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<blockquote data-quote="dungeon blaster" data-source="post: 2977511" data-attributes="member: 30575"><p><strong>Grimlocks, and Kenkus, and Cultists -- oh s#*@!</strong></p><p></p><p>Rumaging through their ill-gotten loot, the adventurers discovered a couple journals, various notes, and an interesting piece of parchment that detected as magical, but had not a single marking upon it. Of particular interest was a <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/dungeonblaster/Theldrick%27s%20journal.jpg" target="_blank"> journal entry</a> describing the summoning of an “Over-God”, as if regular gods weren’t bad enough, and a “slumbering power that must be awoken”. Further, the author of the journal, believed to be the Hextorian priest who escaped the previous day’s battle, mentioned his affiliation with a group called the ‘Ebon Triad’. The group quickly decided that the ‘Triad’ probably referred to the gods of the three temples located in this underground complex. Separate they are merely Hextor, Vecna, and Erythnul, but together they form MIGHTY HEXNATHUL! Er, nevermind. </p><p></p><p>It seemed, too, that there was some distrust within the ranks of the three cults, mainly between the Hextorian leader, Theldrick, and the so-called “Faceless One”, whom the group surmised was the leader of the cultists of Vecna. </p><p></p><p>After little deliberation, they resolved to take out the Vecnans and then assault the final temple. Good plan, no? Well, it would have been if the door to the Vecnan temple wasn’t locked. So, they did what any rational person in a similar situation would do. They knocked. And waited. Eventually, they determined that the Vecnans were either a) not home, or b) not going to let in bunch of bloodthirsty killers bent on pillage and slaughter. Without a rogue or a ‘knock’ spell among them, the score was set at ‘Door: 1 -- Adventurers: 0’, and they decided to tackle the unmarked temple, hoping it may contain a key or other method of entering the Vecnan temple.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, cultists of the god of slaughter have little need or desire for locks, as locks make slaughter less likely, and the stone door swung open silently. Unlike the Temple of Hextor, the walls, ceiling, and floor here were of natural, uncut stone. As the brave adventurers made their way deeper into the network of caverns and passages, the local inhabitants, i.e. your friendly grimlock cultists of Erythnul, assaulted them from all sides. The battles were brutish, nasty, and short, but in all cases the result was the same: dead grimlocks and bruised, but victorious heroes. Soon, the group came upon a small passageway, barely wide enough for a single person to fit, and smelling of something most foul. Hiro was leading the way, with the others close behind, when a sudden scream of primal rage echoed through the passage. The originator of said scream appeared soon after -- a filth-covered female grimlock bearing two long rusty knives charged at Hiro and plunged them both hilt-deep into his abdominal region. Short, and slight of frame though she was, her strength was equal to that of the burly half-orc, and with each wrenching stab he felt more of his life leaving him. He returned the attack, but found that the small passage was much more conducive to fighting with a light weapon than a large sword, and even when he hit, the grimlock barbarian did not seem to notice, and she continued to treat Hiro like a pin cushion. Were it not for Lindingar’s healing ministrations, Hiro certainly would have fallen that day, but his halfling buddy kept him alive long enough for the barbarian’s rage to end, and a final thrust of his sword concluded the affair.</p><p></p><p>"We really ought not to fight in enclosed spaces", Ehrune pondered thoughtfully.</p><p></p><p>With the grimlock barbarian defeated, the party continued onward, soon reaching a large cavern with a higher ledge defended by many grimlocks wielding long spears and javelins. The adventurers routed the grimlocks in short order, but were once again greeted by a wail of primal rage coming from the opposite end of the cavern.</p><p></p><p>“Here we go again”, Etherik grimaced as he scaled up the cavern wall. Hiro’s eye twitched nervously.</p><p></p><p>From a passage on the other side of the cavern, a hulking brute of a grimlock bounded towards them, a greataxe clutched in his meaty fists. Hiro grabbed a long spear and became the recipient of a bull’s strength and enlarge person spell, making him prodigiously strong and tall enough to peer over the ledge. He set the spear, bracing it against his foot, and waited for the grimlock barbarian. Consumed in Erythnul’s blood rage, the barbarian cared not that a spear the size of a horse lance was aimed directly at him as he leapt off the ledge, greataxe raised high. With a satisfying ‘thunk’, the huge spear penetrated straight through the airborne barbarian, who continued his trajectory along the shaft of the spear and brought his greataxe down upon Hiro’s chest (dealing 40-odd points of damage!). Wounded, but alive, and very angry, Hiro grabbed his longsword, but Etherik beat him to the punch, blasting the grimlock directly in the face with an eldritch blast. As the good ole’ doc would say, “I guess the strain was more than he could bear.”</p><p></p><p>A long passageway led downward, and the group feared that they were entering the underdark, where, judging from their level of fear, they likely believed Freddy, Jason, and the Predator lurked. But, it turned out that the passage merely led to a large chamber filled with a ghostly mist. The group moved through the mist by sticking to one side of the cavern. They quickly learned that they were not alone, as grimlock warriors wearing bronze masks of Erythnul assaulted them, then disappeared into the fog. They could also hear the sounds of divine prayers being uttered and decided that now was a good time to use their scroll of silence (they also reasoned correctly that the grimlocks’ blindsense would be affected). Bereft of his spell-casting capability, <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/dungeonblaster/Grallak%20Kur.jpg" target="_blank">Grallak Kur</a>, priest of Erythnul plunged into the battle, dropping Etherik with a flurry of strikes of his morning star. The insane priest had sewn beholder eyes into his eye sockets, and somehow had enchanted them to give him sight. However, even the cleric of the god of slaughter could not withstand the righteous might of Hiro’s blade combined with the ferocious attacks of Lindingar’s summoned hippogriffs and Ehrune’s annoying, but not particularly damaging magic missiles. A final swing of Hiro’s blade parted Grallak’s head from his body, and the battle was won.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dungeon blaster, post: 2977511, member: 30575"] [b]Grimlocks, and Kenkus, and Cultists -- oh s#*@![/b] Rumaging through their ill-gotten loot, the adventurers discovered a couple journals, various notes, and an interesting piece of parchment that detected as magical, but had not a single marking upon it. Of particular interest was a [URL=http://www.freewebs.com/dungeonblaster/Theldrick%27s%20journal.jpg] journal entry[/URL] describing the summoning of an “Over-God”, as if regular gods weren’t bad enough, and a “slumbering power that must be awoken”. Further, the author of the journal, believed to be the Hextorian priest who escaped the previous day’s battle, mentioned his affiliation with a group called the ‘Ebon Triad’. The group quickly decided that the ‘Triad’ probably referred to the gods of the three temples located in this underground complex. Separate they are merely Hextor, Vecna, and Erythnul, but together they form MIGHTY HEXNATHUL! Er, nevermind. It seemed, too, that there was some distrust within the ranks of the three cults, mainly between the Hextorian leader, Theldrick, and the so-called “Faceless One”, whom the group surmised was the leader of the cultists of Vecna. After little deliberation, they resolved to take out the Vecnans and then assault the final temple. Good plan, no? Well, it would have been if the door to the Vecnan temple wasn’t locked. So, they did what any rational person in a similar situation would do. They knocked. And waited. Eventually, they determined that the Vecnans were either a) not home, or b) not going to let in bunch of bloodthirsty killers bent on pillage and slaughter. Without a rogue or a ‘knock’ spell among them, the score was set at ‘Door: 1 -- Adventurers: 0’, and they decided to tackle the unmarked temple, hoping it may contain a key or other method of entering the Vecnan temple. Fortunately, cultists of the god of slaughter have little need or desire for locks, as locks make slaughter less likely, and the stone door swung open silently. Unlike the Temple of Hextor, the walls, ceiling, and floor here were of natural, uncut stone. As the brave adventurers made their way deeper into the network of caverns and passages, the local inhabitants, i.e. your friendly grimlock cultists of Erythnul, assaulted them from all sides. The battles were brutish, nasty, and short, but in all cases the result was the same: dead grimlocks and bruised, but victorious heroes. Soon, the group came upon a small passageway, barely wide enough for a single person to fit, and smelling of something most foul. Hiro was leading the way, with the others close behind, when a sudden scream of primal rage echoed through the passage. The originator of said scream appeared soon after -- a filth-covered female grimlock bearing two long rusty knives charged at Hiro and plunged them both hilt-deep into his abdominal region. Short, and slight of frame though she was, her strength was equal to that of the burly half-orc, and with each wrenching stab he felt more of his life leaving him. He returned the attack, but found that the small passage was much more conducive to fighting with a light weapon than a large sword, and even when he hit, the grimlock barbarian did not seem to notice, and she continued to treat Hiro like a pin cushion. Were it not for Lindingar’s healing ministrations, Hiro certainly would have fallen that day, but his halfling buddy kept him alive long enough for the barbarian’s rage to end, and a final thrust of his sword concluded the affair. "We really ought not to fight in enclosed spaces", Ehrune pondered thoughtfully. With the grimlock barbarian defeated, the party continued onward, soon reaching a large cavern with a higher ledge defended by many grimlocks wielding long spears and javelins. The adventurers routed the grimlocks in short order, but were once again greeted by a wail of primal rage coming from the opposite end of the cavern. “Here we go again”, Etherik grimaced as he scaled up the cavern wall. Hiro’s eye twitched nervously. From a passage on the other side of the cavern, a hulking brute of a grimlock bounded towards them, a greataxe clutched in his meaty fists. Hiro grabbed a long spear and became the recipient of a bull’s strength and enlarge person spell, making him prodigiously strong and tall enough to peer over the ledge. He set the spear, bracing it against his foot, and waited for the grimlock barbarian. Consumed in Erythnul’s blood rage, the barbarian cared not that a spear the size of a horse lance was aimed directly at him as he leapt off the ledge, greataxe raised high. With a satisfying ‘thunk’, the huge spear penetrated straight through the airborne barbarian, who continued his trajectory along the shaft of the spear and brought his greataxe down upon Hiro’s chest (dealing 40-odd points of damage!). Wounded, but alive, and very angry, Hiro grabbed his longsword, but Etherik beat him to the punch, blasting the grimlock directly in the face with an eldritch blast. As the good ole’ doc would say, “I guess the strain was more than he could bear.” A long passageway led downward, and the group feared that they were entering the underdark, where, judging from their level of fear, they likely believed Freddy, Jason, and the Predator lurked. But, it turned out that the passage merely led to a large chamber filled with a ghostly mist. The group moved through the mist by sticking to one side of the cavern. They quickly learned that they were not alone, as grimlock warriors wearing bronze masks of Erythnul assaulted them, then disappeared into the fog. They could also hear the sounds of divine prayers being uttered and decided that now was a good time to use their scroll of silence (they also reasoned correctly that the grimlocks’ blindsense would be affected). Bereft of his spell-casting capability, [URL=http://www.freewebs.com/dungeonblaster/Grallak%20Kur.jpg]Grallak Kur[/URL], priest of Erythnul plunged into the battle, dropping Etherik with a flurry of strikes of his morning star. The insane priest had sewn beholder eyes into his eye sockets, and somehow had enchanted them to give him sight. However, even the cleric of the god of slaughter could not withstand the righteous might of Hiro’s blade combined with the ferocious attacks of Lindingar’s summoned hippogriffs and Ehrune’s annoying, but not particularly damaging magic missiles. A final swing of Hiro’s blade parted Grallak’s head from his body, and the battle was won. [/QUOTE]
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