NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6554555" data-attributes="member: 63">The party finished up this adventure last night. After exploring various ruined temples (and one PC finding religion after he dared a god to resurrect another PC who'd died), they headed into the ruins beneath the palace and found Queen Dhyra's lair - a cave with a Noah's-ark-esque boat stuck into the far wall. Water streamed out of a hole in the side of the hull, and wove between little stone spires. Each spire had a locked door access to a room with arrow slits 20 feet up, where the queen's skeleton archers could shoot from.And scattered around were clusters of 'difficult terrain,' which were actually hundreds of petrified children whom the queen had collected over the years.Cue a lot of "I avert my eyes this round" as the party stumbled through the cave, getting peppered with arrows while wondering where the queen was. She fired flaming bolts from the far side of the room, which was in total darkness. Finally one PC cued into her location and sprinted, leapt across a chasm, and didn't quite reach the boat where the queen was. So she obliged him by having her skeleton archers focus fire on him, and then she approached. Since he wouldn't be nice enough to stop hiding behind his shield and look at her, she just shocking grasped him into unconsciousness.The rest of the party closed in, and she misty stepped into the boat through the hole that water was pouring out of. A PC with a stone of controlling earth elementals sent an elemental in. There was a flash of light (as some of the words of God dominated the elemental). The rest of the party followed the queen in, either through the hole or via the roof entrance, and with their eyes averted they hacked and slashed and in some cases bit her. But then she called upon the word of God to compel them to look at her. The horror of her appearance paralyzed them and they could not look away as her petrifying curse took hold of them. But before they could be turned to stone, one PC who had been lagging behind the whole fight sprinted in, eyes closed, and SPARTAAAAAAA!'ed the queen out the hole in the side of the ship. She reached out, trying to grab onto something, and for a moment the entire ship lurched as the cave itself heaved in his grasp, but she lost her balance, tumbled down the waterfall, and plummeted twenty feet. With a crack of shattering stone she struck the ground, impaled on a petrified child. All in all, the city and the cursed queen story worked pretty well, I think.</blockquote>

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