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<blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 1681350" data-attributes="member: 14451"><p><strong>Session 14 1/2 Module Vecna Lives</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Here the party sarts the module Vecna Lives. As per the module I had them play out the role of the high level mages. This is that tale.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Oh, the life of a powerful wizard! As a callow youth, you were certain it was the life of luxury and excitement - easy living, riches and power with the wave of a hand.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Of course, your old masters never told you about the other part - the responsibility for the lives of the entire villages, cities and even lands. Of course, it's and honor to be part of the Circle of eight, guiding and protecting Hawking. Naturally, you have to do it all in secrecy so you don't mock the mayor's authority, and equally naturally you never get the credit.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Now, through divinations (or rather their failure), you've sensed some great danger to Hawking. It is not just you either; all of your fellow wizards at the guild of Wizardry have sensed something ominous. Whatever it is, Veenotheb, leader of your circle, is worried. He wants the best, the cream of the crop, to investigate this mystery.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“I have found an entrance to the tomb,” he heard the eager flamboyantly dressed mage say, “it looks like the whole mound is covering the tomb.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Let us descend and be quick about it,” he heard the fat mage declare, “I have an ill feeling about this place.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">In side the darkness of his prison he waited, as he did for over a thousand years, through the passage of time and the decay of earth, through famine and flood and now mischance, he waited. He was almost free, he could wait a little longer. He felt their presence through the walls, the walls he could not breach, whether through magic or might. Oh, he had tried, but the wards of his prison were enchanted by magic from another circle of eight, a circle who existed many centuries before these novices, and their magic was strong. Alone one of those mages could have stood toe to toe, they would in all likelihood die by his hand, but they would have had a chance; but together they had forged a prison that he could not escape and it was here that he rotted for centuries, waiting, biding his time. Now, this new circle of eight, with but a fraction of that power which was used to bind him, was his one chance to survive, to thrive, to live.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“I must test this new circle and their magic,” he said and he reached out with his arcane power that only he could control and from the elemental plane of fire he pulled three large fire frogs. Each stood taller than a human and there mouths were wide enough to swallow a human whole. Fire replaced their tongues and they belched sulfur. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">The circle used powerful magic to disintegrate the frogs into neat piles of ash.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“They are strong in magic, but not to bright,” he said to himself. He often talked to himself for lack of anything else to do; he wasn’t worried, he never answered himself, so he was not insane, by his standards. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“See how they are breaking down the magic barrier, they remove the seals from the other side, something I could not do from my vantage point, but nice of them to help me out. Oh, to bad they did not examine the other side of the wall they just torn down. Shh, they approach Juritgress.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">He watched as the circle entered the next chamber and carefully examined the large great dragon that slept before them. “See how that wild dressed one takes charge, Tenser I think his name is, he shall bare watching. Poor Juritgress, he sleeps, for he is my guardian and since I can not pass this camber he knows he need not be awake. The whole army of the Kron hills could parade in his chamber and he would not know, for he has nothing to awaken him if other approach from the out side of the chamber, he was placed here to keep me in, not prevent others from coming in. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Oh, that was impressive, disintegrate spells, fireballs, lightning bolts and meteor swarms, fairly typical spells for mages, and effective too, I can barely watch, well, barely. Ooo, that had to hurt, that mage died in a pool of acid, but the dragon died too, they are strong, but I think they are still not that bright. Well, at least one of them has a wish spell, that dead fellow looks none the worse for wear.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Oh, I can’t stand it, see how they opened the second seal, I am all a tingle. I wonder if they can defeat the Mageistra. Few mages know how to defeat a golem totally immune to magic you know. Yes, very typical, again with the lightning and fireballs. Hmm, that fellow there, the chubby one with the mace, he has it figured out, or is he just out of mass killing spells and has gotten lucky. Of course you know that summon spells are a mages only defense against a creature totally immune to magic, for one the summoned creature takes form they are in this world as real creatures until dismissed, not some type of energy. There, the other have caught on too.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“I must retire now, while they are still out side, for they will be in this chamber soon enough and I have spells to prepare.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“The third seal is breached, I am free, but I will wait, I know, summon some imps to deal with them, then I will strike.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“These imps are yours,” said Tenser to the others, “I know that you can handle them and I have a feeling about that sarcophagus. Evil is thick in the air and it comes from that direction,” he yelled as he pointed to the stone sarcophagus. As he did so he unleashed magic towards the sarcophagus, but before it reached the stone coffin, it dissipated.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Fools, you have released me, I am Vecna! Vecna! You have released me unto the world and the world will weep again at my return!”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“See how they stand still in the air, trapped in time. Really, it is too bad that they can not move,” said Vecna as he reached for the throat of Otiluke and crushed his wind pipe with his withered hand and again he reached out and snapped the neck of Otto in much the same matter. While he did this with the withered limb, he also reached down in side himself and used the power of his withered eye to charm the spiteful and resourceful Tenser.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Such is the pity that they reek of good, this one would have made a good captain,” said Vecna as he crushed the throat of Bigby and then Drawmji and then turned his withered eye on Rary, who also fell to the evil of the eye.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“To bad, see how easy they die, just the snap of the finger,” said Vecna as he crushed the throats of Jallarzi and Nystul and then dismissed the rest of the summoned creatures. “Come you two, I am Vecna, your new lord, you are my servants and I have much for you to do.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Tenser and Rary turned towards their new master and bowed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DM-Rocco, post: 1681350, member: 14451"] [b]Session 14 1/2 Module Vecna Lives[/b] [size=2][size=2]Here the party sarts the module Vecna Lives. As per the module I had them play out the role of the high level mages. This is that tale. Oh, the life of a powerful wizard! As a callow youth, you were certain it was the life of luxury and excitement - easy living, riches and power with the wave of a hand. Of course, your old masters never told you about the other part - the responsibility for the lives of the entire villages, cities and even lands. Of course, it's and honor to be part of the Circle of eight, guiding and protecting Hawking. Naturally, you have to do it all in secrecy so you don't mock the mayor's authority, and equally naturally you never get the credit. Now, through divinations (or rather their failure), you've sensed some great danger to Hawking. It is not just you either; all of your fellow wizards at the guild of Wizardry have sensed something ominous. Whatever it is, Veenotheb, leader of your circle, is worried. He wants the best, the cream of the crop, to investigate this mystery. “I have found an entrance to the tomb,” he heard the eager flamboyantly dressed mage say, “it looks like the whole mound is covering the tomb.” “Let us descend and be quick about it,” he heard the fat mage declare, “I have an ill feeling about this place.” In side the darkness of his prison he waited, as he did for over a thousand years, through the passage of time and the decay of earth, through famine and flood and now mischance, he waited. He was almost free, he could wait a little longer. He felt their presence through the walls, the walls he could not breach, whether through magic or might. Oh, he had tried, but the wards of his prison were enchanted by magic from another circle of eight, a circle who existed many centuries before these novices, and their magic was strong. Alone one of those mages could have stood toe to toe, they would in all likelihood die by his hand, but they would have had a chance; but together they had forged a prison that he could not escape and it was here that he rotted for centuries, waiting, biding his time. Now, this new circle of eight, with but a fraction of that power which was used to bind him, was his one chance to survive, to thrive, to live. “I must test this new circle and their magic,” he said and he reached out with his arcane power that only he could control and from the elemental plane of fire he pulled three large fire frogs. Each stood taller than a human and there mouths were wide enough to swallow a human whole. Fire replaced their tongues and they belched sulfur. The circle used powerful magic to disintegrate the frogs into neat piles of ash. “They are strong in magic, but not to bright,” he said to himself. He often talked to himself for lack of anything else to do; he wasn’t worried, he never answered himself, so he was not insane, by his standards. “See how they are breaking down the magic barrier, they remove the seals from the other side, something I could not do from my vantage point, but nice of them to help me out. Oh, to bad they did not examine the other side of the wall they just torn down. Shh, they approach Juritgress.” He watched as the circle entered the next chamber and carefully examined the large great dragon that slept before them. “See how that wild dressed one takes charge, Tenser I think his name is, he shall bare watching. Poor Juritgress, he sleeps, for he is my guardian and since I can not pass this camber he knows he need not be awake. The whole army of the Kron hills could parade in his chamber and he would not know, for he has nothing to awaken him if other approach from the out side of the chamber, he was placed here to keep me in, not prevent others from coming in. “Oh, that was impressive, disintegrate spells, fireballs, lightning bolts and meteor swarms, fairly typical spells for mages, and effective too, I can barely watch, well, barely. Ooo, that had to hurt, that mage died in a pool of acid, but the dragon died too, they are strong, but I think they are still not that bright. Well, at least one of them has a wish spell, that dead fellow looks none the worse for wear. “Oh, I can’t stand it, see how they opened the second seal, I am all a tingle. I wonder if they can defeat the Mageistra. Few mages know how to defeat a golem totally immune to magic you know. Yes, very typical, again with the lightning and fireballs. Hmm, that fellow there, the chubby one with the mace, he has it figured out, or is he just out of mass killing spells and has gotten lucky. Of course you know that summon spells are a mages only defense against a creature totally immune to magic, for one the summoned creature takes form they are in this world as real creatures until dismissed, not some type of energy. There, the other have caught on too. “I must retire now, while they are still out side, for they will be in this chamber soon enough and I have spells to prepare. “The third seal is breached, I am free, but I will wait, I know, summon some imps to deal with them, then I will strike. “These imps are yours,” said Tenser to the others, “I know that you can handle them and I have a feeling about that sarcophagus. Evil is thick in the air and it comes from that direction,” he yelled as he pointed to the stone sarcophagus. As he did so he unleashed magic towards the sarcophagus, but before it reached the stone coffin, it dissipated. “Fools, you have released me, I am Vecna! Vecna! You have released me unto the world and the world will weep again at my return!” “See how they stand still in the air, trapped in time. Really, it is too bad that they can not move,” said Vecna as he reached for the throat of Otiluke and crushed his wind pipe with his withered hand and again he reached out and snapped the neck of Otto in much the same matter. While he did this with the withered limb, he also reached down in side himself and used the power of his withered eye to charm the spiteful and resourceful Tenser. “Such is the pity that they reek of good, this one would have made a good captain,” said Vecna as he crushed the throat of Bigby and then Drawmji and then turned his withered eye on Rary, who also fell to the evil of the eye. “To bad, see how easy they die, just the snap of the finger,” said Vecna as he crushed the throats of Jallarzi and Nystul and then dismissed the rest of the summoned creatures. “Come you two, I am Vecna, your new lord, you are my servants and I have much for you to do. Tenser and Rary turned towards their new master and bowed. [/size][/size] [/QUOTE]
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