[Adventure]: Bosch's Revenge (DM: Dimsdale, Judge ??)

[dimsdale]

As the final foe falls the two parties, though tense at first, find that they have something in common, mainly that the one who hired them was the same brother Navio. After making introductions, Nementah makes her way to the fallen hero Halleck.

Using Branch of Life as focus, she sings to the spirits, calling Halleck back, infusing his comatose form with spirits from stone, branch and even parts of herself.

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The branch speaks to Nementah mental images...
There, it is complete. Powerful forces harmful to nature girl this life form. He is conscious but it will take a long time for him to heal.


The warlord blinks his eyes repeatedly, then focuses on you. I...I can no longer carry the shield. Maybe Skalisss can do it. It will be a while before I can get back on my feet again. Thank you for healing me. It was an honor fighting by your side. He then smiles and closes his eyes to rest a little more before gathering the strength to make his way back to town
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[sblock=Prime]
You feel the orb energize, gently pulling you towards the downed warrior with the strange shield. As you observe the shield from a distance you notice that it contains circular indentation in the middle of it and six smaller circle indentations surrounding it. Five of them are filled with different color metallic substance. One indentation is yet to be filled.

As you inspect the orb within your possession you notice that it is a light green color with different color shades of darker greens swirling about. As you move closer to the shield, the darker color greens move more quickly.
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As the rest of the partly surveys the room they notice underneath the shattered bones of the gigantic skeletal remains of Kroug is a tomb. The top of the tomb contains the life size metallic image of a fighter dressed in full plate, one hand carrying a large ceremonial sword. The other hand looks as if it is holding a large shield (currently not in the fighter's possession).

ooc: There are a few things left to do here. Once there are done I will award XP.

 

[Luinnar]

Sharpe is Caucasian and is short and thin. He has greasy shoulder length black hair, wears black armor and has a red heart shaped eye-patch which he wears on either eye interchangeably (even though his eyes are perfectly fine). He says it is made out of a real heart, thus making it "evil", but is is actually dyed leather. His shield is also black and sports a skull and cross bones, which also has the red heart shaped eye-patch (thus making it "really evil"). His voice is a bit high pitched and raspy, "perfect for talking about diabolical schemes." Sharpe says reading his description from a scroll.

Wait! he yells rolling it up and tossing it aside. A shield!? Where is it?

Alright who stole the shield?...Nevermind it is a heavy shield, I can't use those. Carry on.

 

[Someone]

"Assistance was welcome, although it was already over before you came."

+++Actually the room we came from was also filled with skeletons, including one of those large ones+++

+++You were lucky they were stupid enough to not know how to open doors+++

After this, the automaton seemingly loses interest in the cnversation, instead walking up to Halleck. From a compartment on his side he draws a metallic orb, then he kneels next to the fallen warrior's shield and places the orb in the shield's central indentation.

 

[dimsdale]

As the construct places the orb on the center indentation of the shield, it beings to liquify like the others did before. A glob of liquid metal begins to levitate and move to the remaining small indentation of the shield. As this happens, the remainder of the party move forward to observe the strange phenomenon. With everyone present, a small piece of liquid metal shoots out from the center of the small indentation up into the air. About 10 feet into the air it stops and molds itself into a ring, the same dark green color of the original orb. Once complete, it moves slowly through the air stopping above the hunter. As Quan opens his hand, the ring drops into it.

ooc: Quan, do you wish to put the ring on?

As the remaining liquid metal of the orb solidifies into place, bright silver light bursts from the shield. After the initial burst, the light radiating from shield settles into a steady low intensity silver hue, the same color and intensity now emitting from the entire body of the figure on the lid of the tomb.

 

[FourMonos]

Quan, now having seen all the party receive the rings, knew the initial experience would be unpleasant. He takes a breath to steady himself, then slides the ring on his right hand.

 

[dimsdale]

Quan, now having seen all the party receive the rings, knew the initial experience would be unpleasant. He takes a breath to steady himself, then slides the ring on his right hand.

As the hunter slips the ring onto his finger, his body becomes rigid with eyes open wide. He remains in this trance-like state for a minute, the collapses to the floor. Soon the hunter regains his strength, then stands. It is clear that the hunter is more aware of his surroundings.

[sblock=Quan]
As soon as you put the ring on you are teleported to an arena where you are in the center, surrounded by a group of archers with arrows trained at you. Before you have time to react the archers unleash their arrows, two archers at a time with deadly accuracy. The first arrow hits you in the arm, creating a spasm of pain shooting through your right side. The next arrow punctures your leg with the same result. As more arrows fly, more arrows hit, but you find that your reflexes improve as well as other arrows miss. Soon all of the arrows that are fired at you miss. You, in turn, start to fire off arrow of your own. At first your aim is off, but then you start to hit your mark. Each time an arrow hits an archer, the archer vanishes. After a few minutes you strike down the remaining acher, you are teleported back to your body.

[sblock=Ring powers when ring is equipped]
Orb of the Hunter.

Stealth checks: +4
Ranged attack Rolls: +1
Damage rolls: +4 to all damage
+1 AC

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[FourMonos]

As Quan returns to alertness, he does something rarely seen... he smiles.

"The shield is complete. We're ready to kill a dragon."

 

[dimsdale]

"The shield is complete. We're ready to kill a dragon."

Not quite brave heroes! states a voice from behind the gathered allies. As you turn back to the tomb you see a spirit rising from the tomb. Fear not as I am not an enemy. My name is not important, but my purpose is so. You see, I was the last to wield the shield. It is my task now to activate it and place it in the hands of a new shield bearer.. Looking upwards, the spirit slowly puts his hands together with palms facing upward. A sphere of bright light begins to form above the spirit's hands. Once complete, the spirit's head lowers. Those who pocess the orb rings, please come to me. Rocco, Quan, Vimak, Nementah and Skalisss come forward. Place your hand containing the ring into the sphere. You do so in unison as if you are in a trance. This causes another burst of brilliant light reaching all points with in the room, causing everyone to momentarily close their eyes. Bring the shield to me
Prime brings the shield to the spirit, which then directs the sphere into the large center indentation in the middle of the shield. One more flash of light blusts throughout the room. It is now complete. Turning to the Skalisss: Dragonborn, take the shield. May it be useful in your quest, whatever it may be.
With that the spirit disappears, leaving the room in a strange silence. The tomb, however remains open, revealing large amounts of gold and items of use (DM will let you know what's in there soon )

OOC: Bosch Group: Figuring out xp for the Bosch group. Skalisss and Quan have already received a treasure item after killing the beholders. That leaves Rocco, Vimak and Nementah finding a treasure item within the room. Please pm me a list of N to N+2 items to choose from. Once you have received your XP/Gold/Treasure, go back to town and pick up any new items you want. Update your characters and make an appearance back. Once everyone has posted, brother Navio will make another appearance with last minute instructions. Bane of Black Dragon Group: I'm going to give everyone a flat 1000 xp, plus any time xp and time gold owed to you. Everyone: As much as I would love to have everyone fight the dragon and its horde, I find it too difficult to keep track of all of the math with so many characters involved. I'm only going to take the five from Bosch. Vermitrax expressed interest in finding the lich and destroying it.

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If you want to find the lich I'll leave you in charge of recruiting 3 or 4 others to help you. I have to submit a proposal for this new adventure though. PM me letting me know if you'd like to proceed. If yes, I'll let you know when you can recruit others to help you. If not, I'll open it up to everyone.
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[Luinnar]

As Quan returns to alertness, he does something rarely seen... he smiles.

"The shield is complete. We're ready to kill a dragon."

Hey wait a minute! Who said anything about slaying a dragon? I thought we were going to go and save it! Sharpe says angrily.

 

[Someone]

Bane of Black Dragon Group:
I'm going to give everyone a flat 1000 xp, plus any time xp and time gold owed to you.

OOC: Last reward was 21 days ago. How's this new one calculated? Proportional to the days, one complete month, or nothing since we should only count complete months? In any case, may I ask for a second review of Prime? I only need the non-judge approval