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Adventure: A Tale of Two Domains (DM:Luinnar, Judge:renau1g)


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OOC: As usual, Sir Exsixten will tag along while pretending to lead. He's find not trying the crown on if it's already been stashed away.
 


Good luck adventurers! Harkon Lukas calls out to the retreating party. You can hear him chuckling as you head down the stairs and exit the inn.

The party quickly makes their way out of the town and west to Daglan. The afternoon is eerily calm and cool. As you make your way over the hilly terrain of Kartakass you hear nothing, not even the sound of birds; only the beating of your own heart as you head as quick as possible to the new domain.

As you clear a low rise, your eyes are locked in fascination at the land ahead of you. A long, low valley, covered in cultivated areas of farmland, stretches off into the distance. At the heart of this pastoral scene is a small village with a white wall around it. While this might normally be a peaceful and happy place, it is far from that now. High overhead, the clouds whirl about forming a great spiral in the dark grey sky. Strokes of lightning dance back and forth releasing tremendous crashes of thunder that echo about the land. While no rain seems to be falling anywhere in the valley, the air is thick with a foul humidity that seems to carry with it a vast and overpowering evil.

Mustering their courage the party steps over into this new land. They travel for a couple dozen yards when a familiar voice pierces through the air. Thieves! it shouts, glancing around you are unable to see the speaker, though it seems to come from the clouds. Pick pockets who murdered me and stole my crown! Have you come to return it? shouts the voice of Radaga.

You may have taken my life away, but Ravenloft has given me power in return! I have closed the borders, you are trapped within my lands! Come to the church in the village of Homlock you see before you and give me back my crown. If you do what I ask your death may be less painful! You have one hour!

With that a great shadow passes over you, but again you cannot find its source. Turning around you find to your horror that a ring of goblyns 20 creatures deep has blocked the way to Kartakass. They make no movement to advance but they jeer at the party, clanging their bloody weapons against their shields and showing off their giant fangs. It seems like you are trapped in the domain of Daglan.
 

COMPANIONS, IT IS OUR LUCKY DAY! LOOK AT ALL THE GOBLYNS SHE GAVE US! WHAT AN END WE SHALL MAKE HERE, OUR NAMES BURN BRIGHT ON THE PAGES OF THE BOOK OF ALL AWESOME AT THE BATTLE WE SHALL HAVE HERE TODAY!

Sir Exsixten readies his weapons and faces the Goblyns.

FORM UP ON ME, IF WE CHARGE INTO THEIR CENTER, FIND THEIR LEADER - PROBABLY SOME MONSTROUS ABOMINATION FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE LAND'S MOST RELEVANT HELL CRAFTED OF DIAMOND AND TERROR THAT SWEATS LIGHTNING AND BREATHES GRENADES - ONCE WE DISPATCH HIM IN GLORIOUS COMBAT, THE REST SHALL FLEE.
 

Andras lays a cautioning hand on Exsixten's arm, "I admire your confidence, Sir Knight, but wouldn't it be even more glorious to slay the hag, again? She is their true leader, and we know where she is. If we take the time to slay all these goblyns, we might miss her at the church." He smiles, "Aren't you the least bit curious to find out what new powers this realm has given her?"
 


"Definitely going to take more than a hour to kill all these things. Maybe we ought to go see what the hag wants first. We can come back and kill these fellows when we aren't crunched for time." Brenn's voice was calm, but even as he spoke he took another step back and twitched his cloak out of the way so he had better access to his quiver.

OOC: During our short rest earlier, Brenn would spend 1 surge to get back to full HP
 

Dorn takes a deep breath. Here we go again...

OOC: I believe the stat block below is correct - let me know if I missed something


[sblock=Dorn Stat Block]
Dorn, Half-Orc Sorcerer/Demonskin Adept 11

Immediate Reactions: use Narrow Escape to take 1/2 damage and teleport away
Current Effects: resist 10 thunder, ignore 10 thunder resistance,

Passive Perception 14, Passive Insight 14
AC 25, Fort 21, Reflex 21, Will 24 (base defenses)
HP +5TMP 73/83 Bloodied 41 Surge Value 20, Surges 7/7
Speed 7, Initiative +13
Action Points: 1

Notes
Daily Wild Soul: thunder
Dorn uses the first d20 attack without mods for his Wild Magic boon
Dorn scores a crit on 19 or 20

Encounter Resources
Demon-Soul Bolts
Bedeviling Burst
Ice Dragon's Teeth
Spark Form
Furious Assault
Variable Resistance
Narrow Escape
Half-Orc Resilience
Second Wind
Use Action Point

Daily Resources
Chromatic Orb
Moon and the Stars
Winds of Change
Deep Shroud
Chaotic Defense
Gambit Armor Power
Luckblade Dagger
Diamond Cincture

2x potion of healing
[/sblock]
 

"You're all mad!" Jax says in alarm. "Look how many there are. We can't fight that and live."

The kobold points in the direction of the village. "I'm with Andras. Let's go kill the hag's ghost. I don't want her to devour my soul in an hour..."
 

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