they resist. Judas uses Command on one of the Driders “Come here” he says. The Spider/drow creature walks forward willingly toward the cleric. It falls into the pit trap and is impaled by two large spikes. It stops twitching. They destroy the other Drider with ease. They search this cavern. Concealed in the heap of filth in the corner they find some coin and two scrolls in waterproof scroll cases.</p><p></p><p>They proceed on into the last cavern in this area. Gigantic tangles of webbing, encrusted with dust and rubble, fill this large cavern. Two enormous spiders attack the party. Thein launches a Fireball at them, causing them great damage. Judas aids his comrades with a Prayer spell. The first spider attempts to bite Brownstone but misses, the second fires a web at the party, but it misses and hits the wall of the cavern. Brownstone retreats and Chandos steps in and hits one of the spiders. Thein uses Melphs Acid Arrow. The spiders are quickly dispatched. Judas heals Chandos with cure critical and cure light wounds spells.</p><p></p><p>“Those Driders, says Chandos addressing the party “they were once Dark elves. Lolth puts a test to them, if they fail they become these creatures. They are then outcasts from the Drow community.” </p><p></p><p>“well, there dead now anyway” replies Judas</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tariff, post: 1644807, member: 18635"] [b]New Blood[/b] [B]Session 9: New Blood[/B] Wherein the party decide to head back again to Daggerfalls. They ascend the spiderweb and proceed through the Dordrien Crypts without incident. Back at Daggerfalls Chandos trains in the ways of the warrior, this takes two weeks. During this break, the Necromancer Mortise once again comes to the Teshford Arms Inn and speaks with Chandos. Lipput enquires of the mage “Do you have the Magiks to upgrade this” he says holding up his greataxe. “I do, lets talk” replies Mortise. “I’m going to stay behind, I need to upgrade my weaponry” says the half-orc to the party. “I also will be abandoning the party for a time” says Hairbear. “there are some matters I must attend to”. “we will need others” says Chandos to Brownstone. “Judas!” shouts Brownstone in surprise. Across the room, sitting at a table is a human adorned in full plate mail. He is playing chess with a man opposite him who also wears a red cloak. A cleric of the Red Knight, thinks Chandos. “Checkmate” says the Cleric who looks up from the Lanceboard “Brownstone”. “There’s our cleric” says the assassin to the fighter. Thein the Conjurer was a little shocked. He had teleported to Daggerfalls from a Thayan enclave, with the aid of scrying. The journey had not been smooth; he was sure he felt “travel sick”. He tries out a few mundane spells. Nope, they seem to work fine he says to himself.. Suspicious Thein visits the Inns of Daggerfalls to try to find another Wizard. He had just about given up when he spies a figure dressed in robes with a flowing beard coming ambling up the track toward Daggerfalls. Thein rushes out to meet him. The wizard is a little taken aback by the heavily tattooed Thein who is obviously much more powerful than himself. “Have you noticed anything wrong with your spells my friend?” asks Thein. “Nope, cant say I ave” replies the mage. “Not your teleport spells?” “dunno, aint tried. Mmm let me see, I have that memorized at the moment. Tell you what, ill try it out.. ill teleport over to that tree” he says, pointing to a tree 50ft away. “ok” says Thein. The wizard begins casting and disappears. Thein waits a while for him to appear by the tree. He continues to wait, and there is still no sign of the other wizard… “mmmm” says Thein. He begins to walk toward the tree pondering when he notices a dagger stuck in the base of the tree, its blade burning. Wrapped around its hilt was a message The next phase of your journey begins. Now you are training for the circle. Join the adventuring party fighting the drow. These markers where familiar to Thein, they had been part of his life for a long time. “Time to go to work” he says striding purposefully to the Teshford arms Inn. “Yes, we could certainly use a wizard” says Chandos to Thein, “That would complete our party, we have a Assassin, a Cleric, a Wizard and a Main Tank!” he permits himself a small smile. Mr Brownstone and Chandos fill in Thein and Judas as to the current state of affairs. “Ahh Drow, what scum god do they bow too?” asks Judas “It seems Lolth has abandoned them, they now seem to bow to a god named Kiaransalee” replies Brownstone. “Lets go, their gods don’t interest me” states Chandos heading for the door. They travel to the Dordrien crypts yet again on foot. The stone doors leading into the hill remain shut, but not barred. The party travel through the crypts, down the hole, and to the large spider web. “There’s several ways to go here, but we have unfinished business with a Roper” says Brownstone looking over the chasm into the depths below. “Lead on, with sound tactics we will avail anything” states Judas. They navigate their way down the web to the Bazaar level some 300ft below. They head straight for the room that contained the Roper. The party prepare, drinking some potions. Judas invokes his Domain Power (Nobility) Inspire Allies. Thein readies his Magic Missiles and Chandos flings open the door. The Roper is hit by the missiles but they fizzle on him ineffectively. In the small room there is a pool of something, round the edges, blocking the way to the Roper at the back of the room, Chandos notices Ochre Jellys. He leaps over one and confronts the Roper. Brownstone stands at the door and throws a thunderstone, the Roper resists its effects. Eleven tentacles shoot forth from the creature. The attacks are aimed at Chandos and Brownstone, but all the strands miss. Judas from behind Brownstone casts a Doom spell at the Roper, this too fizzles!. “Do we need wood?” jokes Brownstone “uh?” says Judas. Thein conjures up a flaming sphere and directs it at one of the oozes. Chandos hits the Roper with two almighty strikes slaying the beast. “Now why couldn’t you have done that the first time?” says Brownstone “Because Last Time” snarls Chandos “I was stuck in the door” The remaining Jellys advance on Brownstone and Chandos. Judas steps in and clouts one with his sword, it spits in two. “Doh” says Judas. Chandos gets wood!. Judas lends Brownstone a magical mace “use this” he says “I don’t think these destroy weapons” states Chandos. The jellys attempt to hit Brownstone, but he is too nimble, avoiding their strikes. Thein continues to control his flaming sphere, moving it into the oozes, the rest of the party engage in melee with them and soon destroy them. Thein directs his flaming sphere into the pool in the middle of the room. It fizzles out as it touches the liquid. Chandos bends down and touches the pool with his dagger.. The dagger begins to fizzle at its end.. Chandos withdraws it and wipes it on the floor “Acid” he says. A sickly violet light emanates from the pool. Judas leans over to view what is making the light. He sees the image of an unblinking lidless eye. Judas casts detect magic. “It’s a permanent magical symbol to the Deity Ghaunadaur” says the cleric “patron of oozes, slimes, jellys, outcasts, ropers and rebels. And incidently one of Lolth’s foes is Ghaunadaur. She really has fallen from favor here”. Judas casts Dispel Magic on the eye and it fades. In two clay urns in the room the party find some loot. “Where to go now?” inquires Thein. “I believe the bottom cave, some 600ft down, must go deeper into the Underdark” says Chandos. “But we haven’t checked it out”. “What was that stone wall back up in the Dordrien Crypts?” asks Thein. “We don’t know” replies Brownstone “Hairbear determined it was a Wall of Stone spell, but that is all” “Lets go take another look” says Chandos. The party ascends the huge web again. They go up the hole in the roof of the cavern and stand before the wall of stone. Chandos smashes through it in no time. They come out into another roughly hewn tunnel that is very dark. Thein, Chandos and Brownstone consume potions of Darkvision. Judas pulls down his visors of dark vision.. Brownstone scouts ahead first, checking for traps. He finds one. A large pit trap is covered by a illusory floor. “Nice one!” says Judas. Brownstone takes out his block of chalk and starts marking round the pit trap. A acrid, sulfurous odor fills the cavern probably emanating from the heap of filth in the far southwest corner. Suddenly Brownstone notices two large forms shaped like bloated spiders with a drows upper body crawl down from the walls and ceiling and attack. “Driders!” shouts Judas just before Chandos is hit by two Lightning Bolts “Not again!” crys Chandos. Thein responds by using Magic Missiles on the Driders. Brownstone throws another Thunderstone at the Driders but they resist. Judas uses Command on one of the Driders “Come here” he says. The Spider/drow creature walks forward willingly toward the cleric. It falls into the pit trap and is impaled by two large spikes. It stops twitching. They destroy the other Drider with ease. They search this cavern. Concealed in the heap of filth in the corner they find some coin and two scrolls in waterproof scroll cases. They proceed on into the last cavern in this area. Gigantic tangles of webbing, encrusted with dust and rubble, fill this large cavern. Two enormous spiders attack the party. Thein launches a Fireball at them, causing them great damage. Judas aids his comrades with a Prayer spell. The first spider attempts to bite Brownstone but misses, the second fires a web at the party, but it misses and hits the wall of the cavern. Brownstone retreats and Chandos steps in and hits one of the spiders. Thein uses Melphs Acid Arrow. The spiders are quickly dispatched. Judas heals Chandos with cure critical and cure light wounds spells. “Those Driders, says Chandos addressing the party “they were once Dark elves. Lolth puts a test to them, if they fail they become these creatures. They are then outcasts from the Drow community.” “well, there dead now anyway” replies Judas [/QUOTE]
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