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Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8603047" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>[Session 43, cont'd]</p><p></p><p>28 Tar-Vaen</p><p>The advance party pulls within one day of the capital, leaving the part of the Near Underdark controlled by the dwarves. They have the scouts—a mix of the rakasta and the dwarven wayfinders—in the lead, fanned out basically at just maintaining visual contact. The then have Noah and Elyn at the front of the main body, followed by lyans, followed by Ravokris, Twig, and Sr. Agnes, followed by the paladins as a rear guard. They decide to continue at basically full speed, hoping that traveling quickly will get them through the enemy controlled territory safely.</p><p></p><p>They make it approximately 3 miles in, then there’s a thump as something drops down from the ceiling. A brief scream and a snarl follows. One of the rakasta is killed, while a figure retreats ahead of them, with some rakasta throwing javelins ineffectually after it. Noah chucks a silver hand axe at it. He hits it hard in the leg, though it doesn’t bite in quite as much as it should have—but the rakasta javelins bounce off entirely. They believe it is a blooddriven, though it did not seem verbal. It dashes out of sight.</p><p></p><p>Noah smells the blood on the axe, and it smells more wrong than the blood of the undead to him. He thinks he would recognize it if he smells it again.</p><p></p><p>About a mile later, another figure drops from the ceiling, though it’s not as effective in its attack. The scouts were poking at the ceilings with javelins and staves, but this creature was too far up, in a tall atrium whose ceiling they could not reach. Noah charges forward, raging, as the other rakasta start poking at it ineffectively with their javelins.</p><p></p><p>Noah hits it twice with a silver battleaxe, doing some damage but less than he would have normally. Elyn does just a tiny bit of damage with a normal arrow. Ravokris hits it with a bolt of fire, burning it. Sr. Agnes attempts to hold person on the blooddriven, but this one is sufficiently mature to not count as a humanoid. [The PCs don’t know, but this blooddriven is one of the 20 year 10 blooddriven—the most powerful and most individualized, as they approach the end of their lifespan.]</p><p></p><p>It claws Noah, and breathes a vile breath at the people around it. One of the rakasta appears to be literally melting. Noah orders the other rakasta to fall back.</p><p></p><p>Sister Agnes presents the icon of the minor saint of Paranswarm and casts Banishment. The creature has a surprised look on its face as it disappears, with a small pop indicating that it’s not native to this plane. She holds the spell for the full minute, and it is banished permanently. The icon’s face is slightly melted. She confirms that the creature was clearly eldritch in origin, not diabolical, but does not know where its home plane was.</p><p></p><p>The “melted” rakasta is beyond the ability of anyone to heal. Shortly ahead, the tunnel branches with several side chambers. The group decides to rest in a side chamber, to mourn the dead, recuperate, and take advantage of the potable water in one of the chambers, before moving on.</p><p>[End session 43. We'll have a gap in posting for a couple weeks because we're not playing again until May 1.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8603047, member: 7030144"] [Session 43, cont'd] 28 Tar-Vaen The advance party pulls within one day of the capital, leaving the part of the Near Underdark controlled by the dwarves. They have the scouts—a mix of the rakasta and the dwarven wayfinders—in the lead, fanned out basically at just maintaining visual contact. The then have Noah and Elyn at the front of the main body, followed by lyans, followed by Ravokris, Twig, and Sr. Agnes, followed by the paladins as a rear guard. They decide to continue at basically full speed, hoping that traveling quickly will get them through the enemy controlled territory safely. They make it approximately 3 miles in, then there’s a thump as something drops down from the ceiling. A brief scream and a snarl follows. One of the rakasta is killed, while a figure retreats ahead of them, with some rakasta throwing javelins ineffectually after it. Noah chucks a silver hand axe at it. He hits it hard in the leg, though it doesn’t bite in quite as much as it should have—but the rakasta javelins bounce off entirely. They believe it is a blooddriven, though it did not seem verbal. It dashes out of sight. Noah smells the blood on the axe, and it smells more wrong than the blood of the undead to him. He thinks he would recognize it if he smells it again. About a mile later, another figure drops from the ceiling, though it’s not as effective in its attack. The scouts were poking at the ceilings with javelins and staves, but this creature was too far up, in a tall atrium whose ceiling they could not reach. Noah charges forward, raging, as the other rakasta start poking at it ineffectively with their javelins. Noah hits it twice with a silver battleaxe, doing some damage but less than he would have normally. Elyn does just a tiny bit of damage with a normal arrow. Ravokris hits it with a bolt of fire, burning it. Sr. Agnes attempts to hold person on the blooddriven, but this one is sufficiently mature to not count as a humanoid. [The PCs don’t know, but this blooddriven is one of the 20 year 10 blooddriven—the most powerful and most individualized, as they approach the end of their lifespan.] It claws Noah, and breathes a vile breath at the people around it. One of the rakasta appears to be literally melting. Noah orders the other rakasta to fall back. Sister Agnes presents the icon of the minor saint of Paranswarm and casts Banishment. The creature has a surprised look on its face as it disappears, with a small pop indicating that it’s not native to this plane. She holds the spell for the full minute, and it is banished permanently. The icon’s face is slightly melted. She confirms that the creature was clearly eldritch in origin, not diabolical, but does not know where its home plane was. The “melted” rakasta is beyond the ability of anyone to heal. Shortly ahead, the tunnel branches with several side chambers. The group decides to rest in a side chamber, to mourn the dead, recuperate, and take advantage of the potable water in one of the chambers, before moving on. [End session 43. We'll have a gap in posting for a couple weeks because we're not playing again until May 1.] [/QUOTE]
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