[Adventure]: Land Ho! FWBTHW (DM:H.M.Gimlord,Judge:Ozymandias79)

[H.M.Gimlord]

GM: [MENTION=51271]Voda Vosa[/MENTION]: Do you have coordinates for your teleportation destination?

 

[Voda Vosa]

Basically the place where the skeletons were shooting arrows at us, or what ever remains of that after the dragons attacked

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

"To me," stepping back, clutching his sword in his scabbard, coiled to strike, "Your foe is here, beast."

Gensai's words fall before Phoenix sends a ball of fire to remind the minotaur of his real foe, "Nay matie!" Rhagast replies, breathing evenly though flames lick at his face, "Nay, my foe be the one what stole me ring!"

Ignoring the ronin's challenge, Rhagast marches determinedly toward Phoenix, swinging his axe at the disfigured tiefling, knocking her back. Gensai's wards, however, protect her from the worst of his blows. [sblock=Rhagast's Actions]Takes 16 fire damage from Flaming Sphere
Move: F22-G23

Standard: Double Attack
Target 1: Phoenix
Attack 1: 1d20+19-2=33 vs. AC for 2d6+7-14(AoS)=1 damage and Phoenix is pushed to H20
Target 2: Phoenix
Attack 2: 1d20+19-2=23 vs. AC Miss[/sblock][sblock=Status]Gensai: B27 81/94HP 10/12HS AP 0, +4AC +3 to other defenses
Riardon: H25 62/75HP 8/9HS AP 0
Sheng: C23(Roof) 65/79HP 9/9HS AP 1
Phoenix: H20 32/57HP 7/8HS AP 1, next attack does extra 1d6 fire damage
Max: G15 46/46 HP 6/7HS AP 0

Flaming Sphere: F25
Stang: H23

Rhagast: F22-G23 468/624 AP 0, Marked by Gensai's AoS[/sblock][sblock=Map]

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[/sblock][sblock=The grand History of Land Ho!...Unabridged]
[sblock=Story Outline]
If you want to do this quickly, just click on the links below and read ALL spoilers. New stuff is in yellow.




Original Party enters a bewitched cellar door that

• Talon (Shifter Druid/Ranger) (Phoenix8008)
• Rujah (Dragonborn Warden) (Theroc)
• Riardon (Eladrin Warlord) (Walking Dad)
• Jin (Human Swordmage) (Tenchuu)
• Fenwick (Orc Barbarian) (BenBrown)

1. Bewitched cellar where party finds a secret entrance to a thieves' den
   • The group finds weapons with lightning powers
     
   • The group finds a box engraved with dwarven and draconic script
   • The box contains documents in dwarven script
2. Back at The Hanged Man
   • Talon deciphers the dwarven docuements and discovers that a man named Hankel Mast Gimlord is heir to the throne of Rioc Parvel, a dwarven mine and stronghold.
     
   • He is overheard by a sailor dwarf named Fargo who recalls the legends of Rioc Parvel and offers you sea passage to Avenroc
   • The lightning weapons found by the group have a dwarven inscription that reads "When it's my turn, I'll show you my power."
   • Unscrewing the pommels of their weapons they discover a small blue crystal in each that appears to encapsulate a small storm.
     
3. The ocean voyage
   • Fargo's ship is attacked by a flotilla of drowned ones
   • A storm portal opens and swallows the ship
   • Talon challenges a crewmember to a sparring match
   • Fargo drops the group off in the harbor of a city called Rioc Alair
4. The Crystal Mug inn
   • The group meets Firebyrne an apprentice blacksmith to a dwarf named Hankel Mast who has been missing for some time
   • The group discovers that the bewitched cellar of their prior experience is the cellar of the Crystal Mug
   • The group is ambushed when they attempt to expose the thieves' ring
   • Mervin (Human Wizard) (evilbob) materializes in a barrel
   • The group reveals the thieves' den to authorities
   • Mervin discovers a dagger of lightning power
     
   • Riardon finds several rituals
   • Jin learns that Hankel has, in fact, been kidnapped by a man named Lars Hallmaster, whom Firebyrne had described as a "Friend". A wizard named Shear seems to be directing Lars' actions.
   • Jin opens up a cursed chest and is mortally wounded by flaming skulls
   • Jin's body is resurrected (using one of the rituals found by Riardon), but is possessed by an ancestor of Jin's named Gensai
     
5. The city of Rioc Alair
   • The group meets a university professor named Amatalystan Shea Aramista who fills the group in on the history of Rioc Parvel
   • The group gears up at a black market shop in the cellar of a gear store
   • The group uses another ritual found by Riardon to generate a portal that leads to a remote, wooded location
     
6. Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv
   • The group chooses to join sides with a green dragon to defeat a band of blue-dragonkin kobolds
   • The group learns of the existance of a blue dragon named Wer Vhisar who Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv blames for driving her mother aunt from their lair, and charges the group with destroying Wer Vhisar
     
7. The entrance to Wer Vhisar's lair
   • The group navigates a pit trap
     
   • and disables a glyph of warding powered by an electric crystal
     
   • that guards a library containing some curious items
     
8. The hall
   • The group is met by a kobold welcoming party that temporarily separates the group. Gensai and Fenwick fall into a prison cell. Rujah falls into the river below and is swept out to sea. Mervin stays behind to cover Riardon's retreat.
     
9. The prison
   • The group meets Tikchik (Thri-Kreen Ranger) (renau1g) and Sheng (Human Mage) (Voda Vosa)
   • The group discovers a dwarven prisoner and a kobold prisoner
   • The group decides to look for Rujah and Mervin
     
10. The hall part deaux
    • The group learns the fate of Rujah and Mervin
    • The group realizes that Iguyo De Wer Grovisv has lied to them
    • They find a hiding kobold who grants them an audience with Wer Vhisar
      
11. Wer Vhisar's Lair
    • Wer Vhisar reveals to them his version of the feud story between himself and the three green dragons
    • Wer Vhisar offers the group an opportunity to seat Hankel Mast Gimlord on his rightful throne in return for three tasks
      • Transplant the diffusion of Wer Vhisar's father
      • Turn over a large gem called the Moonstone
      • Destroy Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv's mother and aunt
        
12. The Library Again
    • The party finally meets Hankel Mast, but, though he's aware and eager for the quest, he doesn't seem to know that he is the heir to Rioc Parvel
    • Hankel provides several documents, in particular, a map shoing the location and nature of their first task.
    • TikChik returns Hankel's knife
    • Sheng finds a source of arcane magic.
    • The party is given a boat and provisions
      
13. Rioc Stang
    • The party is set upon by undead guardians of the lighthouse
    • Their captain bestows upon Gensai the knowledge that they are a remnant from Rioc Parvel tasked with keeping safe a beacon encouraging other dwarves to return to their long-lost home
    • The captain gives Gensai Arkus Gimlord's famed weapon, Stang, charging him with returning it to Arkus' heir
    • Gensai informs the others of the guardians' origins, and reveal Hankel Mast Gimlord to be the true heir of Rioc Parvel
    • Gensai gives Stang to Hankel
    • The adventurers proceed to relight the beacon, and in doing so are rewarded with magic items given by the captain's ghost.
    • As the captain takes his leave for the etherial realms, A minotaur named Rhagast materializes in a well on the first floor. He has evidently been here before and wants no part in undead guardians. He quickly finds the party's boat, and before Hankel can stop him, proceeds to unmoor it and row it east toward the shore.
    • As he is rowing away, Phoenix (Tiefling Sorcerer) (Iron Sky) materializes at the bottom of the well, and climbs out too late to catch Rhagast, but just in time to meet the rest of the group.
    • As they are getting to know each other, three green dragons approach from the east. When they land, they destroy the beacon and grab Hankel.
    • One of the green dragons is Iguyo Di Wer Gorvisv, a dragon that Gensai, Riardon, and Fenwick bargained with a while ago. Under duress, they promised to destroy Walryn (Wer Vhisar) , but the party soon learned that Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv is the daughter of Sylvantrix, one of the other two green dragons, who lair at Rioc Parvel.
    • In either a laps of judgement or an act of fate, Gensai activates Phoenix's ring and disappears, replaced by Max, who arrives to menacing dragons and falling megaliths.

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• Rituals in Riardon's Pack:
  
  • Raise Dead Used to raise Jin from the dead (got Gensai instead)
  • Knock Used to open the chest that killed Jin
  • Linked Portal Used to get to the green dragon encounter
  • Object Reading
  • Vistani Passkey
  • Precise Forgery
  • Decipher Script
  • Wizard Sight
  • Arcane Lock
  • Diffusion Transplantation (illegible at the moment)
    
  [*]Those of you who found lightning weapons still have them.
  [*]Mervin still has the dagger (but he's still on the floor of Wer Vhisar's lair)
  
  [*]Quick Plot summary
  
  • Setting: An interior island on the continent of Avenroc
  • Old blue dragon destroys a dwarven mine and dwarven king dies
  • Dwarven heir exiles himself and dies leaving a son who is clueless as to his heritage
  • Old blue dragon is killed by two sister green dragons, who now have a daughter (that's three green dragons on the loose).
  • The old blue dragon's son wants to avenge his father's death, but doesn't want to take the risk, so he offers the job to the adventurers.
    
  • Hankel (the clueless dwarven heir) is being held in the prisons below the blue dragon's lair
  • Wer Vhisar has pressed you into his service to light the dwarven lighthouse, kill the green dragons, re-seat Hankel on the throne at Rioc Parel, and transplant Wer Vhisar's father's diffusion.
  • Hankel has been freed and the party meets him in the trashed library that apparently was used by Shear on his visits to Wer Vhisar.
  • Hankel has only recently discovered that he is heir to the throne of Rioc Parvel
  • While extracting herself from the well on Rioc Stang, Phoenix finds (and still has in her possession), a strange, gold, coin struck with dwarven runes and the emblem of a greataxe.
  • The lighthouse was lit for a small time, but was destroyed irreparably.

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[Iron Sky]

OOC: Rhagast takes 2d6+9 damage each time he makes a melee attack against Phoenix so: 4d6+18=31 damage to Rhagast. If no one is planning on doing any forced movement, I'll take Phoenix's turn, otherwise she'll miss out on Burning Sphere again...

 

[Walking Dad]

Riardon

Riardon advances and makes a calculated swing at the minotaur.
"Sheng! I gave you a target!."

[sblock=OOC]

move: Shift to 24H
standard: Calculated Assault at Rhagast.
12 damage and Sheng gets a +5 bonus on damage rolls vs Rhagast until the end of the encounter or I shift the benefit to another ally.

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When you spend an AP, you get a +2 on attacks.

[sblock=Mini stat block]
Riardon d'Caelis
Perception: 21 Insight: 16 Low-light Vision
AC 29 Fortitude 25 Reflex 25 Will 22
Initiative: +5
Hit Points: 57 / 75 Bloodied: 37
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist: -
Saving Throw: +5 vs Charm
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:18 Surges per day: 8 / 9
At-Will Powers: Directing Strike, Intuitive Strike
Encounter Powers: Inspiring Word 2/3, Battlefront Shift, Blink Away, Chilling Cloud, Warlords Favor, Steel Monsoon, Lion's Roar, Feystep Assault, Feystep, Rousing Words, Amulet of Life
Daily Powers: Calculated Assault, Stand the Fallen, Warlord's Recovery, Strength of Conviction, Dwarven Armor, Sunblade Burst

Condition: SoC effect

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@Voda Vosa please read my ooc block.

 

[Someone]

Since the minotaur's objective seems to be the pyromaniac lady, maybe making reaching her more difficult would be the most beneficial thnign to do. And since Raghast's brain is so crazed that he has a lot of trouble reaching it, Max resorts to the spell that's guaranteed to hit.

A new blast hist Raghast and he stumbles backwards again under the flaming sphere.

OOC: Raghast is at F25-G26

[sblock=actions]
Standard: Magic missile on Raghast, 9 damage and pushed 3 squares to the right of the map.
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[sblock=mini-stats] Max, human mage 7
Status:
Initiative: +7, Passive perception: 13, Passive Insight: 18
Defenses: AC: 20, For: 17, Ref: 21, Will: 21
HP: 46/46, Bloodied: 23, Surge value: 12, Surges/day: 6/7 Speed: 6 squares
Languages: Common, Elven
AP: 0
Powers:
Magic missile, Beguiling Strands, Hypnotism, Phantom Cage
Grasping Shadows, Maze of Mirrors, Phantom Foes, Shield, Noble Presence, Phylactery of Action
Phantom Chasm, Visions of Avarice, Wizard's Escape, Majestic Word, Repulsion armor[/sblock]

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: is pushing provoking OAs?

 

[Someone]

OOC: is pushing provoking OAs?

OOC: forced movement doesn't provoke

 

[Voda Vosa]

Sheng produces a huge version of his green skull spell, the wicked green gas construct advances giving bites and screaming wildly, threatening to swallow the Minotaur whole. Horrific visions curse through Raghast's eyes. However, the creature's resolve proves to much for Sheng's power. Frustrated Sheng outbursts "Stop pressing me eladrin or I'll unleash my power over you instead!"

Horror blast: 16 vs will for 27 dmg

 

[Tenchuu]

OOC: @H.M.Gimlord; Now that Gensai is level 11, AoS prevents 14 damage, and I gain 5 THP.